The Bassist and Guitarist thread

[Drago]

WD40, a paint brush and a rag might clean that up.

 

[GM]

More progress.

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Pickups from my JB which I removed when I upgraded to Entwistle's, re-magneted with neodymium jobs - the output is absolutely thumping loud! Chinese pickguard and screws from the slow boat, very nice pots from ebay, Chinese knobs, very hefty Ash body from ebay. So far I'm about 35 quid into it.

A quick glance at that, and I thought you were building an 8 string bass .....nice one looking forward to see it finished!

 

[ColinJ]

WD40, a paint brush and a rag might clean that up.

@Oldfentiger gave me an old Garmin GPS, which had suffered a similar leaky-battery rot-fest. The battery terminals had corroded away completely and rendered the device unusable. To resurrect it I had to open up the case and solder in new terminals bodged from coils of wire.

 

[Drago]

My replica 1968 PB neck has arrived. And lovely it is too. Quite chunky and squared off compared to modern necks, but it feels great in my big hands. Its had its first coat of Danish Oil, will get a 2nd later, then repro decals tomorrow.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Bit of advice required. As I mentioned earlier in the thread I lost a finger tip on my fretting hand not long after starting to learn the bass. I've seen a 3/4 size left hand one in a music shop and the guy has offered me a decent trade in on my full length R/H bass. I stand just over 6', would I have any problems with the shorter length? Bear in mind I'm starting from scratch again with the hand change.

 

[Drago]

I'm teaching Mini d the bass. She's 9 so I brought her a J&D 3/4 sized bass. I'm 6'4" with big hands and was surprised that I found it very easy to play, not at all cramped.

I take it you've read about Tony Iommi and his similar problems?

 

[Drago]

Work on my '68 P bass replica continues apace.

 

[Drago]

 

[Cycleops]

That’s absolutely brilliant @delb0y lets have some more.

 

[Cycleops]

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A Fender copyright hit squad are converging on Northamptonshire, better destroy it while you can.

 

[Drago]

Christ, if it were a Rickenbacker theres a genuine chance I'd be slapped around in a dark alley!

 

[Drago]

I shall be humming Spandau Ballets 'Gold' all day now.

Tuners, strings, tug bar and Schaller strap nuts are all that's left to do.

 

[Smokin Joe]

I managed to get a full size left hand bass yesterday, twenty quid plus my old one in PX. I'll stick the tuner on it later and give it whatever tweak it needs, but it doesn't sound too far off.

 

[Cycleops]

Let’s see a pic then @Smokin Joe .. Shame a bass has different tuners to a guitar, I remember we used to stick our fags on the untrimmed bits of string.

 

[Drago]

We need pictures - it's the law!