Recent content by Allatoona Rebel

I don't think you're weird or crazy or anything negative. I'm not in a band, not yet anyway, but I'm very persnickety about the condition of all of my guitars and basses. And I've been playing for a long, long time. I had to work hard for all of them, and want to preserve them in pristine...

I don't know this to be the case in what you're stating, but there are counterfeit guitars out there. A good luthier can spot a fake in a few seconds...

Sorry for your loss. I would not lend them. What if there's an accident and they get damaged? I think they may be worth more than you were offered. But that's just me. My brother loaned a friend a guitar, a very nice one, and it disappeared.

I absolutely agree with every point you made. Looks like a cheap wannabe.

Off-hand, the only two people I can remember using a Fender Bass VI are Glen Campbell (Wichita Lineman) and George Harrison on the "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". Fender reintroduces Bass VI periodically, but it's not much of a mainstay like the Precision or Jazz Bass. I messed with...

Any screw-down type of clamping capo should work, and you can always add a layer or two of rubber to the clamp face that presses against the strings. You could build up the clamp string contacting face by adding a layer or two of RTV to that part of the capo. Just make sure you wait a day or...

I like it! I started out with a 2014 Fender Precision Bass, but it didn't fit my hands, and I'd come from a guitar background. In 2018 I replaced it with a Fender Mustang PJ. With the PJ you get a Precision and a Jazz pickup, so you get a little of both. It fits me perfectly.

I'm in! I played six string electric and acoustic for decades. I got a Fender Precision Bass and as great as it was, my fingers were just not "trained" for a 34" scale. No matter what I did, if I took my eyes off it, I screwed up. IMHO, nothing beats a Fender P-bass tone-wise, but if you...

I'm extremely happy with my 2018 Fender Mustang PJ Bass. Having played regular electric six string guitars for over four decades, I found the fret spacing between frets extremely difficult to master on my regular 2014 Fender Precision Bass. My wife supplied the answer: "What good is the best...

Whatever you decide to do, please just be advised that lacquer is going to be a whole lot more difficult--and much longer, to work with than polyurethane or polyester. I set aside a '72 Fender Telecaster I was refinishing in Arctic White nitro. It had hung for two weeks on a coat hangar...

Yes Sir, I agree with your assessment completely. People, and musicians especially are creatures of habit and while we are willing to explore new things, we tend to default to the "tried and true".

Well, whatever it is, Fender sure dropped it like a hot potato! I didn't buy into their advertising, and I'm a loyal Fender guy from way back. I've never played one, but IMHO, compared to a Precision, Tele, Jaguar or Jazz Bass, it's not aesthetically pleasing. The Fender Rascal Bass looks...

Nothing sexier than a Rickenbacker Bass! 36-24-36!