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(884 posts) Fri Feb 19, 2021, 11:43 AM Feb 2021

Finally completed my masterpiece! [View all]

Poplar body with burled top
Chechen fingerboard on rock maple neck
Faux pickguard
3 Volume, 3 Tone 1-Meg pots
North single / humbucker /south single coil selection switch for each pickup
Phase control for each pickup on tone knob push-pull

With each pickup effectively having 6 configuration options, the thing has huge range of voices.
Pretty impressive flexibility for a passive instrument.

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Finally completed my masterpiece! [View all] better Feb 2021 OP

So beautiful! It is a masterpiece! Beakybird Feb 2021 #1

Thanks! Can't wait to hear it in the hands of the guy for whom I built it! better Feb 2021 #2

I don't know what any of the words mean in your description matt819 Feb 2021 #3

Well, I started it in September. better Feb 2021 #5

Here's a more understandable explanation of the coil switching and phase reversal... better Feb 2021 #7

That's lovely craftsmanship PJMcK Feb 2021 #4

Nice. Used to be big into Bass culture. Like that a lot. Hoyt Feb 2021 #6

sweet instrument cynical_idealist Feb 2021 #8

The body, I built. The neck, another more experienced luthier did. better Feb 2021 #9

cool cynical_idealist Feb 2021 #10

Very nice! better Feb 2021 #11