NavyBass
05-07-2006, 12:59 AM
My Project Sheehan P-bass is complete.
List of parts
Fender Precision Bass
DiMarzio Split P pickup
White Plastic sheet
White plastic strips
Humbucking Guitar Pickup with 12.5k DC resistance
250k potentiometer
2 DPDT switches
1/4" female jack
Dremel tool
Router
To start at the beginning. First I made the neck pickup cover. The dimentions are 9mm x 5.3mm. I cut this out of the sheet plastic. I next took 1/4" strips of white plastic strips and glued them under the sheet to make the sides of the cover. When that all dried, I sanded it smooth and made rounded edges on it.
Next, I took the cover and placed it on the pickguard and used it to make a drawing of where I'd need to cut the hole for it. I used the Dremel with a cutoff wheel to cut out the hole in the pickguard.
Once that was done, it was off to the body. I put the pickguard on the body and traced the hole I just cut on to the body. I then started routing the body and extra control cavity.
That being done, it was off to making the neck pickup. The Will Power neck pickup has 12.5k ohms of DC resistance and ceramic magnets. I found a guitar pickup with the same specs in my parts drawer. I first seperated the coils, found a bigger ceramic magnet, and drilled the coil mounting holes in the baseplate of the humbucker. I mounted all that on there and put two steel bars across all the polepieces to make the response more even (pic 3). I then soldered the wires to the pickup.
Moving on from that, I then mounted the pickup in the cavity I just routed by screwing the pickup right to the bottom of the cavity. I also mounted the Split P pickup in it's cavity, and screwed the neck pickup cover right to the body.
Now for the wiring. The controls are V/V/T, a tone switch for the neck pickup, and a stereo/mono switch.
To scallop the fretboard, I mounted a small drum sander to the Dremel.
From there, it was on to final assembly and setup.
Here are the Pics.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/jpwinters/Gear%201/Picture026.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/jpwinters/Gear%201/Picture027.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/jpwinters/Gear%201/Picture028.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/jpwinters/Gear%201/Picture030.jpg
List of parts
Fender Precision Bass
DiMarzio Split P pickup
White Plastic sheet
White plastic strips
Humbucking Guitar Pickup with 12.5k DC resistance
250k potentiometer
2 DPDT switches
1/4" female jack
Dremel tool
Router
To start at the beginning. First I made the neck pickup cover. The dimentions are 9mm x 5.3mm. I cut this out of the sheet plastic. I next took 1/4" strips of white plastic strips and glued them under the sheet to make the sides of the cover. When that all dried, I sanded it smooth and made rounded edges on it.
Next, I took the cover and placed it on the pickguard and used it to make a drawing of where I'd need to cut the hole for it. I used the Dremel with a cutoff wheel to cut out the hole in the pickguard.
Once that was done, it was off to the body. I put the pickguard on the body and traced the hole I just cut on to the body. I then started routing the body and extra control cavity.
That being done, it was off to making the neck pickup. The Will Power neck pickup has 12.5k ohms of DC resistance and ceramic magnets. I found a guitar pickup with the same specs in my parts drawer. I first seperated the coils, found a bigger ceramic magnet, and drilled the coil mounting holes in the baseplate of the humbucker. I mounted all that on there and put two steel bars across all the polepieces to make the response more even (pic 3). I then soldered the wires to the pickup.
Moving on from that, I then mounted the pickup in the cavity I just routed by screwing the pickup right to the bottom of the cavity. I also mounted the Split P pickup in it's cavity, and screwed the neck pickup cover right to the body.
Now for the wiring. The controls are V/V/T, a tone switch for the neck pickup, and a stereo/mono switch.
To scallop the fretboard, I mounted a small drum sander to the Dremel.
From there, it was on to final assembly and setup.
Here are the Pics.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/jpwinters/Gear%201/Picture026.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/jpwinters/Gear%201/Picture027.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/jpwinters/Gear%201/Picture028.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/jpwinters/Gear%201/Picture030.jpg