Recent content by maxthebassman

By the way, the staining on jazz bass looks sick

Exactly what Dark Horse said. I just did the same thing to a Jazz bass of about that age. I sanded the whole thing since at that time i didn't know i could use a heat gun. Took me all day and the relief cuts got screw up in the process. Just get a cheap heat gun out of harbor freight. It made a...

Ibanez has a full catalog of replacement parts on their website. I personally have never ordered from them but i have a btb myself and i know that they used really compact pots to fit in the cavity so direct might be your best bet. If not, Stewart-McDonald, Warmoth, or All Parts might work.

.... i guess i managed a good caveman defretting then. I pulled the frets on an old Ibanez out with a pocket knife, a pair of pliers and lots of masking tape. and no damage. they weren't glued in as far as i could tell though.

I put in Bartolini "classic" "deep" pickups in a jazz bass i put together and they do sound very nice. The "deep" ones are warm and round. The sound is pretty much even with no fallout in the lows, mids, or highs that I've noticed. Good sound for just about every style or technique I've tried if...

Alright, thanks for the assistance.

I have two old mexican fender jazz pickups i decided to wire in series together and glued together like the new blacktop humbuckers. Only issue is as i was doing this i noticed that they both had the same polarity. I went ahead any way because i got them for free. But before i start routing an...