I just picked this up from ebay I was expecting it to be something like an encore etc, but its clearly older. Its very worn and the neck is massive it came in a nice old hard case too, and despite the massive hum i get in my house it sounds fine. I cant get the action super, super low as i like, but certainly low enough! if i go too low it makes the very top of the neck choke out.
Anyone got any ideas what it is?, its very aged although i have cleaned it up rather. I cant seem to shield it as well i can my jazzes, ive covered the cavities in self adhesive shielding stuff from basspartsresource as i do on my jazzes but it still picks up all the dimmer switch noise in my house (goes away to some extent when i touch the strings) Should i get one one of those 'eliminator plates' for P bass they have on basspartsresource? Anyone tried one?, do they go under the pickguard?
I want to fit an anodised gold pickguard but I cant seem to find one, anyone either got one going or know where i can get one at a decent price?
The previous owner has stripped the headstock and i cant make out what it said before, the pics are off my phone so not great, my first thought was sumbro but im no expert!
It seems very solid and well built the neck pocket has a B in it, and the pups say S and N on the bottom.
Any ideas?, there is also a truss rod access cutaway.
im very pleased with it but would like to make it better and find out more if i can.
photobucket is just crashing my browser so im gonna have to do the pics like this for now:
see flickr album below (my first linky thing hooray me!!)
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