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stereoplayer

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  1. The bass in question, my main, is a bass that I put together originally in 1982 using: 1971 Fender fretless maple neck 1982 Schecter Research P/J body, Satin Walnut, heavily contoured at least 3 times. Refinished 3 times. This is from the times Schecter sold Fender replacement parts. Tapped Schecter PU’s. Probably made by Seymour Duncan. With 2 on/off/on switches. Half volume, off, full volume. Stereo wiring When the P PU quit working some years ago, I tried to have Seymour Duncan make me a new one. They told me then they probably make the PU’s for Schecter. Not sure if true. They tried twice to build me what I wanted. I ended up buying PU’s from Joe Barden. They fit perfectly without covers with the mounting tabs on the bottom of the PU. I recently had Tom Brantley , http://tombrantleyrewinds.com/, repair/build my old tapped P PU. It’s arriving soon. So I’m going back to my tapped PU system. So, after taking the electronics out, I’m going to rub it out and give it a fresh waxing before installing the old tapped PU’s back in.
  2. PU’s shipped. Talked to the luthier today discussing back route control panel.
  3. Current weight for the body is 5.6 lbs.
  4. Pictures from the luthier. Heavy contours. Still in progress.
  5. Special ordered J PU set is done, paid and soon to be shipped!
  6. I talked to him last night. The contours have been pretty much completed. Next up is the control cavity and wiring chases. We discussed doing a mortise on the end jack plate. Hopefully, I can post pictures soon, he’s having phone troubles. He’s supposed to send me pics soon somehow.
  7. Thanks! I’m supposed to talk to my luthier tonight. I haven’t heard from him and need a progress report.
  8. The neck plays so nice! A full and partial neck shim. I wish I had more to report waiting on parts and the body...
  9. Some will describe this better than me, but... Assuming it is a fretted neck, the distance from the nut to the 12th fret should be equally the distance of the 12th fret to the bridge saddles. The saddles should be in a position(the mid way of travel) so they can be adjusted either towards or backwards, for intonation adjustments. Use string( the E and G) from the machine heads to the bridge to line up the position of the strings. Take your time and carefully think this out. Possibly YouTube has a video?
  10. Here’s my ACC Acoustic rig. The 301 cab I bought new in 1973 w/cover. I was in the 11th grade. The 370 head I got a couple of years ago. It a terrible brown tolex recover. I re-did it with Duratex. I had the catalog pic on my bedroom wall as a teen...amp porn.
  11. I played the neck for a bit. It plays so nice! Still making adjustments. I would recommend these necks to any one. Not affiliated. Freestone guitars on FB I couldn’t post a FB Link?
  12. My babinga fretless neck is done and temporarily installed on my MIM Fender J body. The nut(not glued in) is also temporary. I’m putting a babinga or walnut nut on it. The neck is for my walnut build thread.
  13. Until my custom body is built, the new neck is on my MIM Jazz bass body now. I installed the string retainer, I might tweak that a little. I’m had to raise the saddles quite high. I’m letting it set a bit under tension before giving it a serious tryout. Right now it seems to play better than the Fender neck that was in the Jazz.
  14. After rubbing out and waxing the neck, I installed the machine heads and a temporary nut. I’m going to put the neck in my MIM J body for a rest run.
  15. Yea I mentioned it to the luthier. It’s going to have generous body contours..
  16. ‘98 MIM jazz body. Wired stereo/mono. ‘78 USA fretless p neck. Put together just before Christmas. Custom wire harness. VVTT(pull up on last tone for mono). with my mini g/k- MB-200 stereo rig.
  17. I notice it being slow to post at times too. But more importantly, sometimes there’s not a lot of posting going on...🙄
  18. Well, Les Pauls are pretty cool!
  19. To each his own. That said, I do not care for most single cut basses either.
  20. It looks as if it has two channels. But only one output. I was thinking of my stereo basses too! Maybe it would be interesting using with my stereo basses to a one amp situation. I'm pretty sure it costs quite a bit!
  21. I started to polish and rub out and wax the bass neck. I also contacted the luthier reminding him of the PU wiring routes. One of the routes will have 6 wires passing thru it. I wonder how my custom J PU set is going?
  22. Many of my skills have turned to suck these days. I have redone the headstock and decals. I messed up the lacquer finish again.
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