This build was for a friend of mine...I ended up doing another almost clone of it, for someone else, except with chrome hardware. I miss this bass, wish I'd made one for myself!
Body is koa, finished with a tung oil / varnish blend. The neck is goncalo alves with a pau ferro fretboard. Pickups are two Alnico Musicman styles from Seymour Duncan, and the pots are in a conventional V/V/T format, but the array of miniswitches are somewhat strange in that there are two on/off switches for the pickups, and two series parallel switches for each pickup. Strange, I know, but I liked the idea of complete control, allowing you to essentially kill the sound without using the volume pot. The tone was huge on this thing. I tended to prefer bridge in series when I used it, it just punched through, low and clear. A bit on the heavy side, but it was a massive bass so that is to be expected.
Body is koa, finished with a tung oil / varnish blend. The neck is goncalo alves with a pau ferro fretboard. Pickups are two Alnico Musicman styles from Seymour Duncan, and the pots are in a conventional V/V/T format, but the array of miniswitches are somewhat strange in that there are two on/off switches for the pickups, and two series parallel switches for each pickup. Strange, I know, but I liked the idea of complete control, allowing you to essentially kill the sound without using the volume pot. The tone was huge on this thing. I tended to prefer bridge in series when I used it, it just punched through, low and clear. A bit on the heavy side, but it was a massive bass so that is to be expected.
