Brooks Thread

[Grog]

Looks awesome! Good luck on your latest endeavor.......

[Pilgrim]

I never thought I could like a camo pickguard. This changes everything!!

[godofthunder]

   I'm really looking forward to seeing the end result! Amazing!

[Basvarken]

Another Brooks Thinline Telebird is ready to rock!
Made some pics this morning.
Now she's ready to be packed in and shipped to the US of A.

[Rob]

Really nice!

[morrow]

Wonderful to see you keep doing that.

Beauty!

[4stringer77]

Does parallel wiring not sound good with those pickups? Congrats on another successful build.

[Pilgrim]

That is one incredibly clean, attractive bass!!

[Basvarken]

Does parallel wiring not sound good with those pickups? Congrats on another successful build.

The differences in output are too big with parallel wiring. So we (BQ Music and myself) decided to use serial wiring.

[BTL]

Really nice work, congrats!

[Dave W]

 

[Basvarken]

Hooray, another Brooks bass is born!

The Brooks FV-12

- Korina body wings
- Bookmatched Quilted Maple top
- Nine ply Korina/Mahogany Neck through
- Cherry Burst high gloss finish
- Pearloid binding
- Ebony fretboard
- Mother of Pearl position. Aluminium Circle dot for 12th
- Jumbo frets
- 30 1/2" scale
- Buffalo horn nut
- ETS Custom made twelve string brass bridge and tailpiece. Black
- Two spokewheel double action trussrods
- Carbon reinforcement strip in the neck
- Pickups: Lace Alumitone DB7, Black
- Controls : volume, volume, tone
- 0.047 mfd capacitor
- Gotoh GB 350 lightweight bass tuners, Black
- Gotoh ST-31 octave string tuners, Black
- Output: Pure Tone Multi Contact jack
- d'Addario custom strings
- Weight: 4.3 kg











Pics of the build process can be viewed here:
https://www.brooksbassguitars.com/brooks-fv-12.html

[Dave W]

Beautiful work, as always. 

[morrow]

Beauty!

[BTL]

That's spectacular, really stunning. Congratulations!