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Winter Build-Off 2024: The Best Winter Build-Off 2023 DNF Completion: Sergeant Buzzkill

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Took a "Did Not Finish" on Sergeant Buzzkill last year, hope to finish it this time around. Is that allowed? Anyways, doesn't really matter to me if I'm in the voting or not, just wanted to share the completion of this, it was my favorite project last year, best looking, but got stalled. Here's last years thread:

https://www.talkbass.com/threads/winter-build-off-2023-the-sergeant-buzzkill.1590185/#post-27114790

And here's where we got to last year:

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Pics don't do the gnarly flaming red much justice. Very deep and 3D in the right light.

And now it's been anointed with my very own real blood - fell asleep in my chair last year, then crashed onto the floor smashing my forehead into the pointy part. Need to clean up the dried blood before continuing finish work lol!
 
"Baggy of catnip" . . . passed out . . . . fell onto bass . . . blood all over bass . . . . . . .

Now that's a Rock Star :thumbsup:
Not so much lol, just a fat old man with insomnia and sleep apnea haha. Well and an old office chair that was trying to kill me. No catnip involved in the fall. I go days without a decent night's sleep any more. :(
 
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well after another several months back-burnered, trying to finish this one up again this summer. going over previous threads to remind myself where I was and what I was planning for the insides...
 
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The way I want to combine the piezos, the mags, and the BQC preamp means some hackery. I want there to be a balance / blend knob, MN taper, for piezos and mags, but the active side (the EMG preamp) wants 25K for a volume pot, while the Graphtech piezo preamp needs 500K. Nobody makes "mixed blend" knobs like that. So.... I bought one of each, 25K and 500K and am going to disassmble, swap one set of wafers, and reassemble for two "half and half" blend pots. That should do it, according to both tech reps.
 

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