Recent content by cameltoe

I am playing the darn thing! Eye-catching PG? Not Tort again? I hate tort!

I never had a problem with the nut on my old 5 string, but I hated having it tuned to a high C. It's horrible, and I hardly ever used the C string. My ESP five stringer made alot more sense to me with a low B, felt 'right'. With a high C it didn't. You might need to adjust the 'treble' side...

I did think that! I changed the pickguard to a gunmetal grey one, by covering my original white pickguard with signmakers vinyl. Looks quite good. I'm now tempted by a metal pickguard (see my other thread) but need to know if it will fit my MIM. The thing about a black and white fender...

would this http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Genuine-FENDER-62-PRECISION-BASS-Pickguard-SHIELD-P_W0QQitemZ350174201288QQcmdZViewItemQQptZGuitar_Accessories?hash=item350174201288&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1683%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318 directly fit my MIM P bass? If not, how 'out'...

nice one, cheers! I would take the original black back quite far, but i wouldn't want to go back to bare wood. I can't see that it would make a huge amount of difference to the sound. If that was the case, I'd better upgrade my flimsy bent metal bridge at the same time, which I was...

That's cool, I'm aware of the work involved in that sense, although I'm not sure why I'll have to strip it back to bare wood? Maybe I'm a bit too stuck in the automotive-respray frame of mind, but a flatten back to a smooth base on the black would act as a good enough base for any colour I might...

cheers, I will! So there is adjustment at the neck then? it's not just a case of bolting it back up and it'll be the same?

I know this has probably been asked beofre and I did use the search function but got fed up after 10 mins of finding nothing. I traded in my old ESP ltd bass a few months back for a new('08) MIM P bass. Before trading in, I was thinking of either Jazz bass or P bass, but didn't want a white...

The hipshot vintage looks nice, and seems to be a standard swap. Can you set the action low enough on these? and are they a fair bit weightier than the stock mexican ones?

But the action, dude.... i'm not up for shimming my neck at all. I want a bridge i can get a low action on without messing around. I don't mind drilling an extra couple holes to fit the thing (as is the case on the 203) but I don't want to mess around with the neck

Fed up with looking at the bent piece of bean tin at the back end of my MIM P. Luckily, a decent replacement bridge doesn't cost enough for me not to do something about it. I would like an improvement in tone, not overly bothered about sustain, as alot of what we play requires me to be quite...

If you have more experience than them, they should have no trouble taking your constructive critism and using it to make them a better band. Our band got a new drummer a while back, and he's a very experienced guy, been in lots of local bands. He replaced the old drummer who hadn't been...

be honest and tell him why, hopefully he won't make the same mistake next time. You do come across the odd guitar player that will not play lead without a wah-wah. It's like a comfort blanket.

All of the girls that used to go out and chase cool musicians now swoon after rich idiots that kick a bag of wind around an acre of grass. Yes my friend, footballers are the new rock stars. Back in the day Mick Jagger would have been balls-deep with Cheryl Tweedy in no time, nowadays those girls...

Sounds like they have ideas above their station mate, but I wouldn't take it to heart. You will come across ego-maniacs in your musical career from time to time, people who think they are destined for greatness and so on. And by telling them you had only a few months experience was kind of...