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    Harley Benton Acoustic bass

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted · Edited by PaulThePlug

    I've got the 850...

    I went with cheap Adagio Flats... (the Harly B flats look very like the Olympia packaging) replacing the squeaky scratch phoz bronze but might be an issue with the shorter scale length.

    Vol balance is 'prolly down to the piezo pickup bar under the bridge.

    I removed a spacer packing shim, this allowed a lower action, but also cured the 'bridge roll' of the bridge blade by sitting further down in the block, pushed down nice and square, make sure the pickup bar rests flat and central, in contact with bridge block and bridge blade.

    Some pics and blah blah, mind tends to be a corner noodle played mainly unplugged. I likes it.

    Oh and pics please... tut tut... you know the house rules.

     

    Beeswax for screw lubricant

    in Repairs and Technical

    Posted · Edited by PaulThePlug

    Pilot Holes...

    Hole Deeper than the screw... Say a Machine Head Screw, drill the depth from the screw point, to the underside of the head... when you secure the machine head there will be a fraction of hole left of the machine head thickness... Same for the bridge... just make sure the hole doesn't go all the way through. If the hole isn't deep enough, it will bottom out and you will strip the head.

     

    As for hole size... drill should be the size (dia) of the shank of the screw, thats less the threads, to small and it will be too tight, rounding the head it, too big and there will not be enough bite for the threads... this can depend on the hardness of the wood, I recommend a try in a scrap piece of wood.

     

    Screwdriver... Cross head screws differ... Pozi, Phillips and JTS.

    Use a good fitting screwdriver  i  also use a layer of plastic sandwich bag between screwdriver tip and screw (bolt head to socket...) to protect the finish.

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