Brooks Thread

[Gunny]

I liked this.  I used to own Gibson and Epi T-Birds.  This body style and its colour appeals to me.  I'm a lifelong fan of that headstock style.  I was surprised to see it was a 5 way switching scheme. The sound samples presented them well.  I expected major treble-ish twang from the bridge but didn't get that (good) and as someone said, no mud.  Finally, thank you for not demonstrating this bass by doing slap & pop throughout.

[Basvarken]

On my birthday I completed the build of a new bass:

The Brooks EXB-MS-5

- Mahogany Khaya body
- Quilted Maple top and headstock face
- Three piece Mahogany Khaya set neck. Glued in
- Blue burst gloss finish on top and headstock
- Pearloid binding
- Ebony fretboard
- Luminlay Blue position markers
- Jumbo nickel silver frets
- 37-34" scale
- Buffalo horn nut
- Babicz Solo Rail bridge. Black
- Double action trussrod
- Two carbon reinforcement strips in the neck
- Lace Alumitone Bass Bar pickup combination
- Pure Tone output. Black
- Volume and tone knob. Black
- Rotary pickup selector switch. Black chickenhead
- Gotoh GB 350 lightweight bass tuners. Black
- Dunlop flush mount strapnuts. Black
- Dingwall strings
- Weight: 4.25 kg

Rotary switch options:
1. Both pickups in series
2. Neck side pickup
3. Bridge side pickup
4. both pickups in parallel
5. Both pickups. Out of phase with a capacitor to maintain the low frequencies.
Circuit and wiring by BQ Music.

Pics of the build process can be viewed here
https://www.enkoo.nl/brooks-exb-ms-5.html





























And I made a quick video as well.
Being a life long 4-string player I have no idea what to do with that fifth string!
But you get an idea of how she sounds.
(I'm quite sure the guy I built it for will put it to good use!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmhouUniFf4

[amptech]

Beautiful, no matter how many strings it has. Explorers are always cool, and I must say that your builds inspire. Great work!

[Dave W]

 

[morrow]

Beauty !

[Grog]

Very nice!!

[4stringer77]

I want to take a dive into that paint job. It looks like the Caribbean Sea. Love it.

[Pilgrim]

Beautiful!

[gearHed289]

Beautiful. Love the aesthetics all around.

[ilan]

Wow.

No other bass wears a fanned fret board as naturally as an Explorer.

[godofthunder]

  Just amazing workmanship Rob! Your builds are getting very ambitious!

[Basvarken]

Thank you guys.
It's actually the customers who are ambitious.
They ask me to build something I have never done before.
And I live by the motto of Pippi Longstocking: "I have never done it yet, so I think I can do it" 😂

[BTL]

That's yet another spectacular build...congratulations!

[Basvarken]

I moved my site to a new domain www.brooksbassguitars.com
And decided to add a family pic part 2 on the opening page




And while I was busy making all those clipping paths for all those shapes, I just kept going and made some more:

Brooks 12-string bass guitars




Brooks EB bass guitars




Brooks EXB bass guitars




Brooks EBN bass guitars




Brooks Bass guitars with T-bird characteristics

[morrow]

Lovely body of work. Are any of the DCs shortscales?