Recent content by Diminishedfilth

I remember seeing a video of Fender’s original shop. Showed a sweaty guy with no shirt that was operating a band saw, looked like he was shaping a Telecaster. Had a cigarette hanging off of his lip, he didn’t look the least bit concerned about dimensions or tolerances. Just cut it and threw it...

I did a nightmare sub for a friend of mine. Set list included one of my least satisfying songs to play, but sure enough, it got the 50 year old ladies off their barstools and doing that weird squatting, arms out like chicken wings dance. I’m just glad I wasn’t on their van to the middle of...

Had this bass for awhile, but spent most of July in the hospital. Lost a lot of weight, muscle mass and a lot of my dexterity. So my playing is pretty bad, but I do enjoy looking at it. I’ve wanted a Warwick FNA Corvette for about 20 years, found this heavier 5 string example and I’d probably...

When I was 18 (1994), I had a job picking orders for a power tools catalog company. There was no tech whatsoever, so everything had to be a certain way. Anyway, they hired this older guy, they wanted me to train him. Every time I gave him an instruction, he’d reply with “ok boss man!” Lucky for...

I put an min neck on Squier VM modified body. Early Indonesian model. I was refinishing my only fretted 4 string, got an invite, so I swapped necks and it looked horrible. The gap around the neck was huge! The neck pocket holes on the VM body were drilled canted. Sounded like a 4 string bass though.

Used to be this one club we’d go (long, long time ago). Anyway, they’d book single performer shows, mostly 2000s era, popular rap and r&b acts. I actually remember seeing Brandy performing. Anyway, their “stage” was embarrassing. A little 4’ raised flat section that would usually be occupied by...

If you have somebody on keys, I’d suggest the Five Observables (sorry, I was in the hospital for a week and a half, one day I watched a ufo marathon on the History Channel).

I have long forgotten how to play it, but whenever I played Portrait of Tracy, I would always stretch my lower jaw to the right when I'd extend my left pinky to get that fretted harmonic.

That is a beautiful finish! Reminds me of the shoreline I saw when I'd take trips to south Florida, as well as the scalding hot springs I saw in Colorado.

Many harvests ago, I sold one on Craigslist, and a few months later, I saw it listed again for a little bit more than I sold it for. It was a poorly built Squier VM jazz that I bought with a GC gift card. Anyway, the listing described it as "previous owner had it professionally set-up" and I...

I've had mixed results in both reactions to a sale. I took my time deciding on a local Am. Precision bass, about two weeks. It sold the very same day I took out the money for it. As luck would have it, the same day, an ad for a nicer Precision with a G&G case popped up on Craiglist for the same...

During the pandemic, I bought a 2012 Fender American Jazz deluxe. I was going to give it a thorough cleaning anyway, but it turned out that every screw on the body, as well as the saddle springs were coated with rust. I didn't have too much confidence in my first solution (no pun intended), but...

I installed some Trujillo EMG pickups in my Warwick Corvette fretless, and it didn't go to plan, initially. The routes weren't big enough to accommodate the thick, chrome pickup covers. I managed to squeeze them in by sanding the bottom edges of the pickup covers at a point where the routes hid...

5 years ago, I had a chance to buy one for $1200, same shade of Green. I hesitated though, as it was missing 3 of the "fine tuning" knobs, and one of the elite-specific barrel knobs, both of which were supposedly hard to find. The hardware was in rough shape, too, Everytime I see one though, I...

I used to listen to KQRS back in Jr. High (late 80’s). At the time they were simply known as a rock station and would play then-current releases from Def Leppard, Guns and Roses, Tesla, Etc. Fast-forward to the 2000s, my music preferences took another direction, and I got my first decent job…...