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  1. Not posted up a prog shot for a while. body and neck have been tru-oiled and waxed. Bridge and rear pup fitted, some more wiring work needed then a good fret levelling and set up.
  2. Real rics have only a 5 or 6mm centre stripe. I had a nice 20mm wide piece of cherry for the neck so as this is not a real ric Iwent for the thicker stripe. I guess the sound won't be compromised by this departure from authenticity. the headstock should be pretty much on, there is the inevitable fore-shortening of the photo image. No new pics for a bit, been slowly building up the thin layers of Tru-oil. A touch of antique pine stain to the maple top gives it a warmer golden glow to take away the stark bleached white.
  3. Oops, is that a knot in the wood grain or has someone dropped it on the floor and tried to fill it?
  4. Pickguardian delivered today, machine heads from Gav's ebay shop. Here's all the bits in place - final sanding, tru-oil finishing and nut-cutting left on the agenda.
  5. Cheers Paul, I built them all and tested them; i use a couple when gigging - they don't pop on switching. Maybe if an amp doesn't have earth lift switch, they would benefit from complete isolation on the power + LED's, but I've not yet heard any issues with any of these schematics. My favourite is the A/B + X/Y - I use it at every gig - keeping 2 basses plugged in and the outputs going to either amp or tuner.
  6. Final bit of routing - bridge pickup. Second use of the B&Q copper pipe, a little trick learnt on the forum for making the wiring holes from crtl cavity to bridge and pickup cavity easier to drill - always scares me doing that bit. The drill bit stuck into the end of the pipe with a blob of epoxy makes the job a lot easier and a lot less risky.
  7. It's a fraction over one and a quarter inches so watch out when you're routing the ctrl and pickup cavities or you'll go right through!
  8. Beautiful work, the wood combination is stunning!
  9. Some more progress today - frets fitted & trimmed, ctrl cavity routed and electrics started.
  10. Looking good Wez, I'm interested to see how the burl looks underneath your trans blue.
  11. I'm not feeling at all slammed! It's an interesting point - I don't know if the original rics were shorter scale, I'm pretty sure in the books I have on classic guitars (and rickenbacker's website) that they all list them as 33 1/4", maybe anyone here with an authentic vintage ric can get a tape measure out for us. Melvyn Hiscox book is also my reference bible to all the guitars I've built so far, coun't have made a start on this addictive craft without that book. Made a start ont he routing this afternoon.
  12. I'm quite excited. Wings are glued on to the core now and planed level. Here's a pic showing the walnut back. Starting to look like a bass now
  13. I've tidied up my collection of passive switch box schematics and pasted them all together, hopefully these may be of use to people who want to have a bash at wielding a soldering iron and put one of these incredibly useful boxes together themselves. Just need good eyesight to unravel my pixel-art. Passive Switch Wiring 9V battery powers the LED indicators thru a 2k resistor Uses combinations of 3PDT and DPDT switches X-grounding for noise suppression where appropriate Where not indicated, jackplug earths are grounded out together 1. A/B switch allows switching between 2 inputs into one output (eg: switch between 2 guitars in a gig without having to unplug) or use in reverse with one input switching between 2 outputs, eg: 1 guitar into either of 2 amps or amp/tuner, or select pedal chain or bypass for example. 2. A/B/Y switch allows AND/OR config: one guitar into either amp A OR amp B OR both at same time. Note: Can be used in reverse as A/B box but not recommended for 2 inputs simultaneously into one amp - guitars will interfere and cause hum. 3. A/B+X/Y switch allows A or B choice on input and X or Y choice on output, for example, choose one of 2 guitars on stage into one of 2 different amps, 1 of 2 guitars into either amp or tuner (will mute amp) 4. A/B/C switch allows one of 3 guitars into 1 amp or in reverse, 1 input into either of 2 amps or a tuner for example. Switch 1 chooses between A and (B or C). Switch 2 chooses either B or C. 5. Feedback/Loop switch selects to either bypass or route signal thru an effects box with option to blend some of the 'wet' signal back into the effect loop (level set by 250k pot) or leave it 'one-pass'.
  14. Standard Ric 4001/3 scale length is 33.25", = 845mm Trust them to be quirky
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