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    Paint Strip to Natural Finish - Headstock and Body Sanding - What Grit n Finish

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    Quick ask for some advice.. I have read a lot of the build diaries and refyrb projects...

    Want to strip the red from my £10 Cruiser by Crafter P-a-like.. Trying to blag a loan of a heat gun from a mate... Not worth a spend fora one off...

    After that what Grit to sand the body and headstock after logo removal with wire wool? Got some machine heads coming, so may as well sort it before fitting...

    Neck is gloss lacquor, and a little sticky compared to the satin of the ibanez, would a go over with the same grit sort that?

    Finaly a finish for the bare wood - coat of satin lacqour? Any other option?

    It's gotta be cheap!

    All advice welcome.

    Bushings anybody?

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    eBay?

    Or might be able to help... 

    Got a set of machine heads coming for my '£10 Cruiser PB' from a fellow BC member.

    Going to try and strip them down and just use the new pegs, that way i wont have to make new mounting holes as the plates are a bit different in size...

    Will see what bits are left over after i've fitted em.. and split the cost with ya...

    Think they are for an 18mm bore hole.

     

    Crafter Cruiser PB350 Bass Guitar - Red_Afternoon Overhall

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    All works fine...

    Gave the truss rod a little tweek undone, to get a little more relief in order to try and lower the action

    'bout 3.5mm E and 2.5 G with a little buzz when hit hard...

    Will have a look at the bridge - must of been like it from new... see if it can be moved but still cover the old holes.

    How would you do it? - pivot round and up on the top left screw? - If it went pivot down on the top right may have intonation issues with the E

    The extra holes may drive me even more nuts...

    Crafter Cruiser PB350 Bass Guitar - Red_Afternoon Overhall

    in Repairs and Technical

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    So, a mooch about on Gumtree yesters showed up a Cruiser by Crafter P-Bass-a-like... 10 miles and 30 mins away.

    Picked it up this morning, Body is P-ish, but with more pointy horns and a bit of a Jazz bulge on the lower flank...

    Swapped the shiny chrome knobs for some black Strat Hats, to fit in a bit with the pickup covers... (Eldest black guitar now wearing the shiny knobs, which also looks better for it...)

    Strings looked and felt new-ish.

    Strings off, fretboard masked up, wire wool, dab of Autosol, small polish mop on the dremmel...

    Headstock logo is big n gairish, so more with the wire wool, although i quite like the little chamfer detail.

    Pickguard off for a clean inside, Castrol Motorcycle Polish brought up the body..

    Not quite sure about the bridge angle, but their are no other mounting holes.

    Missing 2 of the Keys from the machine heads, so its a tune a string and move the key...

    Oh!.. and It was a Tenner!

    Fun afternoon...

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    Stingray Classic bridge saddle issue

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted · Edited by PaulThePlug

    get some shorter ones from the 'bay...

    i have just ordered soms A2 stainless set screws M3 12mm for the Ibby - as the standard cup point screws dont seem to sit in the bridge groove, so i went for Dog Point... £2 for 10.

    'merican may be imperial ala Fender rather than metric

    And by the sounds of it, are they fitted from underneath?

    Bass Headphone Amp

    in Accessories and Misc

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    It Arrived, and it works.

    Nice fit in the Ibby socket... Vol is loud enough with some cheapish over ear Sony cans (they aint that loud with my Sony mp3...) bit hissy at full V, back it of a little and its OK. Tone is bright and gets brighter... Turned down is best then use your guitars tone adjust... so perhaps that can come out...Drive, not a great deal... but spose you wouldnt be looking for Geetar Distortion?

    Gets quite a bit more driven when the GSR Phat II is upped... So level of drive i spose is down to your pickups and how hard they can hit the front end...

    Dunno how it compares to the Vox, but for £17 deivered, it certainly 'does the do' for a bit of practice. rechargable too... Auto Wah is a bit of a gimmick, shame it wasnt something real useful. Compressor or a nice bit of soft Chorus?

    Plug is fixed so may be a bit more robust.

    I would still love a simple effects pedal styled headphone amp, 9v with Vol, maybe tone (maybe not with the above) some drive would be nice...

    Perhaps i should of gone for the Electro Harminox Headphone Amp @ £45ish

    If i were still working in the electronics lab... there is a circuit for the old MXR headphone amp on the internet....

     

    Bass Headphone Amp

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    Went for a 'Donner Basement' 'Vox-a-like' jack plug hesdphone amp.

    USB recharge rather than AAA... Blurb says a bit of Ampeg SVT drive...

    £17 posted from Amazon... Vox are about double that plus postage...

    New Vox has Drum Box, prefer the idea of a little drive like the older model.

    Fingers crossed - which does make playing little harder...

    Instruments that you to this day regret parting with!

    in Bass Guitars

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    New to Bass...

    But back in the early 80's i had one of the original MIJ Fender Squire Statocasters, '57 model with maple neck in Salmon Pink... from a music shop in Camden... Was still at school, that was a lot of paper round money...

    Was replaced with a Westone SX... that was a nice neck...

    Also in the mid '80's had a weird Fender Katana... Thru neck, 24 3/4" scale length, sort of flying V thing - very Gibson but a Fender. Not the cheap one. again Paper round and saturday job...

    Both the Squire and Katans are upwards of a £grand... obviously things are only worth what someone is prepared to pay... think i sold em for about £200ish

    Later '80's Charvel #2 in Black... Spent about 20 years in its case! Life moves on...

    It's now in the hands of my eldest at 15... together we are re discovering my CD collection...

    Covid Bollocks is what prompted me to get the Bass.

    Couldn't go looking and shopping - cack converters? - so a Ibby GSR200B in walnut-a-like (Think bass guitars look so much better in wood rather than paint, and dont do sunburst!) £160 from BAX delivered... so good price. would of liked the SR300 but would of been another £100ish...

     

    PJ pickups

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    Posted · Edited by PaulThePlug

    Is the bridge bar some kind of synth trigger? Piezo device... G33?

    Reminds me of the Roland stuff for guitars in the 80s 90s 

    G303 / 505 add ons... Anyone remember the weird G707 with top bar - Jimmy Page adverts in Music UK?

    Bass Neck Radius

    in Repairs and Technical

    Posted · Edited by PaulThePlug

    So newish to this bass malarky...

    Great site - And 'GLUED' to the build threads.

    Love the neck on my Ibby GSR... 41mm Nut 305mm Radius and very slim profile...

    read about P necks and J necks mainly nut width and neck thickness rather than radius.

    very similar discussions to the Fender strat early 7.25" v later 12" radius.

    My Charvel #2 fretboard was part of a cone.

    compound radius 12" at the nut 16" at the 21st fret.

    Had this been done on a bass?

    Just thinking for all you DIY ers...

    Those Soundbergs with no fret markers - simple and loverly looking... I'll have one with that SR body thats getting modded...

    And loving natural wood with the bass.

    I'm over my Black Guitar needs... Grown up?

    Small Job for a Basschatter

    in Build Diaries

    Posted · Edited by PaulThePlug

    Real Nice...

    I like the Ibanez SR body... and Neck...

    And the P Bass style pickup...

    Did you give any consideration in swapping the P High Low side like on some other Ibbys and P types? - more room for the J...

    Mine... Would just have a Passive P and V 'n T contols, and got the other pot holes filled...

    Can't wait to see it finished.

    Got the GSR200, PJ... Prefer the shape and neck to the Squire Infinity... and couldnt stretch to the SR300...

    Wish they did the GSR100 here, with the single passive P

    I likes simple.

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