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If anyone is upgrading their standard Bronco bridge I'd be interested in buying their old standard one. I need a 17mm bridge for a project and having trouble finding one. Thanks 🙂

Thanks @Jabba_the_gut, you're right the Bronco Bridge is 17mm and it looks the part as well. Only problem is I can find one anywhere, it doesn't look like anyone sells them. It appears it's a pretty universally unliked bridge and gets changed for a standard BBOT for the four saddles rather than the Bronco's two, so you'd think there'd be an abundance of old ones for sale, but nothing. I'm happy to live with the two saddles as this is only a bit of fun, so if anyone knows of one for sale let me know please. 🙂

Thanks Andy 👍

Thanks, I'll look into them. 👍

I'm going to add this link here as it started as a new bass day thread, however it's sort of evolved into a restoration thread but doesn't really warrant it's own thread, and it's also appeared in a photo above.

Every time I buy a new bass I promise myself I'll sell a couple of the cheaper ones to cover it. I'm rubbish at keeping promises.

I'm not really sure what to do about the bridge yet. It had a generic replacement fender type bridge on it which was 19mm string spacing and was pulling the E and G string outside the fretboard towards the body end. I reckon 18mm should sort it as it'll be 3mm tighter but I can't find a suitable replacement, the only cheap 18mm ones are far too modern looking. I have a vintage fender style with the threaded saddles so it's possible I might be able to hook the strings in the thread slightly off to counter this, or cut new grooves to give me 18mm. The problem then might be that the entire saddle assembly will just slide across on the baseplate as it's not grooved like some are.

Excited to see a Taiwanese Kay bass. 😂 Go on then, a sneaky peak. 😁 I ended up putting a black line on the neck as well because the white binding got lost against the cream/beige paint. I've got a load of flatting and polishing to do tomorrow. This little lot are all ready for flatting and polishing tomorrow, then rebuild time.

This is quite interesting as I've got a couple of P basses I picked up cheap over the years to use for projects/parts etc. I've been using this time off to finish a couple of projects that stalled and have been looking at the P basses wondering what to to with them, I don't really need another P. After reading this I might get a MM pickup and put it in the sweet spot on a P and just run it passive. 🤔

It's all Rickenbackers and Precisions. 🙂

Well it is isn't it, but it sounds good. Using a binaural microphone I suppose. The OP is just stereo as well isn't it? I'm not sure quite what can be 8D about it.

Here you go. Use decent headphones and close your eyes. 🙂

It does seem to go around the back from right to left and around the front the other way. It reminds me of that recording that did the rounds years ago of the Italian (?) barber. Anyone remember that?

Are they prone to escaping? 😆

I've just ordered some acrylic sheet to make a new scratchplate for this as the original one has yellowed really badly, and just looks bad against the freshness of mint green paint and silver sparkles. I've ordered clear, as per original and some mirrored and will probably make two and see which I like best. Now if it's a clear one then this next bit won't matter but if I go with mirrored then the original shape of the scratchplate seems wrong to me. If I just flip it upside down then it suits the shape of the bass better I think, but doesn't cover the screw holes. I didn't consider a change of colour beforehand so didn't fill the holes or anything. I could slightly reshape it to utilise the existing holes but am I overthinking this and should just go with the original design? The first picture is how it should be and the second flipped upside down.

It always reminds me of Love, Honour & Obey.

Oh fir Pete's sake yew pear! These puns make me sick, or more.

No really any one image but just whole attitude of these sort of images. So how come I don't own a white P bass with a black scratchplate?

Found, sanded, colour coated, decal'd and lacquered. It's hanging up drying now, no flies and hopefully still spiderless by morning. The body is dry and I'm ignoring the bit where I had to pick a fly out of the lacquer and it fell to bits, it's not that noticeable and I've got no more lacquer at home now. It's flatted and ready for a polish and I've had to make a polisher today as all my stuff is at work, and I won't be there for a while.

I've found it now, in a safe place as you say, just a different safe place than I thought. Note to self, cut down on number of safe places. 🙂

It doesn't matter whether angled or straight, just another personal preference and sometimes one or the other is better suited to the situation. In your link to the cables, in picture three a right angled might be better to take the strain off the lead where it comes out of the plug, in picture five a right angled cable probably wouldn't fit so a straight would be better suited. It's all stuff you'll pick up along the way, so don't worry too much at the moment.

Yes, he messaged me late last year about the music scene down here as he was planning on retiring to Cornwall. So I guess he's just enjoying retirement.

And good old microfibre cloths are as good as anything for polishing.

Any strap will be fine to start with. As you progress you will find what suits you with all sorts of gear. Too much info to deal with at the start could be off putting as it'll distract from actually playing the bass. It's only us old farts with heavy basses that need all the help we can get over a two hour gig. 😁 If you get this Sire and the Orange amp you mention at the beginning you will have a great start to bass playing, regardless of what strap, lead, etc.

As said straps are down to a personal preference. I used to always just use the old skool 2" wide nylon type. But now with the availability on the Internet I've settled on the Mono Betty's as my favourite, lots don't like them though. Personally I don't like anything grippy as it pulls my top to bunch on my shoulder, others love a grippy strap. Some like padded, some don't. All I would say is that the wider (up to about 4") the more comfortable it will be in the long run as it spreads the load over a larger area of shoulder.