Bass with a myrtle top - Bass https://guitarmaking.co.uk/community/showcase-bass/bass-with-a-myrtle-top/ Guitar Making Forums en-GB Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:49:49 +0000 wpForo 60 RE: Bass with a myrtle top https://guitarmaking.co.uk/community/showcase-bass/bass-with-a-myrtle-top/#post-3436 Sat, 12 Sep 2020 23:38:09 +0000 I’ll take that for your work...

]]> Bass Deej https://guitarmaking.co.uk/community/showcase-bass/bass-with-a-myrtle-top/#post-3436 RE: Bass with a myrtle top https://guitarmaking.co.uk/community/showcase-bass/bass-with-a-myrtle-top/#post-3359 Sat, 12 Sep 2020 10:57:33 +0000 "Who knows..." meaning "There a slight theoretical chance..."

]]> Bass Marcel https://guitarmaking.co.uk/community/showcase-bass/bass-with-a-myrtle-top/#post-3359 RE: Bass with a myrtle top https://guitarmaking.co.uk/community/showcase-bass/bass-with-a-myrtle-top/#post-3350 Sat, 12 Sep 2020 10:07:02 +0000

Well, start playing the bass and maybe next year who knows...

I’ll hold you to that... ? 

]]> Bass Deej https://guitarmaking.co.uk/community/showcase-bass/bass-with-a-myrtle-top/#post-3350 RE: Bass with a myrtle top https://guitarmaking.co.uk/community/showcase-bass/bass-with-a-myrtle-top/#post-3349 Sat, 12 Sep 2020 10:05:23 +0000 I suppose once you glue it onto the neck it’s pretty stable.

flat sawn on that wood does look nice..

]]> Bass Deej https://guitarmaking.co.uk/community/showcase-bass/bass-with-a-myrtle-top/#post-3349 RE: Bass with a myrtle top https://guitarmaking.co.uk/community/showcase-bass/bass-with-a-myrtle-top/#post-3348 Sat, 12 Sep 2020 10:05:21 +0000

did I mention it’s my birthday in a couple of weeks...

I can’t believe as I type this but I may get into playing basses after seeing the recent posts of your work.

Well, start playing the bass and maybe next year who knows... ? 

]]> Bass Marcel https://guitarmaking.co.uk/community/showcase-bass/bass-with-a-myrtle-top/#post-3348 RE: Bass with a myrtle top https://guitarmaking.co.uk/community/showcase-bass/bass-with-a-myrtle-top/#post-3347 Sat, 12 Sep 2020 10:02:44 +0000 One of the most fun things when I want to make a guitar or bass is thinking of the woods I want to use.  A couple of years ago when I was at my wood supplier's place (Masave woods in Zwolle, Netherlands) I saw he had a pile of flat sawn fretboards. They looked to amazingly good I bought 5 or 6 of them. I know Mark always says the best fretboards are quarter sawn but flat sawn wenge look much more spectacular than quarter sawn wenge.

Quarter sawn wenge:

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 The myrtle wood I purchased from Oregon Wild Wood in the USA.

 

]]> Bass Marcel https://guitarmaking.co.uk/community/showcase-bass/bass-with-a-myrtle-top/#post-3347 RE: Bass with a myrtle top https://guitarmaking.co.uk/community/showcase-bass/bass-with-a-myrtle-top/#post-3345 Sat, 12 Sep 2020 09:48:02 +0000 I can’t believe as I type this but I may get into playing basses after seeing the recent posts of your work.

]]> Bass Deej https://guitarmaking.co.uk/community/showcase-bass/bass-with-a-myrtle-top/#post-3345 RE: Bass with a myrtle top https://guitarmaking.co.uk/community/showcase-bass/bass-with-a-myrtle-top/#post-3344 Sat, 12 Sep 2020 09:46:33 +0000 Well I’m glad the be your “friend”...Virtual or otherwise...did I mention it’s my birthday in a couple of weeks... ? 

Seriously though great work again. You have a tasteful eye on shape and selection of woods..one word...STUNNING

]]> Bass Deej https://guitarmaking.co.uk/community/showcase-bass/bass-with-a-myrtle-top/#post-3344 Bass with a myrtle top https://guitarmaking.co.uk/community/showcase-bass/bass-with-a-myrtle-top/#post-3342 Sat, 12 Sep 2020 09:38:34 +0000 I liked the sound of the fretless bass I had made very much so I decided to make a bass with the same type of pickup (Seymour Duncan SMB 4a). But with other woods.

Ash body with a myrtle top, maple (scarf)neck with a wenge fretboard. Göldo bridge and Gotoh tuners. And again no active tone circuit.

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]]> Bass Marcel https://guitarmaking.co.uk/community/showcase-bass/bass-with-a-myrtle-top/#post-3342