Ou7shined

If you think your skills are up to it then go for it. It might be worth getting a quote off Ashdown first though. Can you afford for your amp to go phut during a gig?

How good are you at fault finding and soldering?

I wonder what horrors lie beneath -> [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Vintage-Fender-Bass-Guitar_W0QQitemZ290543831892QQcategoryZ4713QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp4340.m8QQ_trkparmsZalgo%3DMW%26its%3DC%26itu%3DUCC%26otn%3D6%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D7750426592405961334"]linky[/url] I'll wager it has some nice tones as it is but there ain't a P tone among them.

[quote name='dougie' post='1162718' date='Mar 15 2011, 08:53 AM']My bids getting beat and for once im not raising it,for some reason i cant justify it even to myself ffs lol.i think its the fact its 3000 mile away,im an impatient bastard by nature and last couple of hours been getting a gut feeling about this....[/quote] Go on admit it, you never noticed it was in the states and was cacking it.

It can be very tough. Sometimes you just have to go on trust. It's nice if you can get it's resistance reading on a multimeter that you can cross reference. Some pups have identifiable serials or instantly recognisable colour combinations of wiring. Often (with Fender for example) you just have no way of fully knowing just by looking. Some manufacturers like SD place part numbers on the backs of theirs. I think Wizard put a name sticker on theirs. I have a set of Bill Lawrence pups which are distinguished from fakes or the lesser quality "factory" BLs because he was kind enough to actually hand sign them in biro. All you can do is look out for the physical signs, resin sealed, wax dipped, cloth tape/sleeving, raised poles, do they look too new for vintage etc. and compare them to pics or descriptions from the net.

[quote name='LawrenceH' post='1162503' date='Mar 14 2011, 10:14 PM']...or lighter. Two spots filled on my MIJ 75 RI, one dried darker, the other lighter, than the surrounding wood. Why, I have no idea![/quote] Superglue can turn lighter if slight moisture is present.

Coolio.

Here's food for thought. If there was an overwhelming number of thwakity-wackers there, then perhaps they are the majority and "we" are minority.... and it is they who are keeping the bass industry alive which subsequently keeps the more rarer breeds of bass accessible to us "connoisseurs". Let's face it most of us on here are a little "niche" in some way or another.

[quote name='Clarky' post='1161930' date='Mar 14 2011, 03:56 PM']Here's the Rotosound slapper extraordinaire, featured in an earlier BC thread [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=15986&hl=Clutterbuck"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=...;hl=Clutterbuck[/url] The guy obviously has amazing technical ability but ....[/quote] I think he forgot he had a left hand around 4:45 (then totally spazzed out when he remembered).

[quote name='Nostromo' post='1161726' date='Mar 14 2011, 01:27 PM']Cant believe a fellow bass player would do a thing like that . . . .[/quote] Must have been a fan then. You should feel honoured. Seriously though, try [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?s=&showtopic=26672&view=findpost&p=274166"]this[/url].

[quote name='MB1' post='1161720' date='Mar 14 2011, 01:25 PM']MB1. "Lets do the TIM warp again!".[/quote] Oooh you're on fire today.

[quote name='Nostromo' post='1161691' date='Mar 14 2011, 01:05 PM']. . . . . my question is . . . . . does anyone know where I might get some genuine replacements ?...[/quote] Go to the next gig of the other band that was on the line up and wait for the bass player to go to the loo.

[quote name='MB1' post='1161516' date='Mar 14 2011, 10:48 AM']MB1. "A Pick? That bass your pictured with Wayne? Surely you should have asked for a shovel!" [/quote] Fantastic.

I hate cacophony of any sort. I'm quite glad I don't go to any of these bigger bass days then. I've been to every Moffat bash and all you hear throughout the day is sweet riffs (I'd say funk and blues was predominant) and maybe a combined 2 minutes of slap the entire day (it's a different story the night before when we all get pissed up and get our showy-off riffs out of our systems ). The secret seems to be having a limited number of attendees, all of whom have certain respect for each others audible space. You find that small groups of 4 or 5 players go about together in different areas all auditioning bits of kit at the same time. Also at Moffat for blowing off steam you have a single stage/auditorium where one bass player at a time (sometimes 2) gets up and jams with the band (amp and cab comparisons and the "guest speaker" are held here too) and there is a separate area where you can audition basses either with the provided headphones amps or through top of the range mini-combos. A comment earlier in an almost jumping on the band waggon way stated that you "can't tell anything from slapping a bass". I'm no great slap player but every time I pick up a new (to me) bass after I've run through some standard riffs I give it a wee slap and pop to help gauge it's responsiveness, hard tone, suitability as an all rounder and overall sustain/viscosity and also to feel the action just after the neck - it's just part of my 47 point bass test. I'm sure a proper slapper would be able to tell more.

[quote name='Dubs' post='1161447' date='Mar 14 2011, 09:57 AM']I'd definitely appreciate something like this. Asked this a couple of years ago but it seems it wasn't feasible then - [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=35714&hl"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=35714&hl[/url][/quote] Great minds eh. I currently have about 50 pages of PMs which if you count the sent ones too to comes to ~100. It's simply impossible to manually search through that lot. Can you put a word in for us then at the next Admin tête-à-tête Shep? You can be our union rep.

[quote name='spinynorman' post='1161231' date='Mar 14 2011, 12:11 AM']I'm surprised the anti-terror squad didn't want a look at that one.[/quote] They probably did.... I have a big beard.

Is there any way we could have a function added to search key words in our PMs? For example, how can we find info about an item sold to someone who's name we've forgotten and can't even remember when the deal went down? It's crazy to have such a huge storage capacity available for PMs but no ability to search through them other than page by page line by line. I know we can order by date or sender but that has limited usefulness.

They should make it a rule that you can only slap if it's in Eb (standard tuning).

Are they full?

Aye the headstock really screams "make me a tele". Looking forward to the pics.

[quote name='Ben Jamin' post='1161051' date='Mar 13 2011, 09:14 PM'][quote name='Ou7shined' post='1161020' date='Mar 13 2011, 08:52 PM'] Here's an early 80's Encore I defretted[/quote] Looks good! Makes me feel a little better about having an Encore [/quote] Hey don't feel bad about your Encore. Mine started like this... I kind of pimped it up a bit. It now looks like this....

[quote name='waldemar' post='1161035' date='Mar 13 2011, 09:05 PM']This is quite neat: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6P9wtq1n9g"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6P9wtq1n9g[/url][/quote] That's how I do it too.... but without the soldering iron.

Here's an early 80's Encore I defretted then refretted