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16 minutes ago, petebassist said:

Annoying... I had a similar issue with my old bass on one string on one or two notes up the neck - after trying to damp various bits of the tailpiece, felt at the ball ends of the strings etc, I found that the tailpiece itself had a hollow cavity, so I stuffed a piece of black cloth up there and it stopped the buzz on mine.

Thanks for the info I’m going to take some time and investigate. 

29 minutes ago, xgsjx said:

That's got to be the thread title of the year so far.

 

Ha ha, very good!

Just changed my strings and have a terrible open G string buzz. Seems to be coming from the body, soundpost looks in place. The strings are lighter than the previous set and when I lay it on it’s back no buzz. Any ideas!

Hey Shamrock not got round to fitting them yet, I’ll let you know.

Anyone know where I can get a battery plate screw for an 86 Stingray?

Picked up a set of new Helicore Hybrid Lights really, really cheap. Certainly cheap enough to take a punt. I haven’t really read anything much about them so keeping an open mind!

Hi. Folks just an update on this, I used UPS and had the bass insured for £5500 by a 3rd party,. Thanks for all the advice and  special thanks to Grangur for the kind offer!

2 hours ago, TPJ said:

What kind of DB are you using?  I ask because when I tried Spiro weichs on my Duke, they didn't sound very bright at all. They were very rootsy sounding. Spiro mediums are reportedly brighter but even they didn't brighten up the bass...lol. The mediums are surprisingly less tension on the Duke compared to how they felt on my cheap hybird.

As always, strings sound different on different basses.

I have a Michael Poller bass which I believe is Romanian which currently has innovation Honeys, I have Spiros on a old Boosey and Hawkes and its just night and day.... Lots of volume and projection.

Anybody tried the Zyex strings?

Looking to buy a set of strings, something growly and reasonably bright... suggestions much appreciated. I thought Spirocore lights maybe?

Thanks, very kind. I’ll get back to you as soon as possible know what’s what!

3 hours ago, Grangur said:

In May I'll be meeting in Leeds, with a colleague from Scotland. After the meeting I'll be driving home and on to see my customers in the south counties. So, I could drop it into Wal.

So as you may not be a tearing hurry, maybe my colleague and I can help?

41 minutes ago, JohnR said:

It has been a while since I removed the preamp myself. I think you might have to desolder the connections to the DI out. If you aren't confident you are welcome to bring it to me and I will help.

Very kind John, I'm just a bit reticent to mess about with it. Where are you mate?

here is a pic of the bass.

1 hour ago, dmccombe7 said:

£2000 insurance ? I would have thought any WAL would be worth more than that.

Are you that far from Wal to drive there yourself ? That way you get to see the service being done hopefully and then try it out before you leave to make sure its all perfect.

Make it a few days holiday or something like that if its too far to drive in a day.

Dave

£2000 is as high as they insure.

30 minutes ago, chris_b said:

Phone Paul at Wal and ask him what he recommends.

I’ll phone him Monday. I might be able to have the electrics removed as the bass is otherwise excellent. Apparently a straightforward job but I’m not keen on doing it but I use a local luthier who is great and I’d probably get him to take them out for me. The cost of sending the electrics is pretty reasonable and 2 grand insurance will cover them going missing. 

I’m in Glasgow so pretty far, also just not feasible too take a holiday really.

Looks like UPS with £2000 insurance next day delivery which hopefully means less time getting shipped for pillar to post.

Do you book them direct or via interparcel?

Hi Folks I want to send my Wal down to Surrey for a service. What is the best courier, I don’t mind paying a premium for a reliable service.

Just an update on this got the Jazz back from the luthier. He set it up and the action etc is spot on. He had to take a part of of the pickups and fix it was a little bit worried it  would be completely sealed but it wasn't.

The bass is in great condition and the luthier told me it was a very well made instrument. Mahogany as Bassassasin thought. Plays really well if anything the action is now too low but very pleased!

33 minutes ago, BassBus said:

If you can get yourself to Edinburgh have a word with Chris McIntyre.

https://www.mcintyreguitars.com/

Will do I work in Edinburgh so handy. I actually have a very good luthier I use but he just wasn't keen on doing this! 

53 minutes ago, EBS_freak said:

What bass are you having doing? Presuming it's a bolt on? If it's only a fingerboard, as opposed to a whole neck, I can't imagine it being silly money. As I say though, make sure it's not just being sprayed, it needs to be radiused and polished.

It's a good copy of a famous bass! Bolt on and decent quality and I had it professionally defretted and added set of Barts. I've spent more than it's worth in monetary terms but I like it! 

That bass looks fantastic I should add!

54 minutes ago, EBS_freak said:

When you say epoxied... are you looking at boat epoxy like Jaco, or polyester like Pedulla? If it's the latter (which I actually think is better), then people like Bow Finishes, Sims etc... can sort you out.

I've tried to find some examples of the type of finish you can expect with poly -

As you can see, they look identical (and sound pretty much exactly the same as the epoxy equivalents) to the HG Thor necks - which seems to be the benchmark for epoxy necks.

Make sure you post the before and after if you have it done!

Hi Chaps that looks ideal to be honest I only knew about epoxy but polyester looks great. I suppose the only caveat would be the cost, its not a particularly expensive bass. But I'll drop them a line ! 

I’m looking to have the neck of one of my fretless basses epoxied (?) . I would love to do it myself but alas I am hopeless!

Scotland preferably but could post the neck I suppose?

Advice gratefully received!

1 hour ago, Wilco said:

Was that the semi hollow one? Luvverly!

Yes indeed I’m very pleased with it!