Velarian

Interesting looking bass by the way. What is it?

Great question! I don’t have decades of playing experience and my memories of gigging back in the day are mixed - great fun playing but post-gig lugging equipment about late at night wasn’t my favourite thing. I’m rapidly approaching 60 and have come back to bass playing relatively recently after about a 35 year break. I was never very good the first time round so my goals right now are very simple; rediscover my past experience but apply better technique and expand my music theory knowledge, something I failed to address before. I hope to expand my repertoire and do some recording. After next week I’ll be retired so I’ll have plenty of opportunity to indulge in that. As for being in a band again and gigging, it’s not on my radar yet but as my playing confidence improves I may think about doing something informal if an opportunity comes up and it can remain just fun. Good luck with your resurgence, take it easy and have fun. Please report back after your gig.

On Companies House it shows a charge being registered in September by a finance company. This suggests that they’ve refinanced the business and therefore should be ok. I wouldn’t worry too much at this stage and presumably PayPal provides some protection? I would always recommend paying by credit card for anything over £100 for the S75 protection mentioned by @nekomatic above. Even if you have the money to pay upfront. Just pay by credit card and then pay the credit card off straight away, you still get the protection.

Yeah G4M were bugging me too 👿

My ‘77 Precision has the same problem of buzzing until the strings are touched. I initially suspected a grounding issue but when I checked it with a multimeter I was able to confirm continuity between the strings and the ground of the output socket. In contrast, my recently completed bitsa build is completely silent. That too has continuity between the strings and the output ground but the main difference is that I shielded all of the cavities and ensured the shielding was also grounded. I suspect that shielding is the answer and when I get a moment I’ll do the same with the older bass.

This next stage is gonna be interesting. Good luck.

I’m a couple of miles up the road at the top of the M606.

It’s sunny today 😎

One possible way round this is to register your own domain name for the band (namecheap.com is a good registrar) and just set up a redirect to your more cryptic YouTube url. This would cost less than a tenner a year to maintain. It looks more professional and you don’t need to maintain a website but adding that and specific email addresses can come later if needs be.

And the basses are Dog Doo-Dah

If any further proof is needed here’s BC’er @vbnd gigging with a Squier Affinity P-Bass in fine style:

I agree with the above. When I fitted lighter gauge, lower tension strings I had buzz across the strings at the first couple of frets and loosening the truss rod cured this. It’s less worrying loosening a truss rod rather than the other way around.

When I built my bitsa P-Bass if fitted a wiring loom from @KiOgon. It has CTS pots and a 1µF capacitor. It sounds lush, especially with the tone rolled off about half way.

5 Drawers 2 Cupboards The Shed The Garage All full of crap. Oh, I almost forgot, I’ve got a load of stuff stashed in my mother’s loft from when I moved house 4 years ago 😳 At some point I’ll have to face it and clear something out. Will probably start with the smallest drawer 😉

Looking good now.

Unconscious competence? I’m currently at the conscious incompetent stage i.e. I’m crap and I know I am 😂

I lived in Dewsbury for a good number of years. I miss calling in at The West Riding for a cheeky pint whenever I picked the wife up at the station.

A stereo jack for input/output with a splitter perhaps? What are the other two smaller sockets for? I see these are in the existing model too.

It makes sense to me if it prevents the jack plug from pulling out. Presumably a right-angled jack plug will allow the cable to route in the usual way?

Oh, that’s such a great job! I reckon you’ve pulled a rabbit out of a hat with that. A couple of mil here or there can make or break something like this. Glad you worked it out 👍

A bit of T-Cut should sort that out.

That’s a bit unfortunate. Hopefully a bit of fettling will get it sorted 👍

Still interested 😉

I tried one of those but it doesn’t really work unfortunately.

On reflection I think the strip is actually brass rather than copper. From I’ve been able to find out it was in use up to around ‘62 and presumably discontinued after that in favour of a ground wire routed through a hole. Jazz basses of that era were supplied with the huge ‘ashtray’ bridge cover which extended up to the bridge pickup and covered the strip so, aesthetically it wasn’t a problem and presumably easier to implement from a manufacturing point of view.