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My Dingwall Prima 6 IN PROGRESS!!!!

#22
Geoff - If that sounds half as great as it looks, that is one hellluva bass!!! I love everything I see in the pics.

The accent treatment is so classy - like the binding on a fine acoustic instrument!

I read about Sheldon in a "Bass Player" when they featured certain luthiers for a few issues and his approach sounded most cool.

The incredible lightweight of redwood should lend some great resonance, besides its beauty. Please tell me he isn't going to slap plastic/steel covers on the back cavities!

Also, I didn't see anyone asking about which pups are going into that baby. Unless I overlooked that, which pups are going to have the honor of being used in it???
 
#23
Rickbass,
No, the rear cavities covers are matching redwood lace burl. The pickups are custom wound Dingwall FD-1 pickups. These pickups have 30% more output and are voiced differently than the stock Bartolinis. These pickups are going in matching redwood lace burl pickup shells as well. The preamp is an 18v NTMB with a Dingwall BlueEQube circuit, which cuts back on the aggressive mids. Overall the electronics should be very versatile.
 
#24
rickbass:
as far as pickups (I don't know exactly what Geoff ordered)...but sheldon now uses his custom wound Dingwll/Fury designed pickups called FD-1. He modelled then after the Fury guitarpickups, i have them on my Dingwall and they sound quite a bit different than the custom wound Bartolinis which usually come standard on Dingwalls.

So far my experience w/ the FD-1 p'ups has been they are more polite and wide open sounding. Less barky and more J bass like than the Bartolinis have been in the past (my Bartolini equipped A'burner bass sounds like an ultra resonant modern P-bass). Additionally Sheldon has some forms of a mid cut circuit called the bluecube which he likes to add -on to this FD-1.
frank

Doh...guess Geoff just posted same time
 

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