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New P Bass
- Thread starter donnercruz
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My name is Woody and I approve this bass. And the naming of it.
I totally agree w/ you, but sometimes I end up w/ a bridge like this after the intonation is fully adjusted.
Love how you can "see" the intonation. Great job.
If you've done as many setups as I have, you can see from the relative positions of saddles, whether a bass or guitar is intonated well or not. Indeed, a lot of guitars come with bridges where the saddles are fixed in relationship to each other - you can adjust each end of the bridge, but the positions of the strings relative to each other don't move. Acoustic guitars are often "frozen" w.r.t. string positions for intonation. The pattern of saddle positions in the picture of the OP's bass does not look like it's been intonated. If it is intonated with saddle positions like that, there might be either significant height differences in the strings, or you have strings on there that aren't from the same set, or something like that. It could also be that witness point haven't been set on one or more strings. If I did a setup on that bass, I'm reasonably sure I'd find one or more things that need tweaking, and after I fixed that, the saddles would end up in more "normal" positions.
If You watch Dave (Dave's world of fun stuff) he often sets the saddles on a bass or guitar before he sets it up - he's usually very close on setting up intonation by looks alone. Like him, I have that kind of experience.
WOW! Not usually a fan of wood tops but that one is amazing. Can't make out the headstock logo, though. What does it say?
I use Dunlop Super Bright Nickels, I set witness points, there are no significant height differences in strings, and they all come from the same set. Yet every set I have on a bass has intonation that looks similar to that.
Wow! Awsome job! That is truly a beautiful bass. You should feel a lot of pride in building such a handsome instrument.
A p-bass looks so unique without a pickguard. It’s weird and interesting at the same time. This one is definitely best without a pg.
I'm the first to say a lovely piece of neck wood, yay. The whole package looks great, but my eye was immediately caught by that neck.
I probably haven't setup as many as micguy, but I get what's meant. HST, I've had one or two where I've started at the beginning and ended up with the G saddle at the same point as the D saddle. Not sure of having one fractionally behind like that, but certainly aligned. I wondered if I'd missed something (truth be told, perhaps I had) but that's how the cards fell and everything was as you'd like it.Love how you can "see" the intonation. Great job.
Very nice job! I built mine using the Aguilar 60 and I thing it's one of the best vintage sounding pickups out there. Love it.
Looks really good.
P.S. I have several Babicz bridges - I like the design and think they look fine.
Looks really good.
P.S. I have several Babicz bridges - I like the design and think they look fine.
