Jimothey

Definitely go with the white!!

Normally that would be the case that the neck would straighten itself but because I had to put a back bow in the neck to compensate for the extra tension so once I remove the strings I will have to straighten the neck again I am going to make my own notched straight edge with an 600mm metal ruler I've got and I've got a rectangle box section of alu that I'm going to use as a fret levelling bar but I just need to dig out my needle files so I can crown the frets

Yeah me too what was the original title??

That is stunning!!

Yeah the 10th is definitely low because it rocks if I go from the 8 9 10 or 10 11 12 but not if 10 is in the middle but as @Andyjr1515 has said I'll check them all and will probably have to level all the frets which that part I'm fine with, its the crowning and polishing that I'm a bit concerned about doing but I'm sure there's some YouTube vids to help me on my way The main bit that's concerning me is that because I had to give the neck a bit of a back bow, am I right in thinking I will have to adjust the truss rod again to make the neck straight then do the work on the frets then adjust it back again before I string it back up?? The neck was brand new and I had only played on it for a couple of days before I did the conversion so I think it is probably not very good workmanship the kit was very cheap so I guess you get what you pay for But I still can't understand that the fret looks low the whole width of the fretboard but it's only the A string affected?? 🤯

Did you give your bass the last rites before you put it in the 'case'? 😋

@Andyjr1515 I just tried a credit card from the 9-12th fret and there was no high spots it didn't rock but the 10th fret is lower than the others, would a low fret cause fret buzz as well?

@Woodinblack and @Andyjr1515 thanks for the advice I had discounted the high fret idea because I thought that if the feet was high it would be across all strings not just 1 string but I'll put my rocker on it later to have a look.......

Because of needing to do some work on my 5 string I thought I'd take the opportunity to swap the strings over onto this bass So here's what I found out........ Due to the extra tension the neck had too much relief so the action was way too high! I tried lowering the saddles but to get them to a nice playing height it caused a massive amount of fret buzz if I went anywhere near the 12th fret! so to overcome this I loosened the strings off adjusted the truss rod by giving the neck less relief then when I tuned up the neck is now virtually straight problem solved I thought!?! Every other string now is nice and low with no feet buzz but I have fret buzz only on the 10th fret of the A string (go higher or lower up or down the fretboard and it stops) Any ideas anyone what the problem is and how to sort it out???? Other than that I really like the string spacing I find it nice and easy to get around the fretboard if anything it has speeded up my playing so if I can sort out the A string problem I'm really happy with the conversion and would definitely do it to my Jazz bass aswell!! 😀

I am thinking if using them plans to do a long scale Jag (as I don't like short scale I find them too flappy if you know what I mean?) the same way @Pea Turgh has thought of doing it modifying a Jazz body but more in the style of a Squier VM than a traditional Jag

Maybe this might help? https://sites.google.com/site/guitarplanscollection/pdf-files/fender-ish There's the link it's the Jagbass. PDF so you can print it off if you want......

Or keep it till November and you'll have something to start your bonfire with!! 😁

Definitely Off White

I've been chopping and changing between my Jazz and this bass and the action is still too high for my liking but...... I hit a bit of a snag trying to lower it! I must have gone a bit too shallow when routing the pickup cavities because now the strings are too close to the pickups and they are getting interference so....... I thought whilst I rout the pickups deeper I will sort out something that has really been bugging me and that's the spacing between the knobs obviously when I space them out the holes will be on show so I thought because I've got some veneer left over from my neck thru build I will put it to good use and veneer the top of this one eliminating the knob issue (that came out wrong!!🤨) I'm off for a week so I'll start that when I get back to work

If you want roundabouts you should try Milton Keynes and it takes the title of s**t hole off Swindon aswell 😀

Much better choice of body good luck!!

I can french polish and it takes days to get a nice lustrous finish which is the problem with that finishing technique, because of this people don't do it as much now because it's very hard to earn any money doing it and the price you have to charge to make money most customers won't pay it! , I priced up to refinish/French polish a mahogany table top quite a few years ago, but because of the length of time it took to do it, it worked out I earnt under a £5 an hour so I didn't really bother doing it any more.......

Totally agree well deserved!!

I hope you mean firkin in the tradional sense not the urban dictionary definition but I suppose you could dehydrate doing that in this heat too!!😁

Ive never liked a les paul bass till I saw yours!

Oooohh errrr missus! 😁

It's OK the toetectors will fit in nicely with my hard hat and hivis ensemble as I'm the new bassist for the village people 😁

They are my other basses I thought I'd do something a bit different on this one Maybe something like this,

Do you mean like these

Not really a fan of brass but chequer plate sounds like an idea! 🤔 All I'm worried about is the extra weight if it's chrome but I'll see if I can find plastic chequer plate..........