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What a great picture! It really captures the color nicely. I sometimes wonder where all those great G&Ls we sold are located now...
I've found a company that does gold plating but it is NOT cheap. Obviously since it's quite a lot of work. The pickups have to be taken apart to do all the pole pieces and whatnot. Unsure if I'll do it or not. I have a 4 string G&L that's arriving soon.
No clue where it is. Been a while since I've seen it, but it did leave a lasting impression.
I find G&L has a lot of color options compared to the other guys.
I just don't think you can compare them to an independent builder. It's a different kind of service.
John
I just don't think you can compare them to an independent builder. It's a different kind of service.
John
Pretty much every bass I've ever owned, to varying degrees and locations (including a couple of variations of graphite necked basses). Hot spots, too. On the good ones they (dead/hot spots) are minor and don't get in the way, on others they change how to approach playing parts in those areas (use a different string, change the part being played, etc.). Fatheads can move/change them, as can changing up strings and setup to a degree.
I think (and this is my unsupported conjecture) that my beloved skinny necked G&Ls can be more problematic for them than the wider necks. But I couldn't play the wider necked ones long enough to really form a basis for comparison. I'd guess it has to do with the more mass, and possibly rigidity, in the wider/bigger neck.
This has been my experience, as well. I owned a graphite-neck bass that had as bad a dead spot as any Jazz bass ever had. Neck-though, graphite bars, steel bars, heavy tuners, light tuners, Fatheads, etc. - all those things can change the resonant frequency of the neck, but they can't necessarily entirely eliminate all dead spots from the neck. The only thing i ever found that came close to that was to brace the headstock against a wall. It's a fun experiment: find the worst dead spot on the instrument, where the fundamental frequency dives off as soon as the note is plucked, then put the headstock against a wall or solid desk and play the same note. It's a studio trick that can come in handy, but it's not exactly practical.
Lowendtech
Happily trending in my own peculiar direction.
So that's how Pete Townshend started snapping the necks off his guitars.
Trying to get rid of the dead spot. 
And it explains Roger Waters' own abiding obsession: THE WALL!So that's how Pete Townshend started snapping the necks off his guitars.
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I just played a G&L CAR jazz last night - nicest jazz ive played or heard (it had flats with mint green silk - dont know what kind they were) VERY nice though, and I am NOT a jazz bass lover AT ALL. The colour was AMAZING...yes it has sparkle...not crazy amounts but for sure its metallic. Personally, i LOVE red basses, and this would look amazing in my home - except if i bring another bass home, i may become single.
It is a deeper red than Troy's Wal - but still a sweet colour. Fiesta red is the only red i refuse to buy - looks too pink to me.
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I envy you, I have wanted to do this for years! Looks great, not blasphemy at all IMO. Active EMGs is all I use at this point!
It's more expensive than trim rings but EMG makes TB pickups with the same internal coils and the shape is much closer to a G&L soapbar, you might just have a tiny gap at the corners.
View attachment 2875696 Blasphemy?.........Well my 81 L-1000 which was my main player for years, but has been #2 since I started playing a Spector almost a decade ago. On a quest to get it more playing time since I'm tired of it always in it's case and can't bring myself to sell. It had an additional MDF installed by Mike Lull in the late 80s, faux L2k. Anyway in the last year I have installed a Darkglass tone capsule, which still didn't do it. Lastly, I had Mike Lull install active EMGs in it. (35P, 35TW) It sounds awesome. Actually has more grind than the MDFs. I can say now that thankfully this bass will go back into the rotation. At this point it will not replace my Spector, but it will give me another tonal option that's in the same universe, but a different flavor. Now I just need some new pup trim rings and it will be complete.....
Heck I like it. Pup swaps are done all the time to get a different sound in every bass there is. Why not a G&L?
