Winter Build Off 2019: Lambic White Rat Signature

[Will_White]

Mash Up Elements:
Alembic Stanley Clarke Signature.
Rat Rod Junk Pile Style.

Specs:
4 Strings
Body: 2 2x10s glued together
Neck: Bolt-on Rondo Music 30" scale bass neck (decapitated)
Pickup: 2 x MGB Mini Box Bucker Pickup 4.0
Electronics: Passive volume, passive tone, 3 way cap selector
Bridge: Brass T single saddle floating bridge
Head Piece: Electrical grounding bar
Tuners: Turnbuckle straight pull tuners
Strings: La bella black nylon tape wounds
Colour: Charred natural

 

[Jon Clegg]

You gonna post this in the alembic club when you're done?

 

[dwizum]

Please tell me that chunk of stop sign is going to make it on the instrument somehow...

 

[Gilmourisgod]

That's pretty clearly the pickguard. Mash away.

 

[Beej]

You gonna post this in the alembic club when you're done?

With a link back to this build thread.

 

[Will_White]

You gonna post this in the alembic club when you're done?

Definitely. I wonder if they'll know it's not real.

 

[Will_White]

It needed block inlays.

 

[GAS_Attack]

It needed block inlays.
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Please tell me those are just stuck on there with adhesive!

 

[Will_White]

Please tell me those are just stuck on there with adhesive!

Yes I used some reflective tape I had left over from another project, and cut them out with scissors to up the jank factor.

 

[GAS_Attack]

Yes I used some reflective tape I had left over from another project, and cut them out with scissors to up the jank factor.

Sweet

 

[Jon Clegg]

If course, maximum Jankiness would result from orange reflective tape.

 

[Will_White]

Assembled the tuners tonight.

The original turnbuckles I bought were too big for smaller import style bass string balls but then I stumbled across these at Home Depot.

I also cut out the pickguard,

I'm debating whether or not to add an active element to it since it is an Alembic, I'm thinking a Psycho Knob Board - Internal Distortion/Boost/Overdrive for Guitar or Amp - now with pre-wired leads! would be sufficiently lo-fi.

I was planning on plugging the tuner holes but the headstock was otherwise occupied.

 

[Matt Liebenau]

To heck with the clamp farms! That's how you do it.

 

[Will_White]

Got the headpiece made and headstock holes drilled out to plug tomorrow. I need to make a back plate, I think I have some scraps of stop sign left.

 

[Will_White]

I plugged the headstock holes and trimmed off the excess.

Sanded and shaped.

While preparing a gin and tonic I got an idea for the headstock badge. Close enough eh.

An interesting package arrived too.

 

[Will_White]

Got the body blank glued up tonight but this guy forgot to charge his phone so no clamp farm, I'm going to get full size prints of the body tomorrow (perks of having a wife that works at a print shop).

 

[Jon Clegg]

Got the body blank glued up tonight but this guy forgot to charge his phone so no clamp farm, I'm going to get full size prints of the body tomorrow (perks of having a wife that works at a print shop).

No clamp farm?

 

[Will_White]

Body out of clamps,

Full size print with parts layed out,

 

[ThaCoast]

Definitely watching this build !!

 

[Gilmourisgod]

Turnbuckle string saddles. A Work of Genius.