Recent content by Scobac

That's your choice; might not be O.P.'s. What $400 dollars means to you is not universal! He might have worked twice as long for that 400. Might not be so trivial. That $400 jazz copy might be their word. Who are you or repairmen to pass judgement on what is trivial and not!

Guitars & Cars are apples and oranges and if you had any idea of the curriculum of becoming a luthier you would find repair at the base of study. I think if you took a minute and researched you would find that the people at Fodera, Sadowski, and the likes service their own instruments for there...

Well, read the thread and find out for yourself! Really! A repair guy knows more about bass guitars than a luthier! I can assure you there's nothing trivial about a repair on a brand new instrument from a customer seeking assurance and advice!Hopefully one day you guys are going to realize...

The advice from the two luthiers is correct in my opinion. The rest shows recklessness and disregard for both owner and his new instrument. Yea the yank statement sent up a red flag for me and everyone got a good laugh but what's really funny is how many people reading this thread are turned off...

Not, but nice try! O.P. DO NOT let anyone yank on that neck!

Yanking on parts=square peg round hole! If it were my bass I would first take the strings off and inspect the neck pocket and make sure the truss rod works. Call the builder to verify what type of rod was used! If the rod works properly then I would get the straight edges out as Hapa stated!

several examples on you tube; run across them all the time!

I'm in the same boat you are! I think the thing with a P bass is to let the strings age as the bass will sound better as the strings get older. Might explain why your buddies P sounded better to you than yours did; just a guess. The more I experiment with my P the more I realize that everything...

hearing distortion does not mean your amp is clipping! They look different on a scope. Some amps distort before going into clipping, some will go straight into clipping. Notch distortion is what tube amps are known for. Solid state output devices don't naturally notch distort, they tend to go...

You have to determine weather or not he has confidence in your skills as a musician. Generally speaking, control freaks can't get past letting other individuals in a situation they are involved in make there own contributions if it does not mirror what they expect! This is his problem; not...

First step in playing Funk is the same as playing any genre skillfully! Play in time! You can't play behind a note if you first can't play right on top of it! Instead of one and two and three and four and... think one e an a two e an a three e an a four e an a etc. Once you can subdivide like...

I've gone full circle also!I'm back to playing passive Fenders through up to date heads and cabs.

Hard to find a good rosewood board these days. IMO; the quality started going downhill when the manufactures started using Indian rosewood! I'll play either but I think the difference in board material as far as tone concerned goes back to the days when rosewood was imported from Brazil!

some of us have lifted the heavy stuff for twenty plus years or so! I play a LMII through a 75 lbs 212 cab and get help moving it at the gig. Working smarter has a lot to do it also and I would be dumb not to consider the wear and tear the past twenty years has had on this 50 year old body, but...

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