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They're called 'O ring' guitar knobs, about £3 each on eBay. Hold off ordering for a couple of days, I should have a set in the spares box 👍

I picked up a J&D short scale P-bass for £50, course that was 2nd hand ; twice that from DV 24/7. DV have more shorty options than G4M or Thomann so maybe have a look there. Nice enough wee bass, pity I'm not a fan of short scale basses .

Aye, it's a load of nonsense. The 'may require work to fit' is a standard disclaimer carried by most aftermarket neck sellers but there's no reason for an uncut nut. This is a CNC machined product and pre-cut bone nuts can be bought, its a simple case of setting the nut slot depth to suit the string slots.

I'm with you every step going down this road 🙂

Not 'fairly big', it's the main factor. There's almost £500 between an AllParts/Mighty Mite and a Fender replacement neck yet they're produced the same way and carry the same "may not fit/might required work" warning. 'Crafted in Corona' is a nice way of saying where the CNC machine is located 🤣 FFS, £679 and you still need to cut the nut slots 🤬

Have I picked you up wrongly and you're talking a fully finished neck for less than a blank ? If so, where are you looking to buy blanks from ? Alistair Reid in Glasgow sells 39" PAS 22 x 100 hard maple blanks for £19. Vist a timber merchant and you'd be half that, OK it'd need dressed but it's not a huge task. Most expensive blank G&W sell is Wenge 50 x 110 x 990 at 55€, you could get 2 blanks from a chunky bit like that. Standard hard maple is €19 🙂 A 2 way TR and stainless steel fretwire would cost you 16.50 from Alistair, double that from G&W. Reid's fretboards start at £6 for maple rising to £33 for blackwood, G&W run about 50% more but have a huge selection. https://www.reidtimber.co.uk/guitar-blanks https://guitarsandwoods.com/

Look no further than the Tone Monsters from Guitar Fuel. http://www.guitarfuel.com/home.html Ty has 2 styles with 5 or 6 options for each. Preamps can run on 9v or 18v. Absolute doddle to install, connect pickups. Not as affordable as when I bought my first unit, £40 maybe 7 years back, might be double that now. eBay store has no provision for UK customers, just message him and he'll sort it out. To hear them in a variety of basses, jump on YT, Johnny Lee Long installs them in just about everything. edit. Stereo jack socket comes prewired on every version.

9th option in drop down menu. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174484691587

If you had 4 like-minded pals then drumwrap might be the answer. £42 for a 1550 x 400 sheet on eBay, free shipping from China.

In most cases there's FA 'upgrading', its all about 'Brand Name' dropping in the hope strangers will appauld and echo the poster's choice 😶 I don't think it's quite as bad here but over on TalkBS it's rife 😄 Little ryhme , reason or thought is given just throw out some buzzword names. It's rare to see a post going "I've X bass but the pickups are lacking 'Y'" or "they've too much 'W'"; "swapping to pickup 'Z' got me ....". Posts normally go "I fitted 'current buzzword'" and that's it. The 'current buzzword' angle is pretty important since there's a definite pecking order to this consumer p!$$in contest 😄 You might think I've went a bit OTT but if that's the case why do the buzzword companies all sell T-shirts ? Instead of "Team Aniston/Jolie" it's "Team Lollar/Nordy" 🤣

60 days, I was doing so well 😄 Aria Pro Mosrite thing sat in the BIN basket for a week. The thoughts were many, "under £400", "could do Klarna", "could I build one for that ?" Another 'must-have', weird but cool Italia with 4 lipstick pickups parallel to strings. Fantastic look, bet it plays like a dream and sounds as good as it looks only x 2. The many pros were quashed by a single con: I'll never play the bloody things !! With loins girded by "I'll never play ...." , the rest of 2023 was secure; until yesterday 😐 Yesterday the Heavens conspired against me. Off work and bored ✅ Bored leads to web surfing✅ Web surfing to Gumtree✅ Gumtree opens with preferrences intact ✅ Top of the pile is Telecaster bass 3 miles away ✅ Ad has been up 1 hour ✅ Seller on the ball, calls me within 2 minutes ✅ Yes, he still has the bass and £60 is the asking price ✅He will deliver ✅ I never stood a chance 🤬

Any idea why they didn't make the 'Westboro Baptist Church' Top 10 Fantasy series list 😄

Danelectro was one of those basses. Only the back and top are hardboard, about 4 mm thick. They sandwich a frame, on the early models frames were just plywood stapled together, think today it's glued poplar. Core of Danos is like this.

Why stop at concrete ? I've owned basses with bodies made from acrylic, Luthite and plywood topped with hardboard, all sounded great. Other materials I recall being used include CF, aluminium and one year a marble body guitar appeared at Musik Messe; it weighed a ton and was mounted on a stand 🙂 Companies build bodies from wood for 2 reasons, it's relatively cheap and tradition; creative types are generally very conservative when it comes to instruments 😄

They did early bodies from pine, never heard them use it for necks.

And a damn fine job you do with them 🙂 The Cal caster was braw but the Super Yobs .... You've that corner of the market neatly sewn up 👍

I was one of the first in the UK to own that model, arrived couple of days before they went on sale. They never had dots/inlays but stickers or Tippex could be the answer 😄

I'm pretty sure it's an In Yen Vina from Vietnam. Along with building for ESP they did the Peavey Grind NTB and Harley Benton BZ. Current models have blank boards like this but blocks, centred dots and offset have all appeared on previous issues.

@lidl e Glad to hear its a mistake so is still an option for you.

Looking at the spec for the Fame PB neck, says last fret is 57.2 mm. https://www.musicstore.com/en_IE/EUR/Fame-Neck-PB-Style-RW/art-BAS0011815-000

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I'm going to need it 😀 Just looking through the different ways these have been wired over the years but I've none that match this. What are you like with a soldering iron ? I'd be tempted to redo it to something simple like this.

I see that one, marked it with a black cross. It's the one I've marked in yellow, looks to be the bridge ground but if that's the case why is the bare wire soldered and the white snaking down to the middle Vol pot lug ?

Is that a white ground back of the Vol pot ? If it is, what lug is the other end soldered to ?

I like how the Roswell QPA sounds against the Duncan QP.