Sonics 4th Build - YB-4 - The Steampunker Bass

[Simon Barden]

250K pots as they are both single coils (though one of the P-bass pickup's split coils is RW/RP to the other one to give it noise-cancelling/humbucking properties).

If you can get them in Australia, it's worth trying a set of these Peavey bass strings as they are designed for 35" scale basses https://peavey.com/products/index.cfm/item/973/81497/

Here are a set on my rear-strung Peavey Cirrus EXP (which was quoted by them to be 35" scale but measures at 34").



You should be able to see where the string thins out. If not, I've marked the end of the thick section on this version. The G string stays the same diameter throughout.



I haven't tried a huge number of bass string types, but they feel reasonable to me.

[Sonic Mountain]

Cheers guys.

[Guvna19]

Legendary build Sonic, you must so be proud of this effort.

pleasure to watch - Guvna

[Andyxlh]

Wow, that looks fantastic!

[Fretworn]

The beast roars........

[Sonic Mountain]

Well... not quite.

I'm waiting to be paid so I can get a few bits and pieces to wire it up, hopefully in the next week or so. I've been messing around on it a bit to help it settle. Nut needs to be a fair bit lower, but it's not terrible to play.

[FrankenWashie]

https://pin.it/2uojbsnp4fenk6

I found this on Pinterest Sonic and I thought it would appeal


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[Sonic Mountain]

Oh yeah, that's pretty nice. Thought I'd get this finished over the weekend, but school holidays, partner on night shift and visitors pretty much killed all my spare time. I also managed to by short shaft pots when I actually need long ones so that's a stall point as well...

[Sonic Mountain]

I can see they've used an engraved serving platter which i thought about for this one as well. I probably have enough doodads left over for a couple more if I wasn't completely over it!

[Sonic Mountain]

Bit more progress. I ordered the wrong pots so bit of a hold up on the wiring. I made up a decal using the print the outline reversed, colour in with gold pen technique. It's come up OK...since the pic its gone a bit milky... so I'll see how it drys overnight. The head stock needs a few more coats of clear, so hopefully the edge will blend in fine.



Also worked out a sufficiently steam punk input jack.



Did a really good level and dress of the frets as well, but didn't take pics.

I can see light at the end of the tunnel thank god. I have a new project on order and I really want to have this sorted.