Wokka's JBA-4 build diary

Looking great Woks. Love the colour and grain definition on the body.

I have just received a DB Bone nut a week or so ago and suggest running the string back & forth in the slots to drop the height so that there is a bit more holding them in place on the sides as they are quite shallow slots and I had the A string popping out on open notes. Hope to get to that final setup job later today or during the week as it will be quite a delicate job and require lots of concentration to make sure none of the strings get too low.

Got a rough video recorded, the gopro struggles with too much noise. still on L plates on finger picking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8wgi3o9BII

I find that on bass nuts, you can normally use a round needle file to deepen the slots, followed by going up a few grades of fine grit sandpaper to smooth them off.

Hey Woks, isn't it a great feeling when you get to play a freshly finished axe and it sounded good too.

Cheers Waz. Sure is rewarding when it's finished and making noise

You have so many, surely some would be feeling a bit neglected?

I only have 10 and there are a few of them that haven't been out of their case or gig bag so far this year.

It's always the newer ones that you seem to gravitate towards.

Hey Waz. Yes so many axes are covered in dust with rusty strings. So many of them still need tweaks. Oh well will get around to it one day.

Nice one Woks it has the JB sound! Don't turn up the amp too much - being so close it'll blow your ear drums out :)

Haha cheers Ponch I'll keep that in mind

Sounds killer.

cheers Pabs. I'll get a better demo once I've had time to play the neck in and be happy with the setup. The bone nut does improve the sound for sure.

So that's with the Toneriders and the preamp?

yeah bro sure is

Winning combination, right there.

yeah cheers Pabs pretty happy with early sounds. Still got to muck around with the EQ on the amp head to get the sounds I like best.

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Originally Posted by pablopepper

Winning combination, right there.

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Yep agree! The preamp has got me thinking.......

yeah glad I went to the effort of putting in the pre-amp. Needs some routing work though Ponch best do it before you go any further.
A tip Ponch put your pickups in the cavities when you line up the bridge. Glad I shifted the bridge, to me it's more important to have the strings as close to the pup poles as possible

All good Woks - I lined up the bridge with the pups in place. Looking back I made the same mistake on my previous JBA.....

ah ok no worries Ponch, so the JBA with clear pickguard has Tonerider pups in it as well ?

Yep Toneriders as well, passive set up. I'm a big fan of Toneriders - I've never had a bad set in any axe! I do have a set of Benson Texas strat pups for my next project.....

sounds good Ponch. I've had great sounds from Toneriders too. Try out the rocksongs next humbucker axe you build.
I'm keen to try out the Octane pup will be a beast I think !

Sounds great Wokks. Gotta get me a new bass build started.

cheers,
Gav.

It's hard to beat the sound of a good JBass.....

Sounds as good as it looks. Great work wokks

cheers Thigg. I will get a better demo when it's all setup and played in and I've had a few less beers, I can play better than that haha

You've built a great beast Wokka, very cool

cheers Stan !

Thanks for putting up the vid Wokks. I think i'm sold on the toneriders.

no worries Andy, in the flesh when you got the air moving in front of you and a wall of sound its a great feeling to slap an open E string

Good finish Wokka, beauty