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File under hyper-local! Two basses, no guitar, no loss. He had business cards and stationery! I tried out for a reboot (I think?) of this band in the 90’s. He played a lucite bass with lots of guitar effects, and we worked on one song with me playing low bass for a while. It was scrappy and...

I'm trying to do hybrid Jazz/Ric electronics for a cheap SX short scale Jazz knock-off. It combines the passive resistor mixing of early Jazz designs with 15K instead of 220K, but with a toggle switch to switch the Bridge pickup from the resistor mixer going to the Tip of a TRS jack to its own...

I got one of the last few from Rondo since the announcement that they won't carry SX anymore. I got it with the intention of modding. The first two things it needs are some nut work (too high) and lighter tuners. Pretty good neck dive stock. Hipshot Ultralites are the obvious first choice...

With my zero free time, I got it in my head to mod a very cheap bass, but it only comes in cyan. Has anyone ever tried "color correcting" with a clear color with successful or interesting results? This assumes a chemically compatible finish can be determined for a cheap production bass. My...

Fender Limited Edition Parallel Universe Meteora - Butterscotch Blonde with Maple Fingerboard Interesting, but I think I'd rather see how @JIO spins it. As a bass of course!

I have one of these: I never liked the VVT thing, and it has the dreaded third kind of hum/buzz/noise (constant regardless of what you touch). Otherwise, it plays great and has a nice thick sound with a pushed low-mid bump. Same pickups as Thunderbirds of the time. TB-Plus from '92. So I...

I reboxed a Behringer Ultra Shifter / Harmonist US600 once, and because it's outside my comfort zone it was a huge PITA and I swore I'd never do it again. Time has passed, and I decided I "need" another pitch shifter for my dual output bass and split pedalboard. Quality There are reasons...

I wanted to see what it'd look like if I took the difference of a 400X body and a P body (adjusted for scale differences, bridge and 12th fret aligned): Then keep the Ric string spacing, and put two P pickups in the 400X locations, rotated to align the pole pieces, and to look like stubby...

In the most simple passive VT circuit, where both 250K pots are dimed, how would you simulate that system with no pots and one RC filter? There's still some HF bleed to ground with the controls all the way up, but is it just HF bleed from the tone pot, or is there a bit more from the the volume...

I might have access to a completely dead 24" iMac, and I'm eyeing the case and screen protector for potential raw materials. The screen cover (held on with magnets, also scavengable) might make a couple of pretty tough pickguards if it can be drilled and cut without cracks forming. If so I'd...

We ain't all that. We ain't even SOME of that. We don't have a following and we don't "move units." We've been around for 18 years, no one knows our name, we refuse to break up in spite of living in different states, and hadn't played live (all together) in five years until a couple of weeks...

I have a '69 Ampeg Dan Armstrong-modified Danelectro U1, and the bridge screws have pulled forward so much that even a drop-in intonatable bridge can't make it play in tune. The screws aren't bent; the bridge block screw holes have been pulled oblong. I imagine the best fix would be to replace...

My move from an apartment to a house with a basement work area should be complete soon-ish. Practicing for and playing two shows after five years fallow will be wrapped late Oct. Let's neglect time for mixing the new record for a moment, and think about the project I'll use to christen my new...

I'm close to the end of my StewMac roll of 2" copper tape, and I tried something new. I was at a local electronics store and saw they have rolls similar to the StewMac ones. Turns out they source from Spark Fun, and the comparison seems to work well. Both have 2" wide rolls with conductive...

I've been sweating about possible twist of a cheap SX neck I got for a parts build, and I didn't know how to check aside from eyeballing, but today I realized I have some 3/4" aluminum angle stock, and it's twistless as far as I can tell, so I laid it on all my basses and the SX neck. Without...

I haven't done an exhaustive search yet, but so far it's pretty tough to get a fully customized neck without building myself, which I aspire to, but realistically it may never happen. I can get close with a Warmoth neck, but I want my truss adjustment at the headstock, which they don't seem to...

Dear Electronics Experts, I put new pickpups in new locations in a bass that previously had no pickguard. Mod thread here. The underside of the pickguard and the original control cavity have copper foil, and I'm thinking I should do the remaining cavities, in spite of the oddly shaped...

I recently modded a bass to have stereo outs, similar to Rickenbacker 4001/3. I had some pedals that weren't on my current board, and realized that if I have two outputs, I should have two pedalboards. Never mind that my band hasn't gigged in five years. Never mind that my job makes...

I’d appreciate any thoughts or comments on this, as I’m out of my depth. I’m trying to figure out this project publicly, because: 1. I think there’s a chance it'd be useful for anyone with stereo instruments, like Ric 2. I’m worthless at designing electronics and picking components The idea...

I have a '72 nitro finished Gibson that hasn't been fully cleaned in the 18 years I've had it, and it's anyone's guess how long before that. The broad consensus seems to be soft cotton rags, damp with water, and then graduate to naphtha if needed. Neither is working for me, and the film just...

I bought a [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] 18 years ago. I was happy with my Les Paul at the time, but when I saw the SB I thought its short scale would make it a fun project, and I intended it to string it DGBE, learn some chords, and distort it through the clouds. Turned out custom gauges...

They say brass saddles are warmer, and stainless saddles are brighter. If you have a Kickass bridge, which saddles do you use, and what style(s) do you play most that benefit from your choice? I know everyone's mileage varies, I'm just curious. Even widely varying experiences of the same...

I have an original Badass bridge and the saddles are chopped to hell. In another thread it became clear very quickly that the only cost effective way to deal with that is to buy a complete used bridge, unless you're handy with a machine shop and don't factor in the cost of your time. I'm not...

StewMac sells them for less than Hipshot, but only has Y and Clover, and only 3/8". The neck I'm using has the bigger holes. The 3/8" tuner is 10 grams lighter than the 1/2". I might want to use the lollipop type so I'd have more options going with Hipshot directly, but: Is it worth the...

I have a weird Shaller bridge I can use for a project, but I'd much rather use my old original BadAss I. Trouble is, the saddles are horribly butchered (not by me) so it's been sitting unused for several years. I took a stab at designing a replacement using the free CAD program from...

I'm prototyping a short scale build on old junk parts, and part of the build is no volume or tone knobs using a dual coil humbucker: options: * either coil as single coil * series or parallel humbucking * series or parallel out of phase * tone switch: no load, min, and max settings This...

I'm tempted by SX neck prices, of course. The only mention I've seen in recent history is from @FerruleCat - a vote in favor. Anyone else use them with confidence? Any bad experiences? I ask 'cause I have one of these: It's a Teisco/Kawai Zen-On/Audition. I saved it from neglect from a...

Please forgive the noob question, I did do a search. I just mostly cleaned up a 60's Teisco guitar I got for $30, hoping I can trade it for some bass work I need done (there, see? it's bass related!), and I was shocked how much time and elbow grease I needed for something as noxious as naptha...

A local shop had a '75 4001 Burgundyglo with belt rash so bad a big blotch was bare wood, and the back of the neck had been sanded (or more like roughly scraped) down to bare wood. Seemed OK otherwise, but I was surprised by the price given the rough history. It already sold and I wasn't in...

I'm not a Luthier so I don't know if I'm allowed to play here. If this belongs somewhere else I will accept moderator judgement, but I would love to hear Luthiers' reactions to my mockups. I've had this '72 [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] for a very long time, and it was unplayable at first...

In every thread I've seen about this, Ric owners say the bridge PU is under the 36th fret harmonic. I went to a store that had a 4003 with the horseshoe removed and plinked harmonics around the bridge PU, and found the location to be halfway BETWEEN harmonics. I didn't take notes, and promptly...

I got this several years ago in a trade for audio work: I did this google search: danelectro bass [sc OR "single cutaway" OR "single cut away"] ...and couldn't find an exact match. The only one I could find with only one pickup was from this TalkBass post. The obvious differences: my...

I got this 1990 Ibanez SR-1000 with the stock circuit, used in '93. I hated the bass and treble controls, and asked a luthier to convert it to actively mixed passive tone controls. But when the P and J are blended, the tone controls override each other, so rolling one pickup off dulls the...

I have a bass with a couple of wide spaced humbuckers, each in the 5K range, and I'm considering adding a Nordstrand 51P4S in the P position. I searched the entire web and found nothing about it's electrical specs, and I don't know if there's a good reason to care. If @Carey Nordstrand cares...

I looked up a bunch of other posts about this, and it took me over a week to find what I was looking for; the pickup placement as percentage of distance from the nut. So thanks VERY much to @Jon Clegg for that, from this post: Pickup Position Spreadsheet If I figured it out properly (and...

I got a used 92' Gibson Les Paul in the early 2000's for about $450 (far left of my avatar). There's nothing fancy or special about it, just a flat paint job and no bindings. The problem is the sound. It's not just dark, it's sub-sonic. If I just tap the strings, the speakers go crazy like...

I'm trying to barely salvage a water damaged YBA-2B cab, and making some changes while I'm at it. For internal bracing it has a couple of ply strips glued to the back top and bottom. I tore out the rotted bottom strip without trouble. The top one is still strong, but I want to enhance the...

More often than not, I hear about bass players as the default recording engineers for their projects, but I've never seen any stats about it, so this is probably the best I'll do on that front. In my case, yes. I was an audio nerd long before I started playing bass, and I've had several...

I just got this thing and the amp is in fine shape, but the cab is a mess. The particle board baffle probably got wet at some point and the previous speaker tore out. The most recent owner "fixed" it by gluing and screwing ply behind the baffle and using longer screws as needed. The rest of...

I don't consider it mine unless I rub my stink on it somehow. In order of purchase (all $500 or under): My first bass was a 90's Cort P copy. Body made of plywood. New nut, dropped in new pickup, ripped the frets, and had a luthier finish it. Sounds interesting, plays great even if I don't...