DarkHeart

Couple more pics, neck joint is very snug and secure, neck feels overall nice and shallow, tuners are average at best, bridges are functional, preamp is definitely workable, Im pleased overall but only played it through headphones.

It is here, when the girl on the phone said it wasn't as blue as the pics suggested she wasn't lying..... it's green! It's also quite a nice shade of green so it won't be getting sent back because of the colour. Here it is, yet to plug it in but acoustically the B string sounds good. Fingers crossed!

Just had a call from g4m, apparently the colour isn't as bright as it is on the website and can be returned foc if it's not to my satisfaction. That's good to know.

Woah, mines now due tomorrow!

Delayed again, probably be dead via Covid 19 before this is delivered!

I got an explorer body off ebay for £26 the user name is twincam

It`s been delayed again...🙄

Another update, according to an email I've just had delivery will be 16th March..... we'll see!

Just noticed on the G4M website that the delivery date has been put back from March 8th to August 8th!! Also had an email confirming this this morning, needless to say my order is cancelled. Shame as I was looking forward to this one.

That works for me, awesome!

I`d be interested.

Send Chris a message, very friendly guy he'll be able to explain things better than anyone on here he's CHRISDABASS

I`m going to recess the body like the new Ibanez headless....thats the plan anyway! At the moment its resting with the strings up to pitch to get the bow out of the neck (it`s working) and to see if it stays in tune (it does)

You haven`t recently changed strings have you?

Trouble is, the difference between cheap, headless bass parts and functional sometimes runs into the 100`s of pounds.

I`ll be honest with you, if they work its more by luck but I just fancied something different again, so far I`ve changed all the screws as they were crap and as it`s only mocked up I haven`t fully tightened everything down yet just in case I strip something. Not sure if its ebony but it`s a very tight grain and nice and dark.

I`m building a headless explorer using these, so far, the screws are made of cheese but......they actually work, don`t know how long for but they do, if the bottom of the tube was serrated it would be a whole load better for holding the intonation, might get some threadlock for the final assembly. Fingers crossd.

Wish I`d seen that, damn!

I`ve just ordered one of the 5ers

I've been fancying doing something different for a while ever since seeing the thread on the headless T-bird that didn't get off the ground. I managed to get hold of a very cheap new Paulownia Explorer body off the bay, I know that's probably not everyone's cup of tea but it was only £25. I had a pair of Warman humbuckers that were bought for a different project so decided to use these. Paulownia isn't a very chisel friendly wood and as I don't own a router that had to be the chosen route, the pups fit that's all that matters. I had bought some time ago a Jackson alike neck from Tommo Richards off here so decided to chop its head off and go headless (I've a headless flying vee). Ebay provided the cheap (limited budget) hardware and now its all systems go. Its in its mock up stages now and needs some relief behind the bridges but it's coming along, John (KiOgon) has provided a pair of on off switches for the pickups that will be rear mounted and hopefully it will be getting a blowtorch finish. Enough babble here's the progress pics.

I`ve been looking at them, not a single cut fan as such but I can see hints of t/bird and kellybird in the shape, might have to try one.

A friend of mine from waaaay back in the 80`s bought an Overwater brand new, his pride and joy so much so he wouldn`t let anyone else play it, now jump forward about 36 years to last week and I got a message on Facebook asking me if I was who I am off said mate bearing in mind we`ve not seen each other for the 36 years, first question I asked him, do you still have the Overwater......`yes do you want to buy it!` So in less than a week of being reunited I now have the Overwater Original, one owner from new in my sweaty hands. Its in pretty decent shape as well considering he was in a punk band back in the day, a little tweak of the truss rod and it`s good to go, I`ll put some new strings on when I get the ones I won off the SIT facebook page when they eventually turn up but it sounds massive! I`ll get more pics up soon as it`s too bloody long for my phone camera to capture in one go! Anyway without further ado here it is.

The new T-Birds with the Pro Bucker 760`s on sound amazing (well they do to me) I had the old alpine white one with the Gibson pickups in but these are far better, I`ve also got one of the active T-Bird pro`s but I changed those pups for a set of custom wound Ghost Dirty Dozens and it`s very dark sounding and full.

My current rig is an all Hartke affair, LH1000 with spare LH500 in the rack case for quick change if the worst happens again, coupled with a 2x10 and a 1x15 Hydrive cabs it does the job.