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On my Fishman piezo bridge the instruction was to make sure there is no silk winding around the string touching the bridge. I use La Bella flats which have no silk windings so I’m pretty sure the core wire would be fine. Whether or not it’s better may be for you to test.

For £22k I’d like some pickups, hardware and a 5th string! Or maybe I’m just greedy.

A few hours with some fine wet and dry and you could ha we a decent finish on that bass, unless the diy paint all peels off 😂💥

Love the colour.

Just noticed your posting and yes I have owned a vintage Gibson bass. A 1966 EB2D and frankly it was a dog. The pickups were totally unbalanced, the mud bucker practically blew the speaker so you had to play it with the boost button pushed in, it actually worked the opposite way round and cut the output. It didn’t sit well on a strap , had had a neck repair like many 335/EB2s, the heads seemed very pone to snapping, but it did look totally cool - I still love that semi style. By comparison my current Gibson is super light, despite being 5 string, sits well, has balanced pus with pull pots to instantly change the tone, a great bridge, and seems really well finished. Having thought I’d never buy another Gibson, I now really rate them.

Well done @Dosi Y'Anarchy it takes a bit of guts to put yourself out there and that was informative. Does the bass not have a slice off the edge to stop it cutting into your arm? Surprisingly it does sound a lot different from my 2013 Gibson EB which has thumping great humbuckers on it. Your Tapped tone is similar to the the bridge pu.

Or the Gold tone mini bass

I can’t believe you found one of these that only weighe 81/2lb. When I had one with the 5 in line, it weighed nearer 11lb.

You are absolutely right sir. I remember seeing one (Grabber I think) with an unlined fretless neck and a gorgeous green and black burst finish. It was way out of my price league back then, but wold have been a worthwhile investment now!

I think it looks an improvement on the original, better shape pickguard and the pu placement has to be better.

Don’t panic guys, they’re both in someone’s shopping cart so you don’t have to buy them.

That’s been for sale on Used forever! I wonder if anyone ever takes anything off that site as some guitars appear to have been advertised there for literally years! I tried to contact another seller through the site but never got a response. Has anyone actually asked S71 for a price?

+1 for ptfe tape.

As I live in a flat and have no where to do much work I think some of this is beyond my capabilities. I was thinking as an alternative how about spray painting the one i’ve got, maybe gold to look like an anodised guard. Very Duck Dunn?

When I had a maple board fretless, it was lacquered are you leaving yours plain?

Thanks guys, I’d never heard of a Drexel, which is probably not a good start!

I presume professionally produced ones are laser cut but how do you cut your own?

It’s interesting as the Fender site only offers maple on the elite.

While we’re on the subject of terrific value, Revelation are a steal, but there are plenty of second hand Squiers around to be had at below your budget.

The pots are shot but a mate is fixing this. Will probably hold fire on changing the pups as this won’t be my regular gigging bass and i’ll See how the stock ones sound initially.

I seem to recall the master and individual volumes is standard on all Gretchen guitars and pretty certain I’ve seen it before on the bass you have. Any it’s a great looking axe which I suspect sounds awesome too and a bit different to the norm Js and Ps.

Thanks for the nail polish tip, i’ll Try that first as the damage area is around the strap button and doesn’t really show, but I’d like to stop it chipping more.

Cheers, sounds like a trip Halfords! My wife suggested nail polishes!

Having only 5 string basses I had a sudden wave of nostalgia for a 4 string Precision. Partly driven by a friend who wants me to teach him but also because I an easy project. So this Squier Standard Precision arrived covered in dirt and stickers and looking very neglected. I given it a quick clean over and polish to find the body work pretty good apart from a bad chip around the rear strap button. The J pickup is not working either. The scratch plate has toned down to a quite shade of greens white but the previous owner had put stickers on it and where these are now removed there are rectangles of the original white. Anyone any suggestions as to how to either whiten the plate or tone down the white patches? I think it’s Candy Apple Red (metallic finish), any where I can get paint to match so as to repair the chip?