The Last Bass Outpost

Last thursday Sven and I have met, and we've compared some dangerous Fender Bucker monsters 

Compared it with my Lotto and with his Perencaster (translated: Pearcaster), and the earth rumbled. This Humbucking-P has a lot of that thick lows, but with a nice punch. Terrific bass!

The proof 

Very nice project, for sure for this money. 

One thing: I really think you will be having a problem with the output/stringbalance. The bucker at the bridge isn't that well suited for this kind of stringspacing (unless this bridge can be adjusted for smaller spacing). I've done a "JazzBird" in the past with a mudbucker on the position of the neck-Jazzpup, and with that project I noticed that the E and G string had far less output.

I found a way to fix this for the biggest part, the trick is to extend the magnetic field. This was later called by Rob (Basvarken) as the "Nail-That-Tone" method 

Welcome !!

I am in the process of starting up a lotto bass build.  very similar to this mod except the bridge pickup is slightly further back.   I was actually thinking the lotto spot may be too far back.  how does your bridge pickup sound solo and both together.  I will probably go with a larger guard so i may just route a huge hole and slide it around to find the sweetest spot.

here is the stock lotto picture

Beautiful plan, Jim!    You won't regret it. My luthier described the sound after the first notes: "it sound like a good Precision-with-a-big-Ampeg-stack" 

Tnx! I'll experiment with a pickguard later, but I like this look also. Make it classy without.

And no, forgot the pics of the back. I'll take some later today.

@ Rob: you'll see him over a few hours, I'm taking it with me. 

Thanks!

Rob's suggestion is exactly my original plan for this bass: just V/V/T in T-Bird layout with that knobs.

What also crossed my mind is:
* no controls, just solder them straigt to the jack (I mostly play with both pups full open);
* two controls, but on the backside in the backplate, and then 2 "rollerknobs" for V and T, build in just as on a Jaguar bass, and one toggleswitch on the front:


Decisions, decisions, decisions........

I'd say: no F-hole! I think it looks better without, less is more. 

Thank you all for the compliments.    I'm very pleased with it already now, although it still needs a lot of work.

Regarding the nut: you're absolutely right about that. I've bought the neck this way, but I'm planning to replace the nut. The spacing is too tight ánd the cut for the A string is too deep (uneven compared to the other cuts), bad job from the luthier who installed the neck for the previous owner. And it should fit over the binding.