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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.

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.