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http://monkeyfx.co.uk/pictures/builds/spb1/010517 finishedish/01 whole.jpg
http://monkeyfx.co.uk/pictures/builds/spb1/010517 finishedish/02 body.jpg
Plays very nicely, sounds ace, needs a control cavity cover and new pickup covers.
So, do I win it as my prize?
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
That said, it's not a stingray and we all know sporky's opinions on basses that aren't stingrays...
I may have to revise that view, as SPB1 is good enough that I'll be putting my Stingray up for sale.
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
Body is three bits of flamed abrosia maple - bugs carrying fungus, making the little black holes and the green/grey/blue streaks. Sandwiched in are two bits of ebony. Finished with brushed-on polyacrylic in a very, very thin coat.
Neck is flatsawn maple, ziricote fretboard, stainless steel frets. Two carbon rods for reinforcement. 850mm scale, 500mm radius.
Pickups are Oil City hand-made - biiiiig humbuckers, 16 polepieces in each. Glockenklang 2-band preamp; controls are blend, volume (push-pull to switch to passive mode in case the battery goes), treble and bass. It goes from dub to ball-bearings-rolling-down-a-metal-pipe. Lovely, lovely collet knobs - I wish I could remember where I got them 'cos they are ace.
Hipshot ultralite tuners, Warwick just-a-nut, Hipshot bridge.
For some reason whenever I draw a headstock it looks huge. When I machine it it comes out tiny.
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
Well done sir. I'd love to try it.
https://speakerimpedance.co.uk/?act=two_parallel&page=calculator
BTW - did you recommend a while ago a set of strings that sounds like proper strings but isn't quite so much like a round bastard file? And would you be so kind as to do so again?
Flats for people who like rounds.
Or GHS Pressurewounds
https://speakerimpedance.co.uk/?act=two_parallel&page=calculator
The are smoother and yet have more clank. React very well to a treble reduction too.
https://speakerimpedance.co.uk/?act=two_parallel&page=calculator
I do like a bit of clank.
https://speakerimpedance.co.uk/?act=two_parallel&page=calculator