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For the avoidance of doubt, you're all sweeties, folks ) Seriously, though, the encouragement and advice given on the forum is a major factor in getting me up the learning curve of this challenging but fascinating hobby - if that doesn't make you all sweeties, I don't know what does
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The electrics are now fitted and I've been doing some work to balance the pickups at their lowest acceptable height. Why? Because of the very large covers that I need to get well away from picking fingers or picks - particularly around the P pickup area.
By necessity, the J pickup is going to be higher, but I quite like that to give it a bit of balance. I wanted also to avoid drilling holes in and screwing the slugs out through them, although that was an option. Nevertheless, I cut some channels to within a gnat's whisker of break through to be able to screw them as high as possible with a cover as slim as possible:
Getting to the ebony = sub 1mm to fresh air. Yikes!
However, it worked. I have low but acceptable volume and good balance with this thickness of covers:
Other than fixing the covers on and adding the strap locks, that's the body pretty much done. Now the varnish is hard enough, I'm going to satin the neck and then play it on a strap to check the feel of the neck. I'll also double check against the templates of the guy's favourite bass. To me it feels a little bit chunkier than my own PJ neck - it might be just his preference or I might need to just tweek it down a little. If it's OK, it'll be ready to collect in a week, if it needs a bit of a profile tweak, 2 weeks.
By the way, can't remember if I said, but the guy was hoping for a light-ish bass, in spite of it being a single-cut. It's coming in at 7lb 13oz (c 3.5kg). He's well chuffed....and so am I