That's the same listing but on EBay.com not Ebay.com.au , the 25$ shipping comment was a reason not to move Australia.
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Triple Bucker 4 string build
- Thread starter Will_White
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Got the second blank out of clamps still have to clean it up and make a planeing jig for my router.
I also got the bridge in today, a little bit tighter then a standard bridge
Yeah that was my original plan but I liked the looks of a single bridge better and I could get the Hipshot in 16.5mm which is as tight as I needed and if I need tighter it's adjustable. Is that your 3 pickup 'bird?I've got tighter spacing by stacking individual bridge piece together...
No work on the TripleBucker tonight, I need to get some angle iron for the planning jig, I did work on another project though.
I haven't really been satisfied with how my Double P sounded since I finished it, so it gradually made it's way out of the rotation. I think it's the boringness of the Red Active pickups. In an attempt to remedy that, and to try something I've been wanting to do for a while, I got a couple sets of cheap ceramic P pickups, which I actually the tone of, and a stack of neodymium magnets.
I carefully removed the ceramic magnets from the pickups, cleaned up the backs as best I could, and added a stack of NEOs in its place. That was the idea at least. It didn't work that way on the first one. I'll let the picture tell the story.
Because the pickup was a whole $7, I wasn't distraught, and good news I learned how not to remove the magnet from a pickup
. The problem with that one was I went from the side without the wires down onto a hard surface and both of those combined lead to the bobbin tearing off at the eyelet and ruining the coil. For the other half I turned the pickup around and set it on the foam sanding pad and used a flat-head screwdriver and (smaller) hammer to wedge it off.
Much better. I'll be keeping this one for a four string CBG down the road. Repeated the process two more times for the other coil, then I added magnets until it got to just slightly stronger then an unmodified pickup for the neck, for the bridge I'll add 1 more to even things out but because of the mishap I'm going to have to do that one on Wednesday when it gets here.
I coloured the backs of the magnets to keep them oriented correctly.
Another thing I have to do is replace the harness because I'm going from active to passive. So its getting a 4way switch, 1 meg volume, and a new tone switch with a .047 cap and a pair of diodes.
I haven't really been satisfied with how my Double P sounded since I finished it, so it gradually made it's way out of the rotation. I think it's the boringness of the Red Active pickups. In an attempt to remedy that, and to try something I've been wanting to do for a while, I got a couple sets of cheap ceramic P pickups, which I actually the tone of, and a stack of neodymium magnets.
I carefully removed the ceramic magnets from the pickups, cleaned up the backs as best I could, and added a stack of NEOs in its place. That was the idea at least. It didn't work that way on the first one. I'll let the picture tell the story.
Because the pickup was a whole $7, I wasn't distraught, and good news I learned how not to remove the magnet from a pickup
. The problem with that one was I went from the side without the wires down onto a hard surface and both of those combined lead to the bobbin tearing off at the eyelet and ruining the coil. For the other half I turned the pickup around and set it on the foam sanding pad and used a flat-head screwdriver and (smaller) hammer to wedge it off.Much better. I'll be keeping this one for a four string CBG down the road. Repeated the process two more times for the other coil, then I added magnets until it got to just slightly stronger then an unmodified pickup for the neck, for the bridge I'll add 1 more to even things out but because of the mishap I'm going to have to do that one on Wednesday when it gets here.
I coloured the backs of the magnets to keep them oriented correctly.
Another thing I have to do is replace the harness because I'm going from active to passive. So its getting a 4way switch, 1 meg volume, and a new tone switch with a .047 cap and a pair of diodes.
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