JohnDaBass

+1 Hold onto the cash and save for a second One10 for modular rig.

Looking forward to seeing & hearing some reviews of the OBC-112. Healthy competition is always good to keep pushing the boundaries of product offerings to us the customer. It keeps manufacturers on their toes and maintains reasonable pricing. Had a quick look at the LaVoce site and the XMax figure for the only 400W 12 speaker appears quite low compared to our Old friend the Beyma SMS 12. Anybody with more technical prowess able to comment?

Love that bass. Pup positioning must provide oodles of tone. Any chance of more details?

+1 I use either a Fender Rumble 500 head or my Mesa D800 with either of my two Barefaced Super Compact 1x12 cabs. D800 into the two SC s is awesome! Seems to cover all I will ever need.

If it were me , I would stick with two Pups and move the neck Pup back to a position similar to that Darkheart posted.

Lovely!!

Are the strings going to line up above the pole pieces of the neck Pup?

IT’S FINISHED!! Mrs DaBass was away for most of the weekend assisting with one of our Grand daughters 8th Birthday party so being “home alone” I was able to complete the project. The assembly was straight forward everything went together just right. Did some grounding Opinions Please?? With or without Pickguard? With or without P-Bass cover? Bespoke Pup Cover in the post and I will show a photo when it arrives.

We who participate in the Bass Chat community are truly blessed with a wealth of knowledge and experience. We enjoy contributions from bassists, other musicians, artisans, crafts men & women, engineers of many disciplines, technicians and hobbyists. It was one such design engineer, “threedaymonk”, who kindly offered to manufacture a plastic Pup cover for my Jess Loureiro 51P split coil Pup. Paul & I shared drawings of the Pup and he went away and designed a 3D printed Pup cover. Here are his CAD renderings and a photo of the cover actually being manufactured. Having remembered the sadly missed Brother Dave evangelizes in his review of his own Fender 51 RI on his website (which survives his passing). I wanted to make my 51&3/4s Tele-P as robust as possible so it made sense to seek a solution for protecting the Pup. Paul has posted the finished Pup cover and it should be with me on Tuesday.

We who participate in the Bass Chat community are truly blessed with a wealth of knowledge and experience. We enjoy contributions from bassists, other musicians, artisans, crafts men & women, engineers of many disciplines, technicians and Hobbyists. It was one such design engineer, “threedaymonk”, who kindly offered to manufacture a plastic Pup cover for my Jess Loureiro 51P split coil Pup. Paul & I shared drawings of the Pup and he went away and designed a 3D printed Pup cover. Here are his CAD renderings and a photo of the cover actually being manufactured. Having remembered the sadly missed Brother Dave evangelizes in his review of his own Fender 51 RI on his website (which survives his passing). WARNING! You should NEVER USE THIS PICKUP AS A THUMBREST because there is no plastic cover like on the other Fender bass pickups you may be accustomed to using as a thumbrest. This is partly why these originally came with a big chrome pickup cover. If you apply too much pressure with your thumb, you can break off the fiberboard top of the bobbin and the poles will then fall out on the floor. I’ve heard this can also happen if a string gets popped too hard and catches under the fiberboard bobbin top. Once the bobbin top pulls off the pickup it won’t work until you replace the pickup. It doesn't get softer or lose tone, it is DEAD SILENT. I wanted to make my 51&3/4s Tele-P as robust as possible so it made sense to seek a solution for protecting the Pup. Paul has posted the finished Pup cover and it should be with me on Tuesday.

Nah, get a proper black bridge. The spray paint will break off eventually while a powder coated or electrostatic coating will last much longer.

Absolutely nobody wants their poles pieces falling to the floor.

Completed the head shaping and applied the decal ( yes, I'm a poser) and several wipe-on coats of Ronseal Hard glaze satin, as per Andy's tutorial.It's been left over a week and I have flatten the finish with a buff of some T-Cut. Quite pleased with the finished head, I intend to leave the back of the neck and fret board as it is until the light satin finish it came with wears in and then maybe some Danish oil on the back and Lemon oil on the fret board.

Good result then, you can now crack on with the build knowing that there's a final solution on the horizon.

Yes, as sadly missed Brother Dave evangelizes in his review of his own Fender 51 RI on his website (which survives his passing). "WARNING! You should NEVER USE THIS PICKUP AS A THUMBREST because there is no plastic cover like on the other Fender bass pickups you may be accustomed to using as a thumbrest. This is partly why these originally came with a big chrome pickup cover. If you apply too much pressure with your thumb, you can break off the fiberboard top of the bobbin and the poles will then fall out on the floor. I’ve heard this can also happen if a string gets popped too hard and catches under the fiberboard bobbin top. Once the bobbin top pulls off the pickup it won’t work until you replace the pickup. It doesn't get softer or lose tone, it is DEAD SILENT" A fellow Bass Chatter is in the process of 3D Printing a bespoke plastic cover to go over and protect the Jess Loureiro pickup. I'll post some pics when it arrives.

From the pix it looks like there's enough "meat" on the wrong neck to reshape it to the shape you want. Occasionally with Chinese shippers they would rather give a full refund without asking for the item to be returned. It may turn out that you get the neck you want with a bit of reshaping work for no money( assuming they give you a full refund)

Perhaps it should be called an Emperor Telebass. I'll get my coat!

It's not a thumb rest it's actually a 3D printed cover for the Pup. I haven't named the kind Basschatter until I get his permission. I've sent a drawing of the Pup and he is designing the black plastic cover with screw bosses to completely encase the Pup. I'll post a photo once it arrives.

Heard great things about Jess Loureiro Pickups and I was really impressed with Discreet’s series/parallel switch system to extend the tonal range of the PUP. So I duly ordered the 51-P split coil PUP from Jess in Spain. Delivery turned out to be a bit of a saga with the Spanish version of Royal Mail ( Correos) loosing the first shipment but TNT safely delivered the second PUP. As the control plate I chose to use was from a Telecaster Guitar I wanted to take Discreet’s concept a stage further and got talking to our very own God-Father of Looms & Tonal magician KiOgon. John has provided me with some amazing looms in the past, and having discussed my ideas he went away and designed a loom for my Tele-P. Basically the 3 position switch which switches the split coils from series to parallel and thirdly adds a specially selected extra capacitor into the circuit to provide an additional tonal option. The detail that KiOgon goes to is phenomenal. The extent of his commitment led to him stripping down one of his own P Basses to test the loom to make sure it worked as per his design. See photos below In another post I enquired if anyone could propose a solution to my (Bad) habit of resting my thumb on the top edge of the Pup on my P basses. Fortunately a BC member has offered to manufacture, using a 3D Printer, a Bespoke cover for the Pup so once that arrives I will update progress on the build.

Perhaps someone would like to provide a scale to this parameter "Flubbyness" so that we could judge an amps suitability on its "Heft" and " Flubbyness". Us mere mortals could then assess which HPF gives the best Flubbyness control without any loss of Heft😂

I like the combo pickguard design, a really nice blend of Telecaster guitar and '72 Tele bass. Should the bridge pup be closer to the bridge?

As an avid follower of the Basschat market place I came across a suitable over sized Telecaster Guitar body. The seller was uncertain of its past use but on receiving the body it fitted perfectly with my plans. There were a few nasty marks and chips so not wishing to strip and refinish the body or fill and over spray paint it I decide that “Mild Relic” was the way forward. The really bad chip at the top edge of the body was a prime candidate for some gentle Relic wear marks. Having gotten sucked into the gentle relic work I added some “Belt wear” and some further chips and marks with a sixty year old “toffee hammer”. ( those of us of a curtain age will remember Christmas Day afternoon tapping away at a slab of concrete hard toffee to break it. Most of the parts have now arrived Next part of the story is the pickup.

Why don't you add a small hole in the top right hand corner large enough to take a broom handle and a length of string for the perfect backup in case of a power failure!!

First step was to source a neck and start the reshaping of the head. This has been extensively covered by others far more skilled and talented than me so I have simply shown the progress through the following photos. The templates I printed off were not quite what I wanted and I modified them slightly to match more closely to my ‘72 Tele Bass and ’51-P RI. I did remove the last fret and over hang of the fret board at the heel of the neck to enable me to “square off” the heel of the neck similar to my pair of ‘72s (Kindly note the obligatory crack in the pickguard on the '72, the PUPs were so heavy their weight would cause the cracking. I mounted the PUP directly to the body on my duplicate) This photo was taken to show the squared off end of the neck, ignore the impression that the fret widths are wrong due to the "perspective effect" caused by my poor photographic skills!!

Inspired by Basschat HB 51P mods & upgrade builds by Bruno, Discreet & others etc, I developed a desire for something similar but different. I have a lovely all original Fender 72 Telecaster Bass which, back in 2004 I wanted to duplicate as I no longer wished to gig the Old Girl. To start I managed to source an original 72 Humbucking PUP from a guy in the USA and had it refurbished by Bareknuckle PUPs. To create the duplicate I bought a Fender MIM Mike Dirnt and a Fender CIJ 51P RI. I changed necks added the Humbucker and sold 51P RI. During the short time I owed the 51-P RI I was not particularly impressed with tonal range of 51P. So my mission on this 51 & 3/4s Tele-P build is to create something similar to this:-