Second Instrument for Kuba Kohout
This Jaguar bass was created for Kuba Kohout as a personal and somewhat experimental instrument. The foundation is a lightweight, single-piece alder body provided by Kuba himself. The neck is crafted from quartersawn maple and the fretboard from pearwood-wood sourced from his own stocks, felled together with his father in a friend's garden. Even in its materials, this is an instrument deeply connected to the people and places it comes from.
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Year builtdecember 2021
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Bodyalder
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Neckmaple
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Fretboardpear
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Scale length864 mm
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Pickupsquier cv
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hardwarevintage
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Nutbone
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Finishnitro body, oiled neck
Construction Details
The pearwood fretboard is complemented by walnut block inlays, and the neck itself features a unique construction. It extends further into the body than usual-reaching all the way to the pickup under the pickguard-and is secured with two additional bolts beyond my standard specification.
Workshop, Time, and Reality
Kuba provided the hardware and pickup himself: a vintage bridge with string-through-body routing, along with tuners and a pickup from a Squier Classic Vibe. The instrument came together gradually over a longer period. I began the build at the start of 2021, but it reached its final form in December 2021. Construction started at the Špejchar workshop in Dobruška and was completed in Hradec Králové. The result is a no-nonsense bass that doesn't pretend to be anything else-it simply plays exactly the way it should.
