If I want to drill a hole for a new knob in a typical finished bass (the one in my avatar) think I'll have any problem just using my good ol' craftsman hand drill?
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Drill a hole for a new knob.
- Thread starter Philbiker
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It's better to use a corded drill, then you won't have any problems with the bit slowing down because of battery drain.
And use an awl first. You'll thank yourself later.
And use an awl first. You'll thank yourself later.
also, tape ovfer the spot that you want to drill with painter's blue tape. drill through the tape. this will help prevent damage to the finish.
Perhaps obvious, but someone needed to say it.
I believe he meant the direction of the drill. I second that. I drilled one of my basses from the inside of the cavity toward the body face. Eventhough I used blue tape on both sides, there formed some burrs (right word?) on the body side :scowl:.
I would drill with a small pilot bit from the inside of the cavity out trying not to just zip it through. Put blue painters tape on the outside and poke the pilot hole with a pencil and drill back into the cavity. Remember not to rush.
Perhaps! I meant a good ol' corded Craftsman drill.
I am very unhappy with the blended P and J pickups in the Millenium in my sig. Soloed, each pickup sounds good (the P is downright terriffic), but any blend sounds like ass. I have an old Bartolini TBIBT in a box; it incorporates a buffered blend so I'm thinking of installing it. I'm not that big on active EQ, but I understand the advantages of the buffered blend in my particular situation. And the control cavity is King sized.
Thanks all for the responses. Now all I have to do is dig up the wiring instructions and get out the ol' soldiering gun.
When you say any blend sounds like ass, does the sound get really thin? What it could be is that the pickups are out of phase with each other (just an idea)
I wired a P-J bass that I assembled out of phase recently. Based on that experiment, it doesn't sound like the pickups are out of phase on the Millenium. The sound doesn't sound extremely thin like out of phase, it just sounds wimpy. It's kind of ok for slap tone, but for fingerstyle it falls flat. Maybe I'll try reversing the J bass wiring and see what happens before I go for the "nuclear option" of activating the bass.
I drill from the finished side to the un-finished side of a piece of wood to avoid tear out... drilling from the cavity to the top would be dangerous for the finish I think...
You may also want to consider get a small center drill, as the tip is designed to reduce the chance of the drill walking.
That is what I did when I added a mid-selector switch (from an Aguilar OBP-3) on an MTD. Drilled from the cavity to the top. A really tiny piece of finish cracked, which I immediately glued back into place. It was not visible in the end as the washer/nut that locks the switch in place covered everything perfectly.
I switched around the wires on the P pickup and what do you know? It sounds better! I've never heard out of phase wiring sound as loud and clear as it did on this bass. Wierd.
and there you go! I've been pickup swapping a lot over the last couple of years and I'm amazed at how many basses show up with phase issues ... J's & PJ's in particular.
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