Inspired by waiting for a Dingwall, and the Dingwall quality, I started building. Kermit is my third completed bass.<\/p>\n
Body is made of silky oak and northern ash, contrast layer is ziricote, top is spalted maple.<\/p>\n
Neck is one-piece wenge with dual action truss rod and two carbon rods, a ziricote fretboard with 24 frets multiscale (36″ to 33″) with zero fret, headstock with a matching spalted maple layer. The side markers are Luminlay.<\/p>\n
Truss rod cover is ziricote with Luminlay inlays showing the Big Dipper constellation (my first build – not this one – was very neck-heavy, a “big dipper” \ud83d\ude42 ).<\/p>\n
Hardware is Hipshot Ultralite tuners<\/a>, Hipshot Solo bridges<\/a> mounted on a block of rock maple, and Dunlop Flushmounts.<\/p>\n
With the electronics I couldn’t go past the Nordstrand FD3 pickups<\/a> paired with the Glockenklang 3-band pre<\/a> (replaced the blend know with a 4-way rotary pickup selector) – it works so very well in my Dingwall, and it brings out similar som=nic qualities in this build.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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Well done!<\/p>\n
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