Hello to all AC players, I've had my lg5 for couple of weeks now and it's a really nice bass. But as much as it sounds great I've been having all along some minor issues:
A couple of days after I received the bass the metal bar on headstock popped out. The original screws are a bit too short resulting in shallow drill into the headstock. After examination I found out that the screws were just barely drilled into the wood and the force of strings under tension pulled them out. Of course it is illogical to screw the same screws hard into the wood as this would only lower metal bar, push string lower and thus cause even greater force. So I tried to find similar screws, only longer. Needless to say our hardware stores don't supply such small and such shaped screws, so I e-mailed Jimmy. The screws are supposed to be on their way overseas to me, but it's been weeks and I haven't received them yet. I thought maybe I could order screws on my own on web instead of bothering Jimmy. Does anyone know where can I order such screws? I did some measuring and it looks like the screws need to be:
diameter of head: 0.157"
diameter of thread: 0.120" ∼ 0.125"
length: 7/8"
head style: pan (or rectangular in profile) to fit the hole in bar
The other thing I noticed is related to pickups. Difference in height between neck pickup and bridge pickup is really obvious. Well that doesn't bother me at all, it's just that I also hear difference in volume between pickups; neck pickup feels slightly quieter than bridge pickup. It's not like day and night but it is obvious if I change pickup during song. I tried raising the neck pickup but it seems totally jammed so I just left it as it is. It is the same with bridge pickup. When I play normal finger-style, I position my right hand's thumb next to upper side of bridge pickup. During playing I seem to subconsciously press down on pickup with thumb and the other day I noticed that this side of pickup went down a bit so there is a gap between pickup and pickup's screws. It's not much at the moment but if the pickup keeps going down, what can I do to prevent it? There is no way to get to pickup from underneath so I can only pull it out, which is somewhat hard to do. I don't want to damage it. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
A couple of days after I received the bass the metal bar on headstock popped out. The original screws are a bit too short resulting in shallow drill into the headstock. After examination I found out that the screws were just barely drilled into the wood and the force of strings under tension pulled them out. Of course it is illogical to screw the same screws hard into the wood as this would only lower metal bar, push string lower and thus cause even greater force. So I tried to find similar screws, only longer. Needless to say our hardware stores don't supply such small and such shaped screws, so I e-mailed Jimmy. The screws are supposed to be on their way overseas to me, but it's been weeks and I haven't received them yet. I thought maybe I could order screws on my own on web instead of bothering Jimmy. Does anyone know where can I order such screws? I did some measuring and it looks like the screws need to be:
diameter of head: 0.157"
diameter of thread: 0.120" ∼ 0.125"
length: 7/8"
head style: pan (or rectangular in profile) to fit the hole in bar
The other thing I noticed is related to pickups. Difference in height between neck pickup and bridge pickup is really obvious. Well that doesn't bother me at all, it's just that I also hear difference in volume between pickups; neck pickup feels slightly quieter than bridge pickup. It's not like day and night but it is obvious if I change pickup during song. I tried raising the neck pickup but it seems totally jammed so I just left it as it is. It is the same with bridge pickup. When I play normal finger-style, I position my right hand's thumb next to upper side of bridge pickup. During playing I seem to subconsciously press down on pickup with thumb and the other day I noticed that this side of pickup went down a bit so there is a gap between pickup and pickup's screws. It's not much at the moment but if the pickup keeps going down, what can I do to prevent it? There is no way to get to pickup from underneath so I can only pull it out, which is somewhat hard to do. I don't want to damage it. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
My LG5 is absolutely dynamite, and it only weighs 9 pounds, which is perfect for me (and yes, weight is a big deal with me too). It just seems that he's letting a few things slip right now, and yes, that shouldn't happen. The good news is, I'm pretty confident the thoughts shared here are trickling back to Jimmy, so hopefully he takes the appropriate actions moving forward.
remember when matt power (jacochops) started posting about carey and everyone started ordering fodera inspired customs? then the nordy came out, orders ensue. ken gets an a/c, proclaims its the next coming of jesus and t/b gets all a twitter.
I got the GOLD.
