Kay Excalibur Cigar Box Bass

Posted by Bob Lumpkin on October 30, 2011 at 1:38pm

Here some pics of the bass I just finished. I call it a Kay Excalibur ('60's era Kay neck) & a Excalibur cigar box. First pic shows the inside & electrics. I used an import humbucker style (10.6 k) bass pickup I picked up some where, a couple of Alpha full sized 500k pots with a 1.0 K capicator & one of the extended jacks I bought from Ben. You can see the bracing I added to mount the bridge, the neck & neck extension. The rest are different views of the finished bass. The bridge is for a Precission bass & the tuning keys are from a Squire Bronco bass & a perfect fit on the Kay neck. I replaced the "zero fret" set up common on Jap guitars of this era with a regular nut. It's missing the string retainer on the headstock but I will not pay the $26 for one on E-Bay.

I hope these pictures up load.

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  • PhilUSAFRet January 3, 2012 at 9:30pm

    Very, very nice!

  • FerneL November 14, 2011 at 8:42am

    As you can see the wood explosed at some spot, and noy on yours ! So is it the wood itself, or the tools etc.... if you think to an answer, let me know please, right now i don't know how to hide it !!!!

     



  • FerneL November 14, 2011 at 8:38am

    I'm working on a cgb with an "alike" Humbuckers, i did the hole with a "dremel", it's OK but not perfect!! So i really ask myself, how tou did the hole for your Humbuckers, if you can tell me, it would be verry cool, i will try to add a picture to this word you'll see !!

    Thx ( i hope you understood my message, i'm french, i try my best to write in english but it's not easy with, tools names technicals words etc..........)

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  • Graham Alibone October 30, 2011 at 6:21pm
    Building one, inspiration is my main plan!  G.

    Bob Lumpkin said:

    Are you using a factory neck or are you building one? I use neck through on a lot of my 3 & 4 string CBG's where I've built the necks myself but I've not yet built a bass neck from scratch. Good luck & let us know how it turns out.



    Graham Alibone said:

    Looks great inside and out. I've just finished collecting the bits for my first bass build, and I'm going to use neck through box method. G.
  • Bob Lumpkin October 30, 2011 at 5:45pm

    Are you using a factory neck or are you building one? I use neck through on a lot of my 3 & 4 string CBG's where I've built the necks myself but I've not yet built a bass neck from scratch. Good luck & let us know how it turns out.



    Graham Alibone said:

    Looks great inside and out. I've just finished collecting the bits for my first bass build, and I'm going to use neck through box method. G.
  • Graham Alibone October 30, 2011 at 5:27pm
    Looks great inside and out. I've just finished collecting the bits for my first bass build, and I'm going to use neck through box method. G.
  • Bob Lumpkin October 30, 2011 at 3:28pm
    Sorry Richard, no sound clip (I don't really know how to post one) It sounds more like my full sized accoustic/electric bass run through a amp than it does a straight electric bass.
  • Richard Sanabia October 30, 2011 at 2:41pm
    Very cool! I like your bass very much. Got a sound clip?  Peace,  Richard
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