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W1_Pro

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  1. I've always wondered Andy, what is a chambered body and what does it do?
  2. Thats what I said, funnily enough. Apparently, it's the wood grain, which will polish smooth......
  3. Here's a quick update to this. Andy was unhappy with the first coat of stain, so he stripped it back. Here is the bass after the re-refinish and clear coat, just awaiting a final buff- Lovely!
  4. The bass has always had issues, due in no small part to my slightly tw*ty design brief to the builder, which involved a lot of having cake and eating it type stuff. In my defence, I was only 21 at the time, so the recklessness of youth etc etc. It's a maple through neck- The body is indeed imbuya, which is called walnut even though it's not walnut, according to wikipedia (who knew??). Ebony board with rather nice abalone block inlays. There was originally an active circuit on it, but that made terrible hissing noises- the original builders strong point was not wiring- so I had it removed, and now it sounds dead. I always thought it was extra long scale- mainly because I couldn't reach the first fret- obviously I never actually measured it or anything like that! In short, this bass has been largely unplayable for more than a quarter of a century, which frustrates me enormously. So I'm very happy that Andy has agreed to take this on. He seems to specialise in turning very fiddly no hopers into cracking instruments, so I have high hopes. Sincere thanks for doing this Andy. I look forward to developments.
  5. Just bought an Epifani 410 off Chris. Very easy to deal with. Buy with confidence.
  6. [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Unfortunately I didn't manage to source any Velve's ,[/font][/color] [font="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"][color="#282828"]​Ah well, heigh ho. it was worth a try. Thanks anyway![/color][/font]
  7. Highfox, did you manage to source Velve tune machine heads? One of mine is an odd one and I can't find replacements anywhere. If you have a source, I'd love to know!
  8. Is the FB original do you know? Looks very...sort of..modern....with those dots on the bottom edge.
  9. ..well quite. Of course the biggest mystery is, why did they stop building it? Fender have been spanking the P for 240,000,000,000 years. Have we learned nothing?
  10. Thanks Highfox, and congrats on the acquisition. The fretless ones are lovely- does it have an unlined board?
  11. Hello Norris, yes it's mine and no, of course I don't mind. Thanks are in order to you for 'introducing ' me to Andys work. What he's done so far looks very good indeed. It is a nice player eh? I was very pleasantly surprised when I got it, and yes, it is bloody heavy! Good luck with the telecaster, the guitar building course sounds like a hoot. I'd love to do something like that one day...
  12. I think so. It's a walnut one. So that is to Musicians what tobacco sunburst is to precisions of a certain age, I've always thought...;0)
  13. And here it is, a week or so later, stripped down ready for painting.
  14. Aha, that worked, excellent. So, Andy had a look over the bass, decided it was in pretty good shape electrically, but needed a stone and a set up, and after some valiant attempts to patch the old finish up, a complete respray. Here is the bass being stripped down.
  15. So here, I think, is the pic...apologies, never done this before...
  16. I've always had a soft spot for eighties Jap basses. The Musician, IMHO was one of the best of the bunch. A really nicely made guitar that could compete with pretty much anything. Why they discontinued it is a mystery to me.... Anyway, I bought one on eBay a little while ago. I got it for a reasonable price, but it was pretty battered, cosmetically, when it arrived. I'd been very impressed with the work that Andy had done, on Norris' recent SB1000 restoration, so I got in touch and asked him to have a look at it. Here it is in it's original condition.
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