Brooks EB RBL

[dadagoboi]

Fantastic, Rob!  Raising the bar.

My only quibble is the TRC screws.  They look like common black oxide drywall screws.  Paint 'em, black!

[amptech]

Thank you guys

Perfect. The body is slightly oversized and the tuners are Schaller lightweights. No neckdive at all!

Impressive.. You've done a really good job oversizing it while keepeng the looks intact.

[Basvarken]

Fantastic, Rob!  Raising the bar.

My only quibble is the TRC screws.  They look like common black oxide drywall screws.  Paint 'em, black!

Thank you.
I think the close up picture may be a bit misleading. They are very tiny all black pickup up ring screws.

[gearHed289]

Very cool bass. Very odd choice of pickup. Customer request I'm assuming?

[dadagoboi]

Thank you.
I think the close up picture may be a bit misleading. They are very tiny all black pickup up ring screws.

  I should have known that!

[Basvarken]

Very cool bass. Very odd choice of pickup. Customer request I'm assuming?

Thank you Tom.
The customer wanted a humbucker.
I tried a Strat dual rail humbucker in single coil format first. This way I could maintain the fifties single coil look. But the string spacing of the guitar pickup was just a bit too wide to take the risk.
To avoid string spacing vs pole piece problems we went on a search for a (black) bass humbucker with blade magnets. Several options came up, such as Nordstrand and JBE R-4000.
Eventually we chose the Seymour Duncan pickup. The sound clips that I heard were very convincing.
Cutting off those ears was never a real threshold. (they look pretty silly to me anyway).
Neither was the fact that I had to make the pickup ring myself.

I hope the new owner will make sound clips soon.

[bassilisk]

Very nice work. 

I look forward to hearing some sound clips.

[lowend1]

That's killer, Rob.
All black hardware, I see... Is your client a German lawyer?

[Basvarken]

Haha, no a Dutch website builder.
He plays in a Volbeat tribute band.

[Dave W]

The ears are there to fit the Ric bridge pickup mount. No reason for you to keep them.

[Basvarken]

The bass was picked up yesterday by the guy who I built it for.
He immediately changed the black speed knob for an oversized volume knob from an Orange amp. This was all planned. I just put the speed knob on for the photographs, because I didn't have the Orange knob at hand.

Anyway, here is the bass with the new knob, like my customer intended it.
I think it suits the bass pretty well!

[Rob]

That is an awesome guitar.

[OldManC]

Absolutely beautiful. Very sharp.

[chromium]

Ditto that- beautiful work! 

[66Atlas]

WOW! When do you start shipping to the US?!