Pit Bull Guitars EXA-4 Electric Bass Guitar Kit (Custom Special)

[ozzbike]

Outside the box Ozz, but you could put a forearm chamfer from that point and then blend back into the existing binding back toward the horn. Wouldn't have to be aggressive. Seems to a feature of a lot of high end gear lately with the blended binding.

Wicked idea mate.

In between coats of timbermate today I had a really good look at the body.....looooong chamfer...the missing binding is right in the elbow of the body shape change.

I think I will finish it completely and then see what the binding options are.

Hard to match colours.......maybe have to redo the whole body.

[ozzbike]

Hi ozzbike.
It’s hard to tell without the guitar in hand, but could a repair be as simple as adhering binding with acetone over the damaged area (and a little past it) and then sanding to a level?

I think the colour matching is going to be an issue......may try this first though...but probably with a routing of a binding grove...then glue the piece of binding into the hole.

[ozzbike]

First wipe of Feast Watson Golden Teak on the body front and headstock front. Found a sanding and timbermate tide mark on the body...bit of 240 to attack that I think.

[ozzbike]

One wipe of mahogany on the neck....still wet.

[ozzbike]

Flash used...so no real proper indication of colour and grain.

But here she is with three coats of Tru Oil....still wet from the last one.

I did Feast Watson Golden Teak on the front of the body and the front of the headstock. I did Feast Watson Mahogany on the rear of the headstock and neck, and on the rear of the body. I left the edges of the body with no stain.

All over has had two coats of Ebony Timbermate sanded off at 180grit then the second coat at 240 grit.

So far, stain at 240.....will do about ten coats of Tru Oil and then a wet sand with Tru Oil....400 or 600 depending on how the surface feels.

[ozzbike]

Weirdy,

If you are around Scott.

This one has three pot holes.....it has a humbucker pickup in the bridge and the split coil P Bass pickup in the neck.

My thoughts.......split the bridge humbucker pickup with a push pull volume pot......series/parallel on the P Bass neck pickup with a push pull volume pot.....master tone pot.....or even more sinister.....bridge and neck pickups series/parallel push pull tone pot.

This one would be fun to solder....seen the size of that control cavity.....full external job this one.

What would you recommend? I am keen on starting with the Chinese pickups and seeing what sounds they bring. After the MMB 5 I find I like them with some extra switching options.

Piccies will help me make a harness.....if you feel so inclined....please please.

[WeirdBits]

P vol with series/parallel coils, bridge vol with humbucker/split, and master tone with P & bridge parallel/series link switching is very doable... maybe even with an optional extra twist.

The biggest question is: are you willing to snip your P pickup?

The short link wire between the P coils (standard on most P’s) will need to be cut and extended with wires if you want to do series/parallel switching on it. Like this:


If so, I’ll sketch out a layout for you.

[ozzbike]

P vol with series/parallel coils, bridge vol with humbucker/split, and master tone with P & bridge parallel/series link switching is very doable... maybe even with an optional extra twist.

The biggest question is: are you willing to snip your P pickup?

The short link wire between the P coils (standard on most P’s) will need to be cut and extended with wires if you want to do series/parallel switching on it. Like this:


If so, I’ll sketch out a layout for you.

Yes I am a fan of the snip.

I have this push pull series/parallel option on a number of basses. The difference is very noticeable on Seymour Duncan quarter pounder....not so much on Tone Rider Precision Plus pickups. Interested to see how the Chinese pickups go.

So weirdy...bring on the chop chop chop.

Thank you again. 😎🎸🎼🎶

[WeirdBits]

What colour are your pup wires? So that I can label them correctly on the diagram.

[ozzbike]

What colour are your pup wires? So that I can label them correctly on the diagram.

These are the kit pickups that come in the box.

The humbucker appears to have the black separate, the red and white twisted together and soldered....and I assume the green and bare are twisted together and soldered under the shrink wrap.

The P Bass pickup has the blue joining wire, and the yellow wire that contains the white hot lead and the bare earth lead.

Photos for you. Thanks very much again again again.