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Mirror is my vote. Make it oversized to fill the entire headstock for extra obnoxious.

Lol. Sorry. Lumi has been in the name of all of my companies since 2014. I did consider using my name as the pickup company name, but honestly, who does that?

First small batch done!

Yeah that's where I got my idea for this build. But eventually decided on the sandwich-style instead since it's much cleaner looking than just screwing the board on the back, imho.

That sounds cool. Maybe put some sort of screw in connector for the wires to make them easily removable?

Dum dum dummm. First very small batch of production underway.

I'll start with a simple bolt on one piece neck with true oil list. Interesting to compare to others. Optional steps in parentheses. Hope I didn't miss anything obvious. - Glue up body blank - (Glue up top wood) - Route body shape - Route cavities, drill holes (minus the bridge) - (Belly cut) - Sanding - Cavity cover routing and thicknessing - (Dye) - Oil, oil, oil Neck: - (Angled headstock) - Route truss rod channel - Route neck shape - Frets slots for fretboard - (Inlays) - Glue fretboard - Route fretboard flush with neck shape - (Inlays), fret markers - Fret install - Headstock thicknessing - Neck shaping (+volute) - Sanding - Drill for tuners - (Fret markers) - (Apply logo) - Fretwork - Oil, oil, oil - Final assembly - Measure bridge position, drill for bridge posts/screws, install bridge - Nut - More fretwork - Final setup - Rock

I'm liking the tones out of this a lot. Got everything installed. Sound test. bridge (really the middle pickup) 35DC is a Music Man style humbucker, neck 35P4 is P-bass (duh).

Pickup routs redone, EMG set of 35DC and 35P4 in the mail. Now just fingers crossed it was the pickups, not the instrument. But I doubt it since it sounds so good unplugged.

I guess as sometimes it goes with an experiment, you have to step back and say, welp, that didn't work. The P90 just sounds too ratty. Would work in a dive bar grindcore gig, but not much else. I guess I'll put some EMG 35DC's on my shopping list and widen the pickup routes to fit those. Here's what it would've looked like with p90's.

Yup, checked that first. Then redid the wiring. Same result, but I'll wait until I have everything done before jumping to conclusions. For now it sounds like there's only the highest harmonic and the root note coming through and nothing in between. Not even clang clang style Korn bass but just scratch scratch scratch.

I had to give it a try on how it sounds before I take the neck off. Good news is it sounds absolutely massive unplugged. Bad news is the P90 sounds like a garbage fire. Extremely thin and scratchy. Not sure why but it's also very low output, it measures 10k DC.

Unless you're over 67, the 6-string bass is older than you are. 90's are an experiment, as is this this whole build to be fair. I'm planning to wire them as passives on their own and middle position would be active if I can figure out the wiring. The shape happened to be whatever template I grabbed first, could've been a tele too.

It is a bass! 30" scale bass VI style.

That really wasn't intentional but I guess a superstrat is a superstrat. The white p90's will probably ease the edgy look a bit.