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    Hofner Expertise Needed

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted · Edited by KK Jale

    I'm no expert but it seems the combination of blade pickups and raised logo might indicate 1967, not 1968.

    Have you tried cross-checking against Steve Russell's site at [url="http://www.vintagehofner.co.uk/gallery/gallery2/bass.html"]http://www.vintageho...lery2/bass.html[/url] ?

    Calling Berlin! Need a 335 or similar

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    We have many German friends here on Basschat, so....

    My long-time buddy Hazel is doing two dates in Berlin with her small band very soon and cannot entrust her Gibson to the airline.

    She is a good person, mature, experienced, and a remarkable songwriter....

    Do any of our Berlin-dwelling Basschatters have an Epiphone / Peerless / Samick 335 or Casino or similar that they might be able to lend?

    Needs to be a thinline semi, and able to feed back :)

    PM me and I will put her in touch with you. Beer and making new friends is guaranteed!

    Precision type bass volume control. Always on full?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]
    Always full up on a Precision for me. But the knob can be useful in the first tune if I've had to guess the master volume setting because we haven't had a soundcheck. Which is often.

    Also good for delicately rolling off the last note as the cymbals die away... a professional little touch which I'm confident invariably goes unnoticed. [/font][/color]

    4 stringer into fiver. Anyone done such a thing?

    in Bass Guitars

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    [quote name='Telebass' timestamp='1421966272' post='2667340']
    Ooh yes please, would be great!
    [/quote]

    *phew* that was in a VERY obscure place!

    Actually it's a Wilkinson. Fits into Precision bass screw holes. The D string tunes at the bridge end, and is clamped up top by a natty dual-purpose replacement string tree. Comes with instructions, screws, a new nut blank, and even a B string… but I wouldn't use that, 'cos this all this stuff is about 20 years old. Brand new and unused, in knackered box :)

    [URL=http://smg.photobucket.com/user/transalp1998/media/bridge_zpstzwup8cm.jpg.html][IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v348/transalp1998/bridge_zpstzwup8cm.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

    Becoming a luthier

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by KK Jale

    Money no object??? Wow. Lucky hombre.

    Much good advice above.

    First, buy some good books...

    Then go on a residential guitar building course, maybe like this one (South Ayrshire)...

    [url="https://shop.baileyguitars.co.uk/52-build-your-own-first-guitar"]https://shop.baileyg...wn-first-guitar[/url]

    Then do one all by yourself, but use proper plans at first, maybe follow the Kinkade acoustic book...

    [url="http://www.kinkadeguitars.co.uk/the-book"]http://www.kinkadegu....co.uk/the-book[/url]

    Long road ahead... but great fun...

    I'm ex-Newark School of Violin Making and was then apprenticed to a fine guitar builder for a year or so... and to touch momentarily on the finances, I worked pretty much entirely for free during that time and consider it to have been a very fair deal :)

    Good luck!

    James Jamerson

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by KK Jale

    [quote name='Hobbayne' timestamp='1420325905' post='2648199']
    This is a good read.
    [url="http://www.philbrodieband.com/muso_james_jamerson-funk-machine.htm"]http://www.philbrodi...unk-machine.htm[/url]
    [/quote]

    The Funk Machine mystery is a bit odd.

    As far as I can make out, Jamerson owned four Precision basses: a black '50s, an unknown sunburst generally referred to as "early sixties", a second sunburst '62 or '63, and a sunburst '65/'66 (the one in the 1976 Guitar Player interview photograph… transition logo, very patterned pickguard). All of these seem to have been stolen or lost, then replaced by the next.

    The bass in the most famous (mid-'60s?) Jamerson photo - the one which pops up on google right away - has presumably a big claim to be the Funk Machine as that would tie in with the timeline of the greatest Motown recordings. That's the one with the chipped pickguard tip, and it is either #2 or #3… impossible to tell which, IMO.

    Trouble is, the link above states the 'Funk Machine' bass with 'funk' carved into the neck heel was stolen in the early '80s, days before his death. That surely would make the FM the '65. But... Bob Babbitt said the true FM was stolen LONG before, in Detroit, before JJ even moved to California, where he eventually passed away. That would make the FM either #2 or #3. Unless he kept the '62 FM... and bought a spare. But somehow I don't see JJ as a spare bass kind of guy.

    Something doesn't add up. Lot of people looking for it, though :)

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