Bass 4

A Woody Acoustic Electric Tone

A hollow Chambered Fretless 5 string using a Highlander Coaxial Piezo Pickup

I named this bass after my Dad, George Cooper.

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A spruce or maple top, a bolt on or glued in neck. Highlander Coaxial pick up. Maybe a 3 band EQ. Cocobolo finger board. 34" scale.

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My biggest influences for this type of bass are the Godin A4, Rick Turner's renaisence and Rob Allen's work . A sort of Avant garde half acoustic and half solid body trad shape. I really like the look and tone that these basses have so I wanted to do my own variant of the theme.

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I am not a particularly good Fretless player - it's not my main instrument, I typically play a fretted but sometimes a fretless can add so much expression to a song. I love way these basses sound - similar to an EUB.

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Rick Turner's basses are not quite the same as the Godin or Rob Allen, Rick's uses a slim line acoutic style construction, where as the other two use a conventional solid body with routed out body chambers (a simpler construction, I have already done this once with my 5 string headless bass and it produces good results).

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I want fretlines that are visible, so from a few feet away the lines will make the bass look fretted. I liked the black fret lines on my last bass, which looked nice with the marbled Ebony fingerboard, but I think I will use maple this time to contrast the Cocobolo board. Because I have already built a 4 string fretless, a 5 string would be more useful to me. I'd really like to build a 6 string but I'll leave that to the next project. Or maybe I'll build a 7....

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<< I want to use a set of Hipshot Ultra-Lites. Probably in chrome and I prefer the "T" key, I don't think the clover leaf type will look right.