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Permalink Reply by Taffy Evans on December 9, 2021 at 11:45am

Hi Paul, good to see you on the forum again. Nice job, shame about the faults. it's going to look good with a sunburst effect. Will you lay clear coats over the gold paint?

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on December 10, 2021 at 8:45am

Hey Taffy, Saw your Violin build on the throw back build contest, awesome.

I was 2 coats of clear on the gold one when a bug committed suicide on the back and removing said bup went down to the primer which caused a hole in my metallic paint. After many curse words, I managed to fix the hole and got both SG's ready for paint and clear. Today it's 75 degrees out and I was going to finish painting these, but the moisture is way up making it muggy and have 20mph wind. So no painting today. May have a long wait. May have to switch over to my amp projects.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Bowlin on December 22, 2021 at 11:03am

Just finished build #3 and a rack to hang them from. Pictured left to right #1 - #3. Just received my order of hardware to start build #4. #4 will be my first fretless. 

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Permalink Reply by BrianQ. on December 22, 2021 at 2:09pm

Looks good Michael!! Happy holidays :)

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Permalink Reply by David Plekkenpol on December 26, 2021 at 1:06am

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on December 26, 2021 at 10:19am

Great job Michael.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on February 6, 2022 at 11:23am

Had a bad Sciatica attack that left me bed ridden for a month. I'm walking now and doing stuff again.

I made a JBass about 10 years ago because some of the bass players I liked back in the day played them. I didn't care much for the single coils, so I wired them together in series to the second volume pot(JBass has 2 volumes and 1 tone-no switch). I liked it better, but I still wanted some Gibson type thud.

I got a 6-string WickedBucker from Gitty and put it in the neck position of my bass, now it has some thud without the mud. It's wired to the first volume and everything works great.

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Permalink Reply by Taffy Evans on February 6, 2022 at 1:22pm

Hey, welcome back Paul, glad your health is improving. nice looking bass guitar and interesting mods.
Taff

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on February 9, 2022 at 10:39am

Me Too, this Sciatica attack was horrible.

The 6-string Wickedbucker is making a fantastic neck Bass pickup since it has a 4k output. I'm sure it would make a great 6-string guitar pickup for the neck position as well.

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Permalink Reply by BrianQ. on February 6, 2022 at 5:21pm

Trippy shape, Paul! the original pre CBS control setup was 2 stacked concentric pots? I think CBS was trying to shave a little money off production costs by switching to different pots?

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on February 9, 2022 at 10:47am

I used a seat pan from a dinette chair for the body made of Malaysian Rubberwood(Oak). It wasn't big enough for the Strat upper horn that I traced onto the wood, so I rounded it off for a Tele-ish shape. ;)

The wiring and electronics are the standard J Bass setup, just the pickup arrangement is different. LOL

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on February 9, 2022 at 10:53am

I think CBS-Fender did try the concentric pots on their J Bass to save money on control plates, so they could just use one plate for all their Bass models?

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