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KohanMike

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Just received two photos of the custom fretless u-bass Bruce Wei in Vietnam is making me. Almost time for NUD.

U-Bass BWA2 front.jpg

U-Bass BWA2 back.jpg


And just to show that I'm fully infected by UAS, this morning I ordered a custom solid body electric micro bass from Bruce Herron at Blue Star Guitar Company in Michigan. This is the mock up I made for him. (Guess I can't get away from Bruce luthiers.)

Tele Bass build2.jpg
 
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BSG! Didn't know he made basses but not surprised. What's the scale length on these?
 
Jim Hanks said:
BSG! Didn't know he made basses but not surprised. What's the scale length on these?
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Apparently he'll make anything you request, he says he's been doing it for 30 years. The scale is 22" just like the Les Paul guitar conversion I did a few weeks ago. I actually wanted to convert a Telecaster at the time, but there are no 22" scale out there, so I settled on the Les Paul. Then last week someone here on UU mentioned Blue Star. I looked at his web site saw a custom Telecaster that I mistakenly thought was short scale. When I contacted him about making one as a bass, he clarified it was full scale, but he could make me a small bass version to my specs.
 
I assume the Blue Star will have a magnetic pickup. Which one? What strings will you put on it? What is the width at the nut?
 
konut said:
I assume the Blue Star will have a magnetic pickup. Which one? What strings will you put on it? What is the width at the nut?
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I'm obtaining all the parts to send him except the Tele style ashtray bridge plate, which he's customizing for bass, plus I'm sending ferrules, strap buttons and a small plate for the back to anchor the strings. He still has to determine the exact size of the nut.

Tele bass parts.jpg
 
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Wow, I did not know about those. Crap and the others just arrived. Thanks very much. Now for some redesign work.
 
Wait, I looked them up and I don't want the copper color, and in a video sample, they sounded too metallic for me. The Rotosound Tru-Bass black coated on my Les Paul sound real good. I'm going to look up the steel sound.
 
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I'm confused. In the photo you posted in your first post about your custom fretless base, the instrument has frets.
 
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