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@dub_junkie Cheers for that. My pal Rick Wilson (Moonshine Guitars) was working for Greg at the time when the Cort collaboration started, I was going by his tale of events.

The "Pre-Cort" version would be those made by Greg Curbow in Atlanta. Greg teamed up with Cort to gain a wider audience for his ideas on ergonomics and synthetic materials. His own place was only building 10 guitars/basses a month but Cort's facilities could really ramp up production 🙂 That was around 2002. Greg passed away 2005 and Cort kept production going for a couple of years longer. I don't know how Tanglewood ended up with the design, they did a bloody good job, but it was post-Cort 🙂 Thought I'd a photo of my two together but nope. Cap on the Tanglewood was nuts 🙂

Pretty simple formula for me. What will it cost me in parts, materials and timber from the sawmill to build. If it's another 100% more to buy then it's expensive .

Would anyone at the BBC go to the trouble of fitting a bridge pickup ? There's what appears to be a Telecaster guitar control plate alongside the standard 51 P-bass plate. Can't quite make out what pickup has been added but it does hint at Ric treble.

Aye, he had £30 to spend but a Fender cost £100 so he bought the Höfner. If he'd had a bigger budget he'd have bought a Fender, Höfner would never have got the Beatles association lifeline and went bust decades ago 👍

I'd say there was little random about it. He needed a bass, one not too awkward for a lefty and it had to be cheap. Doubt he had much choice back in 1961.

Females don't suffer from male weakness. She's had two kids. Don't know about you but I was 9lb 3oz at birth; that's "too heavy" for most fellas on here 😀

Do you think there's a large number of folk, who saw TH 43 years ago, are planning on buying a Hofner and would that number save the company ? See it's all well and good trawling up photos from decades ago but most who were inspired or influenced by those artists have already scratched that itch.

Tina's gear list, on wiki, tells a different tale 😀 Equipment Höfner 500/2 Club Bass[29][30] – Two pickup with single-cutaway hollowbody, purchased in 1978 Fender Musicmaster Bass[29] Used in early Talking Heads performances including Talking Heads: 77 Fender Mustang Bass[29] Used in early Talking Heads performances, seen on Saturday Night Live performance Veillette-Citron Standard 4 String[29] – Neck Through, teal green Fender Precision Bass – Used in early Talking Heads performances[30] Gibson Les Paul Triumph Bass[29] – used in early Talking Heads performances Fender Jazz Bass[29] – Used for Tom Tom Club live performances Steinberger L-Series Bass[29] – Seen during Little Creatures period Fender Swinger Guitar – Seen in Stop Making Sense during the performance of "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)" Chapman Stick[citation needed]

Interesting idea Mark 😎

Pros. Only 2 screws to slacken instead of 4. A few more grams of weight shaved off. Less chance some ham-fisted oaf can disturb components when prising the clip off the battery. Cons There is no universal standard size for 9v batteries. That can cause problems at a really inconvenient time, box was designed for Duracell but you're holding Eveready. Not an issue with a control cavity mount.

I've had some lovely drop tops from these folks. https://edelholzhandel.com/Amerikanischer-Nussbaum-Black-Walnut

Brian, eBay store "earlpilanz", has a template for the 44-64. He'll email you a PDF to check against yours and save you sending off the original. It's a Cat 3 size, £42 for standard 3 ply rising to £55 for mirror finish. You'll find it listed in the description for . https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/114490584526?itmmeta=01KC6FXR70KVEKCGYES866A6MA&hash=item1aa82badce:g:bt8AAOSwloxfnA5O

Stunning 😍

Best have a look at reviews. There's only 3 so won't take long 🙂 2 of them report poor QC regarding the sizes 😞

No, your thinking is sound. It'll go plenty loud, just not the way it's currently hooked up. Main concern last Friday was practical stuff, had I cut the pickup slots in the right place/ did they fit the cavities/ would the bloody thing make a sound etc 😆 Took the coward's route for wiring, 4 pickups in parallel. Going 2 pairs in parallel or 4 in series will up the output.

Weird. Followed your link. Left click to highlight address, right click copy then right click paste here. Just pastes the item description header. Same result with left click, run the mouse, Ctrl-C then Ctrl-V here or when I used Crtl - right click paste. Now copy/paste is working but only if I skip .html

@tauzero You're a star. No idea how you managed it but you did 🙂 Thanks for putting in the effort, it's much appreciated 👏

@Si600 I gave that a go but got the same result, just a text description. Thought I'd try again with another browser, healthy reminder why I dumped Google Chrome 😃 Slower than a slow thing and for some reason it's forgot how to auto enter my password. Sorry folks this is way too much trouble just to save you going to Ali-Ex yourself, entering "Long Shank Diamond Round Micro File" and clicking the one at £1.46 👍

An Aussie bloke had a thread on this over on TalkBS 😀 He'd bought round diamond files from an Ali-Ex tool store, B2 Mold Accessories, and wanted to share his good news. Now as the name suggests, B2 are a tool store selling a wide range of abrasives. Pretty important point as instead of some joker touting welding tip files to "luthiers" it's a business with a focus on grinding and shaping tools 🙂 Caused a few ruffled feathers with the Stew Mac/Gotoh crowd, especially when he countered their "Buy quality, buy once. Buy cheap, buy twice" pish by pointing out that at $1AUD he could buy 100 times and still not reach to their $105USD 😃 They cost a bit more now, £1.46 each or 5 for £2.82. For bass guitars you want 1.2mm (0.046) going up to 3.2mm (0.125). I'd leave a link but copy/paste is just leaving text 😞 Will post a follow once I see where I'm going wrong 👍

Well I said it sounds like a P-bass but some boy on TalkBS tells me that's impossible and would I kindly re-string the bass with zingy roundwounds, somehow it'll better reflect the pink and blue lines he's drawn on graph paper. Boy is a genius, doesn't need to play your bass or know what pickups you used. Nope, one look at a picture tells him "there's a 20dB drop off in the higher Mids" 😳 He could be right or maybe my penchant for single coil P-bass gives me a different view on "sounds like a P-bass" 😁 Anyway, I'm sticking with like a P-bass and have vowed to never read another TalkBS post by someone on my "ignore member" list, they're on the list for a reason 😁 Should say it's not the loudest P-bass so I'll likely try the coils in pairs.

Sharpie if it doesn't 👍

That is going to look fantastic with black hardware. Looking forward to seeing the end result.

I won't keep you in suspense Richard 🙂 Scratch plate got pickups marked on then cut out yesterday afternoon. Did a wee bit tweaking this afternoon then when I was happy everything sat nice I switched on the soldering iron. 4 lipsticks in parallel, 250k pots and a 104 cap. Just the pickup heights to balance and the cling film to remove; might swap stings for something looser than Fender flats 👍

Pearloid material arrived and I got the jitters 😀 Get one chance cutting plastic, likelihood of failure was high 🙁 Thought about ordering up a blank scratchplate, having a custom one cut, getting a pickup template made; anything to avoid cutting plastic 😁 Stern talking to and I came to my senses. Scratch plate cut 😀