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Heads up for anyone still after a RYDER:

[url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ryder-RP-1-Electric-Bass-Guitar-Bag-Navy-Blue-RRP-119-99-Second-C5421a-/280866124807?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item4164ecf407"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ryder-RP-1-Electric-Bass-Guitar-Bag-Navy-Blue-RRP-119-99-Second-C5421a-/280866124807?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item4164ecf407[/url]

Has this chap got insider knowledge?

He says................'This company have now disappeared and you can no longer buy this model online from their web site. I'm moving the price from originally advertised knowing the value of Wesley instruments has increased overnight!


[url="http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/wesley-cougar-mk-ii-bass-guitar/100638161"]http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/wesley-cougar-mk-ii-bass-guitar/100638161[/url]

Or am I missing something here?

Steve,
had a quick look and found this:

http://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/08/29/148239/environmental-enforcement-agents-targeting-guitars

Only had time to glance at it so not sure if it contains anything of use to you.

Regards,

Mark.

My ears started ringing as the text got bigger!

Glad to see the tool got a winning bid he deserved.

Tommy the Cat (Before the Mrs gets home......she hates Primus).

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1334336035' post='1614864']
Having a sort through some old PDFs and found this - I forgot I had it to be honest. I hope it's of use to others..

[url="http://www.jerzydrozdbasses.com/"]http://www.jerzydrozdbasses.com/[/url]

[attachment=105026:Ultimate Guide to the perfect Bass setup.pdf]
[/quote]Thanks for that. As a relative newbie when it comes to set-up, that will come in extremely useful. It's now on the Kindle for handy reference
Regards,
Mark.

Just met up with Will (again) and bought a couple of basses from him. Absolute gent and a top person to deal with.
Thanks Will.
All the best,
Mark.

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Got one also in the same colour.
I am not going down quite the same route as you Rob, I don't have the skills/kit/friends for routing out cavities but, I fully intend to hone my skills when it comes to fret dressing, changing tuners and sticking a Wilkinson pup on it. I have also ordered a dark grey marbled scratchplate, pup cover, thumbrest and a set of flats for it.
All the best for your projects. That Jazz pup looks good and the black bridge makes me think I might have been a bit hasty getting a chrome hardtail for mine .
Will post mine when the bits have arrived.
Regards,
Mark.

Jerry,
I am currently mucking about with a project Westfield B1000 with a maple neck. I have ordered a set of black block adhesive inlays on Ebay from a guy trading as Zooleng in Singapore. I have paid £4.42 (Free p+p). I will let you know a) if I get them and if they are worth less than a fiver.

Mark.

Good stuff Nick. Voted.
Regards.
Mark.

PM'd.

[quote name='tredders' timestamp='1332191786' post='1584692']
Having just bought an AV 62 Jazz, I needed a thumbrest (or tug bar) to finish off the look. Did a quick google, and came across this place, selling good looking ebony ones (amongst others): -

[url="http://www.classicguitarboxes.com/thumb_rests.php"]http://www.classicgu...thumb_rests.php[/url]

Placed an order at 08:11 on Saturday morning, and had a personal email from Guy (the chap who makes them) at 08:56, to tell me my order had been despatched. It arrived today (Monday), and is now fitted to the bass.

Nice to get a good product, at a good price, with excellent service.
[/quote]

Another satisfied customer here. I have an ebony rest on my DIY Jazz from Guy. Top bloke who actually replies to emails. We even swapped photos of projects we were working on at the time.

[quote name='hiram.k.hackenbacker' timestamp='1331076783' post='1567440']
Reported. Cannot abide that sort of behaviour.
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+1.
They shouldn't need Ebay to sell this for a good price anyway. Plenty of collectors out there would love this.

That is a stunner.

I forgot to mention the weight of the finished bass:

11lbs. Ouch.

Regards,

Mark.

I have never been a big fan of 5's but that is a damn fine looking bass.
Hope it sounds as good as it looks tonight (which I am sure it will).
Cracking job.

Regards,
Mark.

Nice job Alex. I have just done one in Danish oil myself, probably won't be the last either.
Regards,
Mark.

[quote name='soopercrip' timestamp='1331100412' post='1567543']

Whats the next project?

Andy
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Well Andy, there are rumours around these parts that many years ago, as far back as the 1980's, someone with a fairly large garage started to use the back end of it for storage. Kids left home, too much stuff in the house etc etc..so a clearout was undertaken (possibly on a dark, windswept night whilst a lone wolf howled in the distance.......or possibly not....might be over-egging it there). I have it on good authority that, amongst the stuff that went in there were 3 guitars, one of which is a bass. I intend to mount an expedition in the next week or so to go in search of it. Nobody knows how old it is, what make it is or even what colour it was. I reckon this should be interesting. I will keep you posted as to what I find in there.
Regards,
Mark.

Is that any better?
I aint the sharpest when it comes to technomonolgy

Sorry for the delay chaps. I managed to get this finished in January but this is the first opportunity I have had to post the results.

I got the kit from DIY Guitar Shop ([url="http://www.diyguitarshop.co.uk"]http://www.diyguitarshop.co.uk[/url]) as a birthday present from my wife. At the time they were £130.00 + £13,00 p+p but they had an offer on and the p+p was free. It's currently the only bass they do and they tend to run out of these regularly.

This is what you get:

[b]BODY:[/b] Unfinished, unsealed, pre-drilled and pre-routed three piece Ash "Jazz" style with front arm and rear body comfort cuts
[b]NECK:[/b] 34" scale 20 Fret Maple w/ Rosewood fingerboard, matched to body, with pre fitted truss rod, pre cut top nut, unshaped headstock with pre-drilled tuning machine holes, pearloid dot markers. 1.625" (41.2mm) top nut width (Not very thin for a 'Jazz. is it?)
[b]PICKUPS:[/b] 2x Jazz bass style single coil
[b]CONTROLS:[/b] Pre-wired 2x volume and 1x tone controls. Some soldering required.
[b]TUNERS:[/b] 4 open type with ferrules and mounting screws
[b]SCRATCHPLATE:[/b] Tortoise/W/B/W with mounting screws
[b]HARDWARE:[/b] Chrome strap buttons, neck plate with screws,string tree.
There is also a set of strings (not very nice at all) and some assembly instructions which benefit from an internet connection and/or advice from someone who knows what they are doing if, like me, you are a novice to guitar assembly and finishing.

The kit requires a bit of woodwork (shaping the headstock and preparation for whatever finish you use) but the pre-cut pickup, control routs and neck pocket are accurate FOR THE SUPPLIED PARTS (more on that later). Everything went together well on a trial fit.

So, after finding a template on the internet for the headstock shape (and having it cut by someone with the skills to do it) I started off by masking the fretboard and copper shielding the cavities.
I used Danish oil ( 8 coats applied over 3 weeks ) and then, after leaving it to cure for another 2 weeks I started to use Carnauba wax to deepen the shine a bit. The headstock decal (and 'Sopwith' the camel) were applied before giving it a couple of very light coats of vintage tint nitrose. 3 more heavier coats were applied later.
Final assembly was fairly straightforward but you do have to position and drill the screw holes for the tuners and the string tree, The neck fitted very well and the wiring was pretty easy to do. I hate those pickup adjustment springs so I opted to use foam instead although I realise it may need changing in future. A set of Ernie Balls (45-105) were fitted and I was ready to go.
No output from the bridge pup. Bu66er!
Checked the wiring but couldn't really find anything amiss. Luckily, I had a spare Wikinson JB bridge pup. Unluckily it didn't fit so, after a little work with the dremel I effected a working solution without too much bother. Bingo!
I also had a cream pearloid scratchplate spare so I thought I would try to see if it fitted. No was the answer. The cut-out for the neck pup would need altering and some of the screw holes were not aligned (this was a scratchplate from a new Squier VM Jazz) so I stuck with the tort plate supplied with kit.

Pictures:
[u]https://picasaweb.google.com/111890033724158302297/JazzBuild[/u]

The set up went rather well. The truss rod required adjustment but I only moved it 1/4 turn at a time and gave it a day between turns (no previous experience so caution was used) to settle down. The Intonation is now good and the action is fairly low with no rattles or buzzing at any position on the neck. The supplied neck pup is up to the job as is the Wilkinson at the bridge. The frets are tidy and the tuners seem to be holding very well. I have changed the control knobs as I am not very happy with the chrome knurled type, added an ebony thumb rest, pup covers and Schaller strap locks.
Next job (play time/fiddling) is a Gotoh bridge and possibly a brass nut.
As a relative newcomer to bass playing (30 year lay-off) I can't really give an informed opinion of it's performance and it's my first build so I may have not done some things in quite the right way. I also only have an Ashdown 100W combo to play through and nowhere to really turn it up for a good listen. I would readily let any local BC'r with the kit/knowledge have a go with it so I/we can find out if a) I have done a reasonable job and it was worth buying the kit in the first place.
I have really enjoyed doing this project. The first time I plugged it in and heard it gave a great sense of satisfaction and achievement.
If you haven't done one before, I can thoroughly recommend it.

Regards,

Mark.

Whoops! Got a bit waylaid with the update. I will take some photo's this week and put them up.
There are a couple in my sig but I will endevour to do some decent ones.

Mark.

Just met Scott and bought his OLP.
Lovely bass and a thoroughly nice chap to do business with. He has also converted me to flatwounds.

Thanks Scott.