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  1. Primal
    I would say that adding humbuckers (maybe get your tele routed for 'em) would help emensly (sp?). I just find it hard to get a heavy sound from tele pickups...
  2. Primal
    If it is your first project, go with the fixed radius.
  3. Primal
    You could always ask him. He might be able to come up with the extra cash for some better pickups...
  4. Primal
    Interesting idea, but how would you adjust the volume? And how would you keep that volume once it is set so you dont have to keep your hand (or other body part) at the same place the whole time. Try Everyday with Practical Electronics Simple Theremin Project on http://www.thereminworld.com/schematics.asp. That might get ya the volume circuit.
  5. Primal
    I would suggest LMI since they have a larger selection of woods. They will also slot and radius the boards to whatever you want (well, they have a large selection of radii and scales). I bought a Pau Ferro fretboard for my bass, pre-slotted and radiused, and I am very happy with it.
  6. Primal
    Active pickups merely have fewer windings (i.e. to reduce noise, etc). Thus, the output on the pickups are much lower. This requires you to have a powered preamp to boost the signal before it gets to the amp. This is why they are called active pickups, because they require an active preamp. You can also use an active preamp with passive pickups as it lets you boost frequencies as well as cut them, passive preamps can only cut frequencies.
  7. Primal
    My Bartolini came with a paper that tells how to wire it (series, parallel, one coil, other coil, etc). My pickups are passive, but I imagine you could get active ones. The place where I got mine (www.bestbassgear.com) only had passives though. As for a preamp, I will be using a simple 3-band preamp that I found on an opamp data sheet.
  8. Primal
    Just started building my bass. I'll try to remember to let ya know how it sounds once I am done. I am anxious to hear it myself!
  9. Primal
    I bought a Bartolini passive Music Man Pickup for $90...
  10. Primal
    Since it is a bolt on, just shim the neck until the action is how you like it. I hear than veneer makes great neck shims.
  11. Primal
    Try LMI <http://www.lmii.com/> for fingerboards and Exotic Woods <http://www.exoticwoods.com/> for body wood. Exotic Woods sells fingerboards but LMI has a larger selection of fret slotting and radius sanding options. Hope this helps.
  12. Primal
    When I was gonna buy that truss rod, I was just going to use a 3/8" bit and then hand-sand 1/16" off the top and bottom to accomodate the nuts. But then I found the LMI truss rod. Its the same rod, but it only requires a 3/8" slot.
  13. Primal
    Thanks, glad to be here!
  14. Primal
    Thats what I was thinking but I wanted to make sure. Thanks.
  15. Primal
    I bought a double-action truss rod from LMI for the bass that I am building. How do I achor and double-action truss rod in the slot? Thanks, Chris
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