Soloshchenko

As said in the title, looking for some cheap nitro to finsh a cheap bass. Not keen on the Manchester Guitar tech prices although the product looks great. Wood finishes direct doesn't seem to have nitro primer or black. There can't just be three people in the country selling this stuff surely?

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='1304109' date='Jul 14 2011, 10:35 PM']Is that really an Ibanez? The pickups look far too accurate. I thought maybe it was an Ibanezfaker.[/quote] It probably is. As well as the "mudbucker" version I'm pretty sure they made these kind of more accurate copies too. Looks nice and will probably get he £400 asked for.

You want a second hand SX as they've changed the headstocks to something bloody awful. The old ones are okay, quite chunky necks though. I prefer CV Jazz basses myself.

[quote name='Dr_Tom' post='1262926' date='Jun 9 2011, 05:05 PM']Hey, I'm just doing up a old squier that I got from my old high school years ago, completely stripped it, going to respray it olympic white with a black pickguard, got a new mighty mite rosewood jazz neck for it, throw in some seymour duncan quarter pounders and a black badass 2, and I should have myself a pretty decent bass. However before respraying it I've decided to buy all the hardware and things to make sure I have all the right holes, so any new ones can be drilled before painting. I have the badass which fits perfectly, and now the new pickguard. The original was white so I wanted to buy a black one, I knew that whatever I bought unless from an old squier (this one is 97 according to the neck) would not fit perfectly and I would need to drill some new holes. So I bought a black mexican precision plate from WD music. I've just recieved it though and when it is in the correct position a lot of the holes in the scratchplate hang over the wiring cavities, what do I do? Are american scratchplates a lot different? the only other thing I could think of is buying really long screws which go right down to the bottom of the cavity for the holes that hang over? Cheers Tom[/quote] I have a similar problem with my Rickenfaker but as it's only one screw I've secured the pickguard in place and the one screw I've just "dropped" in the pickguard and stuck down with sticky tape on the back of the pickguard! It isn't ideal but who the hell will know? I'djust do this method repeated myself, it's not like all the screws are needed to secure a pickguard. You probably only need three or four and it ain't budging. Failing that, have a look at the tons of modded squiers on here and maybe PM the owners to see where they got that "perfect fitting" guard from. I could have sworn someone said the axesrus guards fit CV squiers perfectly but I might be wrong.

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='1260147' date='Jun 7 2011, 07:40 PM'][url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ULTRA-RARE-THRU-NECK-BASS-GUITAR-PROJECT-LEMMY-ETC-/190542507992?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2c5d37efd8"]Kit form.[/url][/quote] That's decent. Saw the same mark in the control route on a CMI one I used to own which was quality. Not sure what factory it was though.

[quote name='Beedster' post='1256074' date='Jun 3 2011, 11:41 PM']+1 Knowing a couple of guys in the trade, there are potentially as many issues with customers not fully articulating what it is they want as luthiers not being able to do it (one man's perfect action is another's unplayable action etc). If you are unhappy with work done, talk to the person who did it well before you start bad-mouthing them and their livelihood here. If their response is unprofessional and you can back it up, then it is reasonable to leave feedback in the feedback section. I think however that out of courtesy, the mods should let anyone discussed on this forum know that this is the case and offer them the right to respond; it's all very well suggesting that feedback is left, but the forum in question is for members, and not all people concerned will be.[/quote] This is exactly what I've done. I've emailed the bloke explaining why I'm unhappy with the service, my new main gripe being the massive sanding/filing scratch he's left on the first fret and I've asked for a part refund. As I've said, depending on his response I'll be providing photographic evidence for all my issues with his service. It's not my issue to slander somebody or bad mouth them. I paid a lot of money for a professional service and have spent this morning setting up my guitar as what I got back was, to me, pretty unplayable. I don't want another bass chatter having to do the same.

Here's a great place to start. If anything, it showed me that there isn't much difference in tone between most PBass pickups. [url="http://www.atkinsonbasses.com/library/"]Pickup shootout[/url]

[quote name='Mykesbass' post='1254784' date='Jun 2 2011, 11:09 PM']Erm, just for clarity, in your first post you say you took your Strat in, then in the later post you say when you picked your bass up. Which was it?[/quote] Quite right mate, now corrected. It was and always has been a strat. Force of habit (the word bass is permanently on my mind).

[quote name='henry norton' post='1254640' date='Jun 2 2011, 09:29 PM']Maybe you should go back to him and tell him you'll name and shame him if he doesn't give you a full refund. It's one thing if some work ends up a bit below par for the money, quite another when the tech/luthier is knowingly doing a second rate job. In that sense every potential customer has the right to know, unless he's prepared to do the right thing.[/quote] But still, if I get my cash back and am happy as Larry who will know this guy is awful at set ups and repairs?

[quote name='ped' post='1254350' date='Jun 2 2011, 06:00 PM']I don't think there's any harm in saying who did the work and letting us all know what the issue was/is. Perhaps said 'luthier' might decide to do the right thing and refund your money to regain some credibility in the eyes of the BC masses? ped[/quote] I wouldn't mind that but regardless, he definitely isn't getting his mitts on my guitar again!

Sorry, I may have misled people. His initial quote was £40, then when I went to collect the guitar the "extra work he'd done" had taken the price to £85. Then when I took it home and had a play I was pissed off so returned it to be further butchered so he didn't exactly charge me extra for correcting his mistakes, he just charged me well too much for a crap job, then didn't improve things much second time round! Some good points raised here which I agree with. Deepbass5, your point about differing between bass luthiers and odd job repairmen rings true with me and this falls into the former. He builds custom guitars and basses that he sells for well over £1000. His basses have been mentioned on here before (though he isn't a recommended luthier thank god). This is why I'm so shocked by how shoddy the repair is. Also, your point about people being OTT is valid which is why I've decided to hold off until I have photos uploaded of the crap job he's done. I want people to actually see it and make up their own mind as to whether this is £85 worth of work. Keep your eyes peeled for a new thread.

[quote name='chrismuzz' post='1253835' date='Jun 2 2011, 12:44 PM']This. [b] Too many people have this happen to them these days.[/b][/quote] This my reason for wanting to advertise the fact this guy is crap, I don't want people to get done by him again. Problem is though, surely we need a sticky for such a thread where we "name and shame" otherwise BCers might miss it.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='1253772' date='Jun 2 2011, 12:04 PM']Why not? If you're not happy then people should know.[/quote] Maybe we should say photographic evidence should be provided though? This bridge looks f**king ridiculous if I'm honest! I teach teenagers who could set up a guitar better. Oh, and I've just noticed he's quite badly scratched the fretboard at the 1st fret. Wonderful.

That's it, guitar and bass luthiers are now dead to me. I know many do incredibly good work and develop loyal and devoted customer bases but I'm not letting anyone do any work on my guitars from now on. I recently put a Japanese Stratocaster in for a new graphite nut and string tree. I was promised a full set up into the bargain for around £40 which I thought was reasonable. Before dropping it off I asked him if he could poke around with the electronics as a middle [pickup had died as well. Weeks passed and when I finally got the guitar back I was mortified. It had the wrong strings on (I specifically asked for 10s) but most worrying was the nut. I'd been tempted to do it myself before but thought I'd treat myself to a "professional" job. E, A and D were fine but the G string was noticeably lower than every other string (despite this being the hightest point of the curved fretboard). It chocked like crazy and to compensate had clearly had the saddle raised. He'd also made the trem float which I hadn't asked for but fair enough, I thought, I can easy change that back. I said I wasn't happy with the nut and strings and he agreed to sort it. A few more weeks passed and I have the guitar back. The G string has somehow been raised and now has some mucky gunk near the groove (Has he just put glue in there?) and is now far higher than the B and E strings so still feels totally unbalanced. I mean, does this guy actually play guitars? Also, while he's changed the strings to 10s he hasn't altered the floating bridge which is now nearly at 45 degrees from the body so the guitar won't tune. The charge for all this came out at £85. £85 paid so that I can now take my guitar to pieces and totally re do the nut, electronics, bridge and set up. Brilliant. My question is shopuld we not have a name and shame "unrecommended luthiers" thread? I'm interested to know people's thoughts as I know someone else who is unhappy with this man's work on his bass as well.

It needs a pickguard regardless in my opinion.

Top person to do business with. Neck arrived well packed and on time. Thanks!

[quote name='Dave Vader' post='1241475' date='May 23 2011, 12:40 PM']I am on stage 1 of this cycle, I just got a Kay....[/quote] Exciting. A Ricky one? Get some pics going!

It's tat but it's well priced tat. One day I'll buy a Kay, start converting and upgrading it, get really bored and sell it in parts at a loss. It's what I do.

cheers for the pic and nice bass

If you have any pics of the back they would be much appreciated. I'mtrying to identify a cheap body I bought and think it's a Squier Affinity. Cheers.

Urgh. It's gross. Make it stop!