Thursday, August 13, 2009

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.