miles'tone

The cheap DIY version is: Practice arpeggios up and down the neck: Maj7, Min7, Aug7, Dim7 (in all keys) Practice them in 1st 2nd and 3rd inversions, always beginning on the lowest note available of the particular chord. Do that for 30mins a day and soon you will amaze yourself. You're welcome! 😊

I had a look and nearly went for it but decided it was too much money for me right now. He's been following me everywhere ever since! 😄

I think any strings sound good on a P bass.

I totally get the tinkering thing 😄 From my own experience I've found that as long as the stock pickups are decent (which the CV Jags are it seems, from the demos I've seen) then the mod money is better spent on a Zoom B1 Four which will make it sound like anything you please. Each to their own though! 👍

Why not wait to see what it sounds like first?

Funny.. The CV Jag popped up on my radar yesterday. I knew there was one but I only just noticed that they're medium scale. This makes me interested! I'd love a medium scale P with a full size body. This comes close.

No, because a Precision with flats is the electric dog house bass. 😄

Coming from upright bass I did used to think that. However, after one gig which was so silly loud I had to use earplugs I saw the light on the matter. I thought I was in tune (I was, with myself actually), I could FEEL I was in tune, but listening back to the recording was painful! Yes, use your ears and don't look at the fingerboard, great - but those little lines can save everyone's night sometimes! Playing well every time is so much cooler than looking 'cool'. 🙃

The magic ingredient to Jaco's sound was the chicken grease he rubbed into his strings.

True, but there is the option to make an offer and haggle a bit. I know this because as I was window shopping on Sunday I saw a nice mij P bass that grabbed my attention, although it was priced a bit high. Just out of interest I made an offer just to see if the seller would come down on his price at all.. One quick click and I suddenly realised that my offer was instantly accepted and I'd committed to buying the sodding thing!! It's been posted.. In reality I should have been window shopping for a larger screened phone and new glasses! Can't afford them now because I've bought a new bass I don't need. From Japan. 🤪 I'm sure the import duty will be hilarious. 😶

That does sound like a reasonable process for gaining trust and making sure that scammers are kept off the market place (unlike Ebay). Definitely frustrating if you need the funds sharpish and only have the one item to sell though!

Another option could be to part it out completely. Sell every bit separately. You may get the most return that way and the body would appeal more to the modding community I imagine. The Stratosphere seem to do very well parting out Fenders..

I'm not sure when I will gig again exactly as I'm not in a band presently, but an upside to this lockdown has been me reconnecting with past band members on social media and video chats. People realising who and what are important once everyone took their feet off the gas. There's a band for me on the horizon. A very good band.

Just for the record I use boiled linseed oil. Just a smidge in a kitchen towel, tap a dot of it on every 'fret square' along the fingerboard, rub it in then immediately wipe it all off with a clean kitchen towel. Makes the grain pop and look amazing! I got this tip off Talkbass from Roger Sadowski himself. He does exactly this to all his builds with rosewood fingerboards.

Fit 😍

Get a new undamaged one. No regrets.

Well I'm nearly proud of myself. I have my one electric bass in bits prepping it for a DIY refin and it kind of feels now like I don't have it (it won't be back together for about 8 weeks weather permitting).. Anyway I had an orange Player Precision in the basket earlier, trigger finger twitching. Managed to delete it in time! How I fair over the weekend after a couple of beers though is anyone's guess.

I think this is a more realistic photo of the actual shade:

https://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/product/180807331010008--gl-tribute-lb-100-3-tone-sunburst-black-pickguard-bc Just spotted this. Would go for it myself if I had the readies! There's an ex demo on the website with a bump for £329. The link for it won't share for some reason!

They have changed the fingerboard radius from 12" on the old Sub Ray 4 to 9.5" on the newer Sterling Stingray 4. I think that's the only difference though.

This never fails to pick me up

Stunner! Congratulations! I love the look without the pickguard too. Looks ace with the all black EMGs. Have fun!

Yes I've done this although I used a large Tupperware container with a lid, muriatic acid to just about cover the bottom of said container then parts in a smaller container (no lid obvs) placed in the big one then big lid on. I found about 2 hours inside worked a dream with nickel plated hardware. It didn't really do anything to chrome plated hardware though, even after leaving it in there for 2 days!

Yes. I've got 5. One of each, no repeaters. My wife "loves" this loophole.

I didn't know that Fender has dropped the graphite support rods for the Ultra series. The lower priced Professional series still has them. Interesting. Another way to look at this is perhaps Fender are using better quality wood for the Ultra series. Wood that doesn't need support rods. I've had more than my fair share of Fenders over years and my least favourite ones had those support rods. They seem to suck a bit of soul out of the instrument to me. No question Sandbergs are amazing but the Ultra Jazz looks sooo much sexier to me. Nothing to um and ah about further down the road. If it was me, I would go Fender.