Al Heeley

You got it in one Mikey! Chisel and round needle file to tidy up.

Have you tried WD music? [url="http://www.wdmusic.co.uk/category/Electronics/Jack_Sockets"]http://www.wdmusic.co.uk/category/Electronics/Jack_Sockets[/url]

[quote name='bobbass4k' post='394144' date='Jan 28 2009, 10:46 PM']i only have the guitar to look cool and pick up girls [/quote] Trade the guitar for a hoover, you might have more luck

Bare wires are nearly always to ground. So thats a no. You would not be wrong in assuming it goes to ground. While you're waiting to order a new switch, can you please get your bedroom tidied up? It's a disgrace. bloody guitar players

Hmm, if it was a blend then the other 2 pots must be master vol and master tone, in which case there would be a cap attached to the 2nd single pot (which there aint);if it was a TBX tone then that still leaves you 2 vols for each JB pup and tbx as a common tone.

its not a push-pull, its a TBX-type double-stacked tone pot, or its a blend pot. [url="http://www.guitarpartsresource.com/images/large/099-2052-000.jpg"]http://www.guitarpartsresource.com/images/...99-2052-000.jpg[/url]

Obvious first question: have you checked the height of the pups from the strings, from low to high?

Wow! Superb wood, what a lovely instrument! [drool]

so gorgeous i want to eat it. :wub: :brow:

Here's my set of 4 schematics for different splitter boxes: 1) straightforward A/B box with LED's, works 'both ways round' 2) ABY box with LED's - takes guitar input and splits to either A OR B OR both, for 1 guitar, 2 amps 3) ABC box, choose between 1 of 3 inputs to one common output, or 1 input to one of 3 outputs (not yet tested this one...) 4) My own favourite, the A/B + X/Y choose from 1 of 2 inputs and choose from 1 of 2 outputs. I use this for 2 guitars into either amp or tuner

0.022 and 0.047uF are the commonest cap values for guitars and basses alike - depending normally on if your pickups are single coil or humbucking. Some people say these values are too high and cut off too much of the treble - I don't know many people whose tone control is used at much lower than 1/2 closed. By putting in a smaller value cap then less treble is cut as the tone is turned down. [Jeez - hope I got that the right way round! Someone please correct me if I'm wrong!]

oh my, thats a hard question to answer if you don't know what a chorus effect sounds like. Best way to describe it is to list some famous bass lines that use the chorus effect, then you know what the sound is like. Erm....Nirvana - Come As You Are uses a fairly deep and quick chorus effect with a bit of reverb, sounds metallic, swirly, hard to put into words, listen to the song and you'll know

[quote name='hookys6stringbass' post='392061' date='Jan 26 2009, 07:57 PM']That's brilliant... If I had a hat on i'd take it off to you. I hope to have a go myself some day. Well i've two builds planned a great big 2 x 15 bass cab and the Ricky copy......[/quote]Thx Hookey, go for it and drop me a line if I can be of any help

I've come across 3 Lemon oil families out there. 1) naphtha-based (yes that's lighter fluid) with lemon scent, "Lem-Oil", no lemons harmed in making this one, good at cutting thru grease and drying all the natural oils out of rosewood if you do it too often. 2) Emulsion/oil based which gives a greasy feel but smells nice. Best used for female thighs 3) Linseed/proper Lemongrass-oil blend in a little can also called Number One fingerboard oil: cleans the grease off then soaks in and conditions the wood. Absolutely marvellous stuff in a little can that's lasted me maybe 12 years now. More likely to be sold in a classical instrument shop but simply loves fingerboards. Maple will be stained by it and it doesn't soak in wwell which is why its really for dark woods. They say Ebony doesn't need conditioning but I do mine once a year anyway and it comes up looking fab. Not sure about Wenge.

Yep, tone and vol rolled all the way up to 10, you may just as well wire the pickup direct to the jack, nothing else in the way. Some say this gives better signal, no tone loss as there may alsways be a bit of capacitance and resistance in the circuit even when the potentiometers are on 'full'. Note: you're not rolling off any bass, you are just not cutting the treble, as ~Tl rightly says.

Thx guys. I had a book of classic guitars - there was a good double-page photo of a ric4001 on it, I scanned in to photoshop and scaled it up to fullsize using the ric dimensions published on Rickenbackers web pages. From this I printed out a load of A4 outlines and sellotaped them together to give me a full size outline plan. The rest of the finer details were either provided by perstering the forum members who had a real one and a ruler handy, or by trial,error and common sense from various photos on the web - a huge library of hi-res images from TalkBass forum Rick owners club thread! The neck profile is copied from my P-bass replacement neck.

Started work on carving the neck profile.

No prob, I'll pm you with the parts list and costs. Got some more 3PDT switches coming in a week. Need to get another enclosure. Cheers, Al

Here's the A/B-X/Y box all finished and functioning correctly, no interference buxx and silent channel switching. Perfect for what I need on stage

Well this works fine as an a/b in both directions (I/O socket) but I get a scary buzzing when I use it in A+B together to feed into one common output. What I really need for gigs is an A/B + X/Y box. The idea is I can leave 2 basses both plugged in for quick change and select either one or the other with the A/B switch, and I need to choose from 2 outputs, one for the amp and one to send the signal to the tuner and mute the amp. That would be ideal for me and I don't need to combine 2 signals together. Here's a schematic I sketched out: Its got 4 badly drawn LED's to show which input is selected and which output is selected. Parts needed: 3 mono jack sockets 1 stereo jack socket 4 LED's 1 x 560ohm resistor for the LEDs 1 9V battery snap 1 x dpdt footswitch 1 x 3pdt footswitch 1 x Maplin die cast metal enclosure

[quote name='jake_tenfloors' post='383213' date='Jan 17 2009, 01:29 PM']...as i've got free access to most components.[/quote] Jeez - wish I'd known that a couple of months ago before I went on my stompbox building spree! Had to remortgage the house to pay off my Maplins habit.

Do you know Vinyl Craft? Some of the guys on the UK Guitar builder forum recommend them. I have ordered a sheet of inkjet-printing dry-rub paper from Crafty paper, will let you know how it works.

So here are the options: 1) Buy a new dedicated oven to bake a stomp box case, and start divorce proceedings 2) Learn how to enamel 3) learn how to screen print 4) buy some ink-jet decal paper from Crafty Paper for £3.95 and spray it with lacquer. 5) Find an online vinyl lettering company I'm thinking I'm formulating a plan.

1) Home build TubeScreamer [url="http://simnettguitars.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=1272.0"]http://simnettguitars.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=1272.0[/url] 2) DOD 250- type overdrive 3) Basic A/b passive box 4) A/B/Y passive box with LED indicators 5) A circuit to turn plasticine into pure uranium so that one day I might rule the world (-note: this one is still at the conceptual design stage)

Squeeek squeeek.................actually she's pretty tolerant to my guitar dependance but I do have 18 instruments clogging up differnt rooms of the house plus a bass and flying V in process of being built plus a vintage tele restoration project for our drummer, and 4 effects boxes on the go, so I don't want to push my luck too much....