I have the same Kimbara Bass, rescued from a Charity shop in Southampton as a wall hanger. i love it and have been doing amateurish restoration on it. I hoped i could ask some advice. it has the original scratach plate but this is becoming really brittle and cracking. it constanbtly has a white crystaline powder appearing on the surface and is sometimes wet, despite being in a dry room wth good airflow (i have a number of other guitars that are not doing this).
I want to replace the scratch plate but am worried about the choke as this seems integral. does the disc with the numbers (under the chickenhead dial) come away and could i put this onto a new scratach plate? and would a proper gibson ripper plate fit the pickups ok?? i have found some but they're £45 - £75 a go and i dont want to throw that kind of money for it to be wrong!
Many thanks
Paul
Devon
