benh

Looks ace - well done!

Ah, cheers. Shame the closest Axminster to me is about 3 hours away 🙁 not many local hardwoods suppliers near me, certainly none supplying appropriate sizes for guitar/bass building. Thank goodness for the internet!

Is that in store or online? Not seen any timber on the website

Might be a coffee table, but what a damn fine coffee table it is 😍 it oozes quality just from the photos. Big fan of KS basses. Congrats!

Really looking forward to seeing the final result

Cheers. One of the nicest black fades I've seen with burly wood

Looking great! How did you do the black fade around the edges if I may ask, airbrush?

Good lord... I need new pants.

Can't imagine them being comfy for a long time - for bone conduction to work it has to be pretty tight. I perform hearing tests on a daily basis with a BC headset and often have patients complain about it, despite only wearing in for about 5 mins! Would be happy to be proven wrong though.

Good to hear - I bought a set of their jazz pickups a few weeks ago for an upcoming build, based off the strength of a few glowing reviews like yours. Looking forward to seeing what they sound like!

Amazing - I get the feeling a few of us around here will be green with envy when this is done!

Followed - absolutely stunning!

Quick update with the pickup ring kindly 3D printed for me by @Dad3353 - also ordered more wood for the next build! It's a sickness 😂

What a lovely looking piece of wood! Congrats, looks great

That already looks amazing, stellar work sir!

Arrived in the post this afternoon - a light sand to match the pickup finish and all sorted! Many thanks again to @Dad3353 for your help. BC straplocks on display too 🙂

Superlux HD-681 is what I use - cheap as chips and never let me down. Use them all the time with Zoom B1 Four pedal, as well as general music - great for both.

@Dad3353 to the rescue! Will update when it arrives 🙂

I'm becoming increasingly more annoyed at the sloppy routing that I did on the bass I recently built. Does anyone know of anyone who does 3D printing or the like for a pickup surround? Struggling to find anywhere who makes them for bass pickups. Cheers!

One thing I forgot to mention - the B string. I've always erred on (what I thought was) the side of caution when it comes to scale length on a fiver. But despite being 3" shorter than most other B strings I've played, it's actually tighter and more focused sounding than some 35" scale B strings I've played. No real floppiness or "flubby" sounding notes. Chuffed!

Had some time to properly (I think!) set up the filter preamp @mhoss32 kindly provided. Firstly, although it took me a while to get my head around, I find it really intuitive - like a "super tone control" almost. Very happy with how it sounds, can coax so many different tones out of this with just the one pickup. I don't have any recording equipment - which will be a blessing for you all considering my sloppy playing - but if that changes I may post some clips 🙂