ddgman2001

What an amazing piece!

Where do you find spault like that?

How deeply does the CEPS soak in in real world conditions? Have you cut apart a sample block? I've been currious about testing that stuff.

A short scale will work better with the body style you've chosen. As a general rule of thumb, shorter scales sound darker and boomier, longer scales sound brighter and more hi-fi.

Try capoing a standard scale bass at the 1st or 2nd fret, re-tune and see if you like the tone of a short scale.

I've seen the insides of them & know what's there .So without getting into an argument here, tell us why you think they are so special.

Well for starters:

- Custom deep covers in normal and tight spaced poles - mould charges of $5000 each at least.

- Custom stamped and formed then heat treated Mu-metal shield.

- The bobbin flanges look custom

- The bottom poles look to be custom, they could be off the shelf, but I've never seen mild steel pins in any of my suppliers catalogs.

- The top magnets are shorter than standard, I assume custom sized for Kinman.

- The bottom flange is made out of tougher to work with fiberglass circuitboard material complete with identification silk screening and solder mask - a nice touch.

- A high quality shielded lead, trimmed to length with the ground nicely pulled out and heat shrink applied.

There maybe or probably are more complex designs out there, but compared to a typical Strat style pickup these are a lot more work and have more exotic and expensive materials.

If you've ever taken the cover off one and had a look at how they are built, you'll wonder why he's charging so little compared to the others. They are extremely well done.

How do you rout the binding channel?

That seems like a tricky thing to do if you're going to maintain the same depth and width of cut around the contour.

As close to zero friction at the pivots as possible - nice and sharp.

A solidly coupled arm - heavier is better. If there is any play in the arm screws or mount, it will actually damp flutter.

A shorter block.