Show Us Your Basses (Part 2)

This is another can of worm. There are too many forms of Humbucker pickups. It can be in a seal soap bars style or rectangular shape, or MM(MusicMan) style, or it can be just the regular jazz pickup style with 2 wires wind from opposite polarity to cancel the 60 cycle hum naturally produce in a single coil pickups.

Here are some of the example





Both below look like your everyday Jazz configuration but both are humbuckers

They are not your typical double Humbucker because their position. Both pickups are pretty next to each other taking up the real estate in the middle of the bass which produce some crazy muscular tone. Think Bruce Banner, :rofl: The electronic is pretty crazy too as Warwick is not playing around with north/ south coil combination wizardry.
the knobs layout are Vol, Blend, Bass, and Treble. the 2 (3-way) switch are identical one for each pickup Series/ Parallel/ Single Coil.


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Lol. Good stuff. I really appreciate it. :+1:t5:

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And of course, instead of searching the internet for pictures, @Al1885 just goes to his shed and finds some relevant examples. Only in the basses that are easily accessible, of course. But thatā€™s not a problem :joy:

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I had this same thought. :joy:

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You gotta work with what you got, and @Al1885ā€™s got more good stuff than most shops. :sweat_smile:

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@MikeC @GingerBug @Mike_NL
If by shed shed is easily accessible I could have give more example, :rofl:

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Thank youā€¦

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I borrowed the tuning keys and the smaller Ferrellā€™s from my Generic Pbass, and the bigger Ferrellā€™s from my Jazz Bass kit. I insert the bigger Ferrellā€™s first then Iā€™ll insert the smaller ones in the bigger Ferrellā€™s.

I absolutely despise the sealed gear tuners. So I decided to change them. For ones that I like, and look a lot better. Than those original ones. Then I have to oil the fretboard, and Iā€™m going to medical school. Because itā€™s ashier than I am. Itā€™s better than it was.


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Iā€™m not going to use the Ferrellā€™s that came with the my Generic Pbass. Iā€™m going to use the threaded Ferrellā€™s from the original tuners. Iā€™m glad that itā€™s my bass, and not anyone elseā€™s.

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Now I need to level the frets, and crown the ends.

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The term is actually bushings, not ferrules.

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I have seen them called bushings, and Ferrellā€™s before. I appreciate you advice thank you.

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This is a case where they are kind of both bushings and ferrules. A ferrule is just an end cap that makes holes in soft materials (like wood) stronger to be able to work with metal parts (like strings or in this case tuners).

Bushings are fittings to allow one mechanical part to better fit inside or against another.

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I know and have interviewed many top luthiers, and they all referred to them as bushings.

So do Stew-Mac, Fender, Kluson and others.

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I think bushing is a more accurate term for their function for sure; that said they are technically also ferrules.

Can you tell me a little bit about that Stingray? I didnā€™t recognize the signature on the nicely finished headstock, and that brown pickguard is very sharp. Can you tell me the model it is? How does it play?

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Got this bass recently :slight_smile:

Its a Jackson Js2P Spectra ā€¦ for the price of 399.00 CDNā€¦ what you get is not too badā€¦ full scale neck, active/passive circuitsā€¦ and the stock setup is IMPRESSIVE. (very little to tweak )

A really good entry level bass from a trusted brand :slight_smile:

I have no amp tho LMAO!.. Running it through a Bluetooth JBL Partybox speaker ( which is LOUD ) ā€¦ it works well with my PC interface set up :slight_smile:
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Hey ā€¦ if it works :stuck_out_tongue: Why not?!

LMAO

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As nouns the difference between bushing and ferrule

is that bushing is a type of bearing, a cylindrical lining designed to reduce friction and wear inside a hole, often used as a casing for a shaft, pin or hinge while ferrule is a metal band or cap placed around a shaft to reinforce it or to prevent splitting.

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That said, in a very real sense they are in fact grommets: ring-like metal inserts designed to stop the edges of a hole in a thin or sheet-like material from fraying or chipping.

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