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Truss rod cover is a little askew. No logo on the headstock - is it a decal rather than an inlay?

The thing about USB-C is that it can go up to 20V using a little controller - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/193527265113

Already here:

Another vote for the Tecamp Puma 900 here. I've now got a GR Bass AT800 combo so the Puma is probably redundant, but I've hung on to it rather than selling it as it may be used again some day.

If the body is heavy, making it headless wouldn't affect the balance as most of the weight is between the strap pegs. I've encountered plenty of neck-divy basses but never a body-divy one.

This is just experimental for now, to keep me off the streets. Zoom B3n, HX Stomp, MOD Dwarf - several preamps but they are more pre than amp, so the signal level would probably be too low just using those. A simple amplifier with a gain of 10 or so should do the job if necessary. Not a lot, I would think. When I've dug a J-J speaker lead out, I'll see what a Hotone 5W amp sounds like through it. That's the idea. Everything is subject to change. USB-C, either from a power pack or a mains adaptor, preferably variable voltage.

Well, that has all the fretted bases covered, now you just need a matching set of fretlesses. Lovely wood on all of those.

Natural

Just strip all that horrible black paint off it, go for natural wood with black (or maybe gold) hardware.

One question for @Phil Starr (or any other cab experts) - I'm thinking of making this a combo with a tiny 30W amp module. Would a jack socket with a hole in it like they all have be a significant problem?

If an Ibanez SRF705 should pop up, that would be well worth going for.

I filled the holes, touched the front panel back up, and put more strip on the connector plate to seal that too. All is now well. All sounding good. Better than it looks, anyway.

Good point. I shall work myself up into an appropriate frame of mind soon.

Thanks, I'm initially going to do some basic checks - IC supply voltages, ground offset from supply, see if there's signals on the + and - inputs on the op-amps and on the outputs.

Thanks, the build instructions are probably those on the website - https://schalltechnik04.de/en/instructions/vong-filterung but if there's anything else I'd be glad of it.

He did originally play the Squier, then became a little bit of a gear snob and went to Fender (a proper gear snob would have gone for something good as well as expensive).

I have a sense of deja vu.

Dirty protest?

It's not really news when it's music-outlet-shop though.

Does look nice. I'd be very tempted if it had enough strings.

"A new neck and almost new body, but my tools slipped a couple of times so there are some scratches. A full pro set up by me in progress but I spoiled the new high G string so that one is different." I know that I'm a clumsy git, so I try to avoid doing too much woodworking that could be loosely described as luthiery. I don't think MDP has quite attained my level of self-awareness yet.

Mike Dirnt of Green Day with a Squier Precision signature instrument?

@disssa, do you happen to have a schematic for the Vong-Filterung? Musikding said to email Julian from Schalltechnik, which I had already done, and still no response. I saw you'd built one a couple of years ago and I wondered if you might have the schematic.

Fender doesn't/don't think it should have an apostrophe, and nor do I. The corporation doesn't belong to the instruments.