Chiliwailer

Stunning - that was my fave combo too back in the day, and still looks amazing.

Was chuffed not to buy a bass in 2019, and ended the year very happy with just my StingRay Special HH. I thought 2020 would be the same. But actually 2020 was the year of correcting mistakes... I was seriously lucky to be able to buy back my Lull PJ4 and my Old Smoothie StingRay. The Lull was stupidly sold due to getting back a 66P i once owned (and then sold again) and the Smoothie as we really needed the cash in a minor crisis - that bass has sentimental value too so I’m really pleased i just got it back today. I also corrected the mistake of selling my Modulus Flea by getting another, and got a Bravewood Jazz. Definitely joining the 2021 abstinence thread with high hopes and financial motivation 😚

Really pleased to have bought back a bass I regretted selling to Mark - always a pleasure messaging and dealing with him. Cheers Mark 👍

I’m an old dog Chris - I always start with the rod so I know where I’m at 🤣

Perhaps only in extreme cases where the rod is too tight. At least with the rod set, you’ll know if you need to shim the neck - though that can be fairly obvious anyway...

Lol, unlike both above I do truss, saddle and then nut. Doing the truss first stops you having to readjust the saddles. The nut last means you can have a second way to gauge how much you need to file (by pushing down the string at the 1st fret and seeing the ‘drop’ of the string). Each to their own of course 😃

Buy now, think later - nice 😁 Sure that‘ll be a a cracker 👍

That looks incredible. I really wasn’t keen on the CS P Bass that has this colour, but on the Jazz it looks perfect - loving the tasteful and well executed relicing too. Nice one for having the insight on this one 👍

Yeah, stood for Official Licensed Product. Great budget basses - but I think the only active one was the Levin 5 String.

These should do the trick https://www.stringsdirect.co.uk/strings-c1/string-sets-c865/classical-guitar-c288/daddario-ej27n-student-classical-normal-tension-3-4-size-guitar-strings-p22 Those guitars often come with a high nut and saddle, so if you’ve not checked that out already I’d do so ASAP. Hopefully the neck is ok too. Could always tune down half a step too, for less tension.

I think the new Stingray Special basses have ticked the box regarding ‘improvements’ on the original. I still love the old Rays, but like my Lull P Bass has improved on Fender ergonomics, the Ray Special has upgraded the preamp, pup, hardware, ergonomics and weight - so quite a lot really. Regardless of model, only a Ray does a Ray IMO.

Cor that’s a good score! Love that period 👍 Chromes have transformed my Ray, even though I stopped using them on P’s & J’s. Nice one.

Nah - it was just the big ego customers that needed a ‘little nudge to bring back in line’ 🤣

Lol, no, not me advising you to whack the neck! Try that with a late 70’s Fender and you’ll be on the wrong end of that fight... 😂 But taking it off and attempting to realign, yes 👍

Must be the ‘potted for twenty minutes in a parrafin-beeswax mix’ effect... 🤪

This website is vey impressive https://www.guitar-list.com/logos/M looks most like Marconi Lab - but it isn’t that (if it even is a M)

Not seen that before that I recall. Seeing the rest of the bass might help out the Jap experts on BC - it may be a generic bass with a distributors badging? That’s a long shot...

Sometimes if it was a bass I really liked, then because the money spent is later needed elsewhere and I couldn’t really afford it in the first place. Other times, just GAS shenanigans. I’d like to think that since last year my buying habits (guitar & bass) and financial situation has changed. Whereas before I kept going full circle, I now see bought as new keepers - aside from a Modulus FB4 I bought for fun recently, which may not last the distance tbh, but I always knew that when I got it.

Lol 😂

I’ll go into more detail - the East diagram isn’t for a 3 wire HC pickup. So when I wired mine, I put the hot wire for each pickup into the designated terminal, and joined the other two wires to go into the other terminal, for each pickup. Then, the single ground terminal on the east (at the other end of the control plate) had the wire from the bridge and an extra one my control cavity had attached to a screw, for extra grounding (a vintage bass might have a control cavity plate, or some basses just the bridge wire). The key thing about that East diagram you linked is that the two terminals for the pickups, specifically state from pickups. So all pickup wires go there. Because the East terminals are really made for just one wire, you may want to join the two wires to a new single wire, and put that into the East terminal. At a push you can join the two and squeeze it in - though t’s a bit tight and may create stress on the terminal. Good luck, if I recall correctly it’s more simple than it seems 👍

The ground, btw, is not from the pickups (I mean the ground input labelled on the East).

But isn’t the East just one connection for earth, and one for the signal? I’d put the earths together and off you go. (For each separate pickup).