haha all good Waz, not planning to get to earthquake levels yet !
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haha all good Waz, not planning to get to earthquake levels yet !
Better watch the volume when doing some slappin otherwise they may require a Tsunami alert for Rottie perhaps?
Looking Fantastic.....
I, as a Dutchman, already figured out what you guys mean by a 'krissy pressie' and what city 'Brissie' is. But what/where/who is Rottie
AAHH, "Rottie" is Rottnest Island.
Rottnest Island was discovered in 1696 by Willem de Vlamingh, a Dutch explorer, who named the island Rats' Nest due to the many large rats that he found on the island.
I believe that those Rats turned out to be Quokas, Marsupials found only on the Island.....
Well that's the story us Easterners get.....
Haha, thanks for the historical information. Love Quokas! :)
Thought you might like the Dutch connection.......
Thread Jack Completed, Back to our normal Program.....
Looking great Woks. I assume you acquired the Realpart's machine heads, what do you think of them?
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cheers guys
@ Ponch, yes they are the realparts tuners that you ordered. They look and feel good. There's no slack in the gear mechanism so think they will keep good tune.
My neck needed a fair fret level so warning if you haven't done yours yet Ponch it may also need some work
Good stuff Woks, the tuners do feel nice and solid! I completed the fret work during recent high humidity days and yes, they were rather uneven to say the least.... all sorted now. The humidity dropped to 60% yesterday - good enough for me to get the primer on. No dramas, piccies later. I will wait for a lower humidity day for the actual paint.
sounds good Ponch, the east coast has had terrible painting weather by the sounds
Went looking for a set of these Tuners for myself..... Only come in 4 string sets, it seems, and don't appear to be available individually to make up a 5....... :(Quote:
Originally Posted by andrewdosborne
Hoby send Realparts an email or give them a call. Sure they can supply a 5 string set if you ask them to add 25% to the 4 tuner set price
Will do, Thanks Wokka.Quote:
Originally Posted by wokkaboy
( gotta stop spending on this Bass, trying to save for a Strat Kit).....
It's looking really nice. Well done, Woks.
cheers Simon. I've disassembled it and hanging for a few days for final curing before I polish and assemble it this weekend
looking great wokks makes me want to play it! bet you're chomping at the bit...
cheers Andy, yes pretty keen to hear how the toneriders and active system sound. I've got enough other bass's to play in the meantime haha
I'm thinking of getting some toneriders for my JBA....if its not too much trouble can you post a vid when you get it finished?
no worries Andy will do. A cheaper option is to get the $20 active system and use the stock pups. I think it will sound fine.
You will need to do some routing mods for the battery and PCB box and drill a jack hole on the side as you need all 4 holes in the control plate for pots
There is a five hole plate on eBay.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/331912751...%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
cheers for the link Hoby I'll keep that in mind if I ever build a jazzy with 5 pot pre-amp active system. Looks like there's an extra hole for a mini toggle switch too !
Or four pot plus jack.....
If they came in Black I'd have one on the way "just in case" I get a Preamp for mine...... Still on the cards....
I do like the idea of a bypass switch too.
and, now that you mention it, a 5 Pot setup, Volume, Balance Bass Mid Treble , sounds pretty Good.
just finished the micro mesh pads and polished. got the bridge on, so assembly and electrics next. I'll post some pics when the strings are on !
so got what I got planned to get done. Here's some pics before it got dark. Learnt alot from this build. Bass builds are so different to guitars. I made a blue and the bridge needs to be shifted sideways a little. Didn't have the pups in when I marked out bridge position. Something the forum should know is the Tonerider pup poles are about 3-4mm wider so they don't align as well as they could. The bridge I upgraded to is the same E to G saddle witdth
couple more angles
the beauty of having the battery under the pickguard is the back is just neck plate. As long as I remember to unplug the jack the battery should last years (hopefully).
Still got to fit the string retainer and strap pins and a good setup after I shift the bridge. Off to the workshop now !
Very classy looking J!
Before you go moving the Bridge, are you sure it's out??? Strings look pretty straight on the Neck, maybe the Pickups are out..... Just sayin' .....
It's a pity you can't put a rechargeable battery under the Pickguard and a small "mini Jack" on the control plate to charge it..... ( I often overthink things ) .....
Looks great Wokks. inspiring me to get started.
Nice work Woks! Looking forward to hearing a demo
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Get on with it!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Andy40
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I see two issues here.
One is that the P and J kits seem to use the same neck. Fender use the same width at the body end (2.5"/63.5mm), but the P bass nut is 43mm wide, whilst the J bass nut is 38mm wide. So the strings on a real Jazz bass are spreading out from each other at a greater angle than on a P bass, so should need wider pole piece spacing and a wider bridge spacing than on a P bass. I've no idea what the nut widths are on the kits, but I'd suspect they are nearer 43mm than 38mm. Maybe this is why the PBG JB kit pickups are narrower than standard? Maybe we should ask Adam if we can have different necks for the two models, rather than a one-size doesn't quite fit all solution? If I wanted to build a JB kit, I'd want a jazz bass style neck with a narrow nut.
The other is as you've highlighted, that the pickups are slightly offset from the centre line of the neck/bridge. However, the bridge does look to be aligned correctly with the neck (certainly the strings look to be running along it parallel to the sides), so that it's either the pickup routs that were routed a bit offset, or the neck pocket angle was wrong (or a bit of both). If you move the bridge, then unless you can generate some angular rotation of the neck in the pocket to match, then the strings will be all wonky, which will look worse and (play worse) than the slightly offset pickups.
Awkward and not easy to solve. You might be able to rotate the pickguard and control plate slightly so that at least the neck pickup is in central alignment (if not pole spacing), but that still leaves the bridge pickup to sort out, which means reshaping the cavity.
Or you could simply fit pickups with solid covers, such as a nice set of Bartolinis, so that it's far less obvious to look at.
Or get a black Sharpie and colour those pole pieces black!
Forgot to say that pickup locations aside, it does look a great bass.
Another pro quality job, Wokks, nice result
cheers for all the comments and feedback gang. I think you might be right I think the bridge pup cavity is a little off centre. The neck pocket was tight so there was no movement in the neck so I bolted that on first. I did manage to move the bridge about 3mm to the right, just enough to cover the old holes. The string offset was equal, now there's a little less offset on the G string but still plenty of fret to work with. Here's a pic of the bridge and pup poles from above the strings align to the poles better. Other pic shows string offset.
I agree Simon about the Jazz kits should have a narrow nut neck. First time I played a real jazz bass that was the first thing I noticed the narrow nut.
Looks good Wokks and even better now with the bridge tweak. The pups poles look just about perfect now.
Have you finalised the nut yet, can you maybe nudge it slightly towards the bass side to help with the string alignment down the fretboard?
hey Weirdy cheers mate. Yes I have to fit a DB bone nut he's slotted it. I just have to sand down the width and height so it fits. I will try and move the nut a bit on the bass side to help the string alignment. That's this arvo's project
EDIT oh and big congratulations Weirdy on Overlord status, just noticed !
Mate, that Bass is looking the Business.....
cheers Hoby, I will get a demo video soon once its setup and the bone nut is on. Was giving a short test about 11pm lastnight and no bricks through the window haha sounds great with the bass on the pre-amp turned right up and a bit of treble