BluesHawk Bass

[drbassman]

Looking good. I just might have to try one!

[shadowcastaz]

I got the plans .

[drbassman]

I'll probably order some too just in case!

[Barklessdog]

Here is a picture of the Alembics Dummy pickup only used on their most expensive series I & II's, like Stanley Clarke plays.



The Series basses have 2 single coil pickups, which like a Jazz bass pickup is also susceptible to hum. The hum canceller is wired into the preamp out of phase with the other pickups, so the common signal, ie the hum, is cancelled out, but none of the music signal from the pickups is. The way it's all connected together via the preamp means that you can get all the clarity and extension of a single coil with the hum resistance of a humbucker.

[Dave W]

The original PRS basses from the 80s had three single coil pickups and a fourth (reverse wound) dummy coil on the back.

Some noiseless Js do have dummy coils underneath, but some are true stacked humbuckers.

I remember a guy at the FDP who put a R/W dummy coil in the control cavity of his '51 P Reissue. He claimed it worked fine.

[uwe]

"The original PRS basses from the 80s had three single coil pickups and a fourth (reverse wound) dummy coil on the back."

True, and they supposedly sound great, but failed to find a market with their anodyne "Spector lavae" look. Made of mahogany too.

[Barklessdog]

Imitation P90 pickup rings are done!

I traced the P-90's from the blueprints and had to lengthen them a bit.

I glued up some flat stock cream ABS and milled out the slots. I still need to put the screw bevels in and fine sand & polish them.

A poor scan-

[shadowcastaz]

Looks Rightious!

[drbassman]

Cool pickup and ring.  It's gonna look really nice on the bass.

[Barklessdog]

body cut, pickups & neck slots routed

[shadowcastaz]

Damn your gud!

[Barklessdog]

Thanks, but don't look too close, there are a lot of imperfections already.

The F holes are slightly different as I pretty much did them by hand. I knicked the top and next is fitting the neck then located the bridge (hopefully will go where planned!)

It also helps to have a machine shop at work, but I am in no way a machinist !!

[shadowcastaz]

Metal shavings freak me out!!Ill take splinters any day.MMaple is very forgiving and patchs well . just watch your glue lines.M

[Barklessdog]

The glue lines look pretty good, but I still have to glue the neck!


Our shop does mostly plastic model prototyping & some wood, but no metal. All old fashioned machines, bandsaw, lathe & mill no CAD stuff, resin Alias or 3D printers.

[shadowcastaz]

I meant when you fix the chip. Steam it out first w/ an iron and wet cloth to decompress grain. I was wondering about the p90 covers. Nice! You do comissions?