I have just finished the build of a twelve string bass for Rob van der Loo, bass player of
Epica.
Rob wanted an Explorer shape bass with quilted maple top and two humbuckers, each with its own dedicated output.
It took me quite a while to build this. But now it's finally finished. And I'm happy with the result.
Here's the specs:
- 34" scale
- Mahogany body
- Bookmatched Quilted Maple top
- Three piece Mahogany set neck. Glued in
- Transparent black stain on top
- Solid black on body and neck
?- High gloss transparent acrylic finish on top
- Matte transparent acrylic finish on sides, back and neck
- White binding
- Ebony fretboard
?- Mother of pearl position dots
- Jumbo frets
- Buffalo horn nut ?
- Dean twelve string brass bridge set
- Two spokewheel double action trussrods
- Carbon reinforcement strip in the neck
- Lace Alumitone Bass Bar in the neck position
- Lace Alumitone DeathBar in the bridge position
- Allparts stacked pots (volume/tone volume/tone)
- On on switch for coil splitting (humbucker-single coil)
- Gotoh GB 350 lightweight bass tuners
- Gotoh Stealth ST 31 guitar tuners
- d'Addario EXL 170 - 12 strings
A friend of mine helped me out with the electronics circuit. His name is Bas Becu (check
www.bqmusic.nl)
Pics of the build process can be seen here:
http://www.enkoo.nl/brooks-exb-12-q.html
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