Yep, you do need to take it off, but I'm from the James Jameson school of string replacement - I don't! Almost all my basses have flatwounds and it's very rare that I change them over.Quote:
Originally Posted by wazkelly
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Yep, you do need to take it off, but I'm from the James Jameson school of string replacement - I don't! Almost all my basses have flatwounds and it's very rare that I change them over.Quote:
Originally Posted by wazkelly
So that would tend to suggest Ash Tray might be the way to go?
That's what I'm thinking!Quote:
Originally Posted by wazkelly
Yes, the ash tray option works for me. Might you need to add a thumb rest at some point, or is the middle pickup in the right place for you to use the edge of that?
I reckon the middle one might work okay, and I like basses with ashtrays as it's a nice place to rest the heel of your hand when playing with a pick. Still, like all instruments you never quite know until you play them a bit!Quote:
Originally Posted by Simon Barden
I like the chrome cover version best... great looking guitar too!
Good progress this afternoon on the build - finally mounted the bridge and other hardware bit and pretty much got it fully assembled and ready for wiring... Thought I'd see if I could work through getting just one of the pickups firing, and after a bit of mucking around it was working well! I could see the end in sight as I worked my way through getting the other two done... and you can see where this is heading! Yep, finally got it all done, plugged it in and... NOTHING! Not even a feeble buzzing!! I've decided to give it a rest and come back to it one night this week and restart from scratch. Ah, the joys of guitar building!!
You'll fix it. When I was restoring my harmony H59, I had a similar result. I didn't have a TS (mono) jack socket handy so I'd used a TRS (stereo) one and cut the unused ring contact off and its associated solder tag. A test run of the wiring harness outside the guitar with bare wire connections to a guitar lead showed all was working. I then soldered on the jack socket. Then after a very smooth 1st attempt at feeding in all the components into a hollow body and pulling them through with cotton, I plugged it in and... nothing. maybe a very slight noise but not at all right. So out it all came, at which point I found I'd cut the lug off the tip connection, not the ring, so it was never going to work. So, one new TS jack connector later, and after a much more lengthy 2nd harness install, I plugged in and got the sweet sounds I'd been looking for.
Cheers Simon, I'm sure there something simple I've missed! I'll approach it in a slightly more structured way when I have another crack!
Well it’s done! Finally got a chance to have another crack at the wiring and thankfully there was life in her after all. A quick polish and set-up and I have to say I’ve very excited about this one. I feel I’ve met my original goal of replicating the three pickup/selector switch setup of a Bass VI, and the fact each of the pickups has its own dedicated vol/tone concentric pot setup makes for some pretty interesting tonal variations. Once I’ve had a bit more of a pay with it I’ll certainly post some sound bites. The other thing I love so far is how easy it is to play – those three pickups make for nice thumb rests – and the neck may be my favourite among all my basses!
So here it is: a standard JB-4M kit, with a modified body, new DIY pickguard, additional JB pickup, “Jaguar” switch plate, concentric pots and a bridge “ashtray”.
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