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that is my hope. My feminine side. LOL It was originally my going back to work present but I have decided it will be my divorce finalized present. What else for tulipwood and pink..... LOL Guess last months birth year bass (reissue only) will qualify as back to work after 23 months out. But i got to say i was a full time musician for the first time in several decades. Little health battle with the big C about 18 months ago just to complete the bad news in threes......
Back to good stuff..... I went with a less vibrant but more uniform set of tulip wood. I think it will look awesome.
Pickups will be a tough decision. i have some time....not sure about which way to go. May go real old school such as darkstars or tbirds or nordies...
Back to good stuff..... I went with a less vibrant but more uniform set of tulip wood. I think it will look awesome.
Pickups will be a tough decision. i have some time....not sure about which way to go. May go real old school such as darkstars or tbirds or nordies...
that is my hope. My feminine side. LOL It was originally my going back to work present but I have decided it will be my divorce finalized present. What else for tulipwood and pink..... LOL Guess last months birth year bass (reissue only) will qualify as back to work after 23 months out. But i got to say i was a full time musician for the first time in several decades. Little health battle with the big C about 18 months ago just to complete the bad news in threes......
Back to good stuff..... I went with a less vibrant but more uniform set of tulip wood. I think it will look awesome.
Pickups will be a tough decision. i have some time....not sure about which way to go. May go real old school such as darkstars or tbirds or nordies...
A picture of my old Tulipwood CB at the bottom. I miss it.
-ScottM
I might have to add those glowing dots to my spec list. Seems like a good idea.
Talked to Cliff. Adding it to my specs! Sending payment on Monday, provided wife, dog, and toddler don't sideline me too much. (Knocks on wood.)
Now this is one nice update!
Can't wait.
-ScottM
Can't wait.
-ScottM
What are the specs on the bass second from the top? Its gorgeous and I love that top!
Michael
Thanks!
That one was Wenge and Bocote wood. I sold all of the lower three basses on that pic for part of the down payment of the house I had built earlier this year. It was a rough choice to make, but it paid off.
I got two CB bass still with the new CB 5 string coming in a few weeks.
-ScottM
Electronics
Pickups: Nordstrand SE's in wood covers
Pickup covers: Wood covers(Katalox)
Preamp: Nordstrand 3-band
Controls: Vol/Blend/ t/m/b A/P switch Wood knobs(Katalox)
Switches: 1 (a/p)
-ScottM
yummy....
I need some ideas for pickups from you guys.
I have always been a pbass guy. I also have many j basses and pj basses but i always find myself leaning to the front pickup except for soloing on occasion. I am not looking for a pj look. too many and always looks wrong to me. Do i go with single coil j and have a series/par switch to give me some p feel , or some sort of nordie pup? I have no experience with nordies so looking for some opinions from you..... or maybe i go old school with either novak bisonics or thunderbuckers.
all opinions welcome.....
I need some ideas for pickups from you guys.
I have always been a pbass guy. I also have many j basses and pj basses but i always find myself leaning to the front pickup except for soloing on occasion. I am not looking for a pj look. too many and always looks wrong to me. Do i go with single coil j and have a series/par switch to give me some p feel , or some sort of nordie pup? I have no experience with nordies so looking for some opinions from you..... or maybe i go old school with either novak bisonics or thunderbuckers.
all opinions welcome.....
Money sent. Looks like the pickups will be a 6 string Nordstrand P pickup and a radiused Bigman.
Have a Cliff in on the next build. It will have a Bigman and a Big Split sort of the same territory. Will let you know how it works out. What preamp are you doing?
Trying Nordstrand for a change. I believe it will have the push/pull active/passive and push/pull mids. Would like a passive tone knob is possible. I'll also be using a 3 way switch for the Bigman.
Really? I thought the clip I saw demonstrated how it also functioned as Big Singles and each pickup had a slightly different tone.
I saw that as well, but Adrian who has a Cliff and works for Nordstram told me not to do the series-parallel thing. If you are going single, single, humbucking I suppose that would work. What I wanted was a quad coil BigMan and 3way for series, parallel, single humbucking but was told the BigMan in quad coil sounded "weird".
I always have to take their word for it when it comes to the finer details of electronics. I liked what I heard. I didn't really need series/parallel. I have that on my Rami 6 with the dual coils.
Side note: the Stambaugh semi-hollow guitar I have on order will have a 5 way for each pickup to allow for each coil, series, series out of phase, and parallel. I suppose I could theoretically add a cocked wah capacitor on one of the single coil settings to add some difference.
