Recent content by Rob Chapman

I bought brushable silver MG Chemicals 842AR conductive paint. Used a screw driver and an artist paintbrush which I later cleaned with good old lacquer thinner. It is an Acrylic lacquer based product and I bought a 12ML jar as like anything lacquer based it will evaporate in very short order but...

as a single piece copper tape is more conductive but when it is separate pieces that are not fused together like all things metalic the surfaces will corrode and lose conductivity. I bought silver conductive paint and used it underneath my bridge to add surface contact for the ground wire to the...

You should know that colour of tuners are now unavailable. One of mine was pooched so I replaced all 5 with black grovers. I have 4 working in the original satin finish and I am going to replace the bridge and knobs with black too so if you need any I am willing to sell.

I have a 5 string the same. I like it a lot. It is a bit of a Washburn trait but many of them have thinner necks. I kinda like that but a lot of people don't. What's your feeling? I bought mine with EMG's on it but he gave me the OEM's with it. He blew up that pre amp which was not part of the...

I noted that no-one new that the 2000's Force series had the Buzz Feiten thing. My force 5 kinda came fully loaded. They started out their lives as cool. Say that about the F word. Lol.

My Force 5 has the Buzz Feiten system as well. It never said that in the literature but it actually says it on the back of the headstock.

Lol. Sorry to disappoint. :)

Sorry Mod. I see you had to correct my filthy mouth. I will make a point of remembering to use proper english.

Oh, poopie. Hehe. I am more of an impostor. Actually I was Rob Chapman first so he is the impostor. We just share the same name. No relation and we don't actually know each other. I like his videos and the Chapman guitars basses look nice too although I can't get my hands on one to check em out...

I really hate it when people say "if it is good enough for ... then it is good enough for me". If we think about it what that is really saying is that they don't believe that they are capable of arriving at a valid decision on their own which I would encourage you is crap. Sometimes the...

Probably like most on here I have gone into stores and plincked with a lot of different ones. That gave me a much better understanding of what the differences are and started to weed out the propaganda influences. I will leave you to discover that one for yourself. People are far more sheep than...

So I just picked up a Force 5 ABT which looks to be something maybe early 2000's. It seems like it like the fully loaded model. LOL. Anyway the previous owner bought it stock. At one point his preamp died so instead of just replacing the preamp he removed it and dumped a set of EMG actives in...

Hey. Did you bring this bass back to life? I have often found Washburns that I like the sound of even though they are kinda not really thought of as great instruments. My 1986 is a passive P type with only the p pickups and has a push/pull on the volume knob. I have swapped the pickups in it...

I have an 86 B2 that had the same bridge. It now has a Hipshot A type and I also changed the pickups on it although the Washburn branded P style EMG Selects (passive) were ok I wanted something with a little better bottom. I still have the old bridge and pickups. I have had the bass since new...