tommorichards

Try a little bit of copper shielding under the bridge to "enhance" contact between the wire and bridge. I've found it can help with buzzing.

I found this site

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Although i picked up some sapele and pine at a local huws gray.

Have you soldered the bridge ground?

Go on then.

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='1292907' date='Jul 4 2011, 11:17 PM']As above, I too would initially assume that the black and white are your earths. However it [b]does [/b]matter which way round they go. If you get it all together and you feel it sounds a little scooped then chances are you have wired them "out of phase" - this may be what you are going for, it is a Jazz after all. If not, it's easily reversed by choosing any one of the pups and switching round it's wires - for example take your bridge pup and connect the red where the white was and vice versa - the result will be a slightly hotter, fuller tone.[/quote]
I only meant that it doesnt matter if he uses both grounds as the hots. I just decided not to tell him about the out of phase problem for kicks

By red and black, its just means hot and earth. Its doesnt matter which way round they go unless the plate is grounded, and even then im not sure.

For your pickups, i'd assume the yellow and red are hot (treat them as the red wire in the diagram) and the black and white are earth (black)

Cool man. You decided on a PG colour yet?

its not my hat-it-chewd.

Nice though. Ive always wondered what those sound like.

I havent noticed any sonic differences at all really, but my ears have become more honed since then.

As with regards to the neck laquering, by laquering, i mean i got a can of spray i used on my motorbike, masked off the fretboard, and sprayed. I sprayed a few times, felt it was enough, let it dry, then used it. My playing has kinda given it a smoother finish. I played it pretty much everyday til i got my jazz about 4 weeks ago.

It originally started out as a stagg fusion bass, with a PJ setup. Over the years, i got bored and decided to do things to it. Covered it in denim, laquered the back of the neck black (as well as the front of the headstock with the stripe), changed the angle of the tuners, stuck in a soapbar humbucker, added a control plate, and changed the pickup volumes and tone to on/off arrangement.

This is what it used to look like:



Heres a full shot:



And the control layout

Too late now, im using it on this. He cant have it anymore.

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='1284756' date='Jun 27 2011, 10:50 PM']Woah, routing the bridge is much too extreme. Just shim the neck pocket, fag packet is the Fender way, but any bit of dense card is fine, just a little strip, probably about half an inch long, across the end of the pocket. Sort that right out.[/quote]
Too extreme? Have you seen what he's done to it already? Extreme is how he lives and eats doughnuts!

Oh yeah, i forgot you were in the wirral too. Let me know when you get it, and i can order some plastic for it.

Its a Vox. The closest model i can find is the panther



So maybe its a slight variation on it, or he after-marketed'd a pickup into it (or the original owner).

1: lower the bridge

2: if the bridge is as low as i can go, then route out a space in the body where the bridge is, and sink it.

2: if it looks like the neck is tilted forward, then adjust the trussrod, or shim it.

Or ask someone to make you one. Hell, send it to me, tell me what colour plate you want and i can do it for cost. (postage and plastic coloured sheet)

They stole my idea dammit!

I did this about 2-3 years ago.

Sorry mate, the bridge is on its way to me as we speak, if not there now.

Pickup available?

Is the bridge still available? PM'd anyway.

are the Warwick pups and active still available?

Hello.

At the moment, i am making an explorer type bass, and i was originally planning to paint it a colour, but after seeing it taking shape, im deciding to clearcoat it. Question is, the woods used are yellow pine and sapele, and i was wondering what can i use to bring out the grain.

And heres a picture of it unfinished to help you answer.

PM'd regarding the pickup.

Im in the middle of a bass build, but i ideally need a benchtop planer to get it to the correct width. And i was wondering if anyone knew of somewhere in the wirral that had one i could use for it.

Ebay is normally pretty good, but slightly cheaper decent parts, Wilkinson do some pretty good stuff.