Thanks Adriaan,
Hello StephenR!
Got carried away on last thread…apologies
More exploration on this bass!
Yeah. The wood plugs are a great idea.
Hard to come up with a match to the flame Koa. Friend of mine has a very nice drill press, so that is a real possibility.
Leaning toward trying to find an Alembic solution for 4 knobs and adding a possible active/passive switch. See what they say.
Did plug in today for a few hours.
This is what I’ve noticed. The replaced electronics, (Glockenklang? ) function as suspected.
Push pull, active , passive.
While active bass is louder at the set specific low boost / cut , and set treble boost cut.
Other control is pan.
That said, bass is still approx 10db lower (used decibel x)than my 4003 passive , and fretless jazz(emg active)
Can’t say I like the active sound coloration, the freq is very low, the high is scratchy.
Did email q
Alembic to see possible replacement.
Then went down the radius rabbit hole.
JimmyJ, this is what I see.
The nut is a bit off from my 12” radius gauge, but only a bit on the B side and G side?
The fret board is right on the money
The bridge is dramatically off, with A string sitting very low, well below radius.
Since the bridge saddles are not independently height adjustable, I would have to file saddles lower on all but A string to get proper radius.
Made a cardboard 12” radius(following your idea)
and checked them all with under string radius gauge and regular gauge.
My plan, in order, make nut radius correct, check 1st fret to .55mm, double check neck relief(no tension at all on it currently…which makes me a little concerned…tension makes too convex
Then correct the saddles…
Seem like a good plan?
The finish I the least worried about.
Just getting the heart and soul of this bass correct has been a challenge !
