Jus Lukin

The wiring is a bit weird- as one might expect! I'm terrible- well, almost completely ignorant- about electronics, but below is the drawing I sent Andy. It is not an electrical diagram, more of a very basic signal flow chart. Each pickup has it's own three-way mini switch for coil selection, then bridge and middle each have a two-way on/off mini switch. If possible, the neck will have a three-way on/off/on, the third 'on' sending it out to a separate jack socket, for Ric-O-Sound style dual signal stuff. The main output will have a simple passive volume and tone, the neck only output would just be straight out. Six mini switches, and two knobs, basically. To me it feels an elegantly efficient way of handling a potentially complicated setup, but this whole thing has given you a little window into how my brain works- make of it what you will! 😄

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Oh, the hours I'll waste finding ones I don't like! Off/off/off may not turn out to be the most useful, but it's good to have options.

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Good lord, that's ridiculous! I'm not sure we've mentioned yet that the neck pickup may also be routable to a second output for Ric-O-Sound-esque dual channel stuff too! 😄 Thanks for doing the sums- even if I had arrived at the correct number I wouldn't have trusted that I was accurate! The irony is that there are only six or so main configurations I'm aiming for- the rest are potentially useful, but essentially collateral damge!

Yes, each pickup will have an on/off switch, rather than all going to a selector, so all and any options will be available.

The more I think about it, it ties in nicely. Bass has certainly given my life meaning, and this design was only reached after a long period of considerable pondering. It will probably have the dowdy brown looks of Arthur Dent in his dressing gown, and electronics almost preposterous enough for the bass player from Disaster Area!

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It's really not the point of choosing the SimS pickups, but I'm stumped on the total number of pickup options. I've got 9 single pickup options and 27 doubles which gives the 36. I hit my mathematical limit on the triples, though. Writing a list or tapping out the possibilities with my fingertips, the ol' cauliflower wheezes to a halt at 21. The formulae are beyond me as it's a mix of permutation and combination, I think. So 57 is my probably wrong sum. Regardless, although I've never named a bass before, '42' seems quite an apt moniker for this one!

I've never been to a bass bash- it's just over a 400 mile round trip for me, but I might be able to tie it in with a few days away with Mrs Lukin. I'll see how it all pans out in '21!

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God, I'm a bit too thick to work it out- I think I got to 36 one or two pickup selections- steam starts coming out of my ears if I try to add in all the three pickup options! I'm still pondering the string spacing- I play Gibson/Epi three-pointers a lot, but also 19mm BBOT. If I had to make snap decision I'd split the difference at 18mm but it's funny- never having spec'ed a bass before, I'm learning how something I never really considered before can suddenly feel like a life or death matter! 😄

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And I'm glad to be helping to stock the Behri collection!

Oh Lordy! ****, as the kids say, just got real! I'm just off to post @stewblack's parcel, then onto selling everything else I own! 😄

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