Henrythe8

sub'd. 🙂

Since July 1st, EVERY parcel coming from outside the EU into the EU will be charged with VAT. MEaning that as of July 1st, EVRYTHING you send to the EU will be held back by customs. So if you sent a bass or anything without face value, custom work won't be possible. It was meant to counter the AliBaBa, Wish, and so on, but it'll affect everyone.

Wow, thank you A LOT for the tips and clear explainations. I'll try this.

Definetely stunning. I'd call it Banana. That's the Headstock shape inspiring me. 🙂

I'm quite frankly amazed on how you did the branding both builds. How did you achieve this ?

Today is tomorrow. 🙂

Sympathique - Pink Martini

Thanks for your help. Good idea with the multimeter, I must have one lying somewhere. I'll wire the coils in pair in parallel, then series, dirctly in the jack. I'll see with my Amphone how it sounds.

Thanks for your help. I'm not smart enough to get my head around the wiring with those switches. I think at first I'll go mainly by trial and error, and we'll see how it goes. I'll be able to cope with polarity and in/out, but the sense of wiring can't be changed. It's all for the sake of experimentation anymay 🙂 It's a lefty body, but it'll be used as a right handed instrument. I usually prefer the ReverseP setting, that's why.

Thanks for this quick and informative answer. Not sure about reversing the magnets, I'll try to play around and see what side repels the other. Parallel, then series is a great idea, too.

I'm in the process of modding a PB50 HArley Benton into a reverse PB Dusty Tribute. I bought 4 lipstick pickups from eBay. I'm a bit puzzled on how to wire them. BAsically, it's a three wires : I suppose the white is hot, red neutral and the third braid attached to the neutral is the ground/earth. I was thinking pairing two in series (white soldered with the red) and then solder those in parallel.The resistance should be 8.4 which is good enough. Am I right, or should I go for a full blast, all series wiring ? Thanks for your help.

OK, thank you Basschat, now I have a fourth bass comiong up as I found a Flea Roadworn Body as I was looking for a bridge. I'll have to check if the HB necks are Fender Compatible. If not, I'll wait until Christmas to get some money back and order a Roasted Maple P-neck from Warmoth.

Proud Mary - CCR

As a project, you can dissassemble it, clean it the best you can, change the pickguard, tuners, knobs and the bridge. You can also level a bit the frets and polish them. If you're satisfied with the tone, clean the electronics with some magic contact cleaner. If not, you can hunt down a nice set of pots (Emerson; KioGon ? )

Dat neck screams MoJo !

Save the Last Dance For Me - The Drifters

Here's the Jazz with reverse P-Neck. The Shell PInk should be just fine. The P51 with a white pickguard, for the Sting touch. already routed : And the Fiesta Red That has been partly sanded and is also routed. but the work is still to be done...

First off, I apologize in advance to all the fine luthiers and Woodworkers here as those barely qualify as "building" basses. I bought on a whim a Harley Benton PB50, fiesta Red, Lefty, so I could make a Dusty Hill kinda bass. https://images.app.goo.gl/mq4ggnT6psE7B3v7A The thing is, I was so pleased and suprised with this that I bought a second one, sunburst, lefty, so I could toy around. I did play a bit on the second one, but the neck dive was too much, and the controls were in the way, so i decided... to buy a third Harley Benton Fretless, and swap the reverse maple neck on it. And, instead of selling the lefty body, well... I bought a Squier Mike Dirnt neck. So, what we've got here is three project basses, with a total starter investment at 400€. One Full Lefty (body and neck) P51, to be modded with a quadcoils pickup assembly. Probably be Sparkling Gold. One Lefty body p51, modded with Two side by side P51 pickups, wired through a Telecaster Control plate, with a Right hand neck Will probably be beaten to deth be Relic'ing. One Jazz Bass, wired with EMG X Vol Vol Tone + Bass/Treble Stacked, with a reversed maple Neck. Will probably end up with a coat of shel pink and light relic'ing to show the Sunburst underneath. Further investments are the lipstick single coils for the quadcoils setting and the Telecaster plate (50€, thank you China and eBay) a full set of EMG Jazz with plate and everything, 120€ Three sets of lightweight tuners (AllParts, 150€) And most probably new bridges (150€ again) About 30€ for the painting cans Will it be worth it ? Economically speaking, sure no. But the fun doing this is immense.