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  1. shoulderpet
    The Epiphone EB3 is long scale and the Gibson is more than I can afford to spend unfortunately
  2. shoulderpet
    +1 my least favourite finish too
  3. shoulderpet
    Awesome, I like my bass to sound like its out for blood so that is music to my ears
  4. shoulderpet
    Yeah it is looking like the Fallout bass is a good bet, I bet that beefy looking pickup has some serious balls to it
  5. shoulderpet
    Thank you for the replies, probably also worth mentioning, I like a bass that is wider at the nut for example my Hofner club bass is around 43mm at the nut and it is probably the most comfortable neck I have played (unfortunately for rock the Hofner needs a lot of processing to get a nicely gnarly tone). I am not after tight string spacing like on the Hofner and doesn't have to be slim on the dusty end like the Hofner
  6. shoulderpet
    That bass has been on my radar for a while, only thing that has stopped me from pulling the trigger is the plastic pickup surrounds but having heard good things about it I am really tempted
  7. shoulderpet
    Single humbucker is fine
  8. shoulderpet
    Now £100 which is a decent price as although the bass may not be pristine condition the Duncan pickups plus the Hi mass bridge would set you back £170-£180
  9. shoulderpet
    Putting my Squier ss Jaguar bass up for sale/trade, am looking for £120 £100 but open to trades, I only have short and medium scale basses at the moment so a trade for a long scale bass of some sort (maybe Squier P or J bass but open to other offers). First off I will say that this is definitely not a display bass, it has been well used and the condition reflects this, there are some scratches on the body and some other wear(see photos), there is a spot where I was fitting a string tree and it snapped off (see photos), the nut has been used for very heavy strings in the past and it has been repaired a little sloppily with the baking soda and superglue trick (the nut works fine, is just not the prettiest looking), there is a small gap between the control plate and the body (see photo). The bass plays ok but if you are after a super low action you will probably want to give the frets some attention. I also refinished the neck a while ago and did a passable job, I made the mistake of putting the neck back on the body too soon afterwards and the neck is pretty much glued into the neck pocket by the varnish used but this does not affect the neck angle in any way. With this said the bass plays ok, not a super low action but playable and imo it sounds pretty good, comes with Seymour duncan Quarter Pounder P and J pickups which give it a nice beefy tone and comes a Fender Hi mass bridge fitted, the J pickup does have a little feedback at loud volumes sometimes but I found the same thing with another bass I have that has a single coil in the bridge position so I think it is just the nature of the beast. The stock control panel has been replaced with a volume,volume control panel for extra brightness and uses a solderless wiring loom which is very handy if you fancy trying other pickup combinations. This was my main player for quite a while due to the lowish weight and the comfortable shape of the body, the SD pickups also give it some nice growl I am based in Croydon south london area, collection only but if in the london area happy to meet halfway
  10. shoulderpet
    Many of you will have seen my recent thread where I was fawning over some Thunderbird basses I had tried, it occurred to me that whilst I loved the tone of those 2 basses I tried, the common denominator was the humbuckers in both basses as they otherwise were not really all that similar and not all that similar to the Gibson Thunderbird. Whilst I could get a Thunderbird let's say that I am physically challenged when it comes to long scale basses, I am 5ft6" tall with short stubby fingers so I was wondering what is out there that is short/medium scale and is relatively inexpensive (I will have about £400 to play with in a couple weeks time), I could mod my Ibanez Mezzo to have a humbucker at the bridge instead of the J pickup but by the time I have paid for the work to be done plus the cost of the pickup I may as well have just brought a new bass.
  11. shoulderpet
    Glad you said collection from Newcastle , I think my wife would probably divorce me if I got yet another bass without moving one on
  12. shoulderpet
    Seems to be the Neodymium magnets that cause the loud output, seriously tempted to put some Neodymium magnets under the pole pieces on the Duncan QP's in my Jaguar bass but just a bit wary in case I end up demagnetising the Alnico pole pieces
  13. shoulderpet
    Yeah to be honest I dont even know why split shaft pots still exist surely solid shaft is much less hassle as you just find knobs with a set screw and you are good to go
  14. shoulderpet
    Ok so googling seems to suggest that I need 24 spline knobs, now to try and find the buggers , thanks to everyone for the help
  15. shoulderpet
    Good thinking, I had a look inside and they seem to be CTS 300K pots, i found the code EP4880 that seems to be a part number on the back of the pots and then after that code they have an A on 2 of the pots and what looks like BD on the other another , I will google the parts hopefully i will eb able to match up the pots with the type of knobs they need although I must confess that the insides of a bass are like another language to me so I may well end up more confused lol
  16. shoulderpet
    Ok thanks, I wont try that then
  17. shoulderpet
    Thanks I will give that a try or failing that I might try and enlarge the hole on the knobs and see if that works
  18. shoulderpet
    Hi PIctures below, apologies for the image quality, my camera phone is not the best , I got the new knobs form the below link https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08JYWN76M/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  19. shoulderpet
    Thanks for the reply , will get some pics up in a moment and the link
  20. shoulderpet
    Haha , this is not helping my resolve, doesnt help that imo the Thunderbird is one of the best looking basses ever, if it looked liked the Warwick buzzard or something equally hideous it would be a lot easier, always thought that the KIngs of leon bass player looks like a total Badass in the video for Charmer where hes rocking a white Thunderbird
  21. shoulderpet
    Hi all Have brought some P bass pickup covers to replace some tatty looking ones on a bass, the original pickup covers are Seymour duncan , anyway I received them and the pickup ears are too big and not only are they too big to fit the pickguard they dont even fit the pickup route (pic below showing the size difference) can anyone reccomend some pickup covers with small ears? thank you
  22. shoulderpet
    Hi all Hoping someone can help, I have a bass that I had some work done on and when the work was done the tech fitted some volume knobs with a set screw as that is what they had at the time, the bass has split shaft pots and whilst the knobs work fine I realise that really it should have push on volume knobs. Anyhow I ordered some on Amazon blissfully unaware that there is more than one type of push on knobs and they dont fit they just wont go on and I think maybe the inside diamter is too small, description on Amazon said they are 6mm inside diameter, anyhow I googled to try and find the information to try and order the right set and after reading about course spline and fine spline volume knobs I am even more confused and whilst I found out that course spline have 18 splines and fine spline have 24 splines I am longsighted so trying to count the splines on a pot is nigh on impossible, can anyone help me with what knobs I need to get , thank you
  23. shoulderpet
    Haha I think that counts as a yes
  24. shoulderpet
    Thanks for the replies, looks like I have bad gas for a Thunderbird, just need to decide whether to move my Mezzo on to help fund one, I could probably do with having fewer basses so I think I will go ahead with it
  25. shoulderpet
    Brought an Ibanez Mezzo bass during lockdown and modded it a fair bit (Seymour Duncan SPB-2 and series/parallel switch for the P pickup and gone fully passive), love that bass however.... Today I went to the local music store to get some strings, whilst I was there I thought I would try some basses so I asked if I could play some of the Thunderbird basses. First bass I tried was an Ltd Thunderbird, plugged it in started playing and tonally I was floored, it was like the tone I hear in my head, unlike my P/J basses both pickups on full sounded fat and punchy and full rather than the tone getting thinner, everything that irks me about P/J basses was completely absent. Plugged in the 2nd Thunderbird bass and same thing. I brought the strings I went there for and walked out stunned and as much as I love the Mezzo bass I walked out feeling regret that when I brought my last bass I brought a P/J and not an Epiphone Thunderbird instead Anyone has a similar experience?
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