Hello everybody

[JoeSmith]

I'm Joe, and have decided to build up another guitar. The first guitar I built up was a telescaster. While this guitar was not a kit guitar I did buy all the parts for it and put her together. The Body was made out of Mahogany with double binding by guitar builder down in Melbourne. the neck is a Allparts Vintage radius neck and the pick ups are Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound for Tele, and gives it a warm sound and the wiring is out of a USA made tele.

My next Guitar will be a bass. Being a lot older and poorer I was looking at Kits., and come accross this jem of a site, I was thinking of the JBA-4M As I have a picture of a red F Jazz style bass with a maple neck in my mind that wont go away. If it turns out ok, I will be puting a set of Quarter Pound for Jazz Bass in her.

If I get this kit, can I order the head shaping service at the same time? As I want the original "F" shape. I look forward to getting up and running and being part of the gang. You have so many kits its hard to choose from. Anyway time to go back to looking at all the GOTM's some real nice stuff there. As big Kev used to say "I'm excited".

Here is a pic of my tele, Cheers Joe

[Fretworn]

Welcome Joe.

[stan]

welcome Joe, we are all excited mate, that's why we are here. Enjoy!

[gavinturner]

Welcome Joe. Love your Tele dude - great job! Looking forward to reading about your new build!

cheers,
Gav.

[jarrod]

Hey Joe and welcome to your brand new addiction.

[Brendan]

Joe - drop DingoBass a line at dingobass (at) pitbullguitars dot com (you'll need to cleanup the address - done that way to reduce the number of spam bots that will get the address). He should be able to sort out the headstock for you. That said - it's one of the easier jobs in building a guitar, so one I'd encourage people to do themselves and get something unique and personal.

BTW - Jazz basses come out sweet - I've build a JB4-M (before the ash bodies started to come through) and I love it. Might also be worthwhile looking at the Entwistle and Tonerider pickups that Pitbull sell - for a cheaper price they are really nice sounding - definately big bang for buck.

[wokkaboy]

welcome Joe, nice looking tele. Look forward to seeing the Jazz bass progress. I'd have a crack at shaping the headstock yourself, buy a coping saw and some sandpaper, it's not that hard.
Best of luck and start a build diary

[JoeSmith]

Thanks for the compliments on the tele it was a long time in the making.
I will email Dingobass and arrange to have it shaped when I place my order on monday. Those Entwistle pickups look interesting, I will look into them, and they area good price to, I nearly put the Tonerider's in the tele but fell in love with the look and sound of the Quarter Pounders. has anyone any sound bites for the Entwistle's? Cant wait to start and will start a log as soon as I get it.
Cheers Joe

[Brendan]

I haven't heard the Entwistles for bass - what I've heard for guitars is that they are heavier - not the most suited to a Nashville sound (from the 'buckers that I've heard), but good for rock / metal. I've got some Entwistles to go into a LP that I'm building (albeit slowly in between other builds).

I've put a tonerider in my P Bass and if I was to build another P Bass, I wouldn't put anything else in. I'm planning a scratch build now and tossing up between Toneriders and Entwistles. Only reason I haven't used them to date is that they weren't available from Pitbull the time I built my Jazz bass.

[JoeSmith]

Well I just purchased the new addition to the smiths guitar range, the JBA-4m. It took a bit of time as I could not make up my mind between the maple or rosewood neck. All my guitars have rosewood boards, The Tele, The Strat (Robert Cray signature, my baby) and a LP parts guitar still in parts that I my son was building but lost interest in.

So the fun begins, and have a long wait now watching for the postman. I will start a build log, start learning some bass runs so I will be able to play somthing for the demo video. I took the plunge and will do the head shaping my self. I got some nice "F" shapes of the net. Now the next decision will be the colour????? I had settled on red but seen a nice Orange Jazz Bass that looks good, but candy apple red is still high on the list.

Cheers Joe