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Control cavity has been routed, holes drilled to connect the control cavity to the pup ones and a cover made that will be painted the same colour as the body. Here's one pic, I've run out of space so need to clear some old pics from basschat to make room for new ones. [attachment=166146:DSC07279.JPG]

Ideal if you live in an Oast House.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1404384175' post='2492081'] Wow, that looks like fairly radical surgery! [/quote] The body I bought was very only roughly shaped and finished so it would have needed a lot of tidying up anyway, I asked Dave to reduce the body size a bit if he could to save on weight, if all the calculations are right it will reduce it quite a bit which is good because the Delano pups weigh one pound! something I hadn't thought about when amassing the parts for this build.

Yay! Dave has made a start on the bass. "Taken 4mm off the body width to reduce weight 10%. Re Routed the radius on the edge of the back side after taking 4mm off. Routed out the control cavity to go right through the body for rear access. Made an infill bit to fill the control cavity at the top and glued it in." [attachment=166072:DSC07012.JPG] [attachment=166073:DSC07016.JPG] [attachment=166074:DSC07021.JPG]

Great idea, I once thought about doing a Jazz Bass scratchplate in Beano pages.

Lovely work. I can't wait to hear some sound clips - hint hint

They look like superb basses judging by the pics I've seem and I'd be happy to own one with a Limelight logo, well assuming he gets the aesthetics of the decal right

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1403776923' post='2486154'] What do you suggest? Rhythm Stick? [/quote] That would count me out then, I can only play every other note if I try to play it up to tempo

A few years ago I sold my EBS cab to a kid who lived next door to him, can't remember his name but I'm sure he said he had had a go on the blue Jazz and it was hard to play because of the very high action that Herbie prefers.

Dave popped in today to deliver my RW Jazz back to me that he has done a lovely job of repairing We got to chatting about the Dirty Pink Jazz 5 and at his suggestion for sound reasons of both economics and logistics I've made a few changes to the spec, I'm now going to keep the blocks that are already on the neck and forgo the binding, Dave measured my SR five neck to get dimensions for slimming the neck down to something I'm more comfortable with. Dave's on the look out for a company to mix the paint colour as it doesn't seem to quite match any standard RAL colours, which in my book is a good thing as long as it doesn't make it too expensive. Work should start in a few weeks time, he will be doing the body 1st.

Looks very nice. I'm quite fond of an S1 switch on a Jazz.

I had a read of the TalkBass thread, interesting stuff.

That's very interesting indeed, thanks for the info funkle

Here's mine [attachment=165451:PICT0002.JPG]

[quote name='funkle' timestamp='1403447756' post='2482734'] the high pass filter on the Fishman model is difficult to get without buying an actual HPF (eg thumpinator, etc). [/quote] Hmmm.... so this works like a Thumpinator? brill if it does.

Nothing wrong with the compressors in the Zoom IMO, saying that I use a separate MXR as I like seeing the meter

I sold Gonzalo a set of 5 string Bart Jazz Bass pups, fast payment, a very smooth transaction and a pleasure to deal with. Thanks R.

Lets be honest it's probably all you have been thinking about anyway

Here's a couple of snaps of the rough Alder body I picked up on Ebay, it's for a four string and has a front facing cavity for a bell plate so there's still plenty of work for Dave to do to get it modified for a 5 string and ready for painting. Dave has almost finished repairing my RW Jazz and hopes to have it done in the next couple of weeks, that will free him up to start work on the Dirty Pink Jazz. [attachment=165084:DSC06507 lr.jpg] [attachment=165085:DSC06509 lr.jpg]

I haven't got mine in front of me but I believe the 'mix' setting is set to 50% by default? increasing the mix value to reduce the un-effected signal may help.