lemmywinks

There was 0 bids on it, the neck also looks like it's wonky. Maybe half a dozen more neck screws bolts would sort it out?

Looks like the late 70s was when he had that website designed never mind the basses.

They do the same bass in stained finishes, still made in Japan and looks like the same spec. The modern IGB shape makes for a tiny featherweight bass, I had one of the Chinese IGB55 versions and it weighed practically nothing. Just really light and compact but really comfortable to play.

Just noticed he's stuck Trebor Extra Strong Mints in the string through holes for no other reason than being completely mental. Could this be the work of everybody's favourite guitar converter?

You could put one of those high powered laser pens in for conveniently blinding @rsehole punters.

Looks like standard Fender factory routing to me....

Looks like someone created an eBay account just to do that and alert people to threads on various forums, not on really.

In every YT video his instruments sound awful and have fret buzz all over the place, he seems to promote these as perfect for beginners, easy to play and far better than a factory setup but ignores that he's hacked the nuts and bottomed out the bridges so much the end product is sonically offensive. I don't think he's all there really, his listings are deliberately deceptive though so I'm not sure where I stand on this. Just feel a bit sorry for any beginner who spends money they will never get back on his creations and will then have to spend more down the line to put it right when they realise what a decent guitar is supposed to play like. MDP himself is a learner player so I'm not sure where this supposed expertise is coming from.

Yeah definitely a Westfield, didn't know the model number. Some of the Vesters (Clipper?) have really nice woods, there's one near me for £150 but it's in red so looks a bit cheap.

I was going to say there's nothing that can't be fixed with a few hand tools and a cheap preamp until I saw this: Think it's a Westfield isn't it? Should be a solid enough project if anybody is feeling brave. Maybe we should start pooling money to buy these and just have them shipped directly to Andy's house for fun?* *Fun for us, not Andy.......

A poster here fitted Wilkinson saddles to a V2 P7, I know the V3 has a different bridge but maybe that would be a solution? The bridge really is something they should have redesigned on the Gen 2, the tuners are easily swappable and adequate but the bridge needs replacing IMO. If you want to keep through body stringing then it's a PITA - on my Gen1 V7 it worked but the break angle of the string got on my nerves.

Depends what value you put on your time really. Taking strings off a bass, going to the shops to buy meths, soaking strings overnight, drying them off, restringing, washing the meths off your pots and pans, being moaned at by your significant other for using the kitchen as your own personal bass laboratory, doing it all again when your strings sound dead after a couple of hours............. There's being on a tight budget and then there's just being tight! A pack of Warwick Red labels is £9.68...........

Instead of boiling your dead strings or soaking them in meths like some mad scientist simply stop being a tightwad and order some new ones from a guitar shop or online store, the end result will be the sound of a new set of strings which lasts longer than one gig and is much less time consuming than faffing about with metre long glass tubes or pans.

I started listening to these guys a while ago as they cover 80s and 90s theme tunes along with songs from the Transformers movie soundtrack (obviously). They started off doing small conventions etc, they're a fun band and I wouldn't read too much into the Zep cover. check out their Doom/Power Rangers medley and rendition of the Pokemon theme. And yes I would join them in a second, they do some fun gigs and I've always had a weird thing for Arcee.

Relax, chances are you're playing too heavily - usually either a demanding bass part which is on the edge of your ability causing you to tense up or you're struggling for volume and subconsciously compensating. Always the chance it's an underlying condition so get it checked out either way, our guitarist gets this every now and then due to an old injury from a motorbike accident and had to stop playing for a few years but even working at a computer all day can cause strain injuries. Might be worth going to a tutor and getting any technique issues identified and sorted out, can't hurt really and we can all develop bad habits. Whenever I have any semi-demanding part which involves my fretting hand being in a set position and my picking fingers repeating the same pattern constantly (think the ad nauseum root & 1/16th octaves on Hot Stuff or something) I just make sure I relax.

I don't think the preamp is particularly expensive, just well designed. It's still surprising how many active basses have cheap sounding preamps which have boom, honk and fizz controls instead of bass/mid/treble. The weird thing is the Sire preamp apparently has a stupidly low bass control which boosts at 20hz yet it never gets too boomy unless you're silly with it, can wind it up a decent amount and it just fattens everything up without being overbearing.

As said nylon coated is the way forward for acoustic basses, I think if a lot of opinions about the instrument would change if people heard them strung with nylons. I've had Roto Trubass on mine (not my first choice but they were cheap and barely used) for about a decade and they still sound great so not that expensive in the grand scheme of things! My favourite nylon coated strings were Galli many moons ago but not tried them in a while.

At least you know it's an authentic Gibson...

Novice musicians place a disproportionate amount of value in the instruments their heroes used, ignoring the fact that it was pretty much all that was available at the time. Also completely disregarding the fact that their heroes wouldn't touch that wonky necked 70s Jazz bass they just paid £2k if their life depended on it. I recall an interview with either Jack Bruce or Eric Clapton regarding rehearsals for the Cream reunion - they got all of their vintage gear out from back in the day, realised their modern equipment was a lot better and binned off all the old stuff. There is nothing special about 40+ year old electric instruments, especially crude bolt on planks like Fenders.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds was pinched from a Jefferson Airplane track. Shame as I really like the song.

Why bother with an amp? You just need a preamp which you will have already.

Here's what I have left, think the stacked pot was reused when I had the bass kitted out with a Bart piezo pre. Definitely have the original pups and probably have the two other generic pots somewhere too.

I have a Hohner preamp assembly somewhere along with the EMG Select J pickups, took them out of a Hohner JJ pro. Has the stacked pot with the red LED. Photo pinched from the web to show controls: The Artec preamps sound great btw.

I think the spacing on the SDGR is 16.5mm isn't it?