kodiakblair

1 hour ago, franzbassist said:

 

Sire 5 string P bass, so not your run of the mill 'plate

Brian has those, listed in his "Pickguards for various bass models" section.

Size is 'cat 3', £40 for most colour options, £42 for carbon fibre, £50 for transparent or mirror finish.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/114490584526?hash=item1aa82badce:g:bt8AAOSwloxfnA5O

2 hours ago, stewblack said:

I'm actually going with @kodiakblair 's idea and moving the neck farther away.

I went the opposite way last time Stew.

Felt the bridge on was too close to the pickup on this build. 30" scale length 24 frets.

For my take on the Mosrite, I still used a 30" scale 24 fret neck but chopped it down to 20 frets. Forced me to move the bridge to a better position.

I second @neepheid's suggestion.

On 21/01/2024 at 16:08, stewblack said:

Nothing short of major surgery can fix this one I'm afraid.

Any chance the neck has a 21st fret overhang ?

Sticking a block arse end of the pocket would shift the nut further from the bridge.

Course you'd need to plug and re-drill the neck screws but the bridge can remain in place and the overhang will hide the eyesore.

41 minutes ago, Geek99 said:

With an axe, and a chainsaw for the finer parts of the finish no doubt 🤔

If the finish was to be relic'd, why not.

I just made one from scrap timber, took about 10 minutes all in 👍

Bought a set of TruBass for £5 in a closing down sale. 

Loved them, they were on my P-bass from 1984 to when I sold the bass late 1989 🙂

29 minutes ago, FunkyDude said:

Made in UK, means expensive! 😂

I'd rather buy an Alpine. Made in France so cost about the same.

https://www.alpineguitar.fr/work/50s-cat/

No "world-leading pickups", instead you get Hepcats which I'm familiar with 🙂

1 hour ago, jd56hawk said:

The Peavey case isn't exactly light!

Nope, they can weigh more than some T-40s 😮

Good shout putting tapes on it, I always kept one strung with tapes myself 👍

14 minutes ago, Maude said:

I'll just chop the excess off! 

Fact that the back of an axe head can be seen in the photo is just pure coincidence 😄

23 minutes ago, ped said:

‘In stock’ means they have access to the item in their inventory, not that it’s in stock in York, their only physical shop.

Could this have something to do with "Sorry, no photos." ?

Warehouse could be miles away, not to mention the folks working there are likely way too busy shipping out orders.

2 minutes ago, Maude said:

Building new basses from already owned parts is fine. 

4 minutes ago, neepheid said:

If you've already got all the parts by the close of play on 31st December, then you won't be buying any new gear, so it's all good. 

If that's the case, expect to see one build diary a month throughout 2024 😁

On 27/12/2023 at 19:54, neepheid said:

I'm going to do the gear abstinence thing for 2024

This abstinence thing, does it cover building basses from parts you already own ?

Still to do.

Matching black peghead veneer.

Swap the W/B/W scratchplate for tort.

Hide the TOM threaded inserts with a sticker, probably this one 😀

I'll likely have some 4 pole P-90s made but things are pretty good as is👍

Not a bad afternoon's work 🙂

Early Mosrite basses had 20 frets and the baritone had 24.

Solution, remove the excess neck.

You'll note, removing this much from the heel exposed the TR channel. Had scrap maple from the peghead reshape, handy material for a plug 🙂

Next thing was that massive bridge.

Spotting a Guyker copy of the Gretsch Space bridge gave me hope 🙂 Only issue with that bridge is position, mess that up and you're stuffed 🙁

One way round this would be use a floating bridge so I made a cradle from scrap rosewood. Sorry, no photos; I was on a roll this afternoon 😁

Tail piece or string anchor was up next. Grabbed an old base plate and cut it down to size.

Part 2 was shaping a block. The 4 screws hold it in position while drilling the mounting screw holes. 

Set up was OK, intonation easy to do, balance was fine.

Major problem.

 It didn't look very Mosrite 🤣

Had some teething problems with it.

Heel was wider than the pocket, not a huge problem. Finding a bridge as tall as the TOM and with narrow spacing , that was a bigger problem. 

Bought this big chunky Sung Il, it was tall enough and I could shave the sides of the saddles for a tighter spacing.

Wound up with this.

Continuing my trend for slightly off-kilter basses 🙂

No idea why Mosrites appeal to me but that appeal does not run to £1100+ for an original, £600 for an Eastwood copy nor £400 for the Aria 😄

Was very disappointed with Thomann last year when they launched the MR-60 but ignored us bass players 👎 To spite them I started a build though never got passed the rough cut 😔

Rough cut taunted me for months then I thought about the Retrovibe short scales David Konig was doing, guitar bodies/bass necks 👍 

Trial run using a cheap Fazley with a baritone paddle neck went OK so Thomann got cash from me after all 😁

MR-60 guitar.

Baritone neck from eBay.

2 hours ago, fleabag said:

but you never know if they themselves bu$$ered it up.

Not a betting man but reading negative reviews sometimes makes me wish I was 😄

A recent belter was for a 3mm thick granite effect hearth panel, 1 star genius was complaining it wasn't very high 🤣

47 minutes ago, fleabag said:

This is the alternative but these type look flimsy and vulnerable

I'd go with them over the other type, mainly due to the female sockets dangling loose; one snag and you'll be unplugged.

If you're worried they might break, buy spares. Only 97p each from Kenable 👍

https://www.kenable.co.uk/en/audio-/audio-connectors/audio-adapters/3272-635mm-mono-jack-plug-to-twin-635mm-mono-jack-socket-splitter-adapter-003272-5055383432721.html

On 12/12/2023 at 18:28, TheGreek said:

I'm not sure what the criticisms are but mine works OK.

Most of the complaints I read were folk opting to blame Overlord instead of their ham-fisted attempts at installation.

Have had no problems with mine, installation was a POP compared to the ABM mono saddles 👍

3 hours ago, stevie said:

So what's the difference? The Warmans are surprisingly inexpensive.

The Warman split coil Ps have ceramic magnets.

Now I'm by no means a magnet snob, Josi's Jazzbar and Drivetrain both use ceramic mags and I'm happy with those in a couple of basses; it's just I find ceramic a bit too bright for my taste in a P-bass.

Alnico Toneriders fit my idea of a P-bass better 👍

Big fan of Warman pickups but here I'll say Tonerider 👍

Spectacular looking bass.

There was a huge amount of work went into the design and manufacture yet they still remembered the little touches like magnetic battery box lids 🙂

Gut feeling is that'll be a wonderful player, you'll have one hell of a merry Christmas when it comes.

Congratulations.