6 Steel Grinder / Skully's Bass VI Build

[skullservant]

Well, EGC is all paid for. Soooo, I'm think I'm going to start buying the smaller parts for this. Probably work backwards with this, and get the really cheap stuff first

[skullservant]

First question- looking into a Stratocaster hardtail bridge for this build. Just curious which one to use. I don't want to break the bank, but I WOULD like something that would work well, and last.

[Disarm D'arcy]

In just to say I like the idea and can't wait to see how it turns out.

[skullservant]

Alright, drastic change in direction.

Going to use an Esquire Telecaster body that I got off ebay for cheap over the weekend for this project. It's stupid for me to have another standard scale guitar, so it'll be a Telecaster Esquire Bass VI

DC Kunkle 30.25" conversion neck
Pine Telecaster Esquire body
Black single ply pickguard
Cream Seymour Duncan Super Distortion in the bridge
Traditional Telecaster control plate
Series/Parallel/Split wiring on a traditional 3 way Telecaster switch with black hat
Volume, no tone
Wilkensen Bridge with brass compensated saddles (duh)

Still on the fence about string gauge.

I kind of still want to do that mahogany/transparent blue finish

[Zork]

Well, you might be interested in my Tele VI... ?


Great project you have here! Looking forward to see some pics.

[skullservant]

DOUBLE BRIDGE PICKUP HOLY SHIT. THAT RULES!!!

[Moose]

DOUBLE BRIDGE PICKUP HOLY SHIT. THAT RULES!!!

[skullservant]

I usually hate pre-distressed hardware, but I didn't want a sheen or shine with the Bass VI hardware so I sanded it down with a fine sanding block



Mounted all of the hardware (but didn't wire it up yet) for the control plate. I figured I might as well add a tone circuit to this for the thumps, so I put it on a push/pull so I can take it out of the circuit by pulling up on the knob. I figured pulling up on the knob to engage the tone circuit would be more useful for me so that I don't accidentally introduce it to the output when I don't want it.

3 way switch is for split/series/parallel wiring on the Super Distortion

[Disarm D'arcy]

Ok that's gonna be awesome.

[skullservant]

About the neck- going with a DC Kunkle neck, 30.25" scale. Messaged the guy to see if I could have the top dots deleted and just have the side dots, also going to get a level and crown while I'm at it because why not

[skullservant]

Just bought the tuners, string trees, and ferrules. Went with Grovers for the tuners. Impressed with the Grovers on my EGC, a step up from the Gotohs I've used previously

[skullservant]

Asked if I could also get a reverse headstock because why not

[braaandooon]

If you have some mulneric acid laying around, that will distress that hardware nicely.

Also been doing some reading, and found a few good resources...

http://www.reranch.com/101a.htm

http://www.reranch.com/basics.htm

[skullservant]

oh cool, I'll have to look into those resources, thanks bud

[Moose]

Good to see it's progressing well, great idea to have the tone control on a push/pull to remove it from the circuit

Hope you can get the neck as you want it, looking forward to the next update!