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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.

Scott Dasson's video. No 'out of phase pickups' , no 'click the link below' nonsense. Scott doesn't even plug his own Badbird bridges on his YT channel 👍

Hardly a high bar to beat 🤣 I'll be honest on the rare occasion I watch a bass review , I'm only interested in the physical points. A video edited in the hope of some , probably small, financial gain by someone using a different set up/rig/choice of string and playing style tells me nothing.

Don't worry, once he works out which pickup company pays the most referral money, he'll do a follow up video.

One of the headless build threads from a few years back mentioned them. Weighed the same as 2 double deckers buses from what I recall.

Every right to be happy, that's a job well done 👍

Similar story for Bruce Foxton. He had a faker, Ibanez if I mind right. A real Ric was bought at Mr Weller's insistence, fitted his idea for the band's image. Bruce moved on to a P-bass when given a choice.

@PaulThePlug Spartan have got a few bob out of me over the years 🙂 They had a blog page which listed famous pedals with their 'sounds like' cousins. Not having a clue regards pedals ,I found it very handy 👍

Likely JIS, Japanese Industry Standard, heads. The bit drops deeper into the head.

Big thank you to Tom. Lovely fella . Will be posting a bitsa build shortly and it's all down to him. Credit to BC.

Have 2 single coil P-basses strung with tapes, La Bella 60 -115. One bass is headless, the other standard bridge and peghead. Can't say I've ever noticed any difference between the two basses with regard to tuning issues.

I'm with @rushbo 100% regards the importance of the neck or lack of when it comes to body material. Folk have the strangest notions about basswood, poplar, okoume or even pine, thinking them lesser timbers. Tom Anderson has no problem using basswood bodies for guitars costing £4k. Nor does Ibanez, plenty £2k basswood models from them. Go for it. Selling on the neck, pickup and hardware might get you back £40 to £50. Now £80 for under 4BF of alder is a lot of cash but Stain generally takes a few trial and error sessions. Poly isn't cheap or that quick. Polishing takes time. Add up the time it would take to thickness then plane & square the alder, joint it, cut out the body, router cavities and sand. Even if you paid yorself minimum wage, you won't bring that body in for £80 😀

Good shout. Was -5 when I left for work this morning 😁

@Baloney Balderdash Great 👍

@Baloney Balderdash I don't look at graphs, I judge pickups using my ears. The SCPB-3 is not a pickup I'd recommend.

I never got a tone I liked from mine, happily the next owner reported no issues on that front 🙂

Vested interests. Nordstrand's bread & butter is pickups and preamps while the other lot use mystical 'TW' to partly justify price tags.

Lovely.

Nobody shouts his details from the rooftops on FB either. Makes sense as no doubt some deluded little Ric zealot would attempt to gain brownie points from High Command. HW takes on commission work from a select group.

Paisley Tele basses are gorgeous things though I'd go further, all Tele type basses are gorgeous things 😀 You can get those PGs on eBay. I handed the scratchplate from my MIJ Paisley to Brian Pillans in Glasgow, so he could make up a temple and add another option to his range. I'm not seeing them listed ATM but he definitely makes them, I gave his details to Blue Flower owner in the US; 10 days later the boy had photos on Talk Bass. Link to Brian's shop. https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/earlpilanz#tab1

Aye, tools have to earn their keep. One of the young lads asked for my advice regarding a tool costing £1800. It's a great bit of kit from a top notch company, does it's intended task brilliantly. I showed him another method, yielded faster stronger results, using a £100 gizmo he already owned.

@BigRedX We're no longer in the late 70's and Dave is asking what is available in the here and now 😉 I'm a carpenter , I definitely think about 'luthier' tools differently. Folk view the Stew Mac range of toys and say "brilliant, I must get one of those"; I see mostly expensive toys designed to do one task and say "F*** right off" 😁 Every tradesman's shop will have tools adapted for other tasks, it's second nature. We're not the target audience for Stew Mac or others of that ilk 👍

There's a UK eBay seller does them for £22 inc deliver. Or you could use one of these, paint tin lever about £3.