Bassman Rich

I just bought an ABM 500 EVO II, to partner my ABM 500 EVO. and it sounds ok after 2 minutes, bit of crackling going on, but I think all my gear is due a contact cleaned spray.

I saw you at the Donkey, you were bloody great. If you get the chance, more gigs up in Yorkshire would be great. (Shame I'm at Mudhoney/Thee Hypnotics when you play Barnsley)

Thanks Rikki, for the comments about my bass, and Martin too, its really great that theres someone just down the road who can get you sorted with a quality job and at a decent price.

When mine went, all Ashdown wanted was the money to cover an envelope and the postage, they sent me one out for a few pence (well 3 or 4 quid I think). Its pretty easy to do, just phone them up or look on their website.

Thanks for all that, I found some clear epoxy glue I'd bought for a work job, and as its only a few small screw holes i'm filling am giving that a go. Once I make a bit more progress I'll put up some pics of the thing.

[quote name='Manton Customs' timestamp='1489614628' post='3258454'] Yes, plastic wood is crap. Fill the screw holes with hardwood cocktail sticks to almost flush, but ever slightly below the surface. Then fill the remaining void with West System Epoxy. Don't use superglue as Nitro doesn't like it! For dents just use the epoxy, and apply masking tape over the top of the fill to hold in place. Remove the tape when dry. [/quote] Thanks for that, I'll google that stuff and get some. I'm planning to use this for the top coat (https://www.specialistpaints.com/collections/kustom-canz-kits-custom-aerosol-can-kits/products/kustom-canz-candy-kit?variant=28206879239, ie not nitro, an acrylic type paint), is there any primer/filler you would advise me to use, and ones to avoid?? Thanks for the advice so far.

Filler question. I'm fitting 2 new Filtertron type pups to an old affinity squire Telecaster, glued wood blocks in the old holes, routed out new holes (thanks to Martin Dixon guitars of Otley, West Yorkshire), and am starting to fill the old scratchplate and dents with filler. I'm using plastic wood, and its ok but seems to leave a few micro size holes when I sand flat. Is there a better sort of filler I should be using?? I'm going to have a go with some custom car candy turquoise metallic paint for the top coat and no scratchplate, so the best finish I can get is quite important. TIA guys,

Great looking amp, you have those skills down to a T. I tried an ampmaker se5, and it worked great first time, so I didn't learn too much, just how to follow instructions to the letter!!!

[quote name='Rikki_Sixx' timestamp='1488894945' post='3252716'] There's a guy called Martin Dixon in Otley near Leeds who does things like this (or used to, I'm not sure). I've read about folks going to stay with him for a week and building a guitar/bass together, very hands-on. I don't think he has a website, but he's a lovely bloke and the stuff he produces is fantastic. Someone from this very parish has done similar and posted some contact details, worth a read if you're interested! [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/206258-build-a-bass/"]http://basschat.co.u...8-build-a-bass/[/url] [/quote] I built the bass you can see in my pic there, and can vouch for Martin and his courses. He has repaired many of mine and my friends guitars over the years, and is a lovely guy (as his his wife, who kept us all very well fed during my course too)

Its looking great, and thanks for the thread, very interesting. Did you ever think not to have a scratchplate and let all the glittery top shine out?? I'm starting to do a squire affinity telecaster, and bought some custom car sprays, a silver base coat and a candy tangerine top coat, so I wont have the same glittery problems as you, but my thinking is I would probably hate to cover u all the lovely orangey colour with a scratchplate, so am going to fill the screw holes in with wood filler first. If I ever get beyond routing out the new pups (going for twin Gretsch esque powertron types , actually black cats from the creamery in manchester), I'll maybe start a thread of my own.