Aidan63

I'd find the position of a nice ringing harmonic and put it there, that seems to be a method generally used if it's a mustang then the big bridge plate limits the options a bit but Ped's Mustang replacement extra neck pickup sounds great on the clips he's posted, though some of the positioning for that was to do with the previous pickups' rout

Chris will happily put a fretted neck on it for you - if you want to try these pickups this instrument is the obvious choice, if you like them and the bass you are sorted, if you like the pickups but not the instrument then at least you can commission another instrument more to your liking, if you don't like them then sell it on; it is currently a very, very good deal. I'd buy it but I can't cope beyond 30" scale length now, but if I win the lottery anytime soon I'll buy it anyway and lend it out especially to builders and modders

For the win(e) [hic] 😉

Just ordered a SuperWeirdo for my 4 string Tenor guitarist friend, should be fun 😵

In my experience the Squier CV Mustangs often have pickguards in which the holes cut for the pickups are a very tight fit on the pickups so the pickups don't readily move when you try adjust the pickup height(s) and the plastic/formar of the pickup is easily stripped by the fine thread machine screws so they no longer adjust the springs under the pickguard exert more force than the thread can hold; in your case a previous owner has maybe experienced this and had them strip and then fitted probably M3 nuts to the pickup so that the pickup height can easily be adjusted, and may have slightly filed the original pickguard so the pickup cover didn't stick in the aperture - the exceedingly tight fit also gave rise to slightly microphonic pickups in some instances. The springs can be replaced with surgical rubber tube

Bought a tidy Cambridge Audio hi-fi amp from Dave, he brought it up to his nearest local gig to me and I took a friend along for a night out and collected it at the end of the night - nice one, many thanks My workshop has good sounds again, as I type 😍

nice job on those bushings; something you can make and sell looking good on the body too

if blending piezo and magnetic pickups there is Noll MixPot, onboard mixing preamp; I picked one up nib, off a member on here, not sure now I will be using it

I've got Spacebeams Aurora, fairly subtle but does work, does come off if not top coated but easy to add fresh, not much of a problem if you don't wrap your thumb around the neck, but if you have a neck strap in the case it will rub off in that area

Maruszczyk getting in on the act https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg9Lp5ATo7o

So what do you think Pete, would a Yamaha 434 make a pretty decent Walish base for conversion, Alder body rather than mahogany with 6 bolt laminate neck with rosewood board , though body end bridge stringing, put the neck pickup in the existing P position, bridge in the J and toward the bridge, would need another knob and maybe extend the control cavity and make a new pickguard to suit, I have one here not being played 😈 🙃

I had a Squier Jazz VM77 over 10 years ago, in natural finish, which had a light body and neck dive (iirc it was soft maple body on the natural finish model instead of basswood used in the painted models) and I stuck a few hundred grammes of wheel balancing weights on the back in the area you have shaded, did the job. I sold it with the weights still on, haven't seen it reappear since so don't know if buyer removed the weights (might have damaged the finish, as the adhesive used on wheel weights is quite strong for obvious reasons) or just played it as it was. To be fair the neck was great and it sounded like a Jazz but only weighed a shade over 7.5lb when i got it.

No, I'm just guessing but based on how many used instruments are listed for sale on Ebay and Reverb, for example the UK accounts for 1/4 of all used Bass guitar listings available to the UK on Reverb worldwide, so I'd say per head we are big consumers, lots of us have multiple instruments, we've bought and continue to buy a lot of stuff, even in these straightened times

I bet preBrexit the UK was 30%-40% of Thomann's sales and I bet it is now like 10%-15% and lower margin and more ball aches for them; you can see that price difference between them and the UK retailers has lessened, are we so desperate to always get the lowest price that we are prepared to risk issues or a crappy delivery or return, sometimes its worth paying a little bit more to support a UK retailer, whether big box shifter or real shop or like Andertons both; good deals often to be found on 2nd and 3rd page of Google if you look that far with smaller retailers

that's me told 🙃

why use plywood ?, a bit of oak or other nice hardwood will add a little bit of weight and as long as it's not all at the neck end won't destroy balance of the instrument and good for taking fixings if you leave a void for a wooden insert for the controls you could use wood to fill and make a feature of it or fit a J-Retro or similar on board preamp

I asked a few years ago and they had no plans to do flats then, it's a big investment in materials, and r and d, and machine time, it's probably the latter that is the biggest restriction, ultimately for not much in sales. If they did them I'd buy some, but probably only 1 set per instrument, in 10 years 😲

Does anyone who deals with them regularly know if they have any plans to ever do flats or tapewounds ?

I am in rural mid-Wales, so not near any big shops, so looking for a good and easy distance purchase and return if necessary option; second hand prices are often on the steep side for the instrument I am interested in, and even when reasonably priced many peeps, rightly, don't want to ship because we can't trust the couriers to do it right every time, hence the question - so far jrixn1 seems to be the only one to have experienced a return with Fender. I'm asking on here because I want to be informed before talking to their sales people who will I am sure promise the earth, but in reality might not quite live up to the advertised 'easy process' as advertised

like the gold foil jazzes were perfectly fine basses, keepers for life type ? with the online discount at the moment they are similar price to most dealers in the UK, direct selling is the model Fender and the other big boys want to go to but returns policy and implementation is crucial and I would feel a lot better if I had to return because I didn't like it to the manufacturer than to a shop, especially if the manufacturer took control of the return as that is the biggest worry when returning anything, will it arrive back at seller in 1 piece as it left you ?

most that have tried this bass find them overpriced neck heavy and offer nothing that many other cheaper PB pickup instruments offer cheaper better