If I were designing a bass bridge, wouldn't I want it to potentially go lower than ever could be necessary, thus ensuring that it won't fail to go low enough, whatever the variables in the particular bass?
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basses for newbies (SX batch build thread)
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haven't had problems with hipshot or badass on any of my fender or sx basses. only problem was with the gotoh mentioned. none of the necks are shimmed. no experience with schaller.
A better question would be if you were designing a bass, wouldn't it be a good idea to spec the neck pocket depth so that it does not have to be shimmed 90% of the time to run a proper setup?
Well, yeeeessss, that's true. But we were talkin' bridges here.A better question would be if you were designing a bass, wouldn't it be a good idea to spec the neck pocket depth so that it does not have to be shimmed 90% of the time to run a proper setup?
If it goes too low, wouldn't you risk not have much, if any break angle over the saddles? Unless it were string through, you might have some issues with that sort of thing.
Correction on this! In looking closer at the internal mechanism on the FCH bridges, they self center when you lock them down with the saddle height set screw. So there is no adjustment possible side-to-side.
Hmmm. . . decisions decisions. . .
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Pantone 345c looks sweet, I love both colours and already own 2 jazz basses in a very similar colour to 1205C and have been considering refinishing one in sea foam green, but 345C is pretty sweet too
Oh, please, please, please make a medium-scale P or P/J with rosewood in that green color! Especially once it's chungified, it would be the ULTIMATE bass! And I really believe you'd have steady demand. I'm not the only one who would die to have such an instrument.
hey chunger -
is it too early to tell yet what the ballpark price on some of these models might be?
if it has already been stated elsewhere, someone please point me to it.
EDIT: to clarify, i am referring to what OUR cost might be to buy one from you, NOT your cost from the factory.
is it too early to tell yet what the ballpark price on some of these models might be?
if it has already been stated elsewhere, someone please point me to it.
EDIT: to clarify, i am referring to what OUR cost might be to buy one from you, NOT your cost from the factory.
Exactly. Nobody makes them and everybody could use one. Less reach, basically the same sound. Great with medium-gauge flats!
Exactly - medium scale is 32". My MIJ Squire was only made between '84 and '87, then they stopped making them. Guess they weren't popular enough. But times change, and I wish they'd do it agin.
Generally, yes. Rickenbacker basses are 33.25", but I'd still call that long scale. There are a good many short scales that are 30.5", such as Gibsons. So really these categories are expressed in ranges, not in absolute length.
Older Stu Hamm Urge Basses were 32" and they were AWESOME!!! So were the Rondo Gypsy Rose basses, sadly no longer available. Those were P/J with rosewood. Kurt currently has two maple Js in medium scale.
I should never have sold my 80s MIJ Squier.
Actually, IME, medium scale is the only scale I know of that is consistently 32" and nothing else, fixed, rigid, period, AFAIK.
I will buy a medium scale P or P/J. Standard grade. I can pick it up at your studio or your house or meet you at the Starbucks by the BART station.
Any color that encourages production. I like the green! Also the cream. And I'd prefer a maple neck, but it's not a dealbreaker in rosewood.
Yes, maple all the way! Ever since I tried a P bass with a maple neck at GC I've wanted one. Although I think what I really like is the fact that it's finished, not the fact that it's maple.
Those like me that love maple already own basses with maple fingerboards. Bring on the rosewood! Next to the green body, it'll look like a tree-trunk! Who doesn't want that?
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