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As I stated earlier, the height adjustment foam currently resembles asphalt. Anyone with ideas on what I should use as a replacement? And would it be a better choice to find vintage pickup screws, or new ones from Fender? Seeing as the old ones aren't in the greatest shape, even with the rust...

Unless offered something rather mind blowing, yes, it's got good tone, and not one of those rather silly reissue fake vintage pieces. I personally enjoy oneupsmanship, and it's hard to one-up legit.

Come on, now... Don't insult me, I may not know much about vintage basses, but with the numbers I've seen for mediocre restos, as well as the numbers I've been quoted here, $200 is jack on the potential return one could gain on this instrument. I traded a warp-necked Warwick Rockbass with an...

Well, I've got 304-6450 on all three pots, though i suspect the capacitor (with SK .02 10% on it) is an addon as that's the only place plastic insulated wire is used.

Where would the handwritten dates be? Where should i see/how should I interpret pot dates? The pickups both have grey, papery-looking bobbins and are, from what a friend has told me, potted. The bridge pickup has what is either an S or a 5 on it written in sharpie. The headstock matching...

The neck plate doesn't seem original, but it's most definitely old, as the chrome has worn off to copper, or even down to brass in spots, the screws have black paint on their heads not visible anywhere else on the bass. My bet is that around whatever time period that body got coated in varnish...

Anything you see in terms of improper setup has been on the instrument for a long, long time, as far as I know (not that it's a good idea to keep it that way). The neck has no visual issues, looks to be straight and warp-free. Though any work on the truss will require some care, as the bolt head...

My intent for the time being is to get it to playability, with full restoration a distant future sort-of goal due primarily to cost. The original color, for anyone curious is visible in the neck pocket and cavities, as a dark, metallic red.

The bass as it is now. The back, showing the wear. What the pick-guard is hiding. Some damage on the neck, shows how thick the coating is. Stampings on the end of the neck. The neck, showing the finish and dots. The side dots. Feel free to ask for any shots you...

I got this bass from my dad a few months ago (he got it as 2 months rent from a useless roomie in the 80s), and really haven't done much with it. From what I can tell, it's most certainly ancient, with perhaps not the nicest, or most pampered of lives, and it appears to have been stripped of...

The bass as it is now. The back, showing the wear. What the pick-guard is hiding. Some damage on the neck, shows how thick the coating is. Stampings on the end of the neck. The neck, showing the finish and dots. The side dots. Feel free to ask for any shots you...

I got this bass from my dad a few months ago (he got it as 2 months rent from a useless roomie in the 80s), and really haven't done much with it. From what I can tell, it's most certainly ancient, with perhaps not the nicest, or most pampered of lives, and it appears to have been stripped of...

Alright, I've been hunting for a set of strings (and then the terminology for such when what i had failed). I've heard them called 'piano wound", where the winding stops early so that just the core of the string passes over the bridge saddle. What term should I be using in this case, because I'd...