songofthewind

I realise quite a lot has happened since i last posted on progress. We've been away in splendid isolation in lovely Dumfries and Galloway. The Cotswolds with coastline. I jointed the top, but discovered the edges did not meet, having bowed up along the centre seam. Since I was intending to thickness it, I ignored this. I made a rig for the router, as before, to thickness the top, and once more things went agley. Amazingly, without my noticing, the guides were not level, so the routed thickness was not constant. Taking more layers off merely compounded this. I decided to build a humungous sled that would not flex or warp in any direction. Once more, old IKEA furniture donated the materials. I flatted the contact surface of the sled for good measure. I was still having problems, and the top is now down to 4mm thickness without being of the required flatness. I am turning my attention back to the rails next, to make damn sure they they will not be the problem. Steve press has offered the use of a surface sander, but that feels like admitting defeat. As I said above, I am thinking of losing the bad cuts of the outline, by making a new, slightly asymmetric shape. A semi Jazz or Sterling, if you will, or a bit Sandberg Marlowe DK. The new cuts should only be varying about 7mm from the original Stingray outline. I have drawn a paper outline to see what this will look like. Also, I am considering two MM style humbuckers, very close together, instead of the proposed Jazz neck pickup. Anyhoo, here are some stills from the disaster movie:

Aye Dave! Planning my next move. I think i'm going to make the body slightly assymetrical, which means more router activity, which means panic. Also, i've just acquired another Jazz style neck, which I am testing on my Jazz bass. It's quite large for a Jazz neck, but still with the narrow nut. Plays very well.

Tumbleweed...

Very nice!

Crikey. What is it and where did you get it?

Oops, off to a bad start. Trying again with the fretless.

It seems to me that the BB style Yamaha's get all the love on here, but I do like the BBG's and BBN's as well. I thought it might be nice to start a thread showing of these lovely things, and so I'll start things off by showing my own. Please feel free to add you own pix and your untrammelled adulation for these great basses. 29E848C6-E67A-4963-84EF-CA2E2A7FB40A.heic

Francis Hylton is so good!

Aberffraw, eh? I used to go windsurfing at Rhosneigr just up the coast. Wild and wooly.

Crazy cool! And a great recovery from the routing disaster. I hope we can hear sound clips soon!

Wow, that is my theory blown out of the water right enough! Any idea what the naming convention might be, then? I'm surprised how many variants there are of these BBG's and BBN's. And that's a nice looking active version, btw. Normally I'm not mad for black basses. Maybe we should have a "show yer BBG/BBN thread"..

I think the Yamaha naming convention is such that "S" means sunburst (Per my own BBG4SII). I notice your BBG5 has non original Kent Armstrong pickups. How does it sound?

Oh. Could you post a pic of your BBG?

Interesting looking guitar!

BBN is passive, I think. BBG is active.

I had the Harley Benton Jaco style Jazz. It was well built and well finished. I think the top might have been a veneer , because there were no obvious joins. I thought it was a good bass, and certainly did me for a while. The only issue i had with it was that it was heavy. I sold it to someone on here, who wanted it for the neck!

I’ve got an Indonesian SUB Ray 4. Nothing wrong with it at all. Second hand for two hundred quid. Bargain.

I sometimes chain my Zoom G3 with my Zoom B3n, if I’m feeling ambient-ish. The G3 supplies the delays, because they are the FX with a mix control on that particular device. The other guitar oriented stuff, like distortions, don’t really cut it. The B3n does the rest: envelope filters, octaves, choruses. i only use them together because it’s easier to toggle individual FX than swapping whole patches on the B3n.

Looks really good!

It’s harmolodics, innit.

EBS Session 60. As loud as your family can bear, and very pokey.