Jono Bolton

If it's made in Japan PM Bassassin about it, he'll be able to tell you the make, model, which factory it was made in, the name of the guy that made it and what he had for dinner that day. Probably. At least the first two anyway.

Looks like crap to me. I'll take it off your hands

[quote name='Kubickiboy' post='189413' date='May 1 2008, 02:29 AM']Wouldn't you like to be the person who came up with the word "Punk"?.[/quote] That would be Shakespeare. Well, the earliest recorded use of the word is in The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Wowsers trousers, that Ibanez is lovely! Glad I decided to have a look in here, stops me looking at the TV while my girlfriend watches Embarrassing Illnesses

I think some folk are missing the first link in your original post, third word in, that takes you to the neck that you won Ou7shined, which does indeed have 20 frets. A zero fret was a short lived 60's idea, whereby a fret was placed on the neck just after the nut. I can't remember what the reasoning behind it was, but it was pretty popular with Hofner and similar makers, but generally regarded as useless, which is why it's not very common. Some makers now still use it though, but not often.

Shimmed it folks! I street teamed for a terrible Canadian punk'n'roll band called Sound and Fury a few months ago so I could see Reuben for free, and one of the things I had to hand out were cards with a code for free downloads. Anyway, they were about right to fit in the pocket, just some slight trimming and the difference is noticeable straight away. Need to adjust the height of the strings but I think it'll be fine. Decided to combine the removal of the neck with sanding it down and cleaning the fretboard. A couple of hours work and it's a completely different instrument. Thanks for all your help guys! One very happy Basschatter here!

A lot of time and effort goes into refinishing, even on a small part such as the headstock. The fact that it's a metallic colour makes colour matching even harder. With Sims you'll be paying for a top quality job too, and paying someone for their skill, which is a skill you don't have, not to mention the tools and workshop that again, I'm guessing you don't have. As they say, a good job isn't cheap, and a cheap job isn't good.

[quote name='ednaplate' post='188493' date='Apr 29 2008, 10:29 PM']Another ebay seller worth checking out is Stratosphere. Always loads off stuff.[/quote] +1. That seller's shop is amazing, you can spend hours trawling thru all the quality stuff they have.

[quote name='Wooks' post='189526' date='May 1 2008, 10:25 AM']Where did you get your lemon oil from?? What I've found out from speaking to a luthier is you can use a light amount of beeswax on natural wood finishes to protect the wood, then every so often you find that there will be a build up of the beeswax and a good way to get rid of the build up is to use lemon oil which will take it back to the "wood" and then you can start again with the beeswax. Is this correct? [/quote] I've can't really help you with that, but I got a 1 oz. bottle of Dunlop Lemon Oil for about £3 posted off ebay, just to try it out, 'cos even if it was sh*t it's no great loss. It was actually alright, and bigger bottles are available.

On Bass Parts Resource they have all the different types of Hipshot D Tuners, and they tell you what model of bass each one fits, you should be able to find out on there.

Joe Lally of Fugazi. Lovely reggae/dub/funk/punk style. Another +1 for Tony Kanal. Disagree with Ian Grushka from New Found Glory though,saw them a year or so ago, he was lucky if he could get through a whole song without fudging it up.

Got my lemon oil today, it seems all right. A bit greasy, and you really have to work it into the wood. Smells nice though. The bottle says to spray 1-2 pumps onto a cloth but I found it was better to spray it directly onto the board, it spreads it about more so you don't have to use so much. My Precision's a 2000, going by the serial number, and it's pretty obvious that the previous owner hadn't even thought about cleaning it, it was foul. Lovely now though. Can't use it on maple boards, apparently.

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='188842' date='Apr 30 2008, 02:30 PM']What a truly wonderful piece of advertising, a RICKEN BACKER QUITAR. [/quote] The best part is, Q is nowhere near G on the keyboard

At least you know where to find him though At the end of the day, you own the guitar, surely it's yours to do with as you please?

[quote name='Macko1968' post='188361' date='Apr 29 2008, 07:45 PM']Just thinking the same thing![/quote] Great minds...

In fairness to the seller, it is a massive pain the arse to package and post an amp. I had to send a combo at the start of the year, weighed a ton and was absolutely massive. I only lucked out because it fitted in the box I got my telly in and had stuff lying about to pack it with. Couriers can usually only give you an estimate on price until they weigh it for themselves too, so it sh*t for them if they quote you a price which you pay, then get a call later on to say it'll cost an extra tenner (which happened when I send my amp). As for time though, if you had the stuff to pack it with, it would certainly take no more than an hour to get it all packed up. Duct tape, people, is the key

Having been a student who used his loan for bills/rent/food rather than pissing it away like the stereotypical student on cider and fags, it annoys me how many students get into even more debt with overdrafts etc. when they've been given money to help pay for necessities so they can focus on their education rather than have to find time to both study and work. For too long I've lived with people who get their loans in then spend the next two weeks in the pub, but when bills come in or rent is due complain that they can't pay it because they don't have enough free money. Too many people get carried away with having big lump sums and not taking into account that it should be used for important stuff, not wasted in Topshop. One former flatmate asked that the rest of us just sit in bed and put on extra clothes rather than put on the heating because she couldn't pay the gas bill, but spent every night after work (that's right, she worked too, on top of her huge loans and bursary) in the pub. Her reasoning? 'We're students, people expect us to do stuff like that'. No, not when you get given sh*t-loads of money from the government to pay for your bills. It annoys me that there's no way to govern how student loans are spent.

Is that like a bursary then? We've got that in Scotland, when you apply for your student loan you apply for the bursary too, which you don't repay. I got it, but used mine for rent, bills and food, apparently I'm the only one.

What is EMA? Am I the only who doesn't know? Or is it an English thing?

[quote name='Bassassin' post='188351' date='Apr 29 2008, 07:32 PM']That was Paul_C - formerly Arrowheadguitars - and his infamous "collection" - I bought one of them. These really shouldn't be too dear - no more than £200 for the reissues like the one in the pic (that's an SBV500) and of course there are some of the original 60s & 70s ones floating about - look - there goes one now: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220226931190"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=220226931190[/url] Better be quick, though - 28 minutes left, as I type this... Jon.[/quote] Are they good then Jon? The SBV500s I mean. Or are they mainly for looks? There's a red one on ebay now [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Yamaha-SBV-Bass_W0QQitemZ120253535015QQihZ002QQcategoryZ4713QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem"]SBV500[/url]. It's a fairly optimistic listing to say the least. Does anyone go on the Music Radar forum anymore? I tend not to, it wasn't as friendly or as welcoming as Basschat is. There seemed to be a lot of snobbery, and they seemed more interested in taking the piss than being helpful.

Cheers GreeneKing! The footy's on the telly tonight and I [i]was[/i] planning to sand down the neck of my P and clean the fretboard while keeping one eye on the TV, but my Lemon Oil didn't turn up today so I'll give your suggestion a go. How thick do you reckon the card should be? I've got a bunch of old boxes kicking about at the minute. It's odd because I had a Badass II on it before and had no problems, other than it was bloody ugly.

I put a Gotoh 201 on my Jazz recently and the action seems a little high. For example, I've got the E's bridge saddle pretty much as far down as it'll go but the height of the string is not as low as I'd like it, and this is the case across all strings. Checking the relief, the neck's nice and straight, so I don't know what else could be causing it, other than the angle of the neck. Would anything go wrong if I stuck a shim in the neck? I can always take it out if it doesn't work, couldn't I?

I'm assuming it's Precision, being the most common of bass shapes. I say sonic blue, with a matching headstock, and white around the edges.

Do it. You could do it in the style of the Top Gear challenge when Clarkson had to go from London to Edinburgh and back on a single tank of fuel. Unless of course you've got some sort of aversion to near mental breakdowns?