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Felt like I needed a new challenge, so battling a shortened scale, tuning in 5ths and getting a bow to make the strings sing. But on the odd occasion that I play a note well it sounds really good. It is a 5 string with a low F, so it can work as a short scale electric upright bass.

Wow That is a wall of GK goodness! The two speaker covers on the 4x12 make it look like two cabs, but I guess that isn't the case.

That's quite a pedalboard! The two wireless units are presumably so you can run two basses and the red pedal switches between them? What is the silver/white pedal in the front row with the red demon picture on it?

Neck on for the first time today! Mounted the hardware to see how it feels. It seems to be pretty nicely balanced, so very happy with that. Still a lot of work to go on the body, but today was a great day!

Controls all wired up now. Just need to add in the wires to the pickups and the ground to the bridge. I got some nice vintage style wired (with a braided sheath) in the kit with the pots. Looks and feels great, but was a pain to strip.

Showing a bit of bling! Fitted the control plate and have gone with gold volume and tone tone knobs. there is still a bit of extra wood on the bottom of the neck joint. I need to fit the neck before removing that. Just waiting for the screws and plates to arrive so I can do that.

Thanks Steve. Got some momentum now that the end is in site. Waiting for an order of hardwear bits and pieces now

Big day today! Glued the front an back panels together. I've routed out the sound chamber and the control cavity. You can see the pencil line around the control cavity where the control plate will cover. I haven't decided if I will recess that yet. I have also drilled the ducts for wires from the pi...

Good to hear you've got it sorted. I am really happy with my Le Bass - both channels, and I haven't even tried either of the fusion modes yet

Don’t have one sorry, but I did see that they occasionally appear on trademe when I was deciding if a neck on a friends jazz bass was fixable

Top half of body now more or less routed to shape. Bottom half marked out showing what the neck joint will look like. I did bust off a chunk of the lower horn routing the top (now glued back in place), so need to be a little more careful! Need to route a control cavity and sound chamber in the top, ...

Rough sawn body. A lot of planing to do now

Let us know what you think of them when you get them. I like their Jazz Flats. At the moment I have got as set of Ernie Ball Slinky cobalt flats on my fretless Jazz bass which I really like.

Hi Ryla.

Musicways has them on their website (http://musicways.co.nz/customer/product ... =21&page=1), so they are imported into NZ. There is a link to dealers there. I don't think the shops stock them, but should be able to order them in for you.

Got the router out to make the pickup cavity. The perspex template makes it pretty easy Lace pickups sitting in the cavity