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This is NOT hum, it's buzz. Humbuckers cancel out magnetic field noise, which is hum. What you are hearing here is electrical field noise. It has nothing to do with the pickups. This is fixed with shielding. Also, sometimes the ground wiring in your house, or even in the amp isn't so great, and you ...

Sharp looking!

Nice first build, and good to see an original design and not another PRS copy!

I get my CF rods from LMII.

They look very cool. I like the purple one a lot.

I've glued together an entire electric solid body bass guitar with epoxy. It was made with many laminations. I did that back in 1994, and it's held up with no creep or anything since then.

I used G3 epoxy made for wood.

I still use epoxy for things like gluing on fingerboards.

Chuck Tweedy wrote:Basswood is pretty popular as a body-wood for solidbody electrics, it is pretty low density.
I do not know if it would be suitable for a neck, but with enough carbon and truss-rod it would probably work.

The original Parker Fly guitars used basswood necks.

What I do is to wrap the magnet wire on the tinned lead, maybe like 10 wraps. Then I heat it up for a second and flow solder on it. I use a temperature controlled soldering station set at 700°F. I heat it until the PVC insulation starts to swell. You can't hold the tip on too long or the wire will b...

I use a 1/16" router bit and a laminate trimmer. Also works great for routing the switch slot into a guitar top.

Chuck Tweedy wrote:I don't know ... the white binding kinda' works.
It may not appeal to your sense of style Murray, but it has a very "guitar" look to it.

I agree! I love plastic building. Looks like a "real" guitar.

Great looking guitar Murray!

I have found that rewinding those cheap pickups usually improves the tone. Also check to see how strong the magnet is. Some of those cheap ceramic magnets are pretty weak. being that it's an X2N copy, it might be really over wound. So rewinding it with less wire will brighten it up. You can even try...

Charles Bloss wrote:I know it would not be adjustable in any way but I prefer to have a flat neck anyways.

The question is then, how do you keep it flat if you can't adjust it? Necks move after a while, even with truss rods, and it's good to be able to tweak it.

The real problem in a conversion is finding a home for five more tuners :o I used guitar tuners for the octave strings. But I also spliced on a new headstock. Today the bass looks like this. I cut the body to a new shape, and years later made a new neck. I made the scale about 32" by using the...

I converted a Fender P bass into an 8 string. It worked fine, but I eventually made a new neck for it, just because it wasn't a very good neck.

Nice looking bass!

I use CA.

I actually like plastic binding on electrics better than wood or that fake binding that PRS does. Binding always looks classy to me.

I typically loathe distressed guitars, but this one looks really cool!

Sharp looking guitar!

3. I was looking into treble bleed circuits and i had a thought. What if you took a blend pot and used one side for your volume pot. This would leave the other side open for a variable resistor to use with a .022 cap (Seymour Duncan specs). the treble bleed pot would be a bit high at 500 ohms oppos...

I had a Kramer "The Duke" bass back in the 80s. I have to say it was one of the most stable necks on a bass I ever had. It never went out of tune, and unlike my Ric and Ibanez didn't need adjusting. it was however a lousy sounding bass, mostly due to the tiny body. The full size Kramer bas...