Andyjr1515

Lovely job. Looking forward to see it progress

What - moi? It's looking great, Norris On the subject of ink I did eventually contact Diamine ref fade information...but no response as yet. In the meantime I continue to use it and with no issues so far

Wow! Stunning...

That is excellent for a first build Good skills much in evidence just shouting to be used for the next one

As I say, I would liked to have BS'ted my way through

I would like to BS my way through the reason, but..... ....the end of the fretboard suffered, I suspect, from a banana sanding stroke by yours truly . I usually am pretty good at this particular aspect but, whatever, the zero fret was a tad lower than the others, even after levelling. I could have put an extra-high fret in there, but I still would need a nut for lateral guidance and it was just as easy to fix a nut. Pete didn't even know that he might have got a zero fret so no harm done there

No - between here: ...and drilling the holes, I got the peg offset the wrong way round. That'll teach me...I usually draw the wind too!:

Yes - that was the straightest I could get without plugging and redoing the head plate ref my earlier schoolboy error of which side of the peg the strings go round!

I replaced the zero fret with a brass nut this morning: ...and also did a few sound clips of the rotary switch positions through our small Yamaha PA, recorded on a Zoom hand-held here Not great playing or recording but gives an idea of the broad tonal spectrum. Just got to fit some round-wounds and tidy up the back of the neck and it's done The tidy up of the neck is to re-do the ink stain & tru-oil slurry. This time round I omitted the first coats of Birchwood Casey sealer filler as an experiment. Whereas the colour fastness in use is just as good, it did let the mahogany show a little during the slurry and buffing. I'll update the Finishing thread I did on this topic when I get a moment. I'll do some fancy arty-farty shots when it's got the proper strings on

That looks good There are some tight turns there. Did you get any splitting?

OK - bit of a catch-up on this. I've been head down trying to sort my notch filters from my high-pass / low-pass filters in my very hazy knowledge of such things. But let's start with the physical. Starting to look like a real bass: As for the electronics, again sitting on familiar ground with the physical side rather than the electronic, this is what it's now looking like: It has the following positions on the 6-way rotary: Pos 1 - bridge only Pos 2 - neck and bridge Pos 3 - neck only Pos 4 - neck with band-stop notch filter (0.001uF capac) Pos 5 - neck with band-stop notch filter (0.010uF capac) Pos 6 - neck with band-stop notch filter (0.047uF capac) Although I'm pretty certain Pete will only use one of the above sounds (but which? ) nevertheless, the above options give - after a lot of to-ing and fro-ing and re-wiring and swear-ing - six usable and distinctly different sounds. I've got a sound clip at the moment through my little vox guitar amp - I'll try to record through the PA speakers tomorrow to give a better representation. Just got to re-stain the back of the neck (I'll explain why in a later post) and fit a brass nut instead of the zero-fret and then it's basically done

Hi Andrew - good to hear from you . Are you back in Tasmania? How did the rest of the trip go? Ref the build, the thread is a bit out of date - I'm away in Scotland for a few days but will update it later this week. The build is basically done, but I'm still experimenting with the electrics It really is a case of the wonderful array of good bad and ugly that results from giving a guy who has NO idea what he is doing a soldering iron and some capacity-resisti things. After some interesting diversions, I have a notch filter working in a pretty usable way, and now wondering whether to try low pass and high pass with the final two switch positions. The three main positions, though (neck, both, bridge) are actually very usable and probably all Pete will use in any case

That's very attractive on every level - shape, wood, colours, bridge, fanned frets. Great job

If it's anything like the neck and headstock, the body will simply morph magically from a solid block of wood, shaking off all the chippings that are not perfectly smooth and beautiful. Have you chosen yet the block of wood that contains that wonderful object? Love the look of the neck. Can't wait....

Looking good

Yes - VERY much looking forward to it

Oooooohhhhhhh.....that's looking sooooooo nice. Beautiful job

That's looking really good, Goran

Hi. Steve Can't wait to see the pics. I thought it was my PC at first! I got fed up with photobucket and now use imgur. Mind you, bear in mind that this is also one of the few forum sites where you can download your photos directly. Ever so easy - just click 'choose files', browse to your pics and download onto the site, then just hit the + on the downloaded thumbnail to place it in your thread... Andy

Nice collection I love the carve of the new one - brings out the beauty of that lovely piece of cherrywood

I just scrolled down the page that the link opens at and sure enough Jackson and Kelly plans are there. There's also LOADS of other useful information in there. Great link, @KnightroExpress

Thanks, Scott

The induction coil I'm using has a few options in terms of primary, secondary and 1/2 coils. Also, the only indicator plate I can seem to get for the chicken head knob is a 6 position one....and that got me thinking. With some help with the capacitor / resistor bit of the notch circuit from a member of the basschat forum, I'm trying this circuit out using a 6 position 2 pole switch rather than a 4 position 3 pole one (I can always revert if it doesn't work). The left hand side is the original Gibson circuit - I'll replicate the neck components for the bridge rather than have the values shown below (which I think was for a single coil bridge on the originals?): If we've got it right, it should give me: neck; both; bridge; neck with full primary coil notch; neck with 1/2 primary coil notch; neck with full secondary coil notch If not, as I say, I'll go conventional EB-3. I've also started the gloss varnishing. My usual approach of thinned polyurethane wiped on with cheapo micro-fibre cloth. The first couple of coats have a purple spirit stain mixed in to take any remaining pinkness out of the colour. Here it is after the first couple of coats:

My oh my....stunning carving....even more stunning result. That is very impressive...

Love the carve, by the way, Norris Scott's right - you now need to build another one with a double bevel