Pea Turgh

The problem with having kids that are in to music too is that they keep on nicking my stuff! My daughter commandeered this bass after I cleaned it up, so haven’t yet had a chance to see if the active circuit still lives!

Would a Strat pup cover for, I wonder? Or maybe someone makes one specially for ‘51s.

Thought I’d lower the tone of all these super nice NBDs with a lowly Toby! Played the perfect Toby Pro in 1996 or so, but couldn’t afford it. Bought a lovely example from @AndyTravis a while ago, but didn’t gel with it like that one back in the 90’s. Sort of forgot about this Deluxe I bought off fleabay about 15 years ago. Leant it to my wife’s cousin years ago, but as he wasn’t using it he returned it to me. A little bit dusty and unloved, but a quick polish and a tweak of the truss rod has it sorted. Will need to investigate the electronics as battery that expired 11 years ago had leaked! Might pull out the preamp and wire it passive, too. I don’t know loads about actives, so any comment on the at plan are welcome.

I read that as “cow paint”. And accepted it. Think I need sleep!

Here’s what a mint guard could look like…

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Good one!

Many moons ago I took mine off and polished it with Brasso. Looked awesome!

Mint guard, Monty’s stuff on the fretboard- laaaahhhhverly!

Oh, god. The valve window. No doubt with an LED behind it. Marketing bollox.

Will open it up for a look (but not touch anything). I won’t be switching it on til either; A. I spot something obvious and within my skill set, or B. a tech sorts it for me - saw a powered wedge fail quite spectacularly whereby somehow DC went to the speaker 😱. Wouldn’t want that happening to old Pete!

Hello peeps. Had my trusty (40+ years old) Peterson P120 combo for 16 years now. Gigged it quite a bit, serviced a few years ago when it went thin and farty, returned to full health and had light use since. Used it last night for a jam with my lad - all good. Switched it on this afternoon - super loud low buzz, even with all controls at zero, with both instrument plugged in and not. Power plug fine, briefly tested with 2 different basses, 2 different leads - no difference. Might any knowledgeable folks recognise the fault from that symptom set?

Enabler

I sold mine in a fit of “but the next one will the The One”. It wasn’t, and I sold that, too! I do regret the sale of the Mustang. I put a mint guard on mine - looked lush! Cue me looking for another oly white Mustang…

I reckon a scalloped neck from a 5 string (but only put 4 strings with a wider spacing) would go great with that.

Nice - congratulations on your win!!!