I actually am impressed with the way she looks being almost nude. Now with your redheaded monster. I would color match the head. Not with paint though. But with a dark red stain. Even strip the red off her head and the dark red stain as well.
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I thought about doing that but I like the headstock design.
I am likely to do a dark red stain (maybe RIT), possibly with a burst- a bit off that stage yet
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I like the striped effect
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I wired up the control panel. Consisting of 1 B100K volume pot. 1 A250K push pull tone pot. With two tone Caps which are a 16v 1000uF Cap and a 10v 2000uF Cap. 1 250K push pull diode clipping circuit pot. Tomorrow I’m going to put Ms Jazzy Jazz together completely. two find out what my creation sounds like, and if it is going to work. The way that is running around in my head. Before I move, and finish the body and neck. I’ll have pictures of my evil creation also. Evil Genius Creations is at work with Bubba Lee.
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Are you sure about those values? Those are really really huge capacitors. Usually you’re looking at .047µF. The capacitor values you mention are two million percent larger 
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I knew they were larger than the capacitors normally used. I didn’t realize that they were that much larger. Yes I am sure about the values of the capacitors I am using. I have a generic Pbass with a 6800uF Cap. I haven’t gotten around to installing the control panel in my general jazz bass. I need to finish up the finishing.
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wow, my girlfriend (even though she’s 33) would love this.
6800uF would be a big polarized electrolytic capacitor, something for power supply filtering.
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I don’t know much about it, but it definitely makes my Generic Pbass sound fat. With an extremely low end tones. A bass is supposed to be felt not heard.
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Could you take a picture of the writing on the cap? The smallest one I found is 3/4" in diameter and 1.5" long, polarized electrolytic. 6800µF is huge.
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Sure, with 6800uF the cutoff frequency would probably be way below infrasound 
Also a polarized capacitor is absolutly not suitable for a pseudo-sine signal (that alternates from one polarity to the other one all the time).
If this is really a 6800uF, I wonder who put it there and what he had in mind.
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Yeah polarized will only work with AC if you are trying to turn it in to DC. I am guessing this might be a .068. Which would indeed sound dark but would also actually work 
And yes, too lazy to calculate it but you could probably measure the cutoff frequency of a 6800µF cap most easily with inverse hertz, better known as “seconds”. And it would probably be a lot of seconds per cycle
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Yeah and you have to rectify the AC with diodes prior to enter into the capacitor, otherwise the current of the opposite phase would destroy the cap very fast, often with a nice smoke and popping sound.
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Just a small question, nothing comparable to all the cool stuff I see in this thread: I have modified about everything I could on my beloved sofa bass, the Blackstar Carry-on ST Bass: machine heads, nut, pickup, bridge, even the neck screws.
To quote Hal9000: “Everything is going extremely well!”
Just one little thing: as I replaced the passive pickups with active pickups, the space for the battery is a little cramped. It kind of fits, but I need more pressure to connect the guitar cable, as something in the battery compartment is obstructing it.
So, question: how can I make that space for the battery a little larger with cheap and uncomplicated methods. Do I need a dremel? Something else?
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a dremel or a chisel
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Cool! What dremel should I use?
I would like the outside to remain like this, so I can use the original battery plate:
So, that means that I want to create some space underneath, by removing material within the orange marked rectangle. Not more that 5-10mm…
Do I need something like this?
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What you show is more a router bit. With a Dremel you can use a small sanding cylinder which is really easy to work with :
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Check!
Any advise for a knock-of chinese dremel? The originals are quite expensive…
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I decided to go with the A25K volume pot, B100k blend pot, and B1M for the tone pot. Using a 2200uF Cap. Here’s a picture of the 6800uF Cap I was thinking about using.
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