Recent content by lepidotos

I mean, it certainly looks like that's a lot closer to standard Precision placement to me, which might have a role in it. Oh right, I forgot D'Addario was their OEM. I might try some other strings then. Maybe DR Legends or EB Cobalts or Group 4s? Wow! That's a nice looking bass, I'd be worried...

I have a single-P and a stock Jazz (some Glarry thing) and I find the Jazz a lot more comfortable thanks to the thin offset body, I do love my KB-24 and it's objectively the better of the two but between them the Jazz is a lot more compatible with my particular body. I've always gone for...

Well, among other things, but that was one reason. Thanks! I do like the '70s placement sound for certain genres so I'm trying to decide if I want to go with the official BTJ or build my own with a smaller bridge for the '70s placement... I was watching this video to kind of get a little better...

I'd been looking at pictures of it and standard Js and I've been trying to tell where the bridge pickup is, it usually looks like the centerline is the same between the standard single coil and the split coils on the Blacktop but on a handful of them it looks like the top edge of the upper coil...

Can I ask a Blacktop Jazz question I have here?

Took my GJ apart for a deep clean (and to test out my old Kay neck on it just in case, I found a spare on eBay and I wanted to see if the neck currently in my KB-24 would work in the GJ if I wanted to swap out to that one before buying it but it didn't so I won't) and after putting it back...

I passed up a '70s P in Seafoam Green to get my actually old (all signs point to late '60s, maybe 1970) KB-24 and I don't regret that but man did I adore the thing when it was in my hands and it was an extremely tough choice. I'm still not entirely sure I made the right one, but I do love the...

I'd love to have a matching CV 60s and Mini J... even if the specs on the mini are worse, that's fine, arguably desirable so it's cheaper.

I just looked up how much they are at Thomann and wow, they're... temptingly cheap. If I didn't already have a Glarry to be my travel who cares if it gets stolen or lost bass I'd really consider picking one up, I tried one out at [Big Box Guitar Store Everyone Hates] and really, really liked it...

I'm surprised I'm so far the only person that's answered "lawsuit era parts". This is an old photo but I have a Taiwanese Kay KB-24 from... sometime between 1965 and 1975 that (probably) needed a neck replacement, so I bought a cheap roasted maple neck off eBay that just ended up being a Jazz...

Finally got around to installing the 9050L set on my GJazz and that pretty drastically improved playability, before the old OEM strings were nearly unplayable to me due to how massive the wrap wire was, but now I feel like I could totally finish a three hour session with it... with breaks for my...

Well, I got my KB-24 back with its new flamed maple Jazz neck yesterday, and give or take a few minor things (I dropped and lost a bridge cover screw, and the guy who fit the neck went against my preferences and strung it with new rounds, albeit mild ones), it kinda just feels like home if home...

Well, just got it back. Here are some of the things the guy did do that he said he would: • Install the neck • Re-use the old hardware (including the 6-bolt neck plate) • Install the truss rod cover • Switch out the strings • Give me back my old strings in the bag • Give me back my old neck...

It's kinda late for me right now so I didn't really register that it came up as a Stratocaster, my brain filled in the blanks as the serial coming up as a mini P bass. That would definitely rule out a neck swap...