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It could well be what Matt said ^ but try pressing the headstock like you did the A string. If you silence it that way too then it probably is the truss-rod.

What is it with bloody basses? If something's not battened down tight an open A will always find it.

Result! Well done.

[quote name='StevieD_FenderP2009' post='1110447' date='Jan 31 2011, 11:53 PM']..You need to make sure the wires are this way round coming from the pick ups...[/quote] That's not necessarily true. Yes that is the convention... but for a standard "in series" arrangement all you have to ensure is that (assuming you have the 2 pups connected North to South as in the pic above) you have a North (or South depending on how you chosen to wire it*) running to earth while simultaneously treating it's opposite, South (or North*) as your "hot" wire. There is nothing physically to stop you swapping the E/A and the D/G. Every now and then you get a single coil pup (which is basically what one half of a P pup is) with a weaker or stronger end which is why I suggested swapping them about.

Tug bar for old school thumb playing.

Not a big fan of red basses or pearliod but (with yours being one of the nice reds) I think the two together would look sweet. It helps having Gary Mac's av to look at.

A bit late to the discussion but.. an important difference between active and passive circuits is that the tone controls on a passive circuit can generally only cut tone (ie add nothing, leaving it pure) while the tone controls on an active circuit usually boost certain pre ordained frequencies (occasionally selectable) thus adding their own flavour - a good one will be transparent up to a point before injecting it's own tone.

Which are the reasonably priced ones?

[quote name='Bilbo' post='1109254' date='Jan 31 2011, 11:48 AM']I don't get that a bridge can make that much difference..... I think its mass hysteria. [/quote]

My 30+ year old G&L suffered from this. Feeding the rosewood did nothing to replenish it as wear was a contributory factor too. The only thing to do was to file the frets back. It requires a couple of specialist tools and a bit of very careful filing so it's probably a wee bit hands on for most. A good luthier can sort it for you no probs.

[quote name='Clarky' post='1109028' date='Jan 31 2011, 08:16 AM']Think I recognise that from this rather ignominious FS thread on BassChat! [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=113497&hl=Celinder"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=...amp;hl=Celinder[/url][/quote] [i]I am not a wheeler and dealer, I am a PhD. student in music who loves instruments, especially Celinders.....[/i] ..... and buying and selling them.

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='1107535' date='Jan 29 2011, 07:17 PM']It reminded me of the word 'why?'.[/quote] Just a guy starting out building exploring the possibilities and limits of the medium while having a bit of with it too.

[quote name='jakesbass' post='1107883' date='Jan 30 2011, 09:42 AM']I like this logic. My double bass was made in 1880 so making a rough calculation based upon the time/size equation I would say it would be like this... "Hi Pygmy Shrew, I'm Horse" [/quote] Your screen name should be Jake the Peg.

[quote name='BurritoBass' post='1107601' date='Jan 29 2011, 08:41 PM']I've not swapped mine. A lot of us like to keep it traditional rather than "improve"[/quote] +1 besides only numptys can't get them to intonate.

[quote name='KiOgon' post='1107419' date='Jan 29 2011, 05:51 PM']My Dad was a carpenter so I knew from very early days what was wood & what wasn't, not to mention my first bass guitar was hand made, out of WOOD that my Dad selected specially for the job To be fair - when I was a lad - I'm not so sure that Plastic had been invented [/quote] Is your real name Jesus?

[quote]This one is very remenisant of the one used by Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy during a performance of Jailbreak[/quote] Yeah coz he famously played a fretless Jazz.

I feel it necessary to mention that my L-1000 was built in 1980 because it was one of the first G&L basses ever built and therefore it proves beyond doubt that I have the largest swinging dick out of all the G&L fanboys.

Pretty cool. The headstock and tuners arrangement is inspiring. Pity it looks like someone's curled one out over the neck heel.

Yep but you'd be forever wiping fingerprints off it.

Traded my Pitchblack for Kevin's Polytune. edit : Sadly it has since come to light that Kevin has been trading under more than one account name. For sure [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/174050-kjb-feedback/page__p__1662001__hl__kjb__fromsearch__1#entry1662001"]kjb[/url] is one and there may be others. The mods are aware and steps are taking place behind the scenes which will lead to all this being sorted out soon enough. I'm just wishing that anyone researching before trading with Kevin [size=6][b]read this post [/b][size=4]first[/size][/size][size=4].[/size]

[quote name='4000' post='1106758' date='Jan 28 2011, 09:43 PM'].... say hello to Betty from me. ....[/quote] She's had bit of a make over since you last saw her. A fresh lick of paint (still surf green like) and lightly tinted neck lacquer, some new "vintage" style tuners, a new SD quarter pounder (SCPB-3) and a trad '51 P wiring loom.

The way the "slight friction rubbing" has come out stripy across the width kinda looks to me like there's ply under there.

[quote name='andysleigh' post='1106583' date='Jan 28 2011, 07:00 PM']I would have thought normal pva might be a bit weak.. maybe not tho.[/quote] It's not normal pva. You clamp it up good and tight and the glue joint actually goes harder than the wood.