GisserD

1st board in a long while! Purely for fun synth goodness. Next week I'll be able to play the C4 and the Future Compact in parallel courtesy of an incoming morningstar loop switcher. 👌

Morningstar just released a new batch, so I just took the plunge and got a morningstar ML10X. it has everything i wanted, except i will need an external midi switcher.

Yeat they are pretty nifty. the other option ive been considering is a morningstar ML10x with a seperate midi controller.

im in exactly the same boat currently... I have used the ES8 and as powerfull as it is, its super old and im keen to explore what else is out there. I ideally need 7 loops, paralell processing with midi pc functionality. A really nice to have is loop re-order capability. The things on my watch list are the ... Musicom labs EFX-LE 2 £400 MOOER L6 MKII £140 (only 6 loops and no paralell but the price cannot be ignored) Musicom labs EVX mk5 or mk6 £650?

The future compact enclosures are now for sale on etsy https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/PedalRehousingCo?ref=seller-platform-mcnav

The body has been pre drilled for the string through, and it seems to work in that position for a 35" scale. scale length has been checked and verified.

the design for the neck pocket routing template is complete... ive decided to leave the horn mod off this template. the intention being get the neck on and see how bad the acess is before making any decisions. Ill be 3d printing the template overnight tonight.

all options are still very much on the table.....

peter, its only you that knows what a propper stingray position is.......

im thinking somthing like this....

Ok. First things first, I've scanned the body. Can't resist playing with some body shapes now....

This is the board, close up shot. It has some orange (ish) stripe in it.

yes i beleive it to be! cant be 100% tho

I've been putting this project off for years... I purchased the neck and electronics in lockdown with the intention of making a body... Never happened. But I snagged a pre made body on ebay, that I plan to heavily modify for upper fret access and or reshape generally. Neck is from a Polish luthier i beleive...All norsdtrand electronics, Nordy MM in the bridge, nordy Jazz at the neck, Babicz bridge. Ash body. The plan is to stain/oil the bass only because i like the fifuring in the wood. ill try and source a small pieve of ebony yo make a controll plate. Ill be using laser scanning, 3D printing and my CAD design skills to help finnish this, so its likley that it will exist in the virtual domain long before the real one. Wish me luck 🙏

Yup. the fretboard is routed with a chanel down the centre, or maybe seperate chanels for each part of the split fret, then the split frets are installed, and the routs are covered with a plastic cover. all the wires come out a hole in the heel of the neck and go straight into the body. yes it looks fragile when taking a neck off but theres really no good reason to do so. i beleive there is some clever resistor type arrangement to aid fret sensing, i think its one wire per string from memory.