SpondonBassed

Welcome FS99.

Welcome Riaz.

Welcome Al.

20 minutes ago, Richard R said:

Can someone post a link to the original build diary for the Psilos? It's a great build I'd like to read it again

1 hour ago, Jimothey said:

I remembered I had some cow print fabric on a shelf in the workshop so I thought I'd try and have a go at doing a fabric top on the hidden pickup bass 

 

 

Just gotta wait till tomorrow so the epoxy is fully cured so I can sand the top back flat.......👍🏻🤟🏻

 

Needs more cowbell.

2 hours ago, basshead56 said:

Definitely needs a new bridge.

As it is the strings look slightly out of alignment so I reckon that is a good move to start with.

Welcome Losting.

While looking at videos can help with finger positioning ideas and such, the best way to improve is to practice with others in a band.  It doesn't have to be a gigging band at first.  I think most of us started out just playing around with mates.

Enjoy the trip.  The more you put into it the more you'll get back.

Excellent.  Did you use the USB powered LED bar?

Smashing!

Excellent.

3 minutes ago, Doc rock said:

Thanks, there's more to it, but I don't want to get to long winded. 

That.  That right there is clickbait!

Heeheehee.  On the contrary.  Now we all want to hear it.

32 minutes ago, Doc rock said:

I shall try, If it works disregard the grounding strip it's only there because I was trying to clean out the ground wire hole that's been problematic since it was repainted in 1972 lol. It has since been removed.

Just imagine that lining on the headboard of your bed.  It would be a joy to wake up to.  In fact, I'd wallpaper at least one wall of a bedroom with it.

1 hour ago, Doc rock said:

here I am

Welcome Doc.

1 hour ago, JapanAxe said:

I’ve just snagged a 120W valve guitar amp head from eBay and all being well I’ll pick it up tomorrow morning. My plan is to use the iron and valves (and possibly some of the hardware) for my build, harvest any other usable parts, and move on the headshell. I have a slightly more compact headshell that I obtained in a trade.

 

The new amp should deliver 100W+ from four 6L6GC valves but I haven’t yet decided what to base it on.

Will my bum look big in it though?

Welcome Guillaume.

An extremely clever person.  Friendly and fun.

Sad news.  RIP Sam.

2 hours ago, Jimothey said:

If anyone has made a hidden pickup guitar and can give me any advice would be great?

@TheGreek's Psilos as built by @Andyjr1515 springs to mind.

On 13/07/2017 at 10:39, Andyjr1515 said:

There are actually very few jobs to finish off. So, will it be finished very soon? Well, not necessarily! The remaining ones are going to take considerable care and lots of fiddling about. Not least the pickups.

Here are customstocker's (aka Martin Herrick - have a look at the great stuff on his website [url="https://www.herrickpickups.com/"]https://www.herrickpickups.com/[/url] ) custom coils:

 

They are wound individually with different resistances to balance the output of each of the strings. The pole pieces have been put in so that they can be adjusted from the back.

And, by golly, this is a delicate, wibbly-wobbly, highly magnetic assembly! "Be careful with the blue wires - they are very delicate", Martin wisely advised...

So probably Martin has to look away at this point - because the first thing I needed to do was get the soldering iron out http://basschat.co.uk/public/style_emoticons/%3C#EMO_DIR%23%3E/ohmy.png ...and desolder the one stable thing on the assembly - the stiff copper earth wire running across the four coils.

Why? Well, these coils have to go down into separate chambers so what I will do is solder 4 individual earth wires from the shields to hook up with the collective earth on the output cable.

Having removed the copper wire (but not yet added the individual earths) I did a very careful trial fit:
 

Looks good for a first go. I marked the position of the cable runs to rout some slots for them to slot into and the join up to the pre-routed cable channel that's sitting under that ebony strip:
 

Next job is to get the router out!

Welcome Helios

23 hours ago, mybass said:

After a few emails from me to MIG in germany they have just informed me that UK distributor 'Proper Music' have re-started distribution....hopefully your local shop can now order it for you?

Cheers Peter.

Tanja at MIG must have done something because Rough Trade rang me earlier to say it had arrived!

Thanks for your help.

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1 hour ago, SimonK said:

Any ideas would be welcome

These look interesting.  They run off a 5v USB source so you could run them off a battery so avoiding having to plug in your chest of drawers.

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