Jono Bolton

Well done, £340 is a great price! I tried one in the old Sound Control up here in Glasgow and it was fantastic, great sound, lovely quality and I really loved the chunky neck. I ordered the black one that was showing as 'in stock' online, only to get an email back telling me it was out of stock and wouldn't be back in for a couple of months. I cancelled the order and subsequently built a bitsa Jazz, and I still regret not having a little patience and waiting longer for a cracking bass

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1332679033' post='1591478'] That's really unusual, I like it! [/quote] Ditto!

Not my usual cup of tea, but that is a lovely looking bass!

Hi all! I've been scouring Gumtree in search of a new guitar and have found a Squier Strat for a relatively small price, but I don't really know enough about this particular model to know if it's worthwhile. I'll press the seller for more info, but my experience with Squiers is limited to the Standard and Affinity series'. The guitar I'm looking at has a bold black Squier logo, and says 'Strat' on the headstock, rather than Stratocaster as my old Standard Series guiitar read. The seller says it's made in China and it's a 50th Anniversary model (presumably Fender's 50th, so I'm guessing it's from about '96-ish). Does anyone know any more about these models, what they're like to play, value etc? The seller said in his ad that it needs a bit of work but is asking for £50, I'd like to try and get him down on that but I would need to make sure I'm armed with some knowledge of the instrument before I try to haggle with him. The Gumtree ad only shows the headstock but I've had some picture messages through of the body from him, but I've attached the headstock pic in the hope that someone recongnises the logo. Any help here would be great guys!

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1331140944' post='1568393'] You do realise that leaving out the tone control pot and cap will result in getting a 'tone control set to maximum treble'? If that's what you're after then that's fine, if not then you might want to add a little preset and capacitor and just tuck it inside the body cavity when you've found the tone you're after. [/quote] I do realise that the treble will be full if I remove the tone control from the circuit, that's why I'm looking to do it, I always have the treble up full on my P, I'm looking to do a bit of renovation to it as it needs sone TLC so I thought I'd take the opportunity to re-wire it at the same time.

[quote name='Jerry_B' timestamp='1331144013' post='1568458'] But then again the Wilkinson stamp is not noticable - the strings obscure it and it's not easy to see at anything apart from very close up. [/quote] I notice it though, it's really just my own preference, I just think it looks really cheap and nasty. I'll eventually get a plain BBOT bridge and swap the saddles over.

[quote name='KiOgon' timestamp='1331138532' post='1568318'] Yes - what you're thinking is fine the black to the jack socket with the black from the pick up to the pot casing & the bridge ground wire too. [/quote] I didn't see your edit until after I'd replied! So instead of having the wire that connects to the jack and is grounded to the tone control, it's instead grounded to the back of the volume pot? Along with the wire that goes to the underside of the bridge?

Excellent, it's not often I get this sort of thing right! The only thing that really threw me was the wire connecting the jack to the outer casing of the tone pot, I wasn't sure if it was totally necessary or not. Cheers!

Hi I'm getting a P Bass scratchplate cut for just a single volume pot and a jack, but I'm a novice when it comes to wiring so I though I'd post here to ask for some advice. I've attached a diagram for P Bass wiring, and I guess my question is, if I were to follow the diagram but leave out the Tone pot and capacitor, would that work? That would be connecting the white wire from the pickup to the left hand tab on the volume pot a wire, a wire connecting the middle tab to the jack socket, and the black wire from the pickup and the right hand tab both grounded to the casing. Has anyone done this before or does anyone have enough know-how with wiring to tell me if this will work? Thanks

[quote name='jezzaboy' timestamp='1330805019' post='1563331'] The wilkinson bridge is a good piece of kit. I have one on my Squier MD and it looks the biz. [url="http://www.axesrus.com/axeBassh.htm"]http://www.axesrus.com/axeBassh.htm[/url] 14 quid posted. Jez [/quote] I've got one of these as well on my MIM P, I took a Gotoh 201 off it and put the Wilkinson on, I much prefer it although I personally hate the Wilkinson logo stamped on it.