Brooks Thread

[FrankieTbird]

Very nice.  I like the truss rod nut at the heel end, makes the neck stronger.  Is this bass for your personal use, or to sell?

[Basvarken]

I built it with the idea to sell it.
I do think I'm going to have a hard time letting it go...

[Rob]

I built it with the idea to sell it.
I do think I'm going to have a hard time letting it go...

[wellREDman]

I am pleasantly surprised by the difference in sound between the neck position and the bridge position.
An often heard criticism about the Grabber is that the sliding mechanism is just a gimmick with little or no effect for the sound. This clearly isn't the case with the Grabbird. 

that sounds great,
The sliding pickup really appeals to the mad inventor in me, can I ask how the mechanism works? Ive never been near a grabber, do you use the same principles or did you engineer from scratch ?

[Basvarken]

It's basically the same concept as the Grabber mechanism. The pickup is mounted on a plate that slides in a routed cavity and it is covered by a frame.

Here are some pics of the build process

I cut the parts for the sliding mechanism from the same nine ply centerpiece. I just used the part that was under the neck. I had to remove a lot of wood there anyway.



And I routed some slots for the pickup screws and the pickup wiring



I sawed a hole for the pickup in the part that was going to be the frame. Plus I routed the back side, so the plate with the pickup would fit in nicely.



The pickup is mounted into the sliding plate.


The pickup wire goes through the hole on the side of the centerpiece


This is how the underside of the mechanism looked like in this stage of the build


Had to work a bit on getting a perfect fit for the frame in between the routed gap in the centerpiece



Hope this helps?

[ilan]

Very nicely done.

[Rob]

Your laminates would stand on their own without paint.  Very clever.

[Basvarken]

Wow!The Brooks Grabbird is Bass of the Week at NoTreble!

https://www.notreble.com/buzz/2020/03/09/bass-of-the-week-brooks-grabbird/

[doombass]

Congratulations! And nice work on that Grabbird. Nice that your name is getting an even wider spread.

[amptech]

Wow, cool!

[Rob]

Congrats Rob

[ilan]

Wow, excellent. Congrats Rob!

[Basvarken]

Birth of a new bass! Brooks EB-N RED.

- One piece mahogany body
- Smoked oak contrasting veneer in between layer
- Bookmatched flamed maple top
- Five ply quartersawn mahogany/American walnut neck
- Ebony fretboard
?- Mother of Pearl position marker dots. 12th circle inlay
?- Jumbo frets
?- 34" scale
- Zero fret and buffalo horn nut ?
?- Babicz FCH4 bridge
- Spokewheel double action trussrod
- Lace Alumitone Bass Bar
- Gotoh GB350 bass tuners
- 500K Push-pull volume pot for humbucking / single coil
?- Bourns no-load tone pot 250k
- Mallory 150 series 47nF
?- Weight: 4 kilograms

Electronics circuit by Bas Becu. www.bqmusic.nl

Serial number: 2020002

[Pilgrim]

That will be a slightly acquired taste, but the more I look at it, the better I like it.

[slinkp]

Those contours are awesome!