hillbilly deluxe

Is'nt a P-J a super P ? theres tons of them.

I think these are super P's

Can you still get Humbuckers like that ?

Robin Freedom 2.

Nice................you really need a vintage amp now though.

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That would have been the best option,but cost prohibitive as it's not my main or even backup bass.

I took the pickup out of the Jim Deacon MM that i have,cut a hole in the Italia so that it would fit.Luckily ? the Italia body is made up of 2 seperate pieces,back and front,which screw together,so i only had to cut the top half of the body and soldered the connections up.This left me with an odd shaped hole where the 4 lipstick pickups used to live,so i cut a 3" square out of a mother of toilet seat Jazz scratchplate that i got in the local guitar shop,drilled a hole and screwed it onto the existing scratchplate.This will do until i get a new scratchplate made up. It also got a couple of gold knobs instead of the original "strat" type,just to bling it up a bit. Result...............1 unusual P shaped bass which plays great but sounded thin and weak,and now sounds much louder and punchy. Next project.........Jim Deacon MM to get 2 or 3 lipstick pickups,or a replacement MM style

Stop being a puss,and just do it ?

My fretboard overhangs,it is not in contact with the body and the scratch plate goes under the board.It is also not a Fender neck.

JHS Vintage V950.

Great news.

Pervert.

[quote name='The Bass Doc' post='730063' date='Jan 30 2010, 08:02 PM']Damn, I'm after short scale - do you know if it's possible to trim the 32" without causing any intonation problems?[/quote] If you trim the excess from the middle of the string,it should improve your sound massively.........allegedly.

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='730010' date='Jan 30 2010, 07:08 PM']A bloke came into our shop and bought his son, who was an acoustic player, his first electric guitar - a Gibson Les Paul Standard at £1800. The beauty of owning a cheap instrument is that you appreciate the difference when you move up to a more expensive one. Spoiled brat? Maybe so. But it makes you wonder what the rich folks buy for their kids. For instance, (would Sting buy his kid a Yamaha RBX170 (a great starter bass IMO) or similar?) Food for thought.[/quote] Proberbly not,more likely to buy them a plot of land in a rain forrest.

A lesson that i learned,the stupid way,was...................you can not make a Thinline Telecaster into a double cutaway,because they are HOLLOW..................i must say that my dad was jolly well upset,that i had ruined said late 60's/early 70's Fender. It was 30 years ago.

[quote name='HoweDy' post='729944' date='Jan 30 2010, 06:13 PM']haha still, its not like hes an exceptional bassist[/quote] I'd never played a bass before that day.I did'nt even try to play it in the shop.

A man's bass rig is his castle.

The pick guard should match the neck pocket on the body.If the fretboard overhangs the bottom of the neck,the pick guard will sit under the overhang.

It was in 1977 though.

My 135 with 2x15 was loud enough for pub/club gigs.Lovely sound too.I never used it for anything else at the time though.

I got a £50 Hagstrom bass for my 16th birthday.