Telebass

Hi Terry, and welcome! You're never too old, and as soon as you can even think about blagging through a few numbers, start playing with others if you can. In at the deep end is always a good thing!

Welcome! Ashdown is good sounding, but there have been reliability issues with some older far-eastern built kit. New should be fine, or British built. My previous rig was an Ashdown - very good it was too. BTW, you might want to check that caps lock...

For the record...Servisol super 10 is the stuff required.

Finally got to putting new tuners on my MIM P. What a difference! I installed Schaller BMFLs. The extra mass hasn't unbalanced it any, and it has eliminated a weak deadspot at the 5th fret, G string. And of course, the tuning is much nicer and more accurate than the MIM tuners. This bass is now as modded as it will ever be. Tuners, '94 AmStd pickup, b/w/b guard, complete rewire with CTS pots and Switchcraft jack. Will attempt some pictures later on. Edit: forgot the covers and finger rest!

Howdy!

Howdy!

Welcome, Jack! I do this too - in Cornwall!

Howdy! Enjoy the bottom! (ahem...)

Howdy!

Howdy! Good to like lots of music! Like everything - miss nothing!

W'aleikum as salaam! Everyone, as stated, is welcome here! Hope it's warmer there than here...5 C

Well, a quick Google showed that until fairly recently, he was still playing occasionally for Taste! It's still going...

I like my basses to be in as good nick as busily gigged basses can. The Black Std Precision has the odd minor scar and ding, after around 300 gigs, so I reckon I'm doing well. The 51RI is 13 years old, was relatively unused until I got it, and has since done, ooh, 150 gigs or so. It still looks (almost) new. I don't mind that they get playing wear and dings, but relicing in any form is horrible to me. And dirty instruments? You would not not be so blasé if you were a tech and had to clean them...

Welcome, and good luck with the project!

Welcome indeed. I really must visit Ireland at some point...

Welcome, and an advance Happy Birthday from another oldie, who's 57 in 3 weeks! Gasp!

Welcome!

[quote name='OldGit' post='676242' date='Dec 6 2009, 10:33 PM']Welcome young man [/quote] Same from me!

My take:- The 66 P had a maple cap neck, not a fretted maple one-piece a la 50s Classic. So, a maple Standard MIM is closer. Stick in a Wizard Thumper and Robert is your mother's brother... It's my personal opinion that the cap neck gave the extra raunch, not the pickups. Nearly all current maple neck Fenders have this arrangement, and it does give a harsher, punchier tone.

Welcome, from just over the border in Cornwall. The thing to remember about being a n00b is that, like being a virgin or a learner driver, everyone was at some point! So dive right in and enjoy!

You're quite wrong - it's a LOT of a myth!

Welcome!

That's my experience! I was out for 17 years, and it wasn't just more fun - I found I was better at it, too! Don't ask me why - I just found I was more fluid, somehow.

Really, don't worry. Much more important to get on with the bass playing!