sunday_luthier

Love that one (Birdhouse in Your Soul). I think They Might Be Giants went on to writing songs for children. I tend not to focus on lyrics unless they're really bad, and that ruins the song for me.

Hello everyone, I really enjoyed reading this post, as I too have a 90's Indian Encore P-Bass I bought for peanuts at a yard sale about 20 years ago. I'm a guitar player, and this bass had been collecting dust until a few years ago, when I started taking bass classes. It's a lot of fun and I now play bass in a covers band. Anyway, it was a Pearl White finish, just like the picture below, but the body had quite a few scratches and dings. Nothing serious, but thought it was a bit boring to look at. I sanded it to find a pretty ugly piece of solid wood, which I finished in Tru Oil. I find that ugly wood is still prettier than a white plastic finish. I replaced the pickguard with a grey pearloid, which I quickly grew tired of and briefly put the original white one back on. I found a Jazz Bass pickup laying around in my parts drawer and decided to install it in the Encore. New black pickguard, extra knob and voilà : I love its new mojo ! Oh, and after reading this post, I checked the polarity of the magnets and discovered that they were indeed the same polarity, so I unglued one, flipped it and glued it back on. Still has some setup to do and can't wait to play it. These basses aren't bad. They're not world class or anything but decent for the money and a perfect base (haha) for modding. Cheers,

No clues to where your bass was built... Just thought we could be friends : Seems like exactly the same bass as yours, but branded "Westwood". I also think it's somehow linked to Fernandes as the logo is very similar to the Fernandes logo used at the time (late 70's-early 80's). Cheers,