K2 bass by J Douglas Guitars.

Recently completed in my one-man shed in Yorkshire, UK.

The body is a single piece of sycamore/plane.

The neck is bulletwood with a leadwood fretboard.

The head is faced with resin board with a matching truss cover.

Logo is sand cast pewter.

Inlays are brass and acrylic on the front with 2mm black side dots.

34" scale length with 21 jumbo nickel silver frets.

Nut is 44mm brass.

Neck tapers to a width of 58mm at the top fret.

The neck carve is a slim C profile with a thickness of around 21mm at the 1st up to around 23mm at the 15th.

The knobs are hand made, sand cast pewter. Tops are high polished with the sides maintaining the rougher texture to aid adjustment (those rough areas are still polished).

The pickups are single coils made, wound and assembled by myself. Each is wound to 12000 winds and backed with a strong neodymium bar magnet. I make these to my own taste. The sound is powerful and well rounded.

The control plate on the rear is made from epoxied redwood and holds the pickup selector switches - i prefer this method of loading switches but I'm aware not all players will. It is intuitive enough once you adjust but I'm not going to argue that it is advantageous - it simply allows for a cleaner appearance on the front.

The pickups are as those on a Strat, humbucking in the mid positions.

Standard master volume and tone with a .022 tone cap.

I built this bass simply for the joy of it and as an exercise in the art of it. I was gifted the body timber and it's great character demanded an instrument to match. I wanted to make an instrument that felt, to it's owner, like nothing else.

I was inspired to design the body after making a Ripper body for a client, the extra width for a visually striking instrument. In the end I blended the lines of a Ripper and an SG and developed this body. The body carve melds qualities of LP and SG.

It's a very comfortable instrument to play for me personally. It's massive feels reassuring but the slim neck is extremely comfortable.

It's both familiar and unique, a large body with a narrower than standard neck. It feels great to me at least.

The dense timber allows for sharp carve lines and an extremely smooth finish. But, conversely, it is heavy.

The bulletwood neck is denser than rosewood and has a resultant finish of super smooth quality but, again, with it's strength and denseness, comes weight. Leadwood, as it's name suggests, is also not such a light timber.

The resultant weight of using such timbers is considerable and this bass weighs 12+ pounds. I'm not ignorant of the practicalities of such weight but I was never prioritising practicality in this build, so it is what it is and I'm happy with the results.

All that said, it actually balances well on a strap despite being short horned and bearing a heavy neck.

Certainly not a bass for everyone, but most definitely a bass for someone.