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Cool - it looks like you carved a bass from carbon!

SEQ?

Looks amazing! Soft V? Is that like \_/ with a kind of flat section? It's hard to see from the pictures.

You should never meet your heroes. I schemed for ever to get hold of a Music Man Cutlass (the new one), I don't think it's been out of it case for a year...

It's a beaut! https://acguitars.co.uk/

To be safe I don't think you should even look at it...

That is a lovely looking thing. I have a 50's style P-bass with a piezo in the bridge and the variety is useful - growl vs clean.

That is a lovely looking thing!

Reverse P BC Rich Eagle I like the shape, and the electronics seem interesting. I don't need it and there are very mixed reviews of the electronics.

Not cheap: https://www.montysguitars.com/collections/bass-pickups I like how well researched and how much attention to detail they pay - they get a lot of high end guitars in for re-winds etc, so they know their onions.

You're right! Sorry. Ok - GHS boomers - brightish, growly and aggresive to complement the HH.

The new one or the old one? The new one is more like a P-bass: flats for detroit, rotosound rounds for rock. I'm a big fan of GHS Boomers for a middy aggressive sound (Flea the most Famous endorsee). The old one (dual humbuckers), I'd be thinking round wound? It really depends on the music you're playing?

Probably just a mistake packing? I'd send them the picture and ask for a proper replacement.

Nordstand might have the right options for you? They make some nice MM and Jazz PUs and do old school flavours...

I was wondering that too! Sort of like a euclidian random walk? In terms of the benefits to the sound it might help you sound like a drunk with concussion? Joking aside it's supposed to even out the magnetic field or something?!

Love the look of these! What is the scale? Medium?

I've had some work done by them in the past and got a '72 p-bass pickup from them. The attention to detail and character was great - in the end it wasn't quite what I wanted, but in a way that feels like a tribute to the work they put in - you could very much hear the difference. I'd be confident that they were making the right moves to get a great 62 copy - they do loads of high end guitar repairs, a lot of rewinds and have seen the inside of everything.

Nice solution - easy to reason about, easy to implement.

Looks and sounds lovely to me!

It shouldn't be impossible - someone will know. There are a limited number of formats for these things. You'd need to find the make (like Molex?), the type, the size and whether you need some cripplingly expensive crimping tool to make it work. It might well be you can get a couple of them off ebay for a few quid and use needle nose pliers to attach the crimp terminals. I'd have thought they would be somewhere in the technical documents for the preamp, or someone on a Yamah specific forum could tell you the exact model number etc.

I'm with you. I love the dark rich roast colours. I tried this: I only put on a light coat and then quickly polished it off. If you wanted darker then you can leave it on. I'd be tempted to try it out on something non-precious, or maybe the hidden bit of the back of the neck to see if it's going to do what you want. It felt more brown than the rich yellowy brown of roasted. I'd be wondering about a double stain to get that kind of texture. But it might get you close enough.

Ah, the joy of overdrive in all it's many flavours!

Cool project - it came it very well! What are the trimmers trimming? And no replication of the Sag?