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…..recent blog from a band apologising for not playing playing again this year as their ‘tickets’ hadn’t arrived. Apparently they had three stages to play on and have only just found out these smaller stages are run separately from the main G’bury organisation, tickets being limited in some business way that makes money but doubtful the bands on these ‘smaller’ stages get anything except tickets for the band to gain entrance.

Pipped at the no: 1 slot by Robbie Williams that Xmas …… story….Gordon called for the band to appear with him, we had our live equipment, we set up, played through the song and did a first ‘run’. The producer lady thanked us and said ‘that was great, it’s in the can’! Aside she mentioned she loved having live music played on the show……..meanwhile a Spice girl was having repeated attempts to get her song sorted out, backing tapes not being the problem, it was the dancers not getting their steps right 🤣🤣🤣

Draw the outline of the headstock onto the neck blank to estimate where the rod will be placed….leaving enough channel to allow the Allen key to fit for adjustment needs, (put the key in the truss rod pre route and see how much longer the channel should be). You will see that the rod has slightly deeper and possibly wider dimensions where the soldered/squared parts are, these can be sorted after routing the channel.

I used Peavey for many years including the MK3 amp and 2x15 Black Widow cab…..loud, ferocious and gutsy but heavy too.

You may some luck selling to a local school if they have someone who can verify along with you, that it’s in playable condition.

From your pictures…….It looks to be a ‘student’ bass made with cheaper wood content….body of ply, very possible, by the look of the neck to body join picture you may have a Beech wood neck and not a maple neck though you may be lucky with having a solid Macassar ebony fingerboard and not a soft white wood that has been stained (as my first student cheap bass was). The bridge is likely to be a maple one. I can’t comment on the tuners as I don’t know enough about them. If there is no visible makers sticker inside the body cavity (I’m told sometimes on the underside of the belly, requiring a mirror to view it but that’s maybe on old basses) it’s all difficult by pics to ascertain a value (from me that is) so a visit to a double bass repair/builder would be best.

Most pickups have flat surfaces and flat even pole pieces. A lot of basses have radius/curved string to fingerboard height so the E and G are usually nearer the pickup pole pieces while the A and D sit higher from the pole pieces to accommodate this fingerboard radius to string height. This has always been a problem and the probable reason why many Precision pickups are ‘angled’ so acutely to accommodate this discrepancy in string height / volumes. There are manufacturers who make pickups with radius contour, I have Delano radius pickups and DiMarzio jazz pickups have high adjustable pole pieces.

https://www.hamuranaguitarworks.co.nz This man has a great video of him making a 5 string headless bass in his immaculate workshop in the Rotorua area of NZ.

I picked up this bass recently but found the active 'mid' control not working. Not a real bother for me but I finally replaced it with an Ibanez part. Now I find the passive mode volume output has dropped a lot and against the 'active' mode volume, wouldn't be of use for live or recording. The huge amount of wiring inside this bass puts me off trying to correct this, its basically a mess in there. Everything is literally jammed in! Anyone know these issues at all as I'm thinking of disconnecting the active mid if necessary? Thanks.

This may have been forwarded already…..I only use Neutrik jack plugs as the circumference always works in barrell sockets (Switchcraft). I’ve had similar contact problems but the use of Neutrik worked best. I have measured Jack plug circumferences on cheaper and Neutrik plugs and there is a difference. try this EBay supplier, they do different lengths. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284787881077?var=586456998876&_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D777008%26algo%3DPERSONAL.TOPIC%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20201018205123%26meid%3D8ecda6891dd34736862baf4f4dd2135e%26pid%3D101286%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26mehot%3Dag%26itm%3D586456998876%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2380057%26algv%3DWatchlistVariantWithMLR%26brand%3DNeutrik&_trksid=p2380057.c101286.m47999&_trkparms=pageci%3Ad3f1e549-c190-11ed-b676-e63a57ae2f19|parentrq%3Adab1c6c71860a0a539406299fffee55a|iid%3A1

These are well thought of basses and made in Japan is a bonus. The price is pretty good too so it’s almost a whats not to like.

Thanks for this …. I’ll wait a bit longer for any more replies but when you can, message me with what days/ times….thank you.

Are they cheap? 🤪

I had to double read that one Mike….hope you are well.

Doh! 😄

Thanks for responding but transit isnt required now for the cab....thanks. A long shot…I’m hoping to purchase a fellow Basschat’s cabinet from Northampton, times and gigs are making collection or meet up a bit difficult so far so I’m wondering if anyone does a regular(ish) drive from Northampton to Guildford area (I’m down the A3) and was able to ‘Basschat courier’ a cabinet for me for fuel or whatever?….thanks.