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  1. 3below
    Roto TruBass, Labella 760Ns and TI flats on various basses. The Roto TruBass on my (now 42 yr old) EKO BA/4 lasted about 40 years and were still very good in my view. Replaced with some more through BC . Woody, thumpy and a pleasure to play.
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    An Interesting and useful piece of knowledge
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    Relative of Mrs 3below, Cliff Crocket was still drumming at 100. At 64 I am 2nd youngest in my prog jazz rock originals band. Enthusiasm abounds, however I would say we have discovered that full day (7 hour) rehearsals are a little demanding.
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    Following on from @Kitsto, you could donate to your local high school, from my experience (former teacher) instruments and kit are always welcome.
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    Your last sentence shows you have realised the major part of the solution to q2 , I am trying to gain similar clarity for a thinning out.
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    Ditto, thanks to my father's efforts Luckily a clean neck detachment and a super repair / setup by Tim Phillips - https://www.timsviolins.co.uk/ Amazingly £90 for the whole job (10 years ago).
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    Highly under rated basses. Light weight, really well balanced due to long horn design and a very slim playable neck. I put some used EMGs (ex BC) in mine, as per @alexjbassist you would have to spend way more than £100 to get a better bass (I have the usual offenders in the bass cave to make comparisons with).
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    Embrace and enjoy the lightweight With advancing years lighter basses have become essential.
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    This, plus the truss rod cover and I admire you for doing the truss rod channel with a chisel. The latter is skill (and persistence) above and beyond my level these days, although recently I do more and more with hand tools - rediscovering woodwork of my youth.
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    Better condition than mine (which I have owned since 1989), great build quality. Whoever buys will not be disappointed, a p bass on steroids, .
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    Ditto, if this one was fretless it would have been sold to me by now.
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    If you can't find a flatwound B that works well at this scale length (and I am still very undecided on flatwound B strings with a 34" 5er - I tolerate my TI flat B string) then you could go flatwounds E -> G and a round wound B. YMMV.
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    changing specs

    3below replied to itu's topic in Build Diaries

    We need a bc community KF-20 I want one.
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    Surely an Imprecision bass?
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    Cymbal or mic stands are a good starting point. Having tried both, I find the cymbal stand much more sturdy and confidence inspiring. My Clifton EUB has very simple L bracket on the back with a hole in it. 'Peg' from stand fits in the hole, end pin rests on floor and this is pretty solid. At some point I will either make a wooden block that sits between the stand, L bracket and back of bass or fix a block on the endpin which will stop the slight possible rotation of the bass. This image https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5472/30258177395_d1089c7f15_z.jpg taken by @Silvia Bluejay shows a cymbal stand into another Clifton EUB. This one is a better solution than the simple L bracket on mine.
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    NBD: Gibson SG

    3below replied to grayn's topic in Bass Guitars

    @grayn Great bass , but I am biased. Your account is like reading my own SG bass experience (even down to having an EB2 as first name bass about 50 years ago). Mine had slight neck dive so I fitted Hipshot ultralight tuners which has totally sorted the neck dive. I have also arrived at the one pickup on ten (full) and the other on nine approach. Mine now has additional mojo, the finish (brown) is wearing off at various points from use. One of the big pluses is the light weight which makes long gigs a pleasure.
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    I now prefer these in stainless: Although they claim to be self tapping I use an appropriate size tap (1st or 2nd tap depending on wood hardness) and thread the hole they are going into. The nut and bolt insertion method is required. Occasionally I have had to CA glue one in as well.
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    Easy if you can DIY or have sufficient funds to pay someone, otherwise it is as you say
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    Would be easy enough to get a 'batwing' pickguard and have the neck pickup relocated towards the middle (like some later EB0/3 models) or get the neck pickup rewound to a lower impedance. Where is the brown / walnut colour one? not that I need another bass.
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    As per @uncle psychosis and @velvetkevorkian a low cost alternative, the Peavey milestone in the for sale section (or there is one on ebay, £70 bin) and some s/h EMGs and you will be good to go. The necks on them seem very good to me and they are light weight. No neck dive due to the body design, an underrated bass imo.
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    Mounting the Hipshot on a curved top bass can be achieved with spacer collars and bolting it down onto them with M8 or 5/16" hex button screws. On my Bach EB2 I used collars on the main fixings and just a hex button screw under the front fixing. Works well. Getting Gold colour might be a bigger challenge.
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    pmd
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    If I still had access to a lab I would be well up for measuring the effects that string length etc beyond the bridge and nut have on the deflection force required to pluck (or bend) a given string. The first approximation formula t = 4dT / L (t : deflection force, d : deflection, T : string tension and L : scale length) does not account for any movement beyond the fixed points (bridge, nut). Experimental measurement seems the way forward to get some answers. Some quick 'testing' by playing the G string hard and feeling for any string movement at the nut or beyond it suggests that the effects will be very small if any.
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    A very nice bass, more so for the excellent price. Out of interest, where are the side dots, at 1 3 5 etc. Or in line with the face dots?
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    Phoenix

    3below replied to SamIAm's topic in Build Diaries

    Here's hoping you get fully active soon and get stuck in
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