dmckee

For the sake of this thread, I would say I'm VERY happy with the bass. Lovely lovely neck. Here it is with my McIntyre and my fretless Fender Precision.

Not sure a Uni Pre and battery would fit in the existing cavity under the plate. It's a PJ so there are 3 knobs and a jack socket in there just now..... That'd be my assumption anyway.

On that front actually, I wonder if that might be tricky with a chambered body.....

I’ll maybe get it done when I get him to route the body to install a John East preamp. 🙂

Cheers guys. Seems fair. Ive had Chris McIntyre (here in Edinburgh) make me scatchplates too, so that’s another option.

So I've managed to get a hold of a lovely Jake, courtesy of another Baaschatter, and I fancy changing the scratchplate. Anyone have any joy sourcing one? I wrote to the <info at public-peace.de> address a couple of times to ask but got no response. Is there a better email address to use? Any ideas other than just getting one custom made?

Cheers for that!

Yeah, I think a matched pair makes more sense and I’ve used Nordys in many basses. Saying that, i have a single coil QP in my Tele bass and I prefer that I think to the Nordy 51P. And it was the DiMarzio Model J that Tony F put in his original PJ fretless. Hmmmm! Anyone have a handy link to the measurements for the 70s pickup position? I think that’s what I want for this.

I have an American Special Precision which was converted to fretless by a previous owner. It’s a lovely job actually - nice big slab of ebony. Anyway, I’d like to get a jazz pickup put in it, to make it a bit of a Tony Franklin clone. Any suggestions for pickups? I think it’s the standard American split coil that’s in there, so is there a good J pickup to pair with that, or do I buy a matching PJ set? Likely to get a 3 way switch, so want pickups to be well balanced.

Cheers Andy. Will definitely get all that checked.