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I remember playing a Spector with a pair of those - good sounding pickup.

I just put a rosewood neck on my Jazzmaster and it's awesome. No finish, just burnished real smooth. What's your plan for electronics in this one?

In my wife's.

Just a heads-up, not that it should affect your planning, but that's rosewood. The neck is quarter sawn rosewood with a rosewood board. I'm betting that Pau Ferro would look really good, though.

Yeah, nothing like fluorescent office lights to wash out the blue. The earlier photos from my kitchen table are much more accurate. Even the logo is a better match for the cream electronics that shows in these pics. What can I say, it's been busy so I shot some photos when I could.

A couple weeks late, but this baby is finished and I've already played it out a few times. Everything came out really well, and it sounds exactly how I hoped. This is officially my favorite guitar now - it's immediately comfortable, all the tones are useful, and I'm getting just what I wanted...

Finally got some time. Body drilled, routed, etc. Did the wiring last night and snapped a quick photo before I closed her up. Now just giving the finish on the headstock a little cure time. If I get impatient I might be assembling this tomorrow night.

Very nice - I'd like to hear more as you get some time with that bubinga/ebony neck. I've thought about that combo on a tele.

So work has been busy but I've been slowly getting at this. The test scrap came out well and I got started on the actual headstock. Grain is filled and I did the color on the logo today. Clear starts tomorrow and will go for a while until I build up enough coats to not feel the thickness of the...

Cool, potentially saves some work then. Most of my bass experience is indeed active electronics. Seems less needed in guitars, which is a lot simpler.

I guess I'm not really worried about hum from the pickups as that's part of the point of the Kinmans. I just assumed that it wouldn't hurt anything to shield it up while there's nothing in the cavities. The basses that I have with shielded cavities have less issue with picking up noise from...

Routed last night, all went well. Plenty of wood left - when I compare to the rest of the routing, the screws don't even reach the bottom of the control cavity. Now I'm gonna shield this thing like it's a Faraday cage.

Ok, subject change to wiring. As stated, I'm planning for basically telecaster wiring, pickups to 3-way, master volume and tone. The Kinmans have 3 leads coming out of them, hot+, hot-, and ground. In normal Gibson wiring with two volumes, I would go hot+ to the 1st lug on volume, and hot- &...

I've done the math and it looks like it should fit. I can't speak to the cavity depth of a Fender stock JM vs a Warmoth body, but I do understand that the Warmoth body itself is a little thicker (I think about 1/8") than stock, so that helps. My pattern bit is 1/2" deep, I got one that is...

Get everything in hand now and I've made some measurements. Definitely need to deepen the cavities, probably by about 3/16". I got a pattern bit for the router that should handle it in theory, but I'm a bit skittish as the body is already finished. I'll be holding my breath for sure.

I can probably get it to a drill press if that helps. Any special type of bit or anything?

Body showed up today, a couple weeks earlier than I expected! Here's a preliminary assembly, but I'm still working on the headstock finish, and I need to deepen the pickup cavities for the Kinmans before I start putting things together. Work is really busy right now, so I'll have to get to it as...

Aha, I knew it looked familiar. Dingwall uses that on some of their Afterburners. Very pretty wood.

Nice looking bass - one day I may build a Gecko. What's the top wood on that?

Aaaand, the Kinmans arrived this morning. These things are quite a bit heavier than other pickups, and as tall as I've heard. Glad I got the chambered body, these will add some heft.