Henrythe8

@DiMarco hasn't showed up yet ? 🙂 

Sympathique - Pink Martini

Thanks for your help. Good idea with the multimeter, I must have one lying somewhere. 

I'll wire the coils in pair in parallel, then series, dirctly in the jack. I'll see with my Amphone how it sounds. 

Thanks for your help. I'm not smart enough to get my head around the wiring with those switches. 

I think at first I'll go mainly by trial and error, and we'll see how it goes. I'll be able to cope with polarity and in/out, but the sense of wiring can't be changed. It's all for the sake of experimentation anymay 🙂

It's a lefty body, but it'll be used as a right handed instrument. I usually prefer the ReverseP setting, that's why. 

Thanks for this quick and informative answer.

Not sure about reversing the magnets, I'll try to play around and see what side repels the other. 

Parallel, then series is a great idea, too.  

I'm in the process of modding a PB50 HArley Benton into a reverse PB Dusty Tribute. 

I bought 4 lipstick pickups from eBay. 

I'm a bit puzzled on how to wire them. 

BAsically, it's a three wires : 

I suppose the white is hot, red neutral and the third braid attached to the neutral is the ground/earth. 

I was thinking pairing two in series (white soldered with the red) and then solder those in parallel.The resistance should be 8.4 which is good enough. 

Am I right, or should I go for a full blast, all series wiring ? 

Thanks for your help. 

OK, thank you Basschat, now I have a fourth bass comiong up as I found a Flea Roadworn Body as I was looking for a bridge. 

I'll have to check if the HB necks are Fender Compatible. If not, I'll wait until Christmas to get some money back and order a Roasted Maple P-neck from Warmoth. 

Sorry, found one locally as of this morning.

Can't emphasize enough how great this preamp is, the frequency choice makes it soooo useful. 

Proud Mary - CCR

As a project, you can dissassemble it, clean it the best you can, change the pickguard, tuners, knobs and the bridge. 

You can also level a bit the frets and polish them. 

If you're satisfied with the tone, clean the electronics with some magic contact cleaner. 

If not, you can hunt down a nice set of pots (Emerson; KioGon ? ) 

Dat neck screams MoJo ! 

PM'd. 🙂

Interested, should you consider shipping to the distant and exotic country of France 🙂 

Save the Last Dance For Me - The Drifters

Here's the Jazz with reverse P-Neck. The Shell PInk should be just fine. 

The P51 with a white pickguard, for the Sting touch. 

already routed : 

And the Fiesta Red

That has been partly sanded and is also routed. 

but the work is still to be done... 

Damn, missed it. Very great bass for the price. And even for twice the price, very great bass. 

First off, I apologize in advance to all the fine luthiers and Woodworkers here as those barely qualify as "building" basses. 

I bought on a whim a Harley Benton PB50, fiesta Red, Lefty, so I could make a Dusty Hill kinda bass. 

https://images.app.goo.gl/mq4ggnT6psE7B3v7A

The thing is, I was so pleased and suprised with this that I bought a second one, sunburst, lefty, so I could toy around. 

I did play a bit on the second one, but the neck dive was too much, and the controls were in the way, so i decided... 

to buy a third Harley Benton Fretless, and swap the reverse maple neck on it. And, instead of selling the lefty body, well... I bought a Squier Mike Dirnt neck. 

So, what we've got here is three project basses, with a total starter investment at 400€. 

One Full Lefty (body and neck) P51, to be modded with a quadcoils pickup assembly.  Probably be Sparkling Gold.  

One Lefty body p51, modded with Two side by side P51 pickups, wired through a Telecaster Control plate, with a Right hand neck Will probably be beaten to deth be Relic'ing. 

One Jazz Bass, wired with EMG X Vol Vol Tone + Bass/Treble Stacked, with a reversed maple Neck. Will probably end up with a coat of shel pink and light relic'ing to show the Sunburst underneath. 

Further investments are the lipstick single coils for the quadcoils setting and the Telecaster plate (50€, thank you China and eBay)

 a full set of EMG Jazz with plate and everything, 120€

Three sets of lightweight tuners (AllParts, 150€) 

And most probably new bridges (150€ again) 

About 30€ for the painting cans

Will it be worth it ? 

Economically speaking, sure no. But the fun doing this is immense. 

Tease me Please me - Scorpions. 

Wish You Were Gay - Billie Eilish

Capital Letters - BloodPop

The Witch Queen Of New Orleans - Red Bone

Spit - Kiss (which is a song by kiss, and not a type of kiss, or So I hope) 

White Rabbit _ Jefferson Airplane

song 2 - Blur

Dust in the wind - Kansas