#906 is a Lobe made from Zebra-wood The five piece neck is the ‘standard’ mahogany, maple and purpleheart construction with a nice Jatoba fingerboard. This bass has a front control cavity, which came with the original aluminum plate and which, I now replaced with a nice piece of Zebra-wood. The width of the neck at the nut is 1.75”
I decided to go with a dual J set-up which, I have wired Vol/Vol/Tone. I have also add series parrallel switching via a pull up switch on the neck volume control. The headstock on this one is shorter and seems wider than usual ones I’ve seen - quite nice!
I spent a lot of time on the fingerboard on this one; leveling, re-radiussing, sanding and finished with epoxy which really brings out the rich orange brown color of the Jatoba.
Final touches were copper cavity shielding, string ferrules, strap-locks and I added an ebony nut, a Zebra-wood bridge and flat-wounds that complete what is a very nice bass. This bass is a tone monster with loads of sustain. It plays very nicely indeed. The action is low for a Wishbass, with great mwaah!
I’m very pleased as to how this one turned out.
Completed Work:
Stripped Bass of hardware
Shape/sand body to 150 grit
Shape/sand neck to 150 grit
Initial sand of fretboard to 150 grit
Strip Bass of hardware
Shape/sand body to 400 grit
Shape/sand neck to 400 grit
Initial sand of fretboard to 400 grit
Sand/radius fingerboard: 20”
Epoxy fingerboard
Re-rout original pick-up cavity
Rout for second pick-up
Re-radius fingerboard (20”) post epoxy application
Polish ‘board
Drill for side jack
Filled holes/gaps as required.
Seal wood
Fabricate cavity cover
Apply Tru-Oil
Sand-back and polish
Shield cavities with copper tape
Redo wiring harness V/V/T with sprague orange drop and series/parallel switching
Fabricate ebony nut and zebrawood bridge
Refit hardware
Final set-up
Here’s my post refin video demo. The sound was a little much for my cameras built in mic but I think you get a good feel for the sound and tonal flexibilty of this bass.