budget bassist

[quote name='stingrayfan' post='291301' date='Sep 24 2008, 10:03 PM']Horses for courses, I guess, but I'm with you. I can't get on with Warwicks and the like - feel too small. Give me a big bass anyday![/quote] I know what you mean, i dont get on with warwicks, it's the neck for me. Though i LOVE small basses, small and chuckable but with a nice weight, shame the tone for me is in a musicman, i may get a sterling though... hmmm

I'll give you a fiver for it I'd love one to be honest, but can't afford!

I know what you peavey T-40 nutters are like so [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/PeaveyT40-Bass-Guitar-Case_W0QQitemZ130257601890QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item130257601890&_trkparms=72%3A12|39%3A1|66%3A2|65%3A12|240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14"]here's[/url] one on the bay, it's a bit scratched up but it's cheap right now. Considering it's been up two days now and it's so cheap i'd have thought you guys would have been all over it like flies on sh*t by now

Ah right, i scan read it too fast, i thought you were selling it, i just saw mine, sale, bargain and squier

the 7 string electric for sale on there actually looks pretty nice!

Yeah i remember them, looks like someone has bought it, made it fretless and tried to sell it on. Also "Slight bow upwards which can be planed straight." Sorry, what?!?!

those look really nice in person, the photos don't do it justice at all! good luck with the sale mate.

thanks for the offer i may get back to you on that

Thanks mate, i'll drop him a message

I've recently decided i need to take lessons, i've been playing for 3 years plus but know as close as makes no difference, no theory and i'm just really bad at improvising/creating my own licks etc and i'd really love to be able to do that as some of my favourite bass styles are funk and progressive which require some real skills and knowledge of theory. If anyone is available please let me know? I refuse to not pay you! I think that if i pay for lessons there'll be more motivation for me to do it, that and anyone nice enough to help me out deserves it There is a place down the road that does lessons but i thought i'd see what you lovely basschatters have to offer. Thanks in advance.

It certainly looks like the circuit board in my musicman

If he saw sid vicious playing a bass with a black scratchplate why has he decided that the white one belonged to him? what an absolute moron. And it has had a poor paint job? Eh? this guy is pure stupid.

i say if you want it to look like an actual geddy lee, go for the black, for obvious reasons. I think maple goes well with red and blue too so you know, it's up to you, which do you prefer?

didn't you say you were like 18 or so?you really don't look it! Nice singer by the way

Thanks man Oh and i managed to drill right through the body on one of the pickup screw holes! Haha oh well.

Well here she is, the (pretty much) finished article, in that it works but there are some things i want to change about it in time, such as chrome tuners, chrome control plate and knobs, maybe a preamp and maybe a neck with a maple board. I might sand down the front of the headstock and maybe the rest of the neck and put gunstock oil on it, but that's for another post. Basically yesterday, allparts woke me up with a phone call sorting out my order (turns out i typed in one of the digits on the expiry date wrong) and today in the post came my pickup sponges and screws! That's good service! So today, i had mounted the pickups, but the sponges were too hard so on the neck pickup i chopped them in half to half the height so that the screws would go in (i don't use the neck pickup much anyway so that doesn't need to be too high), and on the bridge pickup i happened to have a couple of springs left over from when i swapped some pickups on another bass which did the trick nicely because with the sponges it was actually making the pickup casing bend around the screws! So i got them in, soldered the pickups onto the respective pots (easy), slapped some strings on there, fiddled with the action and intonation and sorted! The easiest part was actually the hardest part! Oh well. I'm thinking of putting a blend pot in there instead though because i don't like volume volume tone, doesn't make much sense to me either consdering the control plate belonged to a single H OLP and i can't imagine either of the two coils would have sounded a great deal different. I'd quite like to get a preamp at some point too because a single tone knob doesn't give me the amount of control i'd like, it will do for now though. It does sound really nice though! very loud for a passive bass and that seymour duncan gives it a lot of bite! Anyway, pics:

[quote name='Musky' post='287899' date='Sep 20 2008, 11:13 AM']That would be tauzero on here then! [/quote] I thought that! It's a small world!

Careful, wayne might actually want one!