A new challenge

[exiledarchangel]

RRRRRRRRED BASSES YAY! Hey, is that an Artec mudbucker? What is the string spacing on the bridge?

[Basvarken]

I love your nut, does it give you extra sustain? 

No, it colors the sound 

[Basvarken]

Hey, is that an Artec mudbucker? What is the string spacing on the bridge?

Yes, it's an Artec. String spacing is 18 mm.

[shadowcastaz]

Looks fine to me.  Life's short, play the crap out of it! 

What Doc said!

[Basvarken]

99% done!

Only have to solder some of the wires in the control cavity. For now I've twisted them together to see if everything works.
And the frets need to be dressed and polished.























The G3 pickups sound amazing! Very powerful.

The Artec Mudbucker is a bit weak in comparison. Don't know why that is. The sound of the Artec is excellent. It gets some clarity because it's close to the bridge. I only need to figure out why the output doesn't match up to the G3 pickups.

But for now I'm pretty happy!

[godofthunder]

Daum !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[drbassman]

Whew!!!!  That is stunning!  I'll bet those pups are an earful too!  Congrats!

[Pilgrim]

Ah have lust in mah heart fawr that thar bass! 

[jumbodbassman]

that came out great.  i love cherry over the maple..  Very nice look....

are the gib pups series or parallel wired.  i bought the same ones from greatdealz ,  although not a reversed set as you got as they said they had none left.... series will make them lower in volume if that is what it needs but will be thinner and a little cleaner...

i thought the artec measured 30k .  have you checked that out.  maybe something wrong.  is it 4 wires??  if so check each coil separate and see if it is in series.....  some of it is because of where it is on the bass.  bridge pickups are always much softer therby they are always raised up much more on my basses....

[dadagoboi]

WOW!!!

[exiledarchangel]

Maybe you have to raise the whole of the pickup closer to the strings - not just the polepieces, they hardly have some effect to the output of the pickup.
But check the output of the pickup first with a multimeter, it should be in the 30k neighborhood. If it's at about 15k, one of the coils is shorted (less volume), if it's about 7.5k it's connected in parallel (even lower output). Wire colours on artecs are same as seymour duncans, so black is hot, bare and green is ground and red and white are connected together and isolated from the rest of the circuit.

[Highlander]

(You leant her against a wall - not even a hint of protection... )

That is one sweet ride... for a first build, that is awesome...

Gig report next...!

[Nocturnal]

That turned out beautiful!!!!!!!

[Daniel_J]

Really nice!

As a builder myself, I have to say this baby turned out great. The overall look is really classy, but the fact that you, as a bass player, tried to make the bass suit your needs and preferences just makes it a pretty much a perfect build. You have built the bass YOU wanted to build, for YOU to play it. There is nothing better than that!
I love what I do, and is great to get payed to do it, but sometimes I have to do stuff that I dont really like myself. I whish I could just do what I wanted to do, so congrats!

BTW, consider this is your first build, I have to say: this is freaking awesome!!!!

My first build was... well... what can I say... comparing to your first build... well, it was playable and it did make some sound, but... definitely not to pleasing to the eye...

So, again, congrats! Great work!

[Dave W]

Looking good. And you must have decided to leave the dents alone or you wouldn't be this far along.