Jean-Luc Pickguard

Here's me on my '71 musicmaster at the Oval Tavern in Croydon. This was recorded on Tuesday. We're playing the easiest song in the world, but I still mess up the ending...

I hardly touch my db, but wouldn't be without my NS CR5-M. Even though I tend to take my mustang to most gigs and an Ashbory to jam nights.

I reckon that [b]IF[/b] it is original, it's an '82/83. Headstock just like my '81. No holes in body/pickguard for pickup/bridge covers. Holes for thumbrest, white pickup.

[quote name='TheDave' post='627730' date='Oct 16 2009, 12:03 PM']If the Dasy Rocks wernt so pink, then maybe I'd consider it. [/quote] I picked up one of these on ebay for £135. fecking brilliant bass - sounds massive despite the colour scheme.

[quote name='TheDave' post='627314' date='Oct 15 2009, 08:30 PM']I've been looking at the mustangs but I was wanting something different.. they are very similar to the musicmasters in looks.[/quote] [url="http://www.daisyrock.com/"]Daisy rock?[/url]

The synth tracks well on my GT6B with my mustang - not that I ever use it in anger though. Are you using a 2 pickup bass. If so try using the neck pickup only & roll off the treble

No contest - get a Japanese Mustang reissue - mine is my no 1 gigging bass. Secondhand ones crop up for around £300 on ebay for the standard colours of white or red, a bit more for the non-export colours which don't come up very often.

[quote name='Kenny_K75' post='626516' date='Oct 14 2009, 10:48 PM']Just gor my hands on an epiphone thunderbird and am going to do the normal strap button position modification. Any ideas what would be a good material for filling and finsishing off the hole from the original strap button screw. Just want something that will be permanent and easy to get hold of.[/quote] When I did my 'snow-white' epi t-bird, I put the original screw back in there with a countersunk white nylon washer under it.

I dunno about most people, but I'm happy with off the peg basses once they have been tweaked to my preferences. Degloss the back of the neck if required, set up with the action low with TI flats, replace the pots & socket with CTS & switchcraft, roll the fingerboard edges, put on an aged pearl pickguard on a mustang, chrome covers on a Precision, badass bridge on a jazz, hipshot d-tuner etc Getting one custom made would take all the fun out of it.

I tend to set the eq flat on my LMII and tweak the vle & vpf to get the tone. Although at the gig on Saturday I did roll off a little bass to compensate for the room.

[quote name='Master blaster' post='623570' date='Oct 11 2009, 10:29 PM']its been the same setup since ive had had, even using the same type/gauge string, it and its only just started buzzing.[/quote] Most likely it just needs a setup then. Probably just a truss rod tweak. Most basses need this twice a year as the seasons change. - well mine do anyway.

What a crazy website. Its almost as if navigating it was deliberately made difficult. Then no indication of any prices. For the price of one of those instruments they could have a paid for a proper site many times over. Weird. Its a bit sad really - all these guitars will probably end up in glass cases in lawyers offices.

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='623969' date='Oct 12 2009, 01:55 PM']It continued to fruition here: [url="http://bassoutpost.com/index.php?topic=434.0"]http://bassoutpost.com/index.php?topic=434.0[/url][/quote] Thanks for the link. I wonder if Bach would get some more of those made...

btw lowended, give that question-mark key on your keyboard a bit of a whack, it looks like its sticking

On the old dudepit there was a plan for a bunch of members there to get bach to build a batch of vintage style non-reverse thunderbird copies using measurements from one owned by a forum member. I was following the progress, but the forum disappeared, so I have no idea whether it came to anything. The bach site is [url="http://www.bachmusik.com/en/c100008/bass-guitar/"]http://www.bachmusik.com/en/c100008/bass-guitar/[/url] Never seen one of their instruments, but they look pretty good for the prices considering that 1000 CKZ is around 36 GBP

I once did a gig with a couple of other bands and as we were headlining, the other bassists used my ashdown stack. It was only a small pub, so the bass didn't go through the PA. The girl (employed by the venue) running the PA twice asked me to turn down the bass amp while one of the other bass players was playing, as she didn't know which one was the volume knob. I felt such an ar$e doing that - what do I care if his band sounded awful due to him being too loud?

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='623211' date='Oct 11 2009, 04:32 PM']The Vibe will be my pit bass for the pantomime in Sheffield, as it'll be left daily at the theatre.[/quote] Oh no it won't! Sorry - couldn't resist

Have you done a set up - checked the relief etc? When I bought my mustang it had roundwounds on with quite high action, but when I set it up low with TI324s it was buzzing on a few frets and nothing I could do helped. Got a fret dress from the gallery and now its setup exactly as I like it & plays easily with no fretbuzz.

[quote name='lemmywinks' post='621160' date='Oct 8 2009, 11:22 PM']I've shipped 4 basses with Interparcel and have had no problems with their budget/economy service[/quote] I sent a couple of thing through interparcel recently including a bass - no problems. Paid for the economy service, the stuff was picked up late afternoon and was delivered to the recipient the next day. Its probably a good idea to print off an extra copy of the label & ask the UPS driver to sign it to confirm pickup as its a paperless service. You can also use the tracking number on the label via the UPS website.

The japanese-made bodies & necks are very good quality. The alder sunburst P body I bought was virtualy indistinguisable from the one on my MIJ Fender 62' RI Precision & The fretless neck has a fantastic ebony fingerboard & is quartersawn maple. I fitted mostly Fender parts as much of the hardware they supply are from the cheap & cheerful (but serviceable) end of the spectrum. For example the pickguards are a different shape to fenders. I did use the alnico pickup from brandoni on the Precision though. Its easy to put together a great bass using their parts yourself & save a bit more cash, so (IMHO) buying a ready-made one would defeat the object. I also built a telecaster using brandoni parts.

1 - setups - action, intonation, truss rod, replace pots & socket etc 2 - horizonal is fine - usually on an ironing board 3 - nope. I once had to take the neck off my mustang to tweak the truss rod just before a gig. No problem laying it on a pub table with a wooly jumper under the bass. I don't see a market for such a product & for that reason I'm out

Glad it's sorted. I wonder if there'll be a listing in Glasgow gumtree: "tartan trousers - slightly soiled"

What a t0553r good luck getting your money - I'm sure you realise you should have ensured that payment had cleared before sending, but I its easy to imagine that all basschatters are decent honest people as all the ones I've had dealings with have proved to be. Hopefully there'll be someone (or maybe a posse) in Glasgow that'll be happy to pay him a visit. With or without baseball bat.

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='619515' date='Oct 7 2009, 01:03 PM']Him and River Phoenix are absolutely WASTED![/quote] & so was my £12.99

Who's seen Flea's 'instructional DVD for bass' from around ten years ago? - what a pile of sh1te (IMHO)