MoonBassAlpha

Thanks Gerry! I had completely forgotten about the feedback thread, so I've popped some on yours too. Using the Mustang a lot now! Cheers!

Lemo connectors are indeed things of beauty. They're so well made and finished.

Bought Gerry's (@jezzaboy) mex Mustang just before Christmas. A total gent, the comms were excellent and the packaging, bomb proof!. A flawless transaction from start to finish. Deal with confidence, basschatters!

Is your preamp balanced output?

My mate's Verithin had both pickups die after an extended vacation in his loft. It was very inexpensive to get fixed. I think the failure mode is corrosion where the hookup wires attached to the coil. The flux used was probably acidic and gradually corroded the thin coil wire over the years. Don't write the dead one off!

Sorry to hear that Douglas, hope you feel better soon!

I'm loving these Hofner rebuild jobbies! For me, they are a nice size bass, quite small and light, and the lovely neck inlays have so much character! I think a mid and neck pickup placement would be well worth trying , as is often noted, the bridge pickup doesn't yield particularly useful tones.

Is that an active bass, and can it be switched to passive?

I didn’t quite read the picture text properly, that makes sense to me now. With this sort of thing, it's worth bearing in mind that Gibson guitar headstock breakages probably account for 90 percent of all across all makes and brands.

At least you've got a head start on getting this one off!

I know it's a bit late now you've cut wood, but isn't that a rather extreme headstock angle, or are you making it into a bass lute?

Wow, one of the strongest months so far. This is going to be a tough one to sort out!

The spacing of the Rumblekat bass gives nice tones with middle/neck positions

there's some awesome stuff in biab.My mate used it on a tune he did backing for me to practice drums along to in lockdown. I used it for an early lockdown composition challenge entry, Frantic Hamster Wheel. Everything except the drums sounds amazing!

Basschat composition challenge January 2021, as promised yesterday! Piece inspired by this month's photo. Any fans of Janek Gwizdala will be familiar with his Baby Elephant sound, which is what I'm using here, played on my new Mustang bass, with half-round strings, it's first competition outing. The usual poorly played drums and a couple of guitar tracks on the Eggle (Berlin Pro)and that's about it. Mostly in a slow 12/8 but slips into a bit of 13/8 near the end (I just can't help making things bloody difficult for myself!) and a bar of 13+1/4 / 8 just on the drums where I got a bit confused.

I must admit it looked like the opening sequence for an episode of Casualty...

I think mine is done. I'll sleep on it and put it in tomorrow. Any fans of Janek Gwizdala will know what to expect for a baby elephant sound. It's slightly annoying, but that's babies, eh! A first outing for my new Mustang too.

Roughly what scale did this end up and did you add side dots? Looks nice.

I like the consciously utilitarian control plate. The whole hangs together really well.

Only just seen this thread. I did wonder if you were heading in this direction: https://eastwoodcustoms.com/projects/backlund-100-bass/

Another tip to get good contact in the neck pocket is to slightly loosen the neck screws when strung up to tension. The string tension will pull the neck tightly into the body, then jus tighten the screws again and retune. Needless to say, you don't need to loosen the neck screws very much at all!

Have you concealed the strap buttons?

@BigRedX @Bassassin are these things ridiculously heavy?

My first bass was a Melody Grabber copy. Was actually pretty good, though I recall that the sliding pickup was quite microphonic. Probably nothing that a good wax potting wouldn't fix though. The body did look more like a pine kitchen table than any other wood too.

I can't agree with the neck dive comment as a generalisation . The 2 shorties I've played recently, a Squier jag ss and my Mustang PJ both head south. With a suede strap the Mustang is just about horizontal but the Jaguar wasn't.