hiram.k.hackenbacker

I’m sorry, do you know me then? Beedster, you, me, anyone can pick up a bass and in five seconds know whether the rod needs adjusting with no tools. Explain to me why you wouldn’t want to know that before making any physical adjustment? Reading between the lines, if that bass was on my bench, I would be thinking there is a reason the saddles are SO high. The OP says they are right at the top of the saddle screws which I would suggest is slightly unusual. My guess, rather than actually making any sort of adjustment, is that neck relief MAY be an issue and the previous owner has just raised the saddles to eliminate fret buzz rather than dealing with it properly i.e. adjusting the relief.

Does the OP say that there are no issues with the rod? Given that it takes two seconds to check it and you don’t even need a capo, I don’t know why you wouldn’t do it first. It’s the most intrusive adjustment out of the three (rod/string height/intonation). Or is this thread JUST about lowering saddles?

If you can bear any more video content, watch these. Jason explains the order of doing things and why. https://www.fodera.com/how-to-set-up-your-fodera/

It doesn’t matter what the saddles are doing. To check the relief, you take the saddles out of the equation anyway. Capo first fret, fret the string where it joins the body and measure the gap between string and fret around midway. Adjust accordingly.

@AndyTravis would know better than, but there’s something about the shape and the decals on the headstock that looks wrong to me.

I think it’s just for little comments that aren’t threadworthy.

Is there something wrong with the system that shows what appear to be PM's in the Status Updates section. Four out of the top five status updates are seemingly PM's and it happens regularly anyway. Someone is going to post something in there that they would rather not broadcast to everyone sooner or later.

I know you said not to tell you to buy a Mac and I'm not going to, but all this downloading this and getting licences for that nonsense would wind me up, so I feel I have to defend the corner somewhat. By far the hardest video I've ever had to put together was this one using iMovie which comes with the Mac. I had multiple cameras, video and audio files of varying quality/length and iMovie did it all with ease. No single audio source existed for the whole song and there were gaps in the video that had to be bridged. I'm no Mac fanboy by any means, but credit where it's due.

That a bit extreme isn’t it? Lets ask @BigRedX. I believe Gus are string through.

Just finished putting this one together. It’s a Fender Flea ‘61 neck on a Squier CV body with Lindy Fralin pick-up’s and a custom stack pot control plate by @KiOgon with series/parallel switching. Refin by David Wilson based on an Aged Ice Blue Metallic Custom Shop Precision I came across.

What’s going on with the string alignment?

Oh, don't encourage him please 😂. It's just a good job he's a couple of hundred miles away from me or I would probably have lost it already.

Erm.......no 😂

Thanks mate. That’s the plan 🤘.

The Final Episode: ‘The Green Manalishi’ I was just looking back at when I bought the body for this project from @mojobass and can hardly believe it was just over two months ago! It seems a lot longer than that for some reason. I’d like to say a big thank you everyone who checked in making comments and suggestions, especially @AndyTravis, @walshy, @Chiliwailer, @bassfan, @KiOgon who I’ve had PM conversations with during the build. I’ve learnt a lot from these guys and thank you all so very much. A special huge thank you to David Wilson for the refinish. We were punting around a few ideas at the start and I happened to mention the Custom Shop P bass I had seen at Peach Guitars. David was very keen to try and create something similar and I’m happy to say he’s nailed it. I can’t recommend David highly enough. In summary, the spec on the build is: Fender Flea ‘61 jazz bass neck (MIM) complete with tuners Squier CV jazz bass body of unknown age (presumed alder) refinished in Aged ice Blue Metallic by David Wilson Lindy Fralin jazz bass pick-up’s @KiOgon stack knob control plate and solderless loom with series/parallel switching Fender Vintage bass bridge Vintage white BWB pick guard Chrome Schaller S-Locks Fender ‘big F’ neck plate I started with these: ....and this is the end result....

Sorry, he doesn’t look anything like Voldemort 😀

Someone is dancing on Lemmy’s grave. An $0.18 figure priced at $18 which will probably cost more than $18 on top of that to import into the UK. 100% garbage.

Yeah, it does. I do feel I’ve been a bit lucky though. Not had any issue with the neck fitment at all. I’ve not even had to adjust the truss rod. It just went straight on with textbook relief (for me) and was good to go. The most fiddly part by far was the shielding and grounding of the the cavities. Not sure I’d want to do that for a full time job 😂. I guess that gets easier the more you do it and it was the first time for me.

Contrary to my expectations for this weekend, I’ve actually just managed to finish assembling the bass and it’s a belter. Due to the lateness and lack of natural light, I’ll leave the photos until tomorrow. That leaves me more time to play it tonight 😀. I’m sure all bitsa type assembly builds don’t go quite as swimmingly as this, but I have to say I’m mighty pleased.

Buy one and enjoy it in the 10% of non live playing 😀. They’re great 👍

Err, I think you’re doing it wrong.

I’m retired from that game now 😎

I know how you feel mate. Depressing isn’t it. These idiots don’t need guidelines, they need common sense. It’s in short supply evidently.

Exactly. This is why the nation is getting its knickers in a twist. It doesn’t matter whether what you want to do fits whatever guidelines. COVID is on the up and we’re going into winter. Do your bit and do everything you can to limit unnecessary social interaction. I’m astonished why anyone would do otherwise.