Special Edition Build-off : Tripppler!

[BioWeapon]

I recently picked up a nice short-scale neck from fellow TB'er @hbarcat and given that my workplace might voluntarily close in the coming couple of weeks, I figured... Why not participate?

The launching point, as seen below:

So blank pictured is freshly glued cherry. I got these P pickups from here on TB as well back in 2014 from Joe Milstein (now banned it seems) who owns Gamma. Generic bent plate bridge I've already got, generic tuners and control plate on the way from guitar parts resource.

The plan!
- Three reverse P pickups, middle always on and neck/bridge selectable
- Single volume, passive treble and bass cuts. Pickup switching will be done with some push-pulls I have in my parts bin.
- The blank you see is 21mm thick, not quite an inch... So I'll be adding a nice colorful top and a matching cherry back layer
- Single cut body style, blatantly modeled off of the Sadowski single cut jazz basses, just don't tell them I did it!

I'm still waiting on my local wood shop to let me know about the thins I ordered...

 

[dwizum]

I'm liking this plan! I mean, what's better than one P pickup?

 

[cholyoke]

Nice! Nothing better than more precision pickups!

 

[postalflunkie]

Oooo the switching options could be endless

 

[Jon Clegg]

Three split coils? You could be getting into Burns territory.

 

[BioWeapon]

I'm liking this plan! I mean, what's better than one P pickup?

Nice! Nothing better than more precision pickups!

I didn't even have to answer the question!

 

[BioWeapon]

Oooo the switching options could be endless

Thankfully I have a somewhat simple plan... not that a million switches might not follow in the distant future when I get bored!

 

[BioWeapon]

Three split coils? You could be getting into Burns territory.

Today I learned about Burns... Interesting looking instruments! Serious vintage Japanese vibe there.

 

[BioWeapon]

Got the body all traced out - it looks a lot less like the Sadowski single cut than I thought it would have.

I double checked everything's going to fit... It's tight. Tighter than I had anticipated.

You'll have to excuse my soap-and-sanitizer burnt hands.

 

[kalle74]

How will the upper bout attach to the neck?

 

[BioWeapon]

How will the upper bout attach to the neck?

The heel of the neck extends to the fret before the point where the bout touches the neck. I figure I'll glue the neck in rather than bolt, so I'll undercut the bout to match in the areas the neck doesn't come into contact with it. Part of the upper might not be attached at all at the end though!

 

[AudioTaper]

You'll have to excuse my soap-and-sanitizer burnt hands.

That's nothing....


Interesting build!

 

[ctmullins]

Mmm, this sounds cool. Your switching scheme sounds similar to the Gibson G3. I want to do a G3 one day!

 

[Matt Liebenau]

Looks cool. If you really want to go nuts, electronics wise, I vote individual on/off switches for each coil or pickup half. You know you're going to want to know what the bridge E/A and neck D/G sounds like!

 

[BioWeapon]

Mmm, this sounds cool. Your switching scheme sounds similar to the Gibson G3. I want to do a G3 one day!

Had no idea what the G3 was until just now, but yes! Pretty similar - with the added solo middle pickup

Looks cool. If you really want to go nuts, electronics wise, I vote individual on/off switches for each coil or pickup half. You know you're going to want to know what the bridge E/A and neck D/G sounds like!

I recently built a guitar with 2 humbuckers, both with a coil tap and one with a phase reversal switch... that's already enough to have me fixated on controls instead of actually playing the thing

 

[mikewalker]

That's going to be mega-cool! If Sadowsky had done a four-string single-cut I would probably own one by now. **100% CERTAIN, had it been a short-scale. I'm a huge fan of reverse-P, so applaud your choice there

 

[porterbass]

Following. This looks like an interesting and very fun build. I really like the body shape you're doing and can't wait to see it with the special top! What scale length will it be?

 

[porterbass]

Here's a 3 pickup configuration done at Rick Turner's shop in California when they were setting up their new CNC for the Electrolines. The switch allows the middle pickup on by itself or the neck and bridge pickup on together with the middle off. The controls are V-T, and Blend between Neck and Bridge. Simple and I get a lot of tone variation. I thought the switching might be redundant between the two choices but the 2 on vs the middle sounds different.

 

[ctmullins]

And of course this provides me another opportunity to advocate my favorite three-pickup wiring scheme: master volume, master tone, and a Freeway Switch!

 

[BioWeapon]

Following. This looks like an interesting and very fun build. I really like the body shape you're doing and can't wait to see it with the special top! What scale length will it be?

It'll be a true short scale at 30"