Here some pics of the bass I just finished. I call it a Kay Excalibur ('60's era Kay neck) & a Excalibur cigar box. First pic shows the inside & electrics. I used an import humbucker style (10.6 k) bass pickup I picked up some where, a couple of Alpha full sized 500k pots with a 1.0 K capicator & one of the extended jacks I bought from Ben. You can see the bracing I added to mount the bridge, the neck & neck extension. The rest are different views of the finished bass. The bridge is for a Precission bass & the tuning keys are from a Squire Bronco bass & a perfect fit on the Kay neck. I replaced the "zero fret" set up common on Jap guitars of this era with a regular nut. It's missing the string retainer on the headstock but I will not pay the $26 for one on E-Bay.
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Are you using a factory neck or are you building one? I use neck through on a lot of my 3 & 4 string CBG's where I've built the necks myself but I've not yet built a bass neck from scratch. Good luck & let us know how it turns out.
Graham Alibone said:
Looks great inside and out. I've just finished collecting the bits for my first bass build, and I'm going to use neck through box method. G.
Are you using a factory neck or are you building one? I use neck through on a lot of my 3 & 4 string CBG's where I've built the necks myself but I've not yet built a bass neck from scratch. Good luck & let us know how it turns out.
Graham Alibone said:Looks great inside and out. I've just finished collecting the bits for my first bass build, and I'm going to use neck through box method. G.
I'm working on a cgb with an "alike" Humbuckers, i did the hole with a "dremel", it's OK but not perfect!! So i really ask myself, how tou did the hole for your Humbuckers, if you can tell me, it would be verry cool, i will try to add a picture to this word you'll see !!
Thx ( i hope you understood my message, i'm french, i try my best to write in english but it's not easy with, tools names technicals words etc..........)
As you can see the wood explosed at some spot, and noy on yours ! So is it the wood itself, or the tools etc.... if you think to an answer, let me know please, right now i don't know how to hide it !!!!
Very, very nice!
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