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Im looking at a Fender Jaguar bass neck on fleabay. An amber long scale with black blocks but no binding and the serial number year is throwing me off. Starts with a CGF17 but can't find any jag basses with that neck from that year. Closest would be a Modern Player but they stopped making that...

About to refinish 64 Hagstrom Coronado bass and the neck had been modified in a sense. Along the top side someone poorly drilled holes into the side of the mahogany and fretboard. I plan on refinishing it with a black grain filler and cherry red dye afterwards. What would be a good solution...

Bought a used bass and came with a Yamaha bass case. Mounted to the bottom on the inside is a plastic oval peice with a hole in it. Anyone know what this is for? A stand for the bass or something else possibly?

I have an old bass bridge found on 60s Hagstrom and Guilds that has 'new' saddles and my radius is flat. So flat I can lay a ruler on it. What would be the best way to file the bakelite saddles down to follow the 15 " neck radius? leave the two center ones and just file the E and G saddles? I...

Anyone know anything about these strings from the 70s? They changed from Super Bass to PSD Bass 99. Someone locally is selling a couple sets of the short scales.

Has anyone added a second volume/tone pot of different value to their bass or play one with this function? A lot like the jaguar guitar but doesn't necessarily just change the tone pot value. Reason I ask is because I just scored a vintage '62 CTS concentric 1 meg pot. It came from some old reel...

Anyone had any success replacing the single coil pup in a vintage Hagstrom for a SD SCPB pup? The pickup itself will fit in the ring, but the screw spacing is different. The SD is 3 1/8", while the screw spacing on the ring is 3 5/32". Will the screws fit? Almost seems the screws would be on a...

Scrolling through ebay the other day, came across a Univox Badazz bass body and bridge up for bids. The body was a dead ringer for the vintage Hagstroms altho routed much differently, even had a floating bridge like on the early Hags and Guild Starfires with the Bi-Sonic pickups. I know Hagstrom...

I really like the look of the Hagstrom leather bound tweed cases, even have a couple for my vintage Hag guitars. Have a few vintage Hagstom basses that I'd like to get some tweed cases for, mainly a H8 8 string and the standard short scale model. Anyone know which of their bass case will...

I have some Tusq saddles from a Bigsby bridge laying around and thought of trying them on my Squier Bass VI. With the current saddles, the string spacing is 55mm causing the high e to almost hang off the end. The Tusq saddles have 52mm spacing. This is one problem the Staytrem addresses. Another...

Got a second vintage Hagstrom 8 string and going out to get new round wound for them. I usually make my own set from D'Addario strings. Thinking of maybe trying flats instead, but there are no examples of any flat sets for an octave bass. What is ppls opinions on flats on an octave bass?

Seeing all sorts of bass clubs in these forums and got me wondering about something. What one bass would get you into the most clubs. For example, my vintage Hagstrom 8-string bass would entitle me to three clubs, the Hagstrom Club, Short Scale Club, 8-String Club, maybe even the Crappy Bassist...

I have a Darkstar pup at home I got from Novak, a 12k version and looking to put it in a EB0 bass. Planning on converting it to a EB3 with a Darkstar in the bridge position in the future. But am curious is anyone thinks a mudbucker, either a dimarzio or one from novak, and a darkstar would...

I'm putting together a tele bass with a Dano bass neck on a tele body and plan on making it a 6 string tuned E-E. Any pickup suggestions for this? Thought of SD Quarter Pounders since it has a lot of bass according to the SD tone chart. What has other people who have made telebasses used?

In the process of making a Bass VI with a tele body and a Dano bass neck. But in between jobs so the project has stalled... Came across the Taylor Baritone 8 where they added a pair of octave strings down the middle to the A/D strings. [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] This got me...

Built a few guitars in the past, mostly teles and am putting together my first bass. Plan on making a Bass VI with a tele body and Dano short scale neck so I'll end up using the tele bridge with the three barrel saddles, compensated as well. What's a good base metal for the saddles? Modern...

Originally was thinking of changing the octave strings on my Hagstrom H8, but then found some ppl suggested to use flats on the D/G strings and rounds on the E/A strings. The E/A nickle strings paired with the round octaves sound good so may go with the flats on both pairs of the D/G strings...

Anyone know what the minimum string tension is? I have an extremely short scale bass of 24.5" and am finding if i use heavier gauge strings i can get the same tension as the extra light bass strings. If i went with a set of round nickel strings 50-105 the E's tension is about 20.8, or with...

Looking after a friends late 60's bass with a super short of 24.5" and having trouble getting it to intonation, the saddles are already all the way back and only the G string is close. The rest are sharp by as much as 40 cent Think they have the standard gauge of 45-100. Since its a much...

Recently got my Hagstrom H8 back from getting the nut replaced cause the strings were spaced out evenly. Not close like how octave strings are suppose to be. Now the string height at the nut seems an issue. Pressing down at the 3rd fret, and measuring at the 1st it's octave/fundamental E...

My 8 string bass needs a new nut, the previous tech literally spaced out the strings on the nut evenly, and some are too low or too high Brought it to a local music store to have the nut replaced and he wasn't sure of the spacing for the octave strings on the nut. Seen the suggested spacing for...

Recently got a Hagstrom H8 bass that had the nut replaced, it was used as a 4 string for a while, and when converted back to 8 string, they cut the nut too deep for some strings, and not enough for others, also they spaced the octave strings too far apart Other than going to a local guitar...

Is there a method for calculating what octave strings would match bass strings? Have a Hagstrom H8 and the 'proper' strings they suggest are hard to find. Found one dealing in China, but that's a bit far to be ordering strings every time, hoping for something more local. For the 8 string...

About to wire up an Aria JBass from the early 70's with Fender Original Jazz Bass pups and thinking of adding a push/pull pot for series /parallel. Instead of wiring the bridge pup to the switch, it'd be wired to the pot then the switch. Done this years ago on a LP using the Jimmy Page style...