G & 'ell of a bass

[gary mac]

No 4 for me, that one looks very pleasing.

[BottomEndian]

Number 2.

[ThomBassmonkey]

I'm not usually a fan of telebasses but I like #4 too, I think it'd look better if the guard came down to meet the top right corner of the pup instead of going over the top.

[setekh]

I'd go with no. 2 or 4.

Very cool ideas, too. I am really looking forward to hearing some sound clips of that.

[neepheid]

Number 2 for me - I like that it doesn't cover too much of the bass and flows nicely into the chrome control plate.

[gilmour]

2.

[LawrenceH]

2 too

[Ou7shined]

5 votes each for 2 & 4. Both of which are my favourites.

[sk8]

2

[BassBunny]

2

[RichardH]

2 too for me!

[eude]

2!

[munkonthehill]

No2 for me too buddy. I will be monitoring this thread as I know this is going to be awesome.

[MoonBassAlpha]

I like 1, or a full-on Pingray one!

[Ou7shined]

[quote name='MoonBassAlpha' post='1050463' date='Dec 7 2010, 01:07 PM']I like 1, or a full-on Pingray one![/quote]
Ooh contraversial.

2 it is though. Good choice gents.

[Ou7shined]

Due to the bad weather keeping me indoors I've had time to get some chiselling and filing done....

Here's the body I'm working with


When I bought it, it looked like this

[Ou7shined]

Chiselling out the pup routs


As usual I got carried away and although it will be covered by the p/g I got fussy with the humbucker rout
Did the bridge rout too


The pups fit perfectly.


The control plate doesn't cover the old control cavity so I added a filler.
I took it right out the bottom of the body so the join will be invisible from the front.


Should be fine.



Next up the p/g. I made a template on paper, transfered it to card then suck that to my p/g material.
Here's the initial rough cut.


Here's the basic shape filed


And the finished p/g. Chuffed!


I wonder if your £500 Fodera p/g's are this accurate?



Apologies for the dodgy pics my camera's been playing up.

[gary mac]

That's coming on really well, another winner by the looks of it, nice work.

[Ou7shined]

[quote name='gary mac' post='1052928' date='Dec 9 2010, 04:09 PM']That's coming on really well, another winner by the looks of it, nice work.[/quote]Hey cheers mate.

I just realised that I didn't put up a pic of the pups and p/g together.


I really need to trim that wee filler off, it's had more than enough time to glue up now. And I'm sure if any vintage Fender fans are watching it will be making them ill to see what I've done to it.

[gilmour]

That looks awesome. Nice work.

[Darkstrike]

Niiice!

[Ou7shined]

Cheers guys.

Was up all night with this. Hope I got it right....



The unusual vol/tone stage is based upon the awesome L-1000 circuit. I will be interesting to see what happens with the P pup brought in. I suspect that the P in parallel mode with the humbucker in OMG will be the setting I'm after. The parallel will be nice and clean from the P but the theoretical slight drop in volume should let the OMG through without adding too much brightness.
The only thing I'm not sure about is the extra wire on the P pup, I think it's just an earth but that will become apparent once I've wired it all up.... which may take a while as a couple of the parts are fairly specialist and not all that easy to find.

Edited February 12, 2011 by Ou7shined

[gary mac]

I found the simple p bass enough of a challenge to wire and solder, so hats off to you.

Have you trimmed that filler piece off yet or been too busy with the wiring plan?

[BottomEndian]

I always love to see a circuit diagram with question marks on it.

[Wil]

Looking good! Glad to see you've got the P pickup coils arranged the sensible way round too