It's not a dramatic difference. The accent lamination is half the thickness of the top. Maple and Purpleheart will have similar sounds as accent laminations. Maple may wind up being a very small amount brighter sound, but I think it would still be difficult to distinguish.

And... jorge_s , Thanx for your kind explaination~!

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(Message edited by Shim on January 04, 2007)

Mica~ Thanx your help to make my bass.
 
And I hope to say, Please choose the best top wood for my bass, like RagingBass. If you can, My all efforts to my dream bass, can be over~!!!!!

And, I wonder if you can install my additional switches, not 3 way toggle switch, but 3 way nobe like pick-up select nobe.  
 
I think the nobe would be more suitable in my bass. Can you install the nobes for me??

Yes, Correct.
And about the shape of Peghead, I want to get the new Crown Peghead shape.
What I mean... the old type Crown Peghead is somewhat bigger than new one, right? I want to slim Peghead shape like in Bird of Prey. Of course, not including head omega carving option in Bird of Prey.

And I add my opinion about the additional swithes in the Pick-up location and Additinal switch page. please check it, Mica~

I think the Ragging bass Head style is good example,too.

Both of your examples are of 4-string basses, which have smaller pegheads than 5-strings. In this example you can see a 5-string smaller Crown peghead.

For more on the peghead, please see the peghead thread. Thanks.

Sorry, but 3-position rotary switches are not available from stock. Custom switches usually take 6-8 months to arrive from the manufacturer.  
 
The pickup selector switch is 4-position. Iy's a much more complicated (and expensive) wiring to use these rotary switches instead of the normal toggle switches for this operation.

Okay. It's good. Thanx Mica

Oh... so is there any other choice to install my switch to nobe??

You can have the function on a potentiometer rather than a switch, like the bass and treble controls on the Epic/Orion/Excel basses. Then you will have the funtion available by knob.
 
The idea of the toggle switches is to have quick and repeatable changes available. When you change this to a pot, you'll gain all the settings in between, but you lose the quick access. It's just a question if you want quick changes or more available settings.

is their cost more or same? If the cost of knob is more than switch (as I quess), I'lll go to the normal toggle switch. And If you say their costs are same, I'll think about them. It's just a small option about my bass and electronics will be installed after caving the bass, so you can make my bass in time. Please answer about my question, Mica~