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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 !!

Before building a bonfire I spat the dummy,stripped it back to wood and sprayed it black. Was pouring out my woes to @discreet when he reminded me about Axedecals,a printed skin or wrap for basses. Cheers my good brother,your support through this trial was greatly appreciated 👍 £23 sent to Steve at Axedecals and I was back spraying pink.Spraying pink,in the spare room,every bedsheet in the house draped over floor/bookcases and basses. Endless coats of pink then I mistook satin clear for clear gloss and made an derrière of it again 🤬 The heart was roasted out me by now and I'd long stopped taking photos ☹️ Axe decal skin arrived. Different shade of pink 😭😭

Plan of attack was glue the paper to front and back,feather the edges then spray a pink burst. Here I made a major mistake. The paper was too thick to feather properly ,ended up with a defined line and paper fibres, In hindsight,soaking the paper with shellac would have allowed me to sand smooth to the body edge. The fibres,being trapped in shellac, would have sanded out too.The heavy line and a major overspary caused this to be "match abandoned" I also managed to get a fine coat of pink on every surface in the living room 🤬

The new batch of PB-50s have had a change of factory and they do things differently. The annoying hole for the pickup wire was present and needed filled. For some stupid reason I stripped the body of it's lacquer. Not only did the lacquer come away but the photo flame peeled off and left an uneven surface. This is a layer of lacquer and one of the photo flame paper looked at from the back and side. . Covered the whole thing in filler then sanded flat. Next up. The Print Debacle !!

I'm not really one for fancy finishes but always liked the Fender Paisely print models. I'm also a cheapskate so it'd need to be DIY. The Harley Benton PB-50 has been a great bass for me so that was the starting point. While looking for suitable Paisley print I saw a link for "Hydrographics" and with release of the fiery red PB-50 looming thought that would be the answer 🙂 Not to be. The hydrographics people never replied to my questions and the fiery red PB-50 has a hole beneath the scratchplate that needs filling ☹️ I'd also be limited to black on red paisely. The sunburst PB-50 project in March was a doddle and I saw this pan out the same way so ordered up a B-stock . That assumption was to cost me 😄Paisely print was a nightmare to find, wallpaper print is too big. Got the last 2 sheets of a great pink/gold paper from Etsy.com. Rust-o-leam had a pink that matched. I was in business 😎 From here on in the benefit of hindsight causes the most pain.

That's a nightmare @Jimothey Afraid I can't offer much bar my sympathy. I sanded the satin off then used a Dulux gloss, that worked fine. Well worked fine until I moved on to the next stage of the finish. Details of that debacle hopefully wont be published until long after my death 😉

When I convert a T40 to 5 strings I put La Bella Jamerson flats on it. 38 year old neck subjected to extra strain of 5 quite high tension strings. Handled it no problem and it stayed like that for over a year. Only changed over to La Bella low tension flats because I got a used set for £28. IMO a good B string depends more on the brand, if it works on a bass tuned BEAD no reason it wont work on BEADG.

I'll remember that. Shipping doesn't look too bad, quotes I see are $200 to $250. One TNT quote did say $150 but with the 2 other TNT quotes giving prices then saying "service not available between these addresses", it'll need further investigation.

Could've swore I had more than 1 spare 5 string bridge kicking about. Chrome 6 screw 88mm wide and 57mm deep. it's either 16.3mm or 16.5mm spacing. I'll see about getting a photo in a bit.

I'm sure Peavey bridges were 16mm spacing. When I get in from work I'll double check. Should have a few going spare if they're any good lads.

I wish I could answer. Hoping you post a DIY regarding the paisely paper, had 2 attempts at it last month and both ended in disaster. It'll be nice to see somebody succeed where I failed miserably 🙂

Never mind Mark I could be talked into selling one 😀

Other way around. Bass Collections look like Tunes 😃 Maniacs appeared about 84/85

Bloody hell,it went for £175 !!! If someone stuck a new preamp in that they'd have a killer bass. @MoJo I know what I said about the electrics but the build quality is great. My first bout of GAS was for the Tune Maniac,back in the mid 80's, so I've a long term interest in them 🙂 Here's my take on TuneBasses. The Korean/Japanese thing is kind of muddled and not helped by folk on the various clubs/FB pages. Tune Guitar Technology started the ball rolling in Japan. Kawai,SGC Nanyo,Washburn and Ibanez quickly started with their takes on the Maniac. Late 80's Tune Guitar Tech got the contract for the Levinson Blades so started importing necks and bodies from Korea. This gave them more time for Levinson. At the end complete basses were imported from Korea. Then Tune goes tits up. The Koreans keep building under the Tune Guitar Technology name. Some luthiers in Japan started using Tune templates and called themselves Tune Guitar Maniac,they claim they own the Tune brand but the Koreans dispute this saying they had a "gentleman's agreement" to produce Tune basses. Said Gentleman being dead nobody knows the truth 😃 Upshot is there's a factory in Korea building Tunes and a luthier custom shop in Japan building Tunes,up until recently the Japanese shop still bought it's hardware from the Koreans. The so-called "bad blood" between the two is mostly the product of owners with Japanese built Tunes. Not surprising, I think Fender Master Built owners would get upset with MIM Fender owners claiming there's no difference between their basses. A basic Tune Maniac from Japan will be built by a small team and maybe fired in their PLEK machine, photos of it featured a lot on their FB page along with fancy inlay work on folk's Strats and LPs. It'll cost you about £1200 before shipping and VAT/import duty. £1500 shouldn't be far of the mark. A basic Korean Tune Maniac can be had from Ned at VSN in Canada for £404. With Shipping/tax etc £650 easy. A few years back Sam Ash over in the USA wanted to buy the brand name for another budget line of theirs. The Koreans said no and SA had a fire sale on Tune products,can't say if that was a deliberate attempt to damage the Tune brand name but that was the effect it had in the US.Both are recovering with the Japanese holding the upper hand,given the fantastic value they are for a hand built bass 👍 Fine basses no matter the flavour. My 30something Japanese fretless is a joy,the Korean parts but Japan assembly 90's Maniac is a cracking bass and if quality of the later Korean TWB-4Z is anything to go by the Japanese version will be outstanding. Best leave a photo after all this waffle.

And we have a winner 😂 You just can't stop yourself can you.

Joined the fakers last week. Bought an Ali Ex 5'er from a fella on the FB page Saturday night. Right of the bat I spotted a few wee issues. Nut was off to one side. B&G barely registered on the neck pickup. String/pickup poles were off over the bridge pickup. The RIC logo had been sanded of the TR cover. First job,get that logo sorted. Had some adhesive labels so just printed out the RIC logo. I know this offends some folk but tough stinky poo. My old man knows better than to try telling me what to do so a stranger's outrage means nothing 🙂 Moving the nut took a dab of glue and no time. Turned the G saddle 180,that and the nut improved things at the bridge pickup. The neck toaster just wasn't wide enough for 5 strings nor was the Retrovibe one I'd had in the spares box. I've been impressed with the Warman jazzbar and used it a few times. This was a good excuse to order another. It arrived yesterday but this afternoon was the first chance to fit it. Bars span the string spacing no problem though tomorrow I plan on the parallel wiring option. It's a high output pickup and the change should balance better against the bridge one. £100 for bass,£18 for pickup,less than couple of hour work 😎

Been a fan of tapewound nearly all my playing years. Stumbled across them purely by chance, music shop in Edinburgh was closing and sold me a set of Roto Tru Bass for £5 !! Was on a government scheme back then,it paid £16 a week so I doubt I ate much for a few days after that 😁 Keep a set on my single coil P-bass and on a T40 I fitted a preamp to. Tapes on an active bass work well.

You'll be the first I'll contact when the clear out starts :-)

Couldn't comment on either. I use the Caline CP-24 10 band EQ. £30 and it works a treat 😎 I think the Artec and Caline may be same product just re-badged. https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=caline+eq&_sacat=0

Nice to see the sex whizzed doll getting a mention. Gallus Cooper are another great tribute act (gallus means great in Scots).

It was a Plasti-kote clear satin poly. The colour is Rust-oleum Painter's touch. The Halfords that went crackle was acrylic,says it works with all car paints so I'm stumped at the reaction. Bloody tough stuff to rub off again 😀

Thanks @Maude Gave it a scuff earlier. Had choice of Dulux clear (4 hr between coats) or Halfords clear (15 minutes). Went for Halfords. Instant "Crackle effect" finish 🤬

Made an derrière of things last night. Did 2 light coast of poly before I spotted the can was satin not gloss. Can I just spray over with gloss or do I need to sand back again. Cheers KB

Six!! Wont be interest in another then :-)