songofthewind

Well, a fambling at the very least.

Blue Note Reimagined album. Very cool.

Crikey, great work. How long did it take you?

Sounds great! Phat!

I remember seeing The Nice, with Lee Jackson playing one of the original versions of these. I was totally obsessed with it. I thought it was the coolest thing I had ever seen. GLWTS.

Juliet Commagere. Fantastic chantoozie.

Don’t spoil the ship for a ha’penny’s worth of tar! How much is another can of paint? And if you ding your bass you can touch it up! A matching headstock on a Jazz is a thing of beauty!

I’d say fine maple dust and superglue. Pile the duct into and around the tear out, and drip runny CA onto it. I hoard sawdusts and put them in little jars, against the day I screw up drilling or routing..

Sterling SUB Ray 4, £200 Bitsa Jazz, £100 Yamaha BBG4 fretted, about £180 off here Yamaha BBG4 fretless, £170. I dig them all

Very imaginative conversion process. It would never have occurred to me to cut down the wings like that.

Looking good!

That would be great! In fact I have two Jazz pickups, neck and bridge, so that config is also in the realm of possibility.

Colour me impressed. I would like to know more.

Hey there basschat hive mind. I'm planning to put an MM pickup and a Jazz bass style front pickup in my MaybeRay build. Does anyone have an opinion about this type of configuration? I assume it will sound good, but I am concerned about issues like differences in pickup polarity, likely volume differences. I hope to put a Bourns pan pot after the pickups and before the three-band preamp, which is from a Ray 34. I am very ignorant and probably unteachable about electrickery, but please let me know your thoughts about this plan. BTW, I am also considering making a unitary pickup container/ramp to house both pickups, with a nifty rosewood top. I f i do this it means i can remove the pickups from their covers.

I love the whole album, and I love playing the Ruby Baby bass part. I can’t wait to dig into this video! Thanks for posting!

And and and the bugger is playing a bass with a ZERO FRET! Just not ok!

I think it should be possible to drill out the rivet from the non-head side. Cautious use of a rubber or nylon headed hammer should suffice to flatten the cloverleaf. The chrome plating will not withstand blows from a steel head hammer. I’m a bit stumped about where and how to get it riveted, again.

And a bit more progress. I started on the body contours, using the trusty Shinto rasp. I love this thing. Every wooden object around me is going to have a nice round-over when I'm done with it. I've gone for a kind of Ibanez style gentle curve on the belly cut, and a flatter one for the arm cut. The arm cut is making me nervous because I have to bend the maple cap over it, so it probably won't be as curvy as a real Ray. I really enjoyed this part of the process. I don't seem to have pix, but I added small round-over with the router to the entire rear edge of the body. It looks sophisticated to my eye: sometimes the big round-overs on many basses look a bit generic to me. Anyway, here are some photos. Frankie has returned to his role as supervisor.