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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!

Is the FB original do you know? Looks very...sort of..modern....with those dots on the bottom edge.

Thats lovely.

..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?

Thanks Highfox, and congrats on the acquisition. The fretless ones are lovely- does it have an unlined board?

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...

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)

And here it is, a week or so later, stripped down ready for painting.

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.

So here, I think, is the pic...apologies, never done this before...

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.

Amazing stuff Andy. Well done.

Nice bloke, good comms. Recomended.

I've got a Shergold like this. It's lovely, suffers from a slightly weedy pickup, but really nice to play. Thats not a bad price either, IMHO....

Bought an NR T Bird reissue from Matt. Very good to deal with, bass arrived, immaculate, as described. Recommended.

They are Dimarzio Blades as it goes....DP127's I believe. Nice pickups, but as you say chaps, not stock.

[quote name='Chienmortbb' timestamp='1458866795' post='3011780'] The bass tha Rhys shows seems to correspond to the wiring diagram posted at the start of the thread. It should be easy to put it back to stock wiring but you may be left with a spare hole. [/quote] I think that the toggle switch has been replaced with a pan pot at some point...So to put it back to stock I'd need to replace one with the other....see post above...I'll keep you informed of developments....;0)

Thanks Rhys for the info and the pic. It is a lovely bass. The neck is a thing of beauty. Neal Moser has kindly responded to my Facebook post on BCRich lovers, he says he can make a loom, I could drop in, or, if the worst comes to the worst, as new circuit. The pan pot is an interesting one eh? It looks of a similar vintage to the rest of the electrics. I can't find a pic of a BC that has one though. Maybe it was swapped out at some point.

The pic...