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Kay Excalibur Cigar Box Bass

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.

I hope these pictures up load.

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Permalink Reply by Richard Sanabia on October 30, 2011 at 7:41am

Very cool! I like your bass very much. Got a sound clip? Peace, Richard

Permalink Reply by Bob Lumpkin on October 30, 2011 at 8:28am

Sorry Richard, no sound clip (I don't really know how to post one) It sounds more like my full sized accoustic/electric bass run through a amp than it does a straight electric bass.

Permalink Reply by Graham Alibone on October 30, 2011 at 10:27am

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.

Permalink Reply by Bob Lumpkin on October 30, 2011 at 10:45am

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.

Permalink Reply by Graham Alibone on October 30, 2011 at 11:21am

Building one, inspiration is my main plan! G.

Bob Lumpkin said:

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.

Permalink Reply by FerneL on November 14, 2011 at 2:38am

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..........)

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Permalink Reply by FerneL on November 14, 2011 at 2:42am

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 !!!!

Permalink Reply by PhilUSAFRet on January 3, 2012 at 3:30pm