The Last Bass Outpost

But there were early maho RDs.

My back hurts just thinking about it!

So done with mods on my 5 string LPB-1. I had the upper rear bout shaped SG style to make it more comfortable to play (I rest my arm against the body). I had the side dots that were sometimes difficult to see with larger dots from Luminlay; in hindsight normal sized dots from them would have likely done the trick but it's still nice to see the dots easier. Face dots were not altered, and the larger side dots only go as far as the body due to their being too large to fit there and the difficulty involved. The neck wasn't quite straight, so rather than get close and futz with the frets I had the fingerboard planed and refretted. I yanked the Bartolini preamp (which sounded fine but I didn't care for the boost only bass and treble), now it has regular shaft 500K CTS pots wired VVT and added a 6 position Varitone from kellingsound88 on eBay. The bass straight up sounds great, and the varitone is pretty sweet, how useful it is only time will tell. The pots and switch all have generic black dome knobs in them that use the side screws to hold them in place. I lose the ability to look at the switch to see where it is, but with only 6 positions one of which is wide open I don't see that as a problem.

I'd been looking at wiring options and the passive configurations for VVTT didn't really have the tone controls affecting the pickups individually, so I went with the traditional VVT. The varitone is in line with the tone control so both are active all the time affecting both pickups.

http://www.luminlay.com/indexen.html

http://www.ebay.com/itm/6-Way-Varitone-With-Knob-For-Bass-or-Guitar-Custom-Wired-by-KellingSound-/201877270227?hash=item2f00d2aed3:g:jFkAAOSwG-1Wyd~T



I don't have any after pics yet with the mods but here is the before: