MiKro

An oldie I made years ago. Jet Jons Jag. Build here: SPECS: 3 piece Alder body Maple Neck, EIR Fretboard 34" scale Tele Headstock Jag bass redesign by my self. All redesign, cnc cut by me and finish work by hand. Finish was done with lacquer and 2 k clear coat. BadAss 2 bridge, EMG active pickups w/ three volumes and one tone control Hipshot tuners, 1 is a Drop D Banjo Frets, ( He likes them crisp as he places his fingers on the actual fret, the harmonics on this are a beast) Sorry I lost many pictures in a HD Crash, so this is the best I have at present, had to get the owner to get me some.. LOL!!! Pictures are of the owner John, One gigging in his Brian Adams Tribute band. This thing rocks. The first Bass I ever built. I let John finish sand the hand, arm and belly carve to suit him. He also wanted to spray the color. LOL!! Now it is one of the new models I will be using. Yep, I know where is the damn control cover? Jon lost it, so i have to make another one. LOL!!!

Damn the torpedoes. mk

I agree needs to extend the pocket out if using bolt on. Or use six screws like some basses now

@mistermikev It is a set neck not bolt on. MK

Yep, I guess maybe I should up the priority on the to do list. mk

About 6 years now. LOL. I know I need to get it done.

Like This one? mk

Luis would you be interested in a billet of Pale Mun Ebony? I have one that is about 40" x 8" x 2-1/2" about 4 years old now? I can get better measurements if needed Mike

First welcome to PG. locating the bridge accurately is the most common problem from an intonation standpoint. I might suggest that you use the fret calculator on Stewmac.com site. That would be a good start to help overcome inaccuracies in your fret slot location and bridge saddle placement. Most likely choose acoustic style for the type of bridge saddle placement you are using. As far as scale that would not change from electric or acoustic. MK

I am thinking the same thing as well. LOL!!! Then again I may sell this one, even though I find it hard to justify the additional $80 for 4 games? mk

So now I must decide if I want to add a trackball? Only 4 games that use it on this Jamma board. Centipede, Millipede, Super Breakout, and Arkanoid. Otherwise I leave them off the list of games available. The trackball is another $80. What do you think? MK

Finally I was able to turn off the games that I don't want. Man this service menu is clunky and no documentation does not help. I guess when I am done I will make some REAL docs. LOL!! So far other than the problems I have found during setup and install, it is nice once it is working correctly. Now to finish out the new layout and go from there. MK

Yep, and now I am finding they just crimped some of the connectors on over the insulation as far as the cable goes. what a fucking mess. Now I must check continuity on every one of those. MK

Yep I have seen that one. Some of it is correct others not? MK

I would rethink it now, I am not impressed so much with the Jamma board now. It would be nice if I could assign buttons with it but that is not the case so far and the available datasheets suck, Small things like what they say is up and down on a joystick is wrong.Also you must use the player 2 start location to start a game. The menu is bizzar to say the least. MK.

Well that layout sucks. LOL!! Way to many buttons for what I plan to do. Also no manual for the wires to know what does what. Yes there is a manual for the board and pins but they are not correct. So now to go through and figure out what 48 wires do since I only need 8 maybe 12 of them. LOL. Fuck me. Even the joy stick pinouts are bassackwards top to bottom, right and left are correct. Jeeeze what a fucking nigthmare. On top of that a friend is all about what ART I am going to do on the damn thing? Fuck if I know? I need to make it work first. Have a great weekend all. MK

Enter it this month in GOTM, since there no entries, but you better hurry.

The weather is good now. So back in the shop and I got the control panel cut out and started test fitting switches. They snap right in. Need some screws for the Joy sticks. the one on the left will be the 4 way (blue) and the middle one (gray) an 8 way. MK

I have RhinoCAM6 still, as well as Aspire so I am good with it. I can use Fusion 360 if I need to but I really see no use in that product as it is Online based and now has limits for the free version. Yep all of those that went that way are going to be squeezed into a month to month at some point. Typical AutoCAD product. mk

Yes the CAM is expensive though, but very good.

So this looks to be the final before hitting the cnc with it.

So I am thinking something like this so far?

Thanks Mike, I plan to get something on the CNC today for controls. Just not sure of the plan yet. LOL!!! MK

Now to decide the control layout? I am thinking Single player with 2 joysticks. a 4 way and an 8 way. Some of the games work better with the 4 way and others the 8 way. I'm not going to spend the $$ for a servo based 4/8 way joysick. Then comes the number of buttons as well? 4, 6 , 8 buttons? That does not include any admin types for start, test, coin? Pinball side buttons for simulated Pinball game? I don't think I need a trackball or spinner? I can't think of any games on this that really need one? What a PITA to figure out. I may need to allow for it later though? MK

So the top part looked a little heavy and oversize So I redid those.. MK