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09-28-2009, 03:33 PM
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Took off bridge, strings and back plate. As i am removing the pickups, there is a wire going to where the bridge was, is that to ground it?
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09-28-2009, 03:35 PM
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09-28-2009, 03:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: IL | | | Yes sir. indeed it is. While youre in there some say that beefing up that ground wire is well worth it.
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hmmmm....
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09-28-2009, 03:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: PA. | | | Another quick question, I cut the pick up wires, then if I end up using them again i peel back the plastic and solder it back on? The only part that confuses me are these pickups.
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09-28-2009, 03:59 PM
| | | | the best way to do that is to un solder the pups from the pots, but yes, if you cut them short at one end you can reuse them
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09-28-2009, 04:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: PA. | | | Ok the whole thing is all gone. I have a bday party to go to so no pics todaybut i have a neck and 8 ziplocks with diffrent parts all saved. Time to make a design, strip off the paint with a heat gun and repaint this bad boy. Will keep you posted.
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10-07-2009, 02:10 PM
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10-07-2009, 02:13 PM
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10-07-2009, 06:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Va Beach, VA | | | If you're modding/upgrading your bass, might want to think about better tuners. Bridge and p-ups are obvious. And strings. And doing a proper shielding job.
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10-07-2009, 08:30 PM
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Originally Posted by WRXbase  If you're modding/upgrading your bass, might want to think about better tuners. Bridge and p-ups are obvious. And strings. And doing a proper shielding job.
Yeah. So, replace everything but the wood. LOL! | Yep. Pix of the sanding by hand process in 10 minutes
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10-07-2009, 08:43 PM
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10-07-2009, 09:19 PM
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After 1 hour, at 10 I stopped for the night. 5 45 comes early...    
See all the pictures I took here http://s672.photobucket.com/albums/vv90/wookieeforlife/
I think the horn of it looks cool. I have work tomarrow, so I will finish sanding it friday. Suggestions would help, but I don't want to buy a heat gun. Afraid of effects on wood, and sanding is working for me. The suggestions I need is bridges and pickup.
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10-07-2009, 09:40 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: MS Gulf Coast | | I did this once, to my old Yamaha RBX200F. By hand. It took forever, but worked out great. It was canary yellow, with a gloss black neck - yuck! The neck turned out really nice, but underneath the yellow paint on the body was a really ugly mass of glued-together crapwood.
Pickups - depends on what you're after. Vintage, or modern/aggressive? Duncan makes nice pickups for not too much coin. For the bridge, just about anything with a decent amount of mass to it (no Fender-style "bent steel" bridges). Also look for one that has channels or buttresses to keep the saddles from moving sideways under the force of plucking/picking. Something like this would work fine.
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10-07-2009, 09:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: PA. | | | Cool. I am looking for a versital pickup. Something that will sound good with metal and classic rock. I'd rather a classic rock sounding pickup more though.
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10-08-2009, 05:04 AM
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10-08-2009, 05:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: PA. | | | Also the number one thing that surprised me, is that this isn't all scraps glued together.
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10-09-2009, 02:47 PM
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Originally Posted by WookieeForLife Cool. I am looking for a versital pickup. Something that will sound good with metal and classic rock. I'd rather a classic rock sounding pickup more though. | Seymour Duncan Bassline SPB-2 Pickups. I've got them in my p bass and they're not as aggressive as 1/4 pounders but hotter than the spb-1 vintage pickups. It's a good medium.
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10-09-2009, 04:37 PM
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10-09-2009, 04:41 PM
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