Mr. Foxen

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.

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.

Superglue them. Pop and squirt some into the hole.

[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.

[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.