wesfinn

hahah ill put a post up in 20 years showing the before and after

yeah it was relic'd that way.....Tho im starting to wonder how much finish will be left in 20 years seeing as its getting about 25 hours play a week! haha

Hey all i've jsut got my rig where I want it to be minus the new Purple Chili cabs which will be here in a couple of weeks! but heres a pic of my rehearsal set up. I'm using an aguilar Ag 500, with an Aguilar Tonehammer pre amp, this basically gives me 6 different gain channels which is absolutely awesome! i run this through a GS112 at rehearsals. Bass wise I have my Fender custom shop custom order 59 P bass in olympic white over CAR and my 5 string Steed bass which is one of my own designs/ builds. any ways enjoy! Wes

Hey all. heres the matching headstock pictures. taken on my phone camera though so not as good as the other shots. but enjoy.

I'd recomend Geoff Hall, his username on here is GBH

Glad its making an impact! It certainly has on me! so much so that im reducing my collection down to 2 basses!

Most bands use backing tracks now, well most bands that apprear in the charts anyway. I used to be a bit unsure but once you start it adds a whole new dimension to to the sound. I don't think it is cheating or faking in anyway unless you are miming parts. the thing that you have to remember is that its not there as another musician its there to compliment what you are doing. so getting a balance on which tracks to use can be tricky. it's a good idea to get a producer in to help you out when running backing tracks at first as they are a fresh pair of ears who can sculp the backing around what you are doing. it's not good to do it the other way round. as everyone hasd said a click for the drummer is a must though! and also i'd recomend getting a small hardisk recorder to run the tracks from and not a laptop...theres nothing worse than your mac or pc freezing halfway through a song! also with this you can send a seperate click to the drummer and have the tracks coming out of another LR signal.

[quote name='Sibob' post='575122' date='Aug 20 2009, 09:15 AM']So, hypothetically, if I was to order a '68 jazz or some-such, would it cost more than the stock '64 Relic? Si[/quote] Hi Si. It probably wouldnt be much than a stock '64 to be honest. Probably come out at just over £2k i reckon.

Thanks Loz. the custom shop stuff is amazing at the moment. this one is only a team built one, but you wouldnt think it. Jake from FCS was saying that there is one guy who does all over the colour over colour relics! hes obviously been getting a lot of practice judging by mine! I must admit that i wasn't expecting it to be this relic'd but im glad it is now i have it! it's nice not worrying about marking it!

[quote name='Sibob' post='573724' date='Aug 19 2009, 01:05 AM']Very very nice!! Whats the thinking behind the 4 colours? surely that wasn't common practice in '59?! What's the deal with Custom Shop now? The website is a bit lame....only one Precision model, The Pino. One Time Machine Jazz, the '64. With the rest being made up by artist models, surely there is more!? Si[/quote] Thanks! the 4 colours thing was just because i wanted a unique cool looking cool! it was actually common in early fender basses from the factoryto have one colour over another to save them having to build new bodies once one had been finished for stock, whether they would of sprayed over CAR im not sure. Unfortunately Fender CS only make those models as standard now. anything else is a custom order! They really should bring back the 59 though. the pino is good but its not enough choice. the same with the jazz they should offer a 62 model and also a 68.

[quote name='birdy' post='573248' date='Aug 18 2009, 05:44 PM']Nice! Can we see a pic of the headstock? Thanks Steve[/quote] yes, i didnt email over the headstock pic from my work computer so ill put it up tomoro!

Hi all thought i'd share this with you all. just recieved my custom shop custom order P bass. It's easily one of the best basses i've ever played and definitly the best relic job I've seen! so specs were: slab dark rosewood board 9.25 radius, light relic C profile neck but pretty thin at the nut end and quite chunky towards the heel. alder body, finish, silver and gold primers, candy apple red and then olympic white over the top. then super heavy relic'd so all 4 colours are clearly visible. the bass has a matching headstock with light relicing around the edges so the red comes through. I'm one super happy chappy right now! only took 4 months for them to build too!