Carvin bass kit ユーザーズマニュアル

Install the neck onto the body.  Gently slide the neck into the neck
pocket of the body.  Do not force the neck into the neck pocket or you
can actually break the wood on the treble side of the neck pocket.   If
you painted your body, you may have excess paint build up in your neck
pocket.  If so take a file or medium grit piece of sand paper and wrap it
around a small flat piece of wood.  Now carefully remove some of the
paint or wood from the inside edges of the neck pocket.  Check the fit of
the neck frequently so that you don't remove to much material.  When
the neck fits perfectly into the neck pocket, carefully turn the bass guitar
body and neck upside down on a table with a soft towel on it.  Take the
NP4 neck plate and set it on the body.  Carvin waxes the threads of the
Four #8 x 1 3/4" wood screws so that they are easier to screw into the
hard maple neck.  It’s important to use a #2 phillips head screw driver
with a good tip to prevent rounding out the phillips head screws.  Press
down hard on the screwdriver while you are securely screwing the
screws down.  Turn the bass over and check the fit of the neck.  If the
neck is not snug against the bass side of the pocket, you can slightly
loosen the four neck screws and pull the neck over to one side or the
other to get the proper alignment.  Now firmly tighten the four neck
screws while you are pulling the neck to one side or the other.

Before installing the bridge, run the 8" long piece of black colored
ground wire through the angled hole leading to the control cavity.
Before feeding the ground wire, first take a sharp object and pierce the
copper shielding foil that lines the control cavity.  The bare end of the
ground wire should lay on top of the basses body.  Now lay the bridge
carefully onto the end of the bare wire and screw the bridge firmly onto
the body with a #2 tip phillips head screw driver.  Use the two #10 x 1"
long wood screws.  Wax the screws for easier installation.  Note that the
bridge mounting holes are elongated.  This is to allow the bridge to be
adjusted to the right or left for proper centering of the strings over the
neck.  In most cases you should install the bridge with the screws
centered.  Tighten the bridge mounting screws firmly.

Screw in the four #2 x 3/8" wood screws until the plate is snug to the
side of the body.  Use the #1 tip phillips head screwdriver for this.

Both pickups in the kit are the same, so it does not matter which one you
use for the neck or bridge positions.  Before you feed the pickup lead
wires through the holes that go to the control cavity you must first turn
the bass over and poke holes in the copper shielding foil where the
pickup wires enter the control cavity. Each pickup is to be screwed to the
body with four #4 x 1" wood screws and four springs.  Slip the four
screws into the top of one of the pickups, then slide the four springs onto
the ends of the screws at the bottom of the pickup.  The magnetic field in
the pickup will help hold the springs in place while you are slipping the

pickup into the body.  Use a #1 phillips head screw driver to screw the
four screws into the body. You may damage the pickup lead wire if you
screw the pickup to deep into the body. The top of the pickups should be
adjusted to stick out of the body 1/2".

(For active controls see the active/passive installation instructions).
Before installing the wiring harness make sure that the copper foil is
sticking to the inside of the control cavity well.  Now slide the jack end of
the wiring harness into the control cavity first and feed the jack into the
hole of the jackplate.  Next install the shaft of the tone control into its
hole in the body and then install the volume control shafts into their
proper holes in the body.  Now install a washer and nut on each of the
potentiometers and the jack.  Firmly tighten all of these nuts with your
adjustable wrench while you are holding onto them tightly with your
other hand inside the control cavity.  This will keep them from spinning
and damaging the wiring harness.  Use a small slot head screw driver to
tighten the knobs onto the shafts of the potentiometers. Install the knobs
so that the dimples on the knobs are facing toward the strings while the
potentiometers are turned full on.  Solder the pickup leads to the volume
pots as shown in figure 1.

Five #4-40 threaded brass inserts are included with your back plate.
Install these into the 5 holes surrounding the control cavity.  Install the
slotted end of the insert into the hole first.  Use a small hammer and
lightly tap the inserts flush with the top of the back plate cavity.  

Make

sure that all of the wires are tucked neatly inside the control cavity
before installing the rear electronics cover plate.

Please refer to the maintenance and adjustment procedures sheet for
proper stringing and set up techniques including truss rod, bridge,
pickup and intonation adjustments.   

Plug your newly assembled bass into an amp and make sure that
everything is working properly.  All standard passive model basses have
separate volume controls for each pickup and one master tone control.
For basses with active/passive electronics please refer to the
active/passive control function sheet.

Figure 1. Passive Wiring

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