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Nice, What is that piece?

Are you documenting your home build on here? I'd be interested in the design and build 🙂

Shame. They're really solid great sounding cabs - very heavy though!

I agree, that solder would short out the pickup coil. It's a foil screen and I'd guess there would be some tape over the coil winding behind it to protect the fine coil wire. That screen is probably very effective in reducing noise when using only one pickup (no humbucking effect from using both pickups). I have screened jazz pickups by using copper foil, but I use the self adhesive tape and put it on the inside of the covers including the top. Back to the main topic and my vote would be for DiMarzio. I have a DiMarzio P pickup from the 1980s with the same colour cover. It's a great fat sounding pickup with allen key adjustment on each of the pole pieces. I'm assuming your P bass has been modded to be a PJ bass with this pickup in the usual bridge position?

We now have a regular drummer but could really do with a couple more trombone players, so on the small chance that somebody knows a trombone player looking to join a big band in the Mendip, Somerset area please get in touch 🙂

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Yes, rotary witches are readily available such as this one: see next post for eBay link 🙂

The usual balance circuit uses a dual gang pot just for the "blend" and I've never seen a stacked pot with dual gangs? Using a single balance control won't give a very smooth blend unless both pickups are actively buffered before the blend control. Just out of interest why do you need a balance / blend for a stingray?

I don't suppose that you ever venture up to Somerset?

What difference did you notice with 500K? I usually associate 500K pots with humbuckers and 250K with single coils?

My '78 fretless jazz bass was fitted with A250K pots for volume and tone and the response was far ideal, all happening in the last few degrees! I had a ferret around in my spares drawer and found a couple of C taper reverse log 250K pots and thought I'd give them a try and they give a really linear sounding fade making getting a good blend much easier. That's a good result and one mod I'll do again on any similar 2 pickup, 2 volume control setup. I'd previously screened the control cavity and the pickup cavities with self adhesive foil, so there's minimal noise even when using only one pickup!

My very first bass was a medium scale cream Columbus tele bass and I've had a soft spot for them ever since. Here are my current Tele basses. An original '69, which I love as it has the DNA of the very first P bas in it's design and has a great woody growl from the single coil pickup. The Japanese Paisley blue bass was my workhorse for many years tuned down a tone to D and used in a blues quartet, finished with the matching blue strings it attracted many comments!

@Skin Lewis aka Dave bought my Epiphone Jack Casady that was up for sale here on Basschat. A pleasure to deal with and I hope he enjoys the bass:-)

Yeah Phil, your efforts are heroic and as well as being well appreciated are often affirming the sound and build quality from your projects and the BC and LFSys designs when pitched against the more established top end products. Any sneak preview of projects in the pipeline for this years' bash?

All being well, I'll be there 🙂 Date is in the diary

Very nice. I'm glad that you're liking it. I'm looking for an SRF700 myself, possibly with a swap for an Epiphone Jack Casady I'm trying to sell! Prices seem to have gone up a lot recently! GuitarGuitar price ATM nearly £1K! Did you get a deal or is that how much they are now? I'm also interested to hear that your SRH500F sounds more upright bass like. That's hard to find and very useful for jazz situations.

Totally agree with you, but if the switch is there just thinking out loud really. I didn't know about the Hartke speaker with the dual voice coil. It would be good to hear what it is actually doing but opening up the cab 🙂

Brasso is a very mild abrasive that can helps take out small scratches. T cut also works well but beware cutting through any finish by spreading the polishing over a larger area than the scratch