Recent content by Rich807

I need to echo this post, my experience with the new Fender Kingman I picked up is exactly as described above here. Thanks to this member I didn't sell my Kingman right away. I was so disappointed with the sound from both the OEM Fender strings and the D'Addario's I tried on it I was about...

I just fixed a brand new (but badly warped) Fender pickguard for my J Bass, inspired by this thread. In my case I put the tortoise pickguard in the heavy clear plastic it came in, set it on a piece of plywood in the sun (dark side up even though it was warped to the back(white) side, waited...

Hi. I've been a massive music lover all my life (awarded a Rolling Stones Mag during HS graduation, been to 200+ concerts, worked in Vegas as security for 100+ of music events & have a large rock music collection). But....., it wasn't until my kids were old enough and started to get into...

Thanks for the reply and the welcome. I'm very very uneducated in all things music so if anything goes awry I'm kind of lost at this point....thank goodness for TB. I started to pick up the bass last summer as kind of a do-as-I-do example for my kids whom are into guitar and keyboard at...

Greetings. I bought a Fender P-Bass a couple of months ago and all of a sudden I have a significant section of the fretboard that is dead. On the G-string from about the 7th fret the notes start to get a tin sound to them, then from the 11th thru 15th frets they go dead then start to come...