Twigman

I have a couple of new gripes: People writing 'now days' when they mean 'nowadays' - seen it often round here. And Americans who say they could care less when they clearly couldn't.

Shotgun shell knobs?

kaboodle tribal knobs?

Knob shaped knobs?

Yeah I am seriously an idiot thinking my pickup rout was the same as any other. Because the body of this is designed for no scratchplate the pickup routs are smaller than a std pbass rout and are shaped to fit the pickup covers only. I could do without the plate by shielding the cavity and running the earth all the way from the A/E coil to the controls but I like the idea of the plate so I will shield the sides of the cavity with copper tape and take a piercing saw to the existing plate to cut it down to size to fit the cavity......I think it will be make a smarter (albeit nobody will see it) job than just sticking the foams on the copper tape - besides the plate gets the pickup 1mm or so closer to the strings!

[quote name='Sibob' timestamp='1385391340' post='2287632'] When it's finished I will say that I have ordered the knobs, they are fairly weird, so they might not stay on the bass, but I will give someone a (conceptual) prize if they can guess what type of knobs lol Si [/quote] Q parts skulls ?

DOH! I am such a dumb f***. The other basses do have larger routs. There's nothing wrong with this plate.

i quite like the look if of it

Que?

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1385209187' post='2285602'] No, mine didn't fit the rout. I just enlarged the rout, as I had a scratchplate to cover it. [/quote] No can do as rear routed control cavity and still undecided as to whether to fit the custom scratchplate - depends how it will look and will be last thing fitted as it's just cosmetic - in fact I'm not even going to start designing it until the bass is built.

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1385206458' post='2285559'] I bought a Fender p pickup and it had the large plate. It was definitely genuine, but was the Vintage model, maybe that's the difference? [/quote] Ahh Ok Thomann advertised it as 'Vintage' but it has the same packaging and the same part number on the label as my previous 2 'Original' p/n 0992046000 which had smaller plates that did fit. ...did yours fit your rout? I think I shall cut this one down and then resolder the pickup to the plate - what do you reckon? The 2 on the left are pickups I bought previously which are both fitted in Basses. The one on the right is this new one with the oversize plate Same part numbers, same descriptions, same barcodes, slightly different layout on the labels. Otherwise all same packaging [attachment=149043:pickuplabels.jpg]

Strange This is the 3rd Fender original Precision pickup I have bought However it seems this one has a larger shielding plate than the previous 2. It's so large it will not fit in the rout! I bought this one from Thomann - I'm wondering if it is genuine as the other 2 I bought seem to have smaller shielding plates. So what to do? Do I question Thomann? Do I remove the pickup from the shielding plate and get some tin snips and cut it down to size?

[quote name='Rumple' timestamp='1385111596' post='2284508'] I tried the D'Addario's and didn't get on with the sticky feel they have. [/quote] They're only like that when they are new IME I used to use chrome flats all the time but am now a convert to the half rounds - yes they did feel sticky at first but the stickiness doesn't last long

Q-parts knobs aren't the easiest things to get hold of. Neither Bill Lewington [url="http://www.bill-lewington.com/qparts/mdome.htm"]http://www.bill-lewington.com/qparts/mdome.htm[/url] nor WD Music UK [url="http://www.wdmusic.co.uk/q-parts-253-c.asp"]http://www.wdmusic.co.uk/q-parts-253-c.asp[/url] were able to supply me from stock as the knobs I am after are not imported by them. WD stated that they would be able to get them for mid January delivery. Q Parts [url="http://www.qparts.com/index.php/knob.html"]http://www.qparts.com/index.php/knob.html[/url] wanted $23.95 shipping charge and 3 weeks to deliver to UK.... I ordered from Q-parts and arranged delivery to our LA office A colleague will bring them home next week - a MUCH cheaper and quicker solution.

When are you going to spill the beans?

e-mail from Mr Green 3 weeks until neck ships.... tick tock

Get a Babicz bridge

[quote name='gary mac' timestamp='1384951732' post='2282652'] That should cheer you up then [/quote] You sound like you know me IRL ??

[attachment=148815:IMG_0541small.jpg] It's arrived and surprisingly the UPS man didn't charge any VAT nor import duty! RESULT!

Luton, United Kingdom 20/11/2013 7:12 Out for Delivery 20/11/2013 7:00 Arrival Scan Castle Donnington, United Kingdom 20/11/2013 5:01 Departure Scan 20/11/2013 2:12 Import Scan

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1383292412' post='2262580'] If this were made by me I'd want my own name on it. [/quote] If I did that with mine it would have Gibson written on it - I think that would be somewhat confusing, don't you? Ha Ha

Castle Donnington, United Kingdom 19/11/2013 19:55 Arrival Scan I love UPS tracking Edit: proper diary this Ha Ha