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All 3 options looks great to me 👍 You could swap them easy enough if using glue dots

Used the Warman jazzbar plenty of times, great pickup. Hope to have their MM installed by the weekend.

Fantastic. I've a spare Peavey Foundation body and a harpoon head neck. The Warman MM is part of the plan 👍 Separate Vol for each coil too 😱

You can have the one off my Peavey Zephyr if you want. I wont be using it again. 88mm wide,58mm deep. 6 screw fixing. String spacing 16mm maybe 16.5mm. With flash/without flash 🙂

Jim. What was the decision on the bridge ?

The petiton to reinstate the pedal has twice the signatures than the outraged one 😄

Rats !!! Plenty others though 😎This mob quote guitars from £75. https://vitalhydrographic.co.uk/hydro-dipping-prices/

Tom you could get a replica built of the Paul Tutmarc Jnr Serenador bass. I know the fella who restored Paul Snr's Audiovox for a museum,he should still have his notes.

Cheers for the heads up Jim.

It'd be a good idea. This has been a folly for the start,be nice to have it done right.

@fleabag I should've cast the net further afield. Hydro-dip Designs in Weston Super Mare include guitars in their price guide 😎 http://hydrodip-designs.co.uk/price-guide/ £100 for both sides🙂 I've easy spent that on skins,paper prints,spray cans,wet/dry paper etc and it'll never look near a pro job .

That's a welcome NBD Geoff. The bigger bridge and wiring hole were a balls up and kind of spoiled things. Glad to hear Thomann sorted it out 😎 The question isn't so much How can Thomann do it so cheap, It's more how can the rest get away with charging so much 😁

More fancy basses on their FB page. https://www.facebook.com/dtcbass/

@fleabag Sent an email to the hydrographic place in Kilmarnock before I started, plan was paisely print over the fiery red PB-50 . They never bothered to reply,not a good sign. Forbye that the red ones have the same hole under the scratchplate, so there's that and bridge/scratchplate screw holes to fill and colour match .

@fleabag I got in touch with the Kilmarnock folk before starting but never heard back. Plan was to dip one of the red PB-50s.

@Golats @fleabag It recommends spraying a little water,creates a barrier so you can push any bubbles to the outside. Same idea as a mobile phone screen protector,only it uses an oil. Bubble-free close-up😎 The brand name was Melinera.

Get some black Fablon type material. Goes on in a one'r,no drying time and no smell. I picked up a 2M roll of white for £3.99 in Lidl, so far it's done 3 scratchplates with plenty left.

I agree with @Bassassin Saw the query earlier but didn't have time to reply. Nothing wrong with the Peavey but it's a £150 bass on a good day. Sweetwater over in the US sell the passive Millennium 5'er for $399. The Sire appears to be $700. Much as I like Peaveys this is a bad deal.

Sod the nut , what about the Warman ?? Did you go for the MM or elavate this to greatness with the Jazzbar 😉 @Pea Turgh Way back at the start of this thread Annoying Twit wrote some program for "Deco Alerts". Think he must be back in NZ as it's 2 year since he was last on BC. Beyond me but it was something about scanning the deco page for any changes then letting him know when they happened.

Stubbornness and stupidity is closer the mark 🤣 The neck has settled down,if 1.5mm on E & G isn't low enough then what do folks consider low ? Intonation is getting there, on the wee Korg tuner it's showing slightly sharp across the board but I've plenty of play on the machine screws. Must have bent a contact on the jack socket as the cable feels loose. Minor issues 🙂 Spoke to soon about further work. Sent Steve at Axe Decals a message this morning. Think I'll paisely print the back to match 😎 https://axedecals.com/

@shug Good advice there. I won't be stripping the finish off this again,the first 5 times were bad enough 🤣

If the cat had turned a shade of pink he would have killed me, no doubts about that 😁

Last stage. Still more heartache on the horizon 😱 Lacquer got peeled off with a razor blade,back and sides rubbed smoooth,satin black applied. No drama 🙂 Putting the bass back together wasn't straight forward. I was fitting a 2 saddle/through body bridge, from that you want the strings and pickup to line up near as possible. The Bloodstone P-Bass 50's chosen for this job didn't fit the hole,nor did the Roswell ?? I had a smaller single coil bought on ebay so used that. Bridge drilled and fitted,string bushings drilled/fitted. String it up for first time. All OK except the neck is arching back on itself 😱Slacken off the TR helps but even with the saddles jacked right up the strings are hitting the fretboard. Never had this bother fitting the other 2 saddle so start investigating. Turns out the new PB-50s have a different bridge,that bridge has a thicker base plate so the neck pocket was shallower. Got the router out and trimmed down the neck pocket Still couldn't fathom why the pickup didn't fit. I'd 2 Roswell pickups and lifted the wrong one,the one for this PB-50 had been trimmed down by 1mm. I had the router out anyway so cut a bigger hole 👍 You'll be glad to know I now have a playing bass 😉 I may add a skin to the back at a later date.

Afraid so. It's a decent size,the best natural light and had less junk. Not recommended.

More outpouring of grief to @discreet,more words of encouragement and an offer to spray the body when I balls it up again 😀 The different shades of pink were a problem but I thought wrapping the skin to the back edge would be the answer. Frank Zappa playing in the background it was time to get started. A hairdryer is needed so I ask the lassie across the hall if I can borrow one. She looks at my baldy heid and ask why i need one, I'm explaining about pink skins on basses,Frank's voice comes blasting out my open door telling lassies they'll love anal !! Thank Christ I don't knock next door,with my luck he'd be telling her "baby take your teeth out and try it one time" 😂 The skin's not hard to fit. Just stick it to the surface,it's self adhesive,and rub any bubbles away. In the how to" video the fella only goes 6mm over the edge.Good reason for that,stretching the wrap to the back edge is near impossible. You cant get between the neck pocket and horns without cutting a slice. The more you heat and stretch the less the glue sticks. If you plan on using it, stick to a 6mm overlap and you'll be fine 🙂 With the skin lifting in places along the back edge and some wrinkles around the horns I couldn't iron out I binned the idea. Grabbed a knife and cut 6mm line all around the body. As I peeled off the wrap I then discovered too much heat had softened the spray lacquer and it peeled away in places🤬 Sod it. Paint the back and sides black. Job done !!