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Placement can be quite tricky as headstocks built to accommodate smaller tuners tend to be smaller as well. Centre the holes too near the top (ie where they are now) and your larger machine-head base plates will stick out over the top, bring them down too far and you add a horizontal kink in the strings as they have to now negotiate a wider capstan. The best thing to do is strip your new tuners so they will sit on the front of the headstock and then mock up the positions with threads (as strings) coming from the bridge, over the nut, under your string retainer (if necessary) and finally around the capstans. Hold it all down with blu-tac or whatever then remove the capstans and mark in pencil the areas you want to remove.

[quote name='Truckstop' post='1168056' date='Mar 19 2011, 11:09 AM']I guess all you could do with it is completely strip it now. It looks awful as it is! Truckstop[/quote] Yep. I bet it would look peachy all stripped and finished in natural. [quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='1168166' date='Mar 19 2011, 01:03 PM']I really miss seeing bands who look like this [/quote] 2 of them look like scary women.

[quote name='ThomBassmonkey' post='1168085' date='Mar 19 2011, 11:36 AM'].... Most people haven't heard of a Sandberg JJ, but if you say you've got a Fender Jazz, they'll nod approvingly, even though it could be a MIM.[/quote] Or even a Squier. Great observation ^.

[quote name='Bass_Guardian' post='1167826' date='Mar 19 2011, 12:15 AM']Right cool, any more info on the spec of the bass maybe?[/quote] Sorry mate I don't know the bass, I was just speculating considering it's unknown brand. Although I found that the same one you linked to failed to sell on [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/spider-bass-guitar-amp-and-leads-ideal-starter-/270713533188?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item3f07c8b304"]the bay[/url] for a ton, so I might be right.

[quote name='Bass_Guardian' post='1167821' date='Mar 19 2011, 12:07 AM']Sorry not that outshined. Its hard to describe without a pic found one [url="http://birmingham.gumtree.com/birmingham/13/73951313.html"]http://birmingham.gumtree.com/birmingham/13/73951313.html[/url] Same as that except some sort of red burst[/quote] That's a shame. The BC Rich would have been worth a few hundred. I think he'd be lucky to get 100 for that one.

[quote name='Bass_Guardian' post='1167813' date='Mar 18 2011, 11:59 PM']Eh? i think its broke ( the link )[/quote] fixed

Like this maybe? [attachment=75121:BC_Rich_Spider.PNG]

[quote name='uke' post='1167735' date='Mar 18 2011, 10:21 PM']Gads...! Hope I never bump into him if I'm in the company of some semi famous musician from the Sixties! he seems to have formed a band with almost every one he's ever met! wonder why they were all so short lived ? [/quote] Including a brief colaberation with Steven Hawking on backing vocals.

I could kind of understand it if it were for patriotic reasons... sadly there are a lot of guys who aren't American who wouldn't own a MIM purely because the serial code doesn't translate as MIA.

[quote name='redstriper' post='1167556' date='Mar 18 2011, 07:39 PM']Is [url="http://www.myspace.com/peterbartonram"]this[/url] yer man?[/quote] Sweet Jebus! He probably has to sell everything at hiked up prices to be able to afford all that hairspray.

[quote name='chaypup' post='1167531' date='Mar 18 2011, 07:04 PM']He sells (usually) ludicrously over priced stuff. If you look at any thread here laughing at how much something cost there's a fair chance it's him.[/quote] Phew I thought for a moment that I'd bought something off him. I wonder what stoopid reserve he's set on it then.

I've just spotted his ebay-name. It rings a bell but I can't remember from what... of course it doesn't help that all his past listings are private.

A quick squint at the neck pocket and heel might shed some light.

It has so obviously been hit with sandpaper. -> [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160560167256&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:GB:1123#vi-desc"]linky[/url] At no point does he categorically claim that the wear is genuine but the carefully chosen wording [i]implies[/i] it several times. He also implies that it is a 70's bass (I think it's an '83+) Still there's probably a nice bass in there somewhere.

[quote name='KERMITNT' post='1166690' date='Mar 18 2011, 08:55 AM']i never played guitar so i am in the safe zone [/quote] That makes you a better bassist than me.... according to this thread.

According to the sticker on the back, one of my basses was "Forged in the Fires of Ecstasy by Virgins.... in the UK"

Have you tried Sandberg themselves? They might send you a freebie.

Is this one of the "7 ever made" or the same one that keeps coming up? Cost him a grand?

Being a Squier, there's a chance it might be ply. Have you not had a look in the control cavity and neck pocket?

Up 'til the start of the 90s I was a guitarist. I'd dabbled with and owned a few basses but never actually played bass live. Then one day our bass player upped sticks to go work in Argentina. So, distraught at the demise of our awesome band (it wasn't) I stepped up on bass. Things died down after a while. Then some guys I just about knew who hadn't had any luck finding the right bass player were told that I was a decent bassist and to try me.... and the rest is (quite literally) history. It would seem that despite me originally wanting to be a guitarist, the cosmos wanted me to play bass. I'm not technically great but I get good reviews from fellow musos (guitarists mainly) who gloat that what makes me different is that I play bass like a guitarist. I do like to keep it busy if possible and avoid root notes with my own original material but I don't mind it when doing covers. Since coming onto here I've learned to appreciate what a being bass player is about and I've altered my perception of "the roll" of the bass in a band... doesn't stop me rebelling though.

It's hard to tell exactly what you want info on here but from what you've said so far, it not a good idea to mix different brands of pickup in the same bass (it's down to their resistance not being equal and one overpowering the other). Generally they follow standard dimensions so swapping out is a relatively easy process - the occasional bit of pickguard might need trimming.

[quote name='neepheid' post='1165983' date='Mar 17 2011, 04:53 PM']Although I've got no burning desire to own one, 1975 would really have to be a Gibson Ripper: [/quote] Quelle surprise.

Is Clutterbucket?

[quote name='Jondeeman' post='1165494' date='Mar 17 2011, 10:21 AM']Bass players? We're cool... cooler than an ice cube in a snowstorm...[/quote] And we get all the clunge.