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You need a 'Hammerfor'. "What's a Hammerfor?" I hear you ask. Taking off tuners! 😄 Ahh the old ones are the best. 🙄

I didn't know they did anything other than sunburst and black. I like that green. In that picture you can see what I mean about the pickguard and control being too white, the binding is a nice aged white and looks good. If I can find a green one I know where there'll be a nice black one available. 😁

Never liked the Fisher Price Lightshow.

What the dirty great holes in it for? Toasters are surface mounted.

As long it's a four wire pickup, or four plus casing earth, then two wires are for one coil (green and red) and two for the other coil (black and white). Most aftermarket humbuckers come with the red and white wire joined, you use the black (ground) and green (hot) wires to make your connections, this is in series. A proper Musicman humbucker is in parallel so you use all four wires joined in pairs to make you connections, green and white (ground), red and black (hot). Or wire it through a push/pull pot so you can switch between series and parallel. A humbucker wired in parallel, roughly speaking, will be brighter but around 30% lower in output than it wired in series.

I not sure where he's seen the price but he's a Rick fanboi so probably the Resource. Yeah at five grand I'd rather go the extra mile and find an original one, I've seen them around 7k. They're also a better shape 😉.

As well as shopping local they're excellent pickups. They were second on my list for my Hofner build but I didn't want the toaster style covers. They'll sound great. 🙂👍

I've just had a message from our guitarist, apparently £4.5k for the guitar and £5k for the bass.

Age Of Consent - New Order

Although everyone's screens will be giving a different rendition of the colour, Olympic White is definitely a different colour on different models, yes age changes it but go into a large guitar shop and the new ones will be different to each otger. Squier different to Fender, different ranges of instruments different to others, etc. It's really as general as saying something is Cherry Red. It's just a creamy off white of varying degrees.

Yeah but with rosewood door frames and a tort carpet it would've looked epic. 😄

I know 😉. The predecessor to this bass, the 182, had both pickups very close together at the neck on the early ones. https://images.app.goo.gl/BmhjPqd3dapeiLpy7 Too close if you ask me. I'd guess they moved to the 'up against the bridge' position to to get more snap or bite out of them as back then it was all flats, and on a short scale made for a dark tone. It seems most folks use the bridge pickups in these set ups almost like a tone control to add some brightness into the tone. 😁

Quite. Gibson were rightfully protecting their design, but I hate the inference that every jap guitar labelled a 'lawsuit era' is magically transformed into a top quality instrument that had the big manufacturers running scared. True it might have been made at a similar period in time that Gibson challenged Ibanez (well Hoshino Gakki) but that would also mean it was built at the height of one of Fenders bad periods, so could just as legitimately be labelled a 'shite era' guitar. It doesn't have the same misty eyed feel to it though I suppose.

Here's a link to the 'lswsuit' story if your interested. 🙂 https://flypaper.soundfly.com/discover/truth-lawsuit-era-guitars/

Yes I'm aware of that, I was just pointing out that if the baseplate on yours was straight then you'd still have enough room to align the saddles to get correct intonation, as the 4005 does. That's all. 🙂

Unless it was an Ibanez guitar with a Gibson style 'open book' headstock then it's not a lawsuit guitar, and there was never a lawsuit anyway as it was settled out of court. Everything else is marketing hype.

I think part of it, and I do partly subscribe to this thinking although I play all of mine, is that some of these old guitars look really good cool just hanging on the wall. People will happily pay good money for a painting to hang on the wall because they like it so why should a guitar be any different? Some of those Soviet guitars are very cool and I love the look of an aged white Jedson Tele. As a usable instrument they might be rubbish but as a cool object they're worth money. Old broken farm machinery or cast iron mangles, sewing machine tables etc as functioning items are totally worthless but as interior/exterior design objects have a good value. In general, folks from the era of these guitars have disposible income and if it makes them happy then why not? If they're buying them at inflated prices to play then that's a different story though.

Nice bit of toaster action. What toaster is it? I couldn't quite work it out at first as the reflections on the centre metal piece looked like raised pole pieces.

Grab yourself a real vintage bass for just £399! If that Shaftsbury is up for £799, this has got to be worth a try. 😄

Lovely colour. I also absolutely love things like reusing old bakelite for the pickguard. Such a cool idea. 🙂👍

I'd just like to add (to save any scrap of integrity I might have) that I bought and did my Kay for very little money as a fun project. I'd never expect anyone to pay sensible money for it and I quite like just how bad it is, in a macabre sideshow kind of way.

You don't realise it but you've just given an opinion on a dilemma I'm facing in my Hofner 185 thread. Thank you 🙂👍

Thanks for this input, it's definitely interesting. I put a series switch in my 4005 and it transformed the sound, but the bridge pickup on it's own is weedy, hence my dilemma. The shortscale part is what is making me consider it though as they're usually inherently deeper sounding, I'm generalising here of course. The other bit info I haven't divulged is that due to the fact the frets are pretty worn, it'll be getting flats on it so darker again. If it's a nice bass when done I might get it refretted but just want to get it usable for the mo. Maybe being shortscale with flats would make the bridge position more usable anyway. I'll be putting in a series/parallel switch anyway. Coupled with each pickup switchable between single coil and both coils in series or parallel I should get a decent amount of usable tones whatever I go for. I know the only way to really know is to just do it though.

One of my favorite basses is my Matsumoku built Rick 4001 copy, it's an Aria but could've had any name trussrod cover screwed on. I also spent a serious amount of time doing up a 70s Kay. Some of us are weird. 😁

This Antoria is for sale near me. It looks lovely but £550? https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/205914214547293/?ref=facebook_story_share I had one given to me in pieces 20yrs ago. I put it together apart from a missing pickup and sold it to cash converters for £50 and thought I'd got a result. If everyone kept their old tat, old tat wouldn't be valuable.