Bass guitar: Ricky styled musicman bridged custom made bass

• Slightly Ricky styled bass with Musicman HB & bridge

A very tidy looking and remarkably sweet playing Ric styled bass; I was planning it to try and get the tone a lot of people have asked about that I got with the Keiper I used on A night out in Langney: That distinctive growl and grunt... anyway even just through a Roland cube treble guitar amp it is bang on with a good snarl when you dig in good and hard.
The electric wiring pattern is fairly simple for one pickup but I changed it a bit and fused all the earth returns together.
The single pickup is a massive heavy twin coiled humbucker, and with the electrics here it is giving exactly the strong mid range growl I hoped it might give.

I spoiled the G string when I was re-shimming the neck angle, so it has one with a blue braid.
Set up gone well so far; a few frets were sitting high and killed the note below them but I settled them down and the truss rod allowed me to take some excess relief out of the neck, but I flattened it too far and lost clarity in the first five frets with crystal clear notes above the twelfth fret... all singing sweetly now but will be checked and adjusted a few more times this week.
I scalloped the edges of the neck between the frets which makes the already narrow jazz bass neck seem even narrower and faster to get around on; and the scalloping lets you fly by feel more than eye... though if you need to look but hate wearing glasses to play then the enamel braille spots I have given it will show you where to jump to... works well for us older geezers.

Thanks,
Mark Phillips.......

ps. My travel adventure romance novel Virginia to Greece mentioned above, is out on Amazon now... as is my cat journey story Bobcat's Big Adventure for animal lovers.