The project for the hidden adjustable pickup system are going through final testing... Maybe there will be a Jester bass after all!
 
Blinded me with Science!
 
Peace and Love,
 
Hal-

Feast your eyes...   The ideas I had on adjustable is becoming into a reality.  From the perspective of looking into the cavity of the bass, is where this entire component would rest, so ignore the background as it suggest, it would be on top of the surface, which is not true.  The test model worked successfully, and I made farther refinements after transferring the system to actual wood. I made it where the system is completely self contained and acts as one modular unit with my choice of pickups.    



  I have not decided if this bass will be an Alembic... we will see how things go.   Clearly, I want the Jester to be the best Fretless bass I ever played, and be the most complete fretless ever.   What I like about the solution the most, its makes the bass for easy cleaning, and you could admire the beauty of that beautiful wood.  I'll keep posting the progress...  Peace and love,  Hal-   (Message edited by toma_hawk01 on August 21, 2010)

Hal, if i were you, i'd sell the idea to a company to get some good ol' money, or patent it or do something with that great idea, just my 2 cents
 
~Taylor

Well, you've already shown your design to the general public, not sure you can apply for a patent any longer.

Correct Adriaan. That is why I made it public. (I blocked this idea from being patented also...)  
 
I hate the philosophy of patents. I believe it sniffles imagination... (That's my engineering mind...)
 
Polio was cured by one man who never patent his treatment.  
 
If anyone wants to copy my concept and methods, I'll be happy to help. The key to my happiness is giving, and to cleanse myself from greed.  
 
You guys know the concept, before the Government.  
 
Peace and Love,
 
Hal-
 
 
(Message edited by toma_hawk01 on August 21, 2010)

well also the guy who created the treatment for polio, was doing it to save peoples lives. oh well
 
~Taylor

Taylor,
 
People are way too hard to please. I just design things I know I'll love and cherish.  
 
Peace and Love,
 
Hal-

By the way Taylor, the best way to sell something to industry is to attach your signature.  
 
A patent only protects you for 20 years, but a signature is authenticity that last forever.
 
Thus when it comes to art, authenticity is the ticket.  
 
One more thing, patent are confined to only the one physical design, when all it takes is one slight change, you are no longer protected.  
 
Stanley Clarke patented his Spellbinder basses, without realizing these cold harden facts, but figured industry would buy those basses in bulk...  
 
In the end, its a lesson.  
 
Peace and Love,
 
Hal-
 
 
 
(Message edited by toma_hawk01 on August 22, 2010)

Design change...
 
I changed the crown to point upward, in honor of Jimi Hendrix.
 
 

 
Peace and Love,
 
Hal-

Perfected!
 
The first knob controls the pickup plate (used for holding the pickup) moves the plate, from left to right, and back to left again successfully.
 
The second knob moves the pickup height, from base platform -- to up or higher position, and back down again. The potential height adjustments, doubles the total base height with any pickup I used.
 
There it is:  
 
8 months, and two days ago, I discussed this new concept on Alembic.com as a theoretical mind tease for my new fretless bass called the Jester.  
 
As it stands now, there's absolutely no doubt, or any reasons in my mind, why my solution could not be applied to my new custom basses.
 
For the sake of saving space with knobs, I am working out a method to integrate everything (pickup move left/right and up/down) from only one knob. I see no major feat here...
 
T -10
 
Peace and Love,
 
Hal-
 
 
(Message edited by toma_hawk01 on August 22, 2010)

if you could make a push/pull knob that could control, like the pushed in control the left and right, and the pulled be the height adjustment
 
~Taylor

Correct Taylor.
 
There's a three way control on one knob I would like to consider:
 
1. Base floor- no control (neutral).
 
2. First Floor (pull up, first click), adjusts and controls pickups from left to right, and back... (Height adjustment are in neutral(inactive).)
 
3. Third Floor (pull up, second click), adjusts and controls the pickup heights from down to up, and back... (Sliding adjustment, are in neutral (inactive) .)
 
Peace and Love,
 
Hal-
 
(Message edited by toma_hawk01 on August 22, 2010)

Thank GOD for Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones!
 
Bill invented and played the first electric fretless bass guitar. The year was 1961.  
 
Something as simple as removing frets, was strange to people, but not to Bill, and this simple feat would lead to a very important step for electric fretless bass guitars around the world.  
 
I dedicate this build, to Bill Wyman, and Jaco Pastorius for both of these men physically removed their frets, from what -- everything there were!
 
Oh my goodness, those guy should be awarded their PhD too!
 
 
Peace and Love,
 
Hal-
 
 
(Message edited by toma_hawk01 on August 22, 2010)

All steel parts. (Proof of concept...)
 

 
Peace and Love,
 
Hal-
 
(Message edited by toma_hawk01 on August 23, 2010)

That's cool Hal . Just Like an old radio dial linkage for the  variable  capacitor frequency indicator .
 
(Message edited by sonicus on August 23, 2010)