1+! Is the black India ink or the tea? If the former did you find it as messy as the lady in the vid?
Hard to beat Precision and Jazz basses for comfort. That said, even a factory Precision can have neck dive...as does my '75 Fender. The paulownia bass has less. The differences between it and the swamp ash bass are light tuners, smaller headstock and heavy bridge. With that the neck dive is minimal... Not completely sure what accounts for it. My Frankenjazz had some neck dive too, but the res-o-lite tuners helped. We shall see how it does when I get around to putting the paulownia body on it.
Fender3x, The ink can be very messy, but as ive only, so far, used the sample pieces, the mess was very minimal keeping the pieces on an an off cut piece of radiator pine board and using 4mm dowel to hold it down while I painted it on using a soft "sponge" type brush. Doing the body, I will layout drop sheets under my work horses and lay some ply wood over the workhorses, like a bench and throw a clean cotton sheet over that. The bottles of ink are only quite small, will likely have to tip it into a larger open container to get the wider sponge brush in the pick it up, but the ink does go a long way. The Ebonizing process Ive now decided to maybe use that on the back of the neck as it has a really nice tobacco color, which I think will be a nice look. Very surprised with the Satin finish its feels amazing and looks very nice. Love to see the Paulownia body. I think the neck dive thing is an issue for a lot of guitars, I did try using some velcro shoulder support, terrible idea,,,, but there are grip type straps around. I think for the way this new one feels and sits up on my body Im going to be pretty happy with it. I am also looking for the bridge and pickup covers, probably go chrome with those, give it classic touch.
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