neepheid

Also, if you want the real thing, have you tried contacting Fender GBI?

http://www.fender.com/en-GB/contact/

I would hope they could provide you with the part you need?

Also, what's the issue with getting it from the USA? Time? Taxes? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/390659569904 ?

Not log, it's linear 100k pot, solid shaft, centre detent.

http://www.newoldsounds.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=11027

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1391942668' post='2362764']
Really glad to see that this has had a new lease of life! It sat in my workshop in pieces gathering dust for the best part of a year.
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It looks even better than in those photos now. I was delighted to not only resurrect it - finding virtually all the original parts (or exact equivalents) was particularly pleasing. What a bonus to find it punches way above its weight. Happy to gig it any time.

I just sold my one which was modded in exactly the same way you describe, and my favourite setting was also both inner single coils.

I think I'll stick with my "does it sound good to me? yes/no" approach.

Well, I applaud you for getting up there and playing without any other instruments to hide behind/disguise within the mix. I thought you did really well, sure there was a couple of bloops but for your first time live that was really good. If anything, I find it's much harder to play without the framework of a band, you're pretty naked up there, musically speaking.

I don't think on that showing you've got much to worry about. Also as a plus, you didn't let your (very few) mistakes get to you. A wee smile maybe, but fairly poker faced about it. This is a good thing.

Now you've made a start, do it some more

[quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1391548272' post='2358541']
Without wanting to sound un-cool and that, what does the choke do?

Apart from getting it to fire up on a frosty morning
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The choke (inductor) is part of an LC circuit (inductor/capacitor) which acts as a mid filter. The mid pot will progressively scoop out mids but I think I read somewhere that it also alters the impedance of the circuit so the effect it has on the sound isn't as clear cut as that. It'll be fun finding out

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1391547495' post='2358523']
Is that a "proper" Gibson choke or did you wind it yourself?
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Neither Curtis Novak wound it for me - http://www.curtisnovak.com/pickups/EB-Choke.shtml

All wired up and no place to go (yet) - just the pickups and the bridge wire to add but I think I'll wait until assembly time for that.

Wee bit of work tonight - mounted the choke coil and did some soldering:

Sorry for the lack of updates. Refinish is ongoing, no more shiny pics of that at the moment. Tonight I made a mounting bracket for the choke coil. I took a PC blanking plate:



And after some drilling, bending, cutting and filing I ended up with this:



This idea is taken from the later Rippers (early ones had a small bracket soldered to the side of the pot), this one basically acts as a washer on the pot shaft. So with it attached it looks like this:





And the choke will sit like this, with an M5 machine screw straight through the whole thing and bolted to the bracket (don't have one at the moment)





Also tided up the pots - some of them had wires soldered to them and tags soldered to the casings which needed freeing up. I'm going to do all the wiring soon.

By "horrible cut out" do you mean the bottom cutaway being deeper than the top one?? The JC has that.

[quote name='KiOgon' timestamp='1391092707' post='2353163']
Mmmmmm, I've just done a rewire job for one of those, shall we say the factory way of doing things can certainly be improved on
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I know all about it, the owner spoke to me too. The factory wiring can always be improved upon, otherwise you wouldn't be doing what you do

The 2014 Gibson EB is calling my name, and I don't really know why. It looks much better than last year, with the black pickguard and the jack socket moved from the pickguard to the body edge.

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1391041562' post='2352730']
Keep reading and over the next few weeks it will turn out that way. They always do.
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You're well within your rights to make a prophesy of doom and gloom, but please don't berate the people who have contributed in a measured and constructive manner in the thread up to this point - I don't think that's fair.

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1391039406' post='2352695']
Unsurprisingly this has turned into the usual BC 'i don't like it so neither should you' thread.
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Which thread are you reading? I've read several positive comments and no commands or diktats. The overwhelming suggestion has been to try one.

Yup, seen it, enjoyed it (although it kinda made me sad at times too - he really doesn't do himself any favours at times, does he?)

[quote name='Shockwave' timestamp='1390981600' post='2351832']
I have been casually looking for a Money bass for a while. What are they like? Can the neck pickup sound tonally like a Grabber?
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I suck at describing basses. I like it. I got it because I miss my modded Epi Les Paul. I wanted the small body/long neck ergonomics, and it certainly has that It's got the immediate drop in and play thing that my other TB+ wearing bass has (Gibson IV), just seems to have enough grunt in enough of the mid frequencies to conquer just about anything.

Will it sound like a Grabber? I couldn't tell you - I spent literally 2 minutes with a Grabber once, too bad for it I was choosing between it and a G-3 at the time - the G-3 absolutely smoked it for me so I can't even remember how it sounded. So that's my entire tonal reference for a Grabber - not as good as a G-3. Sorry it's not more descriptive than that. Personally, I doubt it will sound like a Grabber. Everything is different - different pickup(s), different construction, different hardware, different wood(s). And yet, to someone's ears it might sound exactly like a Grabber.

That didn't help at all, did it?

Ha, he's finally stopped keeping that one to himself. He's keeping the red one though, the crafty devil

I really like my Epiphone Jack Casady signature. Of course, it was made by folks who are looking over their shoulders wondering when the bombs are going to arrive from the north, but they seem to have done a fine job of it in spite of this drain on their attention spans

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1390832167' post='2349990']
If it was my signature model I had been collaborating with Fender to create and it ended up as a Squier, I would go mental . Why does Pino get a Custom Shop model, Tony "used to be only very moderately famous for a short while in the mid-1980's "Franklin get a made in the USA bass, even Nate Mendel gets a made in Mexico effort, and yet I am in the bargain basement with a bass being assembled by former rubber plant farmers on an archipelago somewhere east of Java? That is what I would be asking them.
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Is there not something good about your signature model being affordable for young folk starting out? If I had a signature model, I'd want it to be as accessible as possible.

What's wrong with the pots, other than your objection to their size and your perception of their quality?

RE: this show, I've wondered ever since it started - if it's all about the voice, why isn't it on radio?

Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, eh, BRX?

[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1390700527' post='2348496']
I have owned a Tribute L2000 and the pots wore out in no time and had to be replaced.
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For balance's sake, I'd like to point out that the only pot I've ever had fail on me in a G&L was in a USA made El Toro. It was broken when I got the bass. Bust track so magic spray didn't help. Of course it was the tricky to find 1MOhm reverse log pot.

Both my Tribute L-2000 and M-2000 are doing great.

Buy cheap - buy twice - get two basses