Hyder Guitars USA Tele bass and fretless builds

[BassShifter21]

Greetings!

This is my first post on this forum. Here are some pics of my first two builds. The complete build threads can be found on TalkBass. Please let me know what you think!
Tele bass



Elegance fretless

[karmapavementplan]

That tele is awesome! Not too keen on the fretless though, sorry

[OrangeLightning]

yeah how does that tele pickup sound?

not a huge fan of the fretless either

[Rexx Shredd]

That Tele is sweet. Nice job. The only negative comment I can make on it is that the Tele pickup at the neck looks like it will be right in the way for slap bass

[BassShifter21]

Originally Posted by Rexx Shredd

That Tele is sweet. Nice job. The only negative comment I can make on it is that the Tele pickup at the neck looks like it will be right in the way for slap bass

Thank you for the kind words! Sorry it took so long to reply. You have a point, and that neck pickup could be eliminated for someone who wanted that flexibility. I have never picked up slap bass, so I haven't experienced what you are referring to. I was going for as much of the Tele flavor as possible, so it fit into my plan. I could do a straight J, a P/J or any other combination, depending on what a certain player wanted.