1st Biuld - HB-4S violin bass

[Bugeye29]

Hi Rabbit,

Well i could not remedy the stain issue so have to live with it, a lesson learnt for the next build.

Regarding the wiring Simon was a great help in sorting that, all is done except i forgot to run an earth wire to the bridge / tail piece which is tomorrows job along with fitting the strings. All being well it should be finished tomortow night ( dont hold me to it ).

I am looking forward to trying it i currently have a standard size bass as my main instrument, i am looking forward to the lighter weight of the HB-4

[Rabbit]

Hi Rabbit,

Well i could not remedy the stain issue so have to live with it, a lesson learnt for the next build.

That's a shame. Maybe next time if you have a kit with pale binding, you could carefully paint on liquid latex as a mask. That would fill any cracks in the binding to prevent ingress of dye into those cracks.

Regarding the wiring Simon was a great help in sorting that,

I get the impression he's good for that .

I am looking forward to trying it i currently have a standard size bass as my main instrument, i am looking forward to the lighter weight of the HB-4

It's certainly light! My other instrument, a Gibson/Epiphone/Tobias (anything swallowed up by Gibson seems to have an identity crisis ) Toby IV and it's considered light, but compared to the violin bass it's heavy. The short scale of the violin bass does feel a bit weird at first, but the sound is something else. The tape wound strings that I put on it realy accentuates the mellow tone, and coupled with an effect built in to my amp called "Fat Bottom" is really something else. Yeh, I couldn't imagine it in the hands of Cliff Burton or Steve Harris <chuckle> . Enjoy playing your new instrument when it's done! Now I just have to wait for a reply from Pit Bull about my next project........