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Cleaned up the fretboard with wire wool, lighter fuel and lemon oil.

Oh right. No I have rubbed the rust off with an emery file and wiped over with Wd40.

All I’ve done so far is used some black t-cut to polish the area surrounding the pick ups. It’s worked will so I’ll polish the whole of the body soon.

Yeah definitely coming on ok so far

Got the pick ups cleaned and ready to fix with new screws

Really good actually. I’ve taken it off and it’s straight. I’ll post some more pics tomorrow. Got most of the rust of the pups now. Was fairly easy by using a scotchbrite pad and salt/lemon.

The bridge isn’t very good quality. The chrome is bubbling. I’ve cleaned it up ok but I’m considering changing the hardware to black.

Hey. I’ve taken ownership of a stinky old Hohner bass which is I am going to try and bring back to life. Should I try and clean up the pick ups, and if so what’s the best approach. Or do you guys think new pick ups would be a better option. But I don’t know how to swap them because they wiring runs through the body and I can’t see how to re-run the wiring. would love your thoughts

Yes hadn’t thought about the strip on the back. Good shout.

Love this. I’ll get one plz 🤙

Sounds like an option 👍

I tried it incognito and it works perfectly so all good.

Amazing thanks

Does anyone have any experience or suggestions about how to get a custom scratch plate for my p bass created? Printing, vinyl wrap any ideas? Thanks guys.

Great photos

Stereo

Yes bro it is.

No dude. Biggish stages where I move around and want to get the best/cleanest sound I can from my back line

It’s not distorted at all really. I’ve cut the low end below 100htz which helps.

Thanks for your replies guys. I do have 2 matrix power Amps and had thought about running one amp one cab. one amp is a gt1600fx and the other is a gt800fx. I guess I could mix the 2 but would have different volumes on each. to answer the question about 2 x BBII yes they are loud. But I don’t feel the same heft and pure power like you do when playing in front of an ampeg SVT / 810 rig. I’ve got a big show coming up this weekend and want to try and ensure I’ve got a solid punch behind me that’s why I’m asking for thoughts on how to optimise my set up. thank you brothers.

Looking for some advice on setting up my amp/cabs. I have a helix > matrix gt1600fx into two barefaced big baby IIs. the cabs are rated 800w each and I am daisy chaining them off one channel from the amp. So in theory the amp should be providing 800w power? however I’m getting the clip light flickering on at just over half power. I’d like to get a bit more volume/headroom out of the set up but I don’t want to push the amp too much as I don’t like seeing the clip light stay on for too long. does anyone know if I would be better running a single 8 ohm cab from each matrix channel, or daisy chain them with speakons running from a single channel. if the latter option is the right approach why do I feel like I’m not getting full 800w into 4ohm without clipping as I power up the volume? cheers dudes.