Recent content by Charlie28711

I'm not much of one to defend exorbitant pricing by big names but I will take you to task if just a wee bit. These Nate Mendal basses have been going for a grand since their inception. Fender like EVERYBODY else. whether they make guitars, cars, TV dinners or widgets has been affected by the...

I'll preface my statement by saying that among other (Chris Squire, Macca, Geddy Lee, & so on) I'm an unabashed Foo Fighters and Nate Mendal fan boy. That said I got and still love the Mendal Fender bass and the Ashdown NM2 pedal. I also got a Ashdown 212 some years ago. Don't recall the model...

Great looking bass, George. Congrats! Several times this past year I've been sorely tempted to pop for this color. Then I remember that I already have 4 Fenders and another 10 or 12 other various makes and models. Plus a few others that I really want. So, until I thin the herd, that incredibly...

My oldest is a Fender Nate Mendel Model P bass. Got it in spring of 2013. Still play it regularly. I only wish I still had some of the earlier ones but that's another thread. ;-)

Your own words show a discrepancy between you and your BL over your "tone". You also make it abundently clear that showing all your gear is all about ego and not in service to either the band or the music. So here you are opinion shopping. Maybe with your ego you'd be better off as a guitarist...

The best advice ever given; "Be easy to work with.". In your own band set your own rules/guidelines. Any other setting you follow the guidelines. Not only will that help in the band but word will get around that you are easy to work with and that can result in real paying gigs.

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Sorry, perhaps a poor choice of words on my part. Until I removed the cover and cut the springs I couldn't raise the pickup high enough to get any appreciable volume and therefore "tone" out of the pickup.

I just got my RB414CS out of the case for the first time since my bypass surgery last year. I'd forgotten just how screwy the wiring / 3-way switch set up is & the tone pots don't do diddley either. Anybody else ? The switch doesn't select a pickup it just reverses the volume pots.

Yup! Right on the nose. IMHO that is a design flaw that should have been corrected early on by the folks at Thomann. But in order to diagnose, unless one is lucky enough to stumble onto this or one of the other few places where the solution is noted, one is left to try and resolve this fault on...

I do see that you have already removed the bridge pup cover. Was that strictly a choice of convenience or did you find, like mine, you had to in order to raise the pickup high enough to get a useable tone/sound from it?

How would you go about this one? Hand painted? Clear over wall paper?

A heat press is a tool of last resort to try and fix a bent neck. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhtUAYYn9WU In addition to this video Dave has two other videos of thehis heat press in use: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9jlc_Mzy1o www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPZ2YxXQzGI

It does.

A) When was the last time you did adjust it. B) Did you store it w/out string tension & C) Heat Press??