Velarian

If the video has a transcript this is a quick way to copy the content to paste in to a document. I’ve found this quite useful a few times. (The explanation is only a couple of minutes 😉).

Could it be that the original tuners would have been reverse wind and they were changed to avoid confusing the hell out of someone with other, more modern basses? I know this from experience. 😉

Same here. Last purchase was 25th July 2022. I should make it to the end of the year hopefully.

Another vote for the TC Unitune. The display is clear and unambiguous.

Far out man (both the belly and the paisley pick guard) 😂

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I have two black/black/maple Fender Precisions but one is US and the other is Mex. Does that count?

I think it’s a load of bunkum. When I changed a white pick guard for a black one I didn’t notice any difference at all 😉

Just when you thought it was safe to venture out, we now have ‘tone pickguards’ to add to the mix! A new revelation in the quest for perfect tone or emperor’s new clothes? Discuss 😉

Ian Allison on SBL refers to this kind of thing as double art. The instrument itself is a work of art and it can be used to create more art.

There’s something rather beautiful about the contours and textures, particularly that ebony top. Just begging to be caressed. 😳

The Antigua Jazz is conspicuously absent in that picture.

There’s a lot of history at that venue. I remember going to watch a mates band playing there in 90s. We weren’t sure how to get there from the hotel we were staying at so we got a taxi. After 15 minutes or so and many twists and turns we forked out a small fortune to pay the driver. Turned out it was less than five minutes walk away. 😂

Designed by M. C. Escher perhaps? 😉

I just stumbled upon this quirky piece from the BBC archive. Fascinating stuff from these pioneers.

It’s amazing how enduring goth has become. I was in Leeds the other day and there was a goth girl, immaculately turned out in all her dark finery. She would be late teens/early twenties and my first thought was, crikey, it’s around 40 years since this look first took hold and her mother could have looked just like that.

How about playing closer to the bridge to make tighter and less boomy?

I've PM'd @waldemar to enquire about making some control plates in chrome. He's not been online since October last year though so I'm not sure if I'll get a quick reply. We shall see.

Agreed. I tried a stingray plate on my bitsa precision and whilst you can position it on the body in a way that looks OK, when the controls are fitted and sitting in the routing, the positioning is way off and the only way to make it work would be to butcher the routing. I looked everywhere for a chrome control plate based on the tail end of a precision pick guard but they just don't seem to exist. As mentioned by @PaulThePlug I ended up creating one by getting a mirrored acrylic pick guard (ala Phill Lynott) and cutting it down with a hacksaw and filing the edges (pic below). I'd always intend to look at getting one custom made but just never got around to it. Much later I came across this post from a fellow BassChatter who does custom CNC work and it looks like he might be more than capable of producing the required part. Once again, I never got around to following it up. I did wonder if custom work might be expensive and if there are any economies of scale to be gained by producing a few in one batch. If this is something the OP would want to pursue, I wouldn't mind sharing the cost of a limited run.

Go on now, go, walk out the door Just turn around now 'Cause you're not welcome anymore Weren't you the one who tried to hurt me with goodbye? You think I'd crumble? You think I'd lay down and die? Oh no, not I, I will survive

I got it. Maybe dry humour is a Yorkshire thing? 😉 Perhaps resurrecting a decade old thread wasn’t such a good idea after all and I’m due a damn good thrashing? (Int’ shoebox, int’ middle of road like).

The only green thing I like is my lawn.

Bongo prototype?

Is the lack of a date stamp on the neck a problem?