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There are enough mids if my neck pickup is dialed in, bud the Sidewinder on it's own is muddy, it's called a mudbucker for a reason.
One of my considerations to put it in the bridge position was to gain more mids and remove some of the muddiness, only the position by itself is not giving what I hoped for.
I like the sounds the bass can produce right now, but I was hoping for a bit more versatility, I think a series/parallel switch can bring more variation.

Yes they are backwards, but even with this Sidewinder in the bridge position it is still bordering on being too muddy for my liking, I will probably be doing some experiment with a series/parallel switch to see if I can get more mids and highs, and if that does not work out to my liking I might also ad a active preamp.

More detail shots.

With a neutral background.

Setup is done.

First pictures of the finished bass:

Wiring and shielding is finished.

Bass has been signed and the building is finished, all that needs to be done now is setting it up and take detail pictures, and of course playing with it.

And the beast has strings.

Or... The nut is done.

Just able to make some pictures with the last bit of daylight.


Still to do: finish the nut, wiring everything up and do the shielding on the lid of the control cavity.

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Shielded the pickup cavities and mounted the single bridge parts.

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Mounted the tuners and temporarily placed the pickups for this picture.

Frets are crowned and polished, put some furniture oil on the fingerboard.

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The oiling is finished.

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Leveled the frets.

Next task: fret crowning and polishing.

All the holes that needed to be drilled beforehand are done.


Might as well show you the front view after two layers of Danish oil, still at least three layers to go on both sides.

Just rub it on with a paper towel, wait for roughly five minutes and rub it out with a clean paper towel.
Danish oil is really easy to work with and gives a great result, that's why I prefer it over any other product.

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I couldn't resist the urge tonight, the first two layers of Danish oil are on the back.

I've been busy for a couple of hours today with sanding the neck and the body, everything is at grain 600 now.


After sanding I glued the neck to the body, tomorrow I need to do some final sanding in a few of places and drill all the necessary holes, then I can start putting on the Danish oil.

And the heel is fine-tuned.

The neck profile shaping is done.


The volute is also done.


The heel of the neck still needs to be fine-tuned to the body shape.

Neck profile shaping is halfway there, I've done enough for today, will be continued tomorrow.

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Roughly shaped the volute.

Sawed of the last big chunk of wood, now comes the real fun part: Shaping the volute, the neck profile and the heel.

Finished the sides of the frets (pictures follow as soon as the right lighting conditions are available).


The first picture of the complete bass.

Frets are in place.

This headstock shape is my personal thing, I have used this shape (with some small variation) on most of my builds, the ones I didn't use it on were my 'Leo Tribute' and my headless basses.

Neck pocket is done.


The milling machine on which I do most of the milling.

[quote name='steve-soar' timestamp='1383439664' post='2264583']
Built the right way round, but that headstock...
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uhhh... meaning?