Aidan63

7 hours ago, Kowad said:

Appreciate all of this, similar to some of the truss rod content I’ve been reading up on 😂

 

I have a p bass that I keep on parking. Even when the truss rod is fully tightened (and locks), there’s still more of an 8th fret gap than I’d like. There are indications that the previous owner also struggled with it - both pickguards that came with it are heavily chipped around the truss rod adjustment access point.

 

I’ve thought, several times, that I should get a luthier to do a professional setup. I’ve spent the weekend tinkering with pretty much everything and it is currently playable. But the truss rod limit nags at me. Is it usual to have a bass that may be just about right when the rod is fully tightened? I feel there should be more play in it. Haven’t had anything like this much beef from any other bass!

 

In this case it is possible the wood is collapsing and so the truss rod nut/washer has little to bear against and has reached the end of the threaded part, so maybe a neck off remove the nut and take a look to see what's going on or take it to a luthier to check it, maybe why po moved it on

On 26/02/2024 at 21:50, stewblack said:

Has it arrived?

not yet; it has shipped earlier this week, so expecting to hear from DHL next week that it's in the country, I assume they will want the government's pound of flesh and their share too before delivering it to me

Blackstar amplification

bought a Fly3 twin set up, use it as PC monitor speakers and for noodling on guitar a bit

power supply failed after getting increasingly noisy over time

odd voltage 6.5V, highish current, opposite polarity on the connector, so basically unique. Thing is plastic welded sealed unit, and they don't offer a repair service. £30 for a new one, no discount even though I registered as owner when I bought the pack new. Every thing should be repairable where possible. I had a to and fro exchange with customer service, no deal to be done, the script allowed no flexibility, so  told them I won't be buying anything they make again, they didn't bother to reply, they don't care. The power supply costs more than a single amp combo and they go for decent money on ebay, occasionally non UK market ones turn up listed on there so they are sought after, partly because you can buy the amp on its own without p/s and use it on batteries but also because the p/s fails, went down the rabbit hole online to find plenty of other examples of failure.

I bought a non genuine p/s half the price delivered from Holland, so far so good. It's a nice sounding speaker set/amp, just galling they don't use a common standard power supply like most pedal makers, but that would be too easy of course.

10 hours ago, fretmeister said:

Facebook is usually the quickest.

that is pants, respond on social media lest you be judged but ignore direct email through your website enquiry portal

some of us don't do facebook or anything to do with meta and the like

this is as social media as I get

2 hours ago, fretmeister said:

I've always had quick responses from them!

I have tried again today using the service@ email address posted in the other thread.....we shall see if it works this time

I tried getting further technical information from Sandberg on a used bass I bought, nada, no response, which didn't endear them as a company to me - all I wanted to know is what the fretboard radius is supposed to be on my fretless as it doesn't actually measure anywhere on the board at any exact radius - so either they don't keep records or don't deal with second users or maybe anyone once passed warranty period, which is pretty poor support for £2k instruments. They should be able to pull up the build sheet information and supply that; the original certificate is a few fields hand written and very lacking in detail

Bought Steven's tidy FSR Mustang, did me a nice deal on shipping, and it was well packed and next day shipped through his local guitar shop; nice easy deal and nice bass; - the FSR is more resonant than my current CV, poplar body and roundwounds, verses Nato body and flats, and the FSR is over a pound and half lighter

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

1 hour ago, Jolltax said:

 

Looks fab, I have seen your For Sale - surely a bargain, unfortunately fretless not on my RADAR at the moment

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] 😉

☹️shows how tough the market is, hope the new owner makes a great album with it 😎

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

2 hours ago, tauzero said:

Has anyone here tried any of the luminous acrylic paints?

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

what is the scale length please ? looks like 34"

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 😈 🙃

which version is it, please, DP140 or 120

Different string spacing, 140 is 50.8mm (2"), 120 is 47.625mm (1 7/8")

two minutes past 😈

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.

14 minutes ago, Bolo said:

Do you have any source at all for those numbers because they don't make much sense to me. Thomann is located in the south of Germany and supplies the majority of mainland Europe, mostly without the hassle of ferry/airfare and taxes.

 

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