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just another boring Warmoth assembly thread

#41
Thanks for the props, folks.

As to the hardware, I've held off on sending in the order until next paycheck. Gold hardware was brought up, and I agree that it would look great with the colors, but the thing with gold hardware is it has to be wiped down. In person, this bass looks browner than in the pics. I honestly think all 3 choices of hardware (Chr, Blk, Gld) would look good. I'll flip a coin when the day comes.

On the electronics side, I still plan on going through experimentation and hearing all options before I dedicate to drilling control holes. The blend pot idea is cool. Two switching ideas that have been floating around my brain: (1) dedicated mini on/off's for each pup or (2) two on-on-on switches (either mini or LesPaul), one for choosing bridge/both/neck on the J pups with the output feeding the other switch that will select J-PJ-P. I'm also thinking that two stacked pots might be cool, one handling Vol/Tone for the J's and the other for the P. I'm also going to experiment with series/parallel/phase just too see what happens. Can't wait.

Also, it will be strung B-E-A-D.
 
#42
Man, the summer just eats up all my free time and spare $. Finally got a little bit of both to devote to this project and get it going again. I want to get it finished by September for some studio time I have booked with my drummer. You guys that wanted me to go with all gold hardware...you talked me into it. The order went in yesterday.
 
#49
I am interested to hear about how the JPJ works. This is similar to the Stu Hamm Urge bass. The Urge bass is active, and must have buffers to equalize the output of the pickups. You might need to consider active electronics if the volume between the pickups varies too much to be useful.

Of course, Fender has made passive P+J and so have many other manufacturers like Lakland and it works out just fine, most of the time. I don't know why having one extra J pickup should make a huge difference. If it were my bass and I wanted it passive (which I would) I would consider a push button system like that which is used on the new Musicman reflex (also a 3 pickup bass). It is quite simple, each button turns on each pickup. That way, you could have the two J's together, which you could not, with a 5 position switch like a strat. Or, you could just install volume, volume, volume.
 
#50
engedi1 said:
I am interested to hear about how the JPJ works. This is similar to the Stu Hamm Urge bass. The Urge bass is active, and must have buffers to equalize the output of the pickups. You might need to consider active electronics if the volume between the pickups varies too much to be useful.

Of course, Fender has made passive P+J and so have many other manufacturers like Lakland and it works out just fine, most of the time. I don't know why having one extra J pickup should make a huge difference. If it were my bass and I wanted it passive (which I would) I would consider a push button system like that which is used on the new Musicman reflex (also a 3 pickup bass). It is quite simple, each button turns on each pickup. That way, you could have the two J's together, which you could not, with a 5 position switch like a strat. Or, you could just install volume, volume, volume.
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my friend showed me his fender elite and it has the push-push button pickup switching, which is pretty much what the MMreflex has, that could be another method of switchin between all 3 pickups
 
#52
The neck's profile isn't really what I consider a baseball bat. I used to have an old Tele bass that had a neck that could swallow this rosy neck whole. Nah, it's a very comfortable profile. I recommend rolling the fingerboard edges with all new Warmoth necks, that is unless you like that sharp feeling.

Control update: I'm toying with the idea of dual passive controls with a master A/B switch. This would give the bass two preset settings that could be switched on the fly for completely-to-subtly different tones. I've done this with a couple of my Warmoth guitars with great results.
 
#55
So glad I have found this thread. I want to do a similar build and was waiting to call Warmoth to see if they would build a dinky with the same route.

Did they manage to keep the P in the sweet spot or did some of the positions have to be moved to accommodate all the pickups?

The star pickup switch is a neat idea, I wonder if Warmoth would drill for it?

I was debating about buying a P body and having a friend route out the jazz pickups.

My idea so far:

JPJ body ( Warmoth possibly, like the idea of rear route control and battery box and no pickguard)
EMG XJA's and XPA
Status neck
badass bridge
Still trying to figure out how I would switch the pickups...
 
#57
Finaly got an update. It's been crazy around here with the kids in sports and what not. Anyway, I'm about halfway done with the hardware. Got the neck attached, tuners on, the bridge lined-up and mounted, the straplocks in place, and the football jack is done. Gold WAS the way to go...

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I'm still waiting on the gold pickup screws. Once those are here I can line up the pups, do a quick and dirty string up, and then get into experimenting with controls. This damn thing is taking forever due to family scheduling, but I'm in no rush.
 
#59
I would find it awfully tempting to put three double stacked pots on there with volume and tone for each pup. I've yet to see a set of stacked pots where one of them has an "off" position, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. If they don't it should be possible to carefully dismantle a double stack and convert one of them to have an "off" position.
 

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