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Progreess since last post: Have heavily coated the body with sanding sealer and put the second layed of wood filler on. This will be followed by a couple of coated of sealer and then the Veneer shall be applied, or more probably botched. Recieved the bits to build a passive circuit, while i try to figure out how the old vintage active circuit went together.

I'll take 3 black please.

Your best bet is ask a tech to look at it. Or use this situation to learn about the electronics in your bass. If you open up the rear cover or front control panel or scratch plate, depending on what bass you have, check that no exposed wires are touching, all the solder joints are shiny.

First check the wiring to see if theres any damaged wires or shorts. Are you familiar with bass wiring?

The pickup surrounds really set it off alongside the control plate.

Cheers for the link mate. The plan at the mo is to get some woodfiller and then do a veneer on the front as show by Andyjr1515.

I've just put some DR Legends on my jaguar, previouly had TI's on. The DR's are slightly higher tension and feel like they're coated. They also sound brighter.

So having found that I can't route a straight line for love nor money decided to get a chisel and straighten the edges out. As you can see this went very well and didn't result in more routing and chiseling to remove splintered pieces of wood. The pencil line denotes the area of the bridge and where my original route was. I have also used a jig saw to take off the points. I also tried nitromors on the front. As has been pointed out before it doesn't work to well on guitar bodies.

I would like to see different pickups become mainstream, such as the Lightwave system. But also new designs of wound pickups. Another thing would be a better way to adjust pickup height.

[quote]I think so, but I vaguely remember someone posting to say they'd tightened up on who is now eligible for it.[/quote] If your 18 to 24 you qualify for that.

They stop the head of the tuner float. I replace them with m4 fibre washers that cost a quid for a hundred. It only takes two washers per tuner.

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[quote name='Fat Rich' post='1289739' date='Jul 1 2011, 11:49 PM']There are plenty of bolt-on basses with extended neck joints, the neck extends beyond the end of the fingerboard sometimes right down to the neck pick-up like this: and that gives you full access to all the frets, much the same as a neck-thru or set neck.[/quote] What is this bass? Its extremely nice.

YEah have read some threads about shims. I was using business cards to shim at first. Too late now though have routed out the bridge area. need to straighten the edges then it put pics up. Have started sanding as well. Thank f*ck for orbital sanders.

Cheers for the tip 4 strings. Tried shimming the neck but by the time it was at a decent action height the neck was nearly a cm out of the pocket. I'm thinking of putting a new nut on any way as it always used to buzz on an open d string. I got given a fader by my boss (with a few other bits and pieces form when he was at Neeve, a studio console builder) and its 10.5kohm. Could I use this as pickup blend/selector?

Played an Ibanez GWB35 last friday.........GAS. The only reason I tried it was that I was in the bass room at Digital Village in Cambridge, and that deadens alot of the sound if you play badly. It only took about five minutes to stop looking at the neck. I Couldn't get a bad sound out of it.

[quote]The only way you're gonna get that bass un gothy is by painting flowers and peach symbols on it. Which I highly advise.[/quote] It would be different I admit.Will have a think on that.

[quote]Extreme is how he lives and eats doughnuts![/quote] How'd you know about the doughnuts? Looking at the nut I should be able to file a little bit out of each slot so th e routeing won't have to be so severe. I'm also going to matt black and laquer the body. Hope fully I will be able to put a white outline of a dragon wrapping around the bridge and pups, so that this bass isn't too gothy.

Cheers. The bridge isn't all the way down but is very low so I think the best option would be to route it.

So far I have matt blacked the neck and laquered it. Chopped off a point and really wish I waited till I had a jigsaw. Got some Wizard pickups, a thumper split humbucker and an 84 jazz. This was just a dry fit before I butchered the body any more, but look at the action height Whats the best way to sort this?

[quote name='cycrowave' post='1281747' date='Jun 25 2011, 12:53 AM']on the topic of modern soul, john legend is actually pretty good[/quote] Does anybody listen to Solar Radio. Sky channel 0129. Especially Saturday mornings with Ginger Tony? He plays modern soul and the male artists that sing are better than John Legend, who I do like. Also Tower of Power are still touring. I'd give a bollock to see them.

Does anybody have a suggestion for a luthier in Cambridge or Norwich?

You should be looking at wattage rather than KV. Look on the back of your equipment and get the quoted wattage of the input, this is usually on a sticker stating maximum power consumption with the voltage. Add all the wattage figures together and add 20 to 30% for the surge.

I was fixing the electronics of this bass, needed new pots and pickups, when I saw a thread about defretting advice and thought sod I'll have a go, Then I realised how badly the points are chipped and how much they annoy me so am thinking of rounding everyhting out, Not the prettiest thing in the world and not brilliant to play but its fun chopping bits of wood up isn't it. If anybody has any advice about epoxying the fingerboard it would be greatly appreciated. Also considering making it headless at some point due to hideous neck dive, or should i leave the head on?