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Hmmm. Both my Warmoth basses took a long time to work out what woods, electronics etc to use. They are both perfect basses to me but sound completely different. They both live next ot each other at home in their cases, I can grab both with one hand - screw you I'm taking both of them.

Red tort remonds me of the foam they used to use in cheap furniture. Brown tort looks much more classy IMO. Fender had an ad out around the mid 90s with a P & a J, both with these. failing that you could try cabbage, Jimmy Hill, the guy from Cameo's codpiece, maybe its because I'm a londoner, apples and pears apples and pears, Mrs Miggins pie shop, oooh marton, rameses niblick III, kerplunk kerplunk, whoops, where's my thribble, Jimmy Saville's chair, down the old kent road, cor lummy guvnor, the big end off a Ford Fiesta, one of Hattie Jaques nighties, I'll get my coat, where's me washboard?, splunge, spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam

I bought one of those cheap Wesley see through jobbies for tuppence and a button and pulled the frets out with a Leatherman. Used some kind of generic plastic wood to fill the holes then sanded it flat being careful not to alter the curvature of the fingerboard. Worked a treat. Not the best of jobs but all mine.

how about Gumtree? may have to buy a complete bass and make a few bob on Ebay selling the other parts

Do the covers come off? I thought they were wax potted and so you could only replace the whole thing. They're prety rare - I've had a fair few stingrays and the only one to have the white pickup was my lava pearl SR5 If you can't get one then you have to send your pickup off to EBMM and they'll send you a replacement white one. I enquired a couple of years ago as my 20th SR4 had the straight cut poles instead of the newer bevelled ones and they were really uncomfortable to play over.

Single coil pickups normally use 250k pots although you can use 500k - that's what I have in my Gold Warmoth CTS are the most popular brand. You'll have to buy the capacitors separately, they vary as to what value to use. Have a look on the Seymour Duncan website as they have wiring schematics you can download. They also show capacitor value Don't know how handy you are with a soldering iron?

I've just removed the electronics from my Warmoth as I've never used them since I built it. Pickup and earth just go straight to the jack now. I'm trying to find plain top chrome bolts and am going to use that to cap the holes.

That's so f***ing funny if you'll excuse my francaise

Anyone heard if they are actually going to be available in December and if they will be £400? or less? Not much on the website but if anyone knows any insider stuff then I'm all ears.

I had what i believe now to be an SR1016 or something along those lines. Sort of a Japanese forerunner to this series I think before they made the SR1006 neck through range. Lovely basses. String spacing closer than some other 6 strings but if you've played an Ibanez then you'll know that they generally are quite narrow anyway. Lovely feel, balance and sound. too many controls for my liking though. lovely slim neck

I noticed the Jazz bass logo on the headstock as well - a real p bass of that age would be worth a fortune due to the lack of Ps with matching headstocks. Some people will try anything to sell on a bag of crap 'This bass was used by Jesus before he left the Grateful Dead to form the Devil's Satans' and so on. you get the idea.

My gold Warmoth has a mahogany body so I never noticed any neck heaviness. My newest one has a swamp ash body so i took the precaution of getting a set of gotoh resolite machines. $ : £ has went a bit silly recently - I worked out the other day that my newest Warmoth would've cost me £100 extra if i had bought it now than in August. You do occasionally find warmoth necks on Ebay but it doesn't give you the choice you get when picking your own woods. If the exchange rate sorts itself out at the beginning of next year i might be doing myself another one, possibly a 5 string. One issue you may find is the tuners unless you buy the neck with them already on - Some MIM & CIJ basses use different machines with smaller holes than the standard Gotoh, Schaller, etc. The Geddy neck is very slim, too slim for some people but it is meant to emulate Geddy's own '72. You could modify a 3 bolt neck for 4 bolt use by plugging the original holes and drilling new ones but you would destroy any resale value should you decide not to keep it. All 4 bolt Fender necks should fit all 4 bolt fender bodies ( ditto for 3 to 3 and 5 to 5 ). The mighty mite necks are good and stable but IMO not as good as Warmoth. Incidentally both my warmoths are now on their site, albeit with crappy pictures. I love the way Fenders look but I've never been able to justify buying a MIA when I can go to warmoth and have so many options and end up paying what a MIA would cost second hand for something that is all mine and brand new and not available anywhere. Different for older models though. Early models that are still being played have proven themselves to be good basses otherwise they would've been likely trashed years ago. I don't get the hype over Jap Squiers of the early 80s. They command more than MIA money. I've had 2 and they didn't really do anything for me. The only thing I liked about my JV was the rolled fretboard edges. remember that this is AFAIK, IMO & ETC

Ah, never figured that it would share the same power supply

Hi everybody. Some time ago, i bought a Trace Elliot TVT9 80w guitar combo when i was mucking about with 12 string basses. I still have it as its probably going to be a small fortune to post it if i should sell it. The preamp itself is separate from the power amp and looks like 2 screws each side should have the fellow out. The only cable going from the preamp to the power amp looks like it is purely to enable the combo to get power using one power lead than 2. there is another but is a line out from the preamp to send the signal to the power amp - is uses a standard jack so just disconnects. My question is - If i were to take this out and find a suitable rack mount kit, would Taking the power lead that goes to the power amp and putting a plug on the end with suitable fuse work? Here is a pic of the back - the black wire is what looks like the power and the grey is the signal to the power amp. The issue I have is that the preamp holds 8 tubes and don't know if plugging it in without a dedicate power switch could damage them. There is a standby switch on the front like an all valve amp would have. I have a power amp that I can use so it would effectively become my first sort of valve rig to see if I liked it before shelling out for a full valve amp. With the exception of the rack mount kit, it would also cost me nothing as I have everything I need. My next question of this is possible: It uses 8x ECC83s that are sounding a bit microphonic - if I were to change them, do they require biasing like power tubes do? If all this is possible and can be done cheap enough could someone point me in the direction of someone that does a rack kit for the preamp and the best place to get tubes Thanks in advance

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Have a gander here, although a laminate won't make that much difference to the sound. Now, an all walnut body would be another ketle of fish. [url="http://www.warmoth.com/bass/options/options_bodywoods.cfm"]http://www.warmoth.com/bass/options/options_bodywoods.cfm[/url] One wood I've always wanted to try in a bass. Fat chance unless I get one made as there weren't many walnut Ps made.

oooh me likey that bass :brow:

[quote name='Dr.Dave' post='330644' date='Nov 17 2008, 01:36 PM']BTW mine's for sale - as I put a Duncan on my Blue Flower![/quote] You could probably get some cream for that. You should really watch where you but your 'duncan'

What I always do in these situations is: Run awaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay Definitely a growler. If the seller thinks it looks original then maybe he should've gone to Specsavers. Stinks of bad haddock this one

Aha. I think I see what they are doing: At the present we have the fantastic gibson Les Paul. One of my favourite rock guitars. At the other end of the scale we have 'Guitar Hero'. a stupid plastic thing with a flipper and a couple of buttons. Could this 'robot' guitar be the first step towards bringing the two of them closer together? What's next, markers that light up chords in a certain key on the fretboard? All tongue in cheek stuff but makes you think, dunnit?

How about the the start of the theme from Popeye?