Final parts arriving

A few more parts have arrived, The bridge which i ordered from Touchstone Tone Woods has arrived. ( A big thanks to Neil for all his help)

The preamp is almost wired up, i havn't had much time to work on it due to work.
I've also had to order a new SP/DT toggle switch because the one i got at the local electronic shop are really bad quality and the solder lugs just start falling out when you heat them up.

Still need to order strings...actually still really need to make up my mind WHICH strings i want!!

Marko made the order for the Top wood (figured Walnut) and fretboard (birdseye maple) on Friday and also picked up the wenge and alder blocks for the wood supplier.

Hopefully this weekend i will get the preamp ready, and then next week some point ship all the parts to Marko.

I also need to (if i can tghis weekend) do the final spec list to give Marko. Still need to decide on a couple of things like knob layout and also final neck widths.

The Neck dimensions i had given as a rough idea were based on a Warwick Broadneck 6 string, but the broadnecks are 35" scale and 20mm string spacing i think, so i'm wondering if this is going to make the neck on my bass too wide with it being 2 " shorter???

More research to do.

More parts arrive and more ordered

All the electronics parts are here for the preamp and bass controls, so i will to start to assemble them all.

Also today i placed the order for the Schaller 2000 Bridge in black and gold from Touchstonetonewoods.co.uk
Still waiting on the Extra control knobs and strap locks to arrive form Universal jems.

Have decided to probably go with DR Low-riders Stainless Steel strings. I will look for the best online price and order them this weekend.

Marko is going to the wood suplier tomorrow, to pich up the Wenge and alder and place an order for the Birdseye maple and and Figured Walnut.

As I havent done so yet, here is some samples of the woods that will be used im ny bass.



Figured walnut (this is the top wood for the body)



(Birdseye Maple used for the fretboard)




(Wenge Used for the Neck)



(Alder used for the Body wood)

Note: This is Scandanavian Alder, some Alders are lighter, so this may differ in colour to the actual wood being used. I will know once i see pictures of the wood from Marko.

Preamp Schematics

As mentioned before the preamp will be set up with the following

• Stacked bass/treble
• Mid
• Pickup blend
• Passive/Active Tone with push/pull bypass
• Master Voume
• Mid frequency select switch
• Active/passive select switch

The standards Aguilar preamp doesnt have the added tone pot in it, this idea was given to me by a very helpful guy on Talkbass (thankyou Line6man).

here is a schematic of the Premap with the added Tone pot





For me i know have an extremely versatile preamp set up, it has 4 different possible combinations

1. Full active with added tone pot
2. Full active without tone pot (bypassed)
3. Passive with the tone pot
4. Passive without the tone pot (bypassed)

These 4 options give me every possible combination or tone that i could need (for the time being...) option number 4 is a great set up for letting the natural wood tones of the bass be heard, there is no electronic boosting or cutting of frequencies.



last night i had the idea of adding another switch to the preamp setup, a mute switch (like a real Fodera has)
Once again i went to Line6man for help and without fail he delivered me the schematic with the added switch