Mr. Foxen

[quote name='The Burpster' post='89841' date='Nov 17 2007, 12:26 PM']Whilst picking my brain and working out what I could use for fret polishing that wont give my thumb cramp ( I usually use a Dremmel round rubber polishing wheel profiled for the fret wire) ......

I had a flash back to (very) younger day and model trains..... Bored with my local music shop, I popped to the local model railway shop.... and like the holy grail there it was....

PECO part no. PL41 track cleaner. Like a big 'old fashioned' pencil erasure but ligthly impregnated with polishing compound....

£2.50 and will last many many final fret finishes ....

Enjoy...[/quote]

Ha, I actually came up to my room to find my one of those, I'm fixing up a Squire for someone and thought I'd give it a once over.

£175, not mine, local to Bristol, Said I'd help the guy sell his gear, PM me for a number. Also has bunch of other band related gear including marshall Valvestate 2000 AVT 150H Head and matching cab, drum kit, pa systems, mixers and suchlike, again, pm for list.

If you aren't taking loads off then the whole crowning thing, which is probably the most time consuming part won't matter nearly as much. The difference fret crowning makes to intonation I've never found to be a problem, never had anyone notice my flat frets from my first refret putting my intonation off till they look, and then they get know-it-all on me. Broad flat frets transfer more sound to the wood or something due to greater contact area, sounds like some tone talker fudge excuse.

If its just the forst fret or two, are you sure it isn't the nut that is too low?

Is it a ferrule? Anyway, someone had a loose one on some cheapy guitar, I put a strip of paper in the holeand pushed it back in, just a bit more thickness to jam it in, seemed to sort it. If the the screw itself is wobbly, rub candle against it then heat it up so the wax melts in the grooves before you screw back in, makes it feel tighter.

I've not had much maple time, but when I did, I disliked the feeling of lacquer under my fingers. I prefer rosewood, lower maintainance, easier to refret, so worry about wearing through, I can cheerfully file the fret ends, this is mostly considerations cause I a bodger, so if you are getting a nice bass its proably not very applicable, unless you like steel stings on nickel frets and play in such a way that will wear them out and require a refret.

After the body, not so much the pickups, anyone want the pickups?

I read, but don't do it till someone confirms they will take blame, that you can check speakers are in phase by touching a 9v battery across the jack , and if they don't all stick out or all suck in its wrong.

I want the pup out the SG for a wife-alike, I guess the bass is short scale?

Superglue them. Pop and squirt some into the hole.

I've got a Fender one, its been primered, and my housemate seems to have claimed it as his own. Offers?

[quote name='lovedub' post='84776' date='Nov 7 2007, 09:31 AM']Aldi!? how much did you pay for it? is it any good?[/quote]

Dunno yet, the soldering iron from there (gas) is awesome, I think as long as everthing spins right and such the main thing it the quality of the bits.

Whats the advantage of last minute bidding? The auction goes to whoever bids most first, if someone is bidding dodge and get more than you, its will get relisted, and try again, if they push the bid up, they can't push it past what you were willing to spend. I bid on an item listed here, the amount I had ready to pay for it, someone tried feeling me out last minute, by bidding £5 more each time, but they ran outta time and I won cause I'd not tried to last minute it, and it was below my max bid anyway.

What are good things to make for practicing using a router? I just bought one from Aldi, Gonna practice with the bits that come with it on scrap wood, and get some quality bits for anything real. I'm looking for the equivalent of making candlesticks when learning to use a lathe.

CAn't you use the existing casing and have the content replaced or rewound?

If you get it and don't want it, I'd probably buy it at that price, so not much risk there. Unless its a pink one, or I fail to sell anything.

I used Rustin's danish oil, which contains tung on my Wishbass, and on my current build, works pretty well. Satin/matt through. Its all about the sanding first.

Maybe related somehow, but when I took the pickups out of the Mockingbird I have, it appeared to be the same as the one in my Westone thunder. Dunno if the Westone had been upgraded or they just had good pups in, it had a fender j pickup in it as well, so its not unlikely.

Veneer, of whatever sort of wood you fancy, online searching or a wood place will sort you. If you are really cheap, score offcuts from some woodworker, in a variety of shades so you can code your fretlines.

Did it, The sound out of it is most like the sound you hear when you put your ear against the bass acoustically. The random pickup from an old washburn is not as hot as the Kent Armstrong P though, and will need replacing at some point.

Thought it would be good to add that I have a 4 ohm 15" black widow speaker spare.

I know a guy local to me selling one. Send me a PM and I'll phone him, too oldschool for internets.

[quote name='nick' post='78904' date='Oct 24 2007, 03:39 PM']Me too.[/quote]

Ditto

I scored one in a classifieds for £45, was trashed though. It seems a really nice bass.

If no-one else bids on that I can just about afford it... Yeah, so those suck, I mean, really, a lot.

Best I've had was a Washburn MG70 shredder, cheap cause it was encased in grease and all the strings had popped out the locking trem, so it looked a state. If you are worried about missing it, get them to put it aside, and take a card, hit up the internet, you can phone and cancel.