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Just spent my Saturday driving to pick this up and bring it home... well worth the hours of travel :)

I got fired from a band made up of some of my best friends... Just got an email which read like a stock letter from a "so, you want to manage a band" type website which said that I obviously wasn't interested anymore, and that if I wanted a full explanation then I could reply to the email. Long...

Turns out I'm more suggestible than I thought ;) Seems to tone down the maple neck a bit so it doesn't look so bright...

That's what I was thinking... Perhaps everyone can get a name tag with their instrument instead of a name ;)

An old photo now, and that band's dead... but now writing songs for a new band with the same guitarist and drummer Staring into the distance, being all metal and stuff ;)

Thanks... I'm really happy with how it came out, for a first attempt at restoring brass. Now I just need to figure out how to protect it so it doesn't become tarnished again in a month or two.

Here's mine... Recently acquired 1981 Blazer, in need of some TLC... I've tidied the bridge, but want a new pickguard (a previous owner scratched letters in near the knobs), new frets as they're badly worn and the electronics tidied up.

When I saw the title of this thread I thought I'd be in with a chance to post some old band photos of mine... but, no, I have to admit defeat. There's no way I can compete with these gems :)

It's already been mentioned multiple times, but I'd feel like I was leaving something out if I didn't mention Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt... Calling it a cover seems to undervalue it, Cash so totally owns the song that it's now his and Trent Reznor should now be claiming he's covering Johnny...

Did you find one in the end? I've decided to necro-bump your thread as I found it while looking for info on a new pickguard for my 1981 Blazer, so figure someone else might find it looking for the same... Here's a tracing of my pickguard - for scale, the lined paper it's traced on to is A3...

I recently bought a 1981 Ibanez Blazer that is in need of some TLC, so I've decided that I'm going to teach myself some restoration skills while bringing it back to life. The obvious issues I noticed immediately were a badly corroded brass bridge, the maple fretboard has worn through in a few...

I recently paid for the finish to be removed from the neck of one of my basses... I probably could have played it for years to see if it would wear off by itself, but I got the feel I wanted from it in a few days by taking it to a luthier instead.

Just got back from first band practice with my 'new' head... turns out there's been an escalation in the sonic arms race between bass and guitar as one of our guitarists is now running two half stacks instead of just the one, after playing through our first song our drummer complained that he...

Looks like this guy is in charge of their finishes...

Looking good! I've been thinking about getting a second 5 string, which I can tune down a bit for metal, and at first I was only thinking Spector... but lately I've been seeing some pretty sweet looking Soundgears and I think I'm chaning my tune a bit :)

It's a pretty bright maple look, that's for sure... As a massive Steve Harris fan I would have been ok with a vintage tint on the neck, but I don't might it how it is. I agere a rosewood board would look good, but all my other basses have dark wood fingerboards so changing it up a bit is good.

That's exactly my issue... I often palm mute, and have drawn blood on one of my basses where the G string saddle is so low for my action that the screws become graters :-/ I love that the Babicz feels the same regardless of the action.

A well behaved tree, perhaps... One that doesn't have any sharp parts at least.

I have DR strings on my other basses... I very nearly continued the trend and opted for some black beauties, but thought I'd give the Kalium balanced tension idea a go. I agree black strings would suit the look... If I could get custom gauged sets of black strings without having to order from...

Thanks for the tip! It's the first time I've drastically changed the gauge/tuning on a bass and was just working on the theory that bigger string tuned the same = feels tighter. The B on my five string in the background of that pic is a 130 and feels much tighter than the 130 on the P, if I can...

Not strictly new, but now in the state that I intended when I bought it recently... Here's a close shot of the body/grain in some decent light when I first bought it. And now, modded and setup... EMG Geezer P, Hipshot HB-7 tuners, Babicz bridge, more black bits and pieces (knobs, jack nut...

While I'm not looking to use this much for recording, I figure the recording gear experts here are likely to be the best source of info so hopefully someone has some suggestions! My practice setup at the moment includes a headphone amp with an auxiliary input that I use to plug a tablet in to...

If he's dead set on noodling away while people aren't really paying attention, tell him to get a solo gig in a hotel bar or something ;) I tend to play as many notes before a set as I have strings on my bass... then I mute with my tuner and the bass is on a stand at the side of the stage until...

always: compressor - mxr m87 dirt - darkglass vintage microtubes sometimes: EQ/DI, as a boost and/or tone shaper - 3leaf enabler chorus - tc electronics corona

Just thought I should confirm 96tbird's amazing service call... The guy from Hipshot said he'd send them the Monday after I contacted him, and a week after that they arrived. Pretty good service, even if you don't factor in that there was no charge for the bushings or postage for the nearly 9000...

"At least once a gig," at a bar, seems pretty tame to me. I don't swear much at all, but have no problem with someone swearing while performing. However, my opinion hardly matters in this situation... if it bugs you, perhaps talk to the singer about it? I'll just leave this here...

Doesn't look like it, unless changes are made before production... the back is 2 x speakon connector, XLR direct out and a footswitch jack according to this - I'd love for them to make me a liar and add one before they are released! :)

After a week and no response from the web site enquiry I figured I'd probably typed my email address into the form wrong, so I emailed them at their info email address and had a response when I got up the next morning asking for a postal address to send bushings that would fit my bass to :)

Hi All... I'm hoping you can help my daughter out, as I'm not coming up with a lot of helpful suggestions ;) She's 14 and has recently started playing bass... to give you an idea of her level: a couple months ago she couldn't really play anything, then we got rocksmith for the playstation and...

I haven't heard back from them yet... Hopefully they get back to me today. The existing ferrules with the tape to expand them haven't moved any, so it's not super urgent, but still pretty keen to get some of the correct dimenstions if at all possible.

Thanks for your post 96tbird... I had come across a bunch of posts with suggestions ranging from glueing them in place to using metal from a beer can to shim them to using plumbing tape, but I hadn't thought of or seen a suggestion to contact Hipshot which I guess should be obvious ;) I searched...

Hi All I recently acquired one of the limited edition sandblasted P basses and wanted to swap out the original hardware for black hardware. After doing some research it seemed that the Hipshot HB7 tuners should be a drop in replacement. The backplates of the tuners are perfect, and screws right...

For what it's worth, a science teacher at high school once wrote in my report "If Simon doesn't buck his ideas up he's going to seriously limit his future employment opportunities"... I still don't know what a science teacher was doing trying to pretend they're an expert in the field of...

My tone is all in my fingers... but, unfortunately, the tone has to pass through the string, pickups, tone controls, pedals, a head and then a speaker cabinet before I get to hear it... so I try to pay attention to all of them.

I think Lemmy is definitely more well known, but if we're going to get in to a semantic debate about what we mean by revered then it's going to get murky. I knew who Lemmy was when I didn't know Steve Harris' name... but if you'd played me an isolated bass track of the first five notes of The...

Did someone say Kinal party!? Kinals don't get enough love and are totally deserving of a two year old thread bump :) Serial M30 freshly back from getting some luthier loving... Removed the finish from the neck and had it oiled, fretboard was beginning to lift at the nut so got that glued back...

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