Modification of headstock for better balance

I found a local wood supplier that deals with old hardwoods. Mostly used in old 19th and early 20th century barns in Northern Virginia.

Not sure how some of the old Walnut and sycamore woods would work out on a bass, but I'm willing to give them a try.

Didn't know you believed in tone woods

Although very finite, its true, the density of different woods behave in different ways, try this experiment, take two body blanks of different species, sprinkle salt over both, tap a tuning fork and place on each in turn and observe how the salt settles, this is proof of tonality. How this translates to the human ear is a different thing altogether. Solid bodies came about as an attempt to do away with a rooms acoustics feeding back into a guitar top and starting a chain reaction known as feedback. In 1966 two albumns, Paul Butterfields ‘East West’ and John Mayalls ‘Bluesbreakers’ showed the Les Pauls ability to ‘Feedback’ at high volume despite being constructed from mahogany and maple in a solid lump.





Bosh

Jay, ive found a cheap Steinberger style bridge on ebay, i typed in ‘Headless Bass Bridge’ and a few brand new ones came up complete with headpiece and allen keys all for under £25, ideal for a first build. I need to make a new neck for my bass number two so i've decided to get one of these and make it headless. BOSH

That's certainly not expensive. I found some headless sets too, mostly made in China. I couldn't find data about string spacing at both sides. I don't want strings to be too close to each other because of my hands. They're not gigantic, but far too big for Ibanez SoundGear like necks.