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Enter, Sandman - Metallica

I hope not! (And I’ve just ordered some pickups ☹️)

It depends which model of Greco (mostly Fujigen made, but some Matsumoku) you have; some were OK and some were really good. Maybe post a picture? The Grecos tended to have nicer tuners, but some had the wrong pickups and some were bolt-ons.

I am really pleased with the Paisley P-Bass I made recently. Next up is a Jazz Bass. I've decided to just use clear gloss coats on this one, without the tinted ageing i used previously. The body finish will have some lacquer crazing when it's completed.

Let Em In - Wings

These days I just use active pa cabs, but back in the day it was Trace Elliot and a 4 x 10. Once we were playing a gig in the car park of a pub on the edge of a park. We had arrange the gig because we were not invited to play at the small open air gig in the park (nothing petty about it of course!). About half way into the first set someone from the park came over and asked us to turn the bass down as it was cutting across their sound. Ah, those back breaking Trace Elliot days. I always found that the 4x10 was louder than two 2x10. Could've just been the setup though as that was SWR.

I had the Version 1. It was okay I suppose. You could buy an EPROM online for a few quid, that updated it to the V2. That was fun to do.

Ring my Bell - Anita Ward

Mr Hall now resides in the UK and he has HW's phone number. I know this because I have met HW and bought a bass from him very recently

Often someone just went at the top 7 frets with a bit of sandpaper leaving an awful mess. But then even if it was done well, the painted headstock then looks odd.

Rama Lama Ding Dong - Rocky Sharpe and the Replays

How do you think they compare to the 80:s Greco ones? I have one of those and need to know whether I'm still happy with it or not. 🙃

Thank you everyone! Regarding the comment about the pickguard and tuners I'm sure he meant no harm.

Carry on, nothing to see here ... ;-)

I've yet to hear a bad sound out of it.19mm bridge string spacing too to top it off.

Giddy Up A Ding Dong - SAHB

Sorted. What you need is a trolley.

I don't. Looks like a one-off to me, probably late 70s when symmetrical (neck-divey) bodies were inexplicably popular. I'm pretty confident neither Mats nor any other Japanese factory would've used that headstock on a bass like this. Not sure that's a Schaller bridge - looks a bit like a 3D but the proportions don't look right. Maybe something like this, from around the same era & loosely based on the Schaller. Apart from the actual rollers!

Happily, that funny Mr Hall has retired, and been confined to a remote, isolated island with no means of communication, or quietly led down to an underground soundproofed padded bunker, so he will trouble us no futher. That's why Rickenbackers have single dual-action truss rods these days. Regarding the mysterious HW, I don't know - but if I wanted to, the Rickenfakers FB group would be where I commenced my clandestine investigations.

That's looking lovely.

Is the preamp potted (encapsulated), or is it a naked circuit board? PS: you could try connecting a high value capacitor between the preamp output and the jack socket - as there's a DC bias you could use an electrolytic. High value as it'll be in series with the output capacitor so it'll minimise the capacitance reduction.