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Not so much in the apparel sense, but many years ago we used to cart all manner of junk around with us. One fan used to work in an abattoir, and made for an especially memorable evening when he brought some work home for us one night. I'll leave you to imagine a Dansette record player perched on top of a toilet bowl with a few pounds of offal rotating at 33rpm...

For coil tap switching look on the Seymour Duncan web site. They have loads of diagrams for about ievery pickup and switching option you could imagine

You could always try it. The pickup will work just as well temporarily suspended over the top of the strings. If you solder the cable direct to your jack socket you'll be able to plug it in and hear how it sounds. Plucking the strings may be a little more awkward but you should get an idea of the sound in various positions. I'd use masking tape to attach a couple of blocks to hold it away from the strings then place it on the bass laid down

LED ftw. You can buy RGB ones quite cheaply that have a remote control - any colour, any brightness to suit your mood

Pickups usually work or they don't. Are they close enough to the strings?

To be fair @SpondonBassed I have only built the one guitar to date so have somewhat limited experience. I did take two years to build it though, and did a heck of a lot of reading to make it how I wanted, so I suppose some of the information stuck

Very nice

I can't remember where I got the grain filler. It's "thixotropic" if that helps. It was really messy to use and could have done with several filling "passes" tbh - you'll miss bits on the first fill and it then took me ages to build up with sanding sealer. The dye is spirit based. You may notice that some areas of the ash took the dye better than others. I quite like the effect but if you're after a more homogenous colour you might want to consider a coloured clear lacquer base coat

Being ash you are probably going to need to use a grain filler if you want a smooth finish. So to complicate things even further for you, that is available in a range of colours including clear.. If it helps, here is my telecaster guitar with black grain filler and blue dye, finished in gloss nitrocellulouse

Maybe it's just a high fret, but a tad more relief should help as it's towards the middle of the neck. You may want to take it back to your tech when you have the opportunity to see if the fret is a little high.

A way to help work out what the bass is actually doing in the first place, is to pitch-shift the song up an octave. The bass will then be loud and clear even if it sounds like Pinky and Perky are singing along to it

Slut red in fishnets

You practice?

It certainly does. Proper random damage. The neck looks a bit clean in comparison. Nice job though

I'll just add to the advice of @Jabba_the_gut by saying that when routing the neck pocket you can remove a lot of the material with a brad point drill bit first. That will save a lot of wear and tear on your router bit. Then go steady with the router, shaving a mm or two in each pass - helps reduce the risk of tear-out. I'm sure you don't need reminding to be really careful with the router - they are vicious machines that want to carve fingers!

Both. I just wish there were more cables with angled plugs on both ends because I like to do the same with my pedalboard amd amp

I might add that that is flamed maple. You might need to use some grain filler depending on the size of the pores in your wood. There is also a few coats of nitrocellulouse sanding sealer on top of the dye before the lacquer

When I built my telecaster guitar I used spirit based dye from Rothcoe and Frost and then finished it in clear nitrocellulouse lacquer from Manchester Guitar Tech. I'm well chuffed with the result

Heaven - a decent music venue packed with punters and a great sound Hell - a boomy village hall fitted with a sound meter that cuts the power if anybody speaks above a whisper

I've not built a bass yet, but I will bring along the completed Nozcaster if you don't mind such blasphemy.

Do you live anywhere near the East Midlands? If you can make it to the next bass bash I'll happily bring mine along and let you have a blast

Ooh is this a "post a photo of your SB-1000" thread?

Covers for your kit will help. My stuff lives out in the garage and I've never had a problem. My guitarist keeps a hairdryer in the back of his amp and sets it going as soon as we arrive at a gig if there's any sign of condensation, so it has 1/2 hour or so to dry out before he switches it on

Have you got something against Thomas the Tank Engine then?

So are you going to try my conservation of momentum method next?