Pierre-Yves' African Blackwood Custom Series II

Started by mica, July 27, 2010, 07:08:33 PM

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mica

I want to work on this layout a little bit, the bass pickup Q switch is awfully close to the filter, and the master volume looks a little stuck on so I need to relate it to something.  
 
You want and LED on/off switch, but no stereo/mono switch for the 1/4 jack? If that's so, do you want the 1/4 jack wired in stereo or in mono?

pierreyves

?? exist on serie I mono/stereo switch ? Or only on the red tiger I took for example ? No Mica, no switch mono/stereo, only mono jack output if both pickups are connected on, thank's. I want to be able to play with both pickup's sound with jack.
 
Work on this like you want if you respecxt the general idea. Yesterday night, I was playing with the Koa bass, 2 times I was hurting the master vol pot and change unfortunatly the volume... for less !



mica

Your custom truss rod should arrive in the next week or two. Once that's here, we can glue the fingerboard on the neck, then cut the peghead shape, then glue the body to the neck. Everything is ready to go, we just have to wait for that part.

tbrannon

custom truss rod?  I'd love to hear the details...

Bradley Young

I'm guessing dual-action trussrod.  Prevents the use of the phone book!
 
Pierre-Yves, I really had a lovely time with Yves-- you should come with him to NAMM some time.

pierreyves

...hum...hum...effectivly, in the final invoice I have signed I wanted a single dual action trussrod, but after I have said I don't want one trussrod but  2 standard dual action trussrods. Anyway it's like that now, c'est la vie Mica !! Just a little mistake.
All my basses in my life (exept Alembic) had one trussrod, Stanley has always 1 trussrod, and my african blackwood bass will have one DUAL action trussrod, and tailpiece centered !!! LOL
Bradley, thank's to write my real name and Namm is a little far for me, I hate plane !! Maybe one time with the pleasure to meet you, but not in Namm, It could be too expensive for my eyes

mica

Heading straight into carving:  

 

 

 

  Looks pretty cool.


pierreyves

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice.... waaaaaaaawwwww !! Just two questions: the little mark on the maple body part will diseapear I hope ?  

  and the beveled of the peghead stop at this part or will follow all the line ?  

  Really nice work, thank's

briant

Those burn marks on the body will eventually be gone.  Those are from the router during the intitial rough shaping.  Go over and take a peek at the FTC thread on my new bass and you can see before/after pictures of the same burn marks:
 
See Mica's post #6891
See any picture laying out the controls
 
I'm not sure about peghead bevels as none of my Alembics have one.

briant

Nearly forgot: That bass is looking outstanding.  Love all the darkness going on.

pierreyves

Thank's Brian, I had no really doubt on the issue of marks

mario_farufyno

Imagine all that Ebony with finishing done... Dark Shining!
Not just a bass, this is an Alembic!