LukeFRC

in addition to my thread in build diaries i heed a bit of help.

on a 34inch scale leangth how far from the nut/bridge would you put a musicman style pup.

if any of you know, know where to go on the internet, or are sat at home with a stingray and ruler it would be great!

thanks SJA!

So i currently have a standard 34 in (864 mm) scale neck i just got off budget bassist.

The routing for the P pup is therefore too far back on the body. the neck end of it being aproxamatly 725mm from the nut.

Now it would be nice to be able to use some of this rout for new pups but for the life of me cant find anywhere on net which pists standard pup positions. I guess a Jazz bridge pup is quite a bit further back. but what about stingrays?
can someone tell me where you would pup a stingray pup?

please!

just bought a random bass neck off sam.
well packaged and lovely and he put up with me not having pay-pal.
smiles all round i think!

nooo this is getting confusing

ill change this one again!

No worries!

A section of the site to talk about me and how ace (or not) I am.... or something

PM about to be sent!

i dont name, dont want too either. its the warwick or the status.... but warwickhunt called my warwick bluey and it seems cruel to take a name back so bluey it is.
Unfortuantly that means its described as 'bluey' and my other bass as 'the other one'.

update.... so i have a cheap neck on the way

and started stripping the body, it seems to have about 3/4 of a milimeter of varnish on it! its really thick. Paint stripper is lifting most of it with a bet of scraping and then i think i will sand the last paint layer off to save scratching the wood. (Ive already had a wee accident with a chisel. remeber boys and girls scrape with something blunt....
it also looks to be a one piece body which is quite nice, think it looks like maple (way too heavy for basswood)
pictures some time.

will start getting a wee shopping list of things i need.

Pups, bridge, and machine heads being the main things, but trying to do things fairly cheaply so will be keeping eyes open in the sale bit of the site.

Luke

[quote name='cheddatom' post='258062' date='Aug 8 2008, 01:32 PM']I think that the definition of perfection is interesting. A sphere can be called a perfect sphere if it has no flaws. Arguably, music, or any other art form for that matter, has no flaws. Even if you think you hear a mistake, it could have been intended. Music is either always perfect, or always flawed - but then (a lot of) you say that you need flaws in music, perfect music isn't as good! So flawed music is perfect? So they're not flaws? So there's nothing wrong with being perfect?[/quote]

you using some kinda platonic idea of perfection? where we reach to this perfect sphere of music. but in actual fact we are just creating a reflection of the perfect sphere of music or attempting to recreate something 'other'? in illustration imagine there is a cave......

Interesting stuff though.


Just listened to that clip you posted silddx. dont really care for the bass playing of mr caron but i reckon his keyboardest went and took his own life after that song, what was all that about?

[url="http://www.voxshowroom.com/equipment/index.html"]http://www.voxshowroom.com/equipment/index.html[/url]

this site has all the 60's stuff

its what the bass player for asian dub foundation does.

one bass in a soft gigbag. cable. some of the old strings i took off when i last changes strings. shove it in the back of the megabus and away we go.
i turned up to [url="http://www.artschooldance.com/"]this project[/url] without a cable, or the keyboardest did and stole mine!

(my old band are the forth band on the trailer. think pop and we stand out!)

see in edinburgh there uset to be a jazz fun night called fleamarket funk which played similar music but was all about dancing. bassment is a bit different!


oh and if i remeber rightly its good beer too

hahaha i moved away when i was 18 to go to uni but im chelmsford through and through.

Since they shut the Army and Navy and them gigs this was the only decent night out. (bitterscene was sometimes good if thats still going)
outstanding, there was a group of us from school who went ever now and then (boswells before you ask) "better than sex" as Brian in the year above put it.

The only down side is this amazing jazz funk that everybody sits and watches in a chin stroking type way. WHat? Musics fae dancing too!

any advise? what pups would you put in it??

i just turned my broweser off and picked up a bass and played for a bit. things i cant really play and am not leaning to play just muciking around over CDs and trying to get the feel rather than the actual notes played.... anyway i dont think it matters too much... the funk guys and gals is in the fingers!

Thing is 40 years ago you would fell a tree and leave it for years to dry out.
Nowdays a lot of wood wont be left for that long and/or will be kiln dried to speed the whole process up.

So a ash body made from a tree felled in the 50s will probably be (feel, work, sound) a bit different than one felled around the millennium.

[quote name='budget bassist' post='253958' date='Aug 3 2008, 10:03 PM']Plywood is cheap nasty stuff made of softwoods such as pine etc. All decent electric guitars are made from hardwoods.[/quote]

balsa is a hard wood. go make a balsa bass!


I would love to hear what a body made out of pitchpine sounded like, i guess not good. ANd you would wreck all your tools cos its so hard....



good question warwickhunt. I am safe in the knowledge that if i pretended i could tell the difference i would get it wrong.

right question time

1: How is best to strip the finish off? I would have thought a chemical paint stripper but a lot of folk on here seem to be sanding bodies. What do you recomend?

2: the body is routed for a P pickup. Now my guess work (as in i dont have the neck yet) is that for a standard fender style neck the P pickup is 2cm further back than my p bass.
I was thinking Jazz pups and routing two new holes but how far from the bridge would a MM style pup go as if i can recycle the hole it would be great!


[url="http://pulvoweb.chez-alice.fr/mavox/voxstandard.html"]http://pulvoweb.chez-alice.fr/mavox/voxstandard.html[/url] thats what the body was like originaly

status hotwire round core 45 - 65 -85 - 105
£16.13 and flipping amazing.
sound good
feel quality

I have some ashdown wideboys on my warwick at the moment which i found in shop that was soundcontrol at 2 tins for £10- they arnt as good.

This bass is better built and feels nicer than any bass you'll find under a grand i reckon. Even my warwick i bought after selling this isn't as well constructed (sorry warwickhunt!)

Big up for the neck too. Its very thin in depth with a flat back for your thumb meaning that it is super super fast to play. It is almost effortless for your left hand to play which made it a great bass to learn on.

PM sent

more photos here folks
[url="http://www.statii.com/forum/forum/viewthread.php?forum_id=9&thread_id=1825"]http://www.statii.com/forum/forum/viewthre...;thread_id=1825[/url]




Edit: And this gentleman is a pleasure to sell (and buy) from.