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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

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beans-on-toast said:
I was put on to someone in design about it when I was wanting to order the parts. I was asking about the availability of NOS vintage parts with gold plate that they might have had on hand in their shop. No NOS was available at the time but they had reissue parts so they put together a gold kit for me.

Jimmy's vintage guitar that the reissue was based on didn't have gold hardware. It does look good done in gold though, especially with the honey burst which is kind of like a faded original.
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Apologies, but can't 'like' any posts involving gold hardware......:whistle:
 
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beans-on-toast said:
I was put on to someone in design about it when I was wanting to order the parts. I was asking about the availability of NOS vintage parts with gold plate that they might have had on hand in their shop. No NOS was available at the time but they had reissue parts so they put together a gold kit for me.

Jimmy's vintage guitar that the reissue was based on didn't have gold hardware. It does look good done in gold though, especially with the honey burst which is kind of like a faded original.
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The Honey Burst is a be-yoo-ti-full finish.
 
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beans-on-toast said:
I recently changed a bridge and it made a positive tonal difference. Well worth it.
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Don't bring this up in the Hardware Forum, could get you banned, right quick. ;)
beans-on-toast said:
Do you folks like strap locks?

I installed Seymour Duncan ones when they first came out and kind of went off them. They required drilling a bigger mounting hole so no going back.

Yes they are safer but also more chunky. The strap had to stay with the bass.

Didn't want them on vintage instruments.
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I first got Dunlop Straplocks in the '70s (?) to try out. One day, out of the blue, the strap part on the upper horn pulled out of its button with no warning. That's when I started using Schallers, and have been using them on all my basses ever since, even the vintage ones.

beans-on-toast said:
I bought a Les Paul with a honeyburst finish. Straight out of the box, I installed new gold hardware, tuners, pickups, strap buttons, bridge, tail stop, vintage knobs, etc. I thought that it was cool to be different. Then Gibson released the exact same configuration as the Jimmy Page model. Sigh.
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Well, to be frank, the name Jimmy Page has a bit more cachet than Beans-On-toast does.............. ;) Except, around these here parts. :)

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Apologies, but can't 'like' any posts involving gold hardware......:whistle:
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The first thing I did when I got my 4004Cii in '04 was swap out all the (most anyway, I didn't bother with a few small screws, and the jackplate, which has the S/N on it) gold parts/hardware for chrome. :thumbsup:

And while we're on the subject of tuning keys, replaced the original Schaller M4s with Ultralites. :thumbsup:
 
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beans-on-toast said:
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I recently changed a bridge and it made a positive tonal difference. Well worth it. But maybe what you have is fine.

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Yep. I swapped out the stamped metal bridge on a Gretch Junior Jet with a higher mass Gotoh. The difference was audible. Tone a bit more crisp, well defined. If that had been a better bridge to start with the difference might not be noticible. But it was an inexpensive upgrade to a reasonably good bass.
 
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OMG tuners. I took my Schecter telecaster bass to a blues band rehearsal last night. Have not given it any love in eons and it was overdue, and I think it fits in well with the vibe of that band. This is maybe a $700 bass but, man, those tuners on there are like iron. Tune it up and you are good for the night. My Fender cost three times that new and I have to retune it several times a night. I'm thinking I need to replace those tuners for something a little more worthy.
 
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And by all accounts at TB, the Gretsch Junior Jet is a reasonably good bass. Very attractive to the likes of me as a non-FSO with humbuckers. Then, you know, it's TV Jones, and stacked volume and black hardware and (painting by Grace Slick)

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@LBS-bass went with Gotoh Res-O-Lites here, very solid IMO
 
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GwenOnBass said:
And by all accounts at TB, the Gretsch Junior Jet is a reasonably good bass. Very attractive to the likes of me as a non-FSO with humbuckers. Then, you know, it's TV Jones, and stacked volume and black hardware and (painting by Grace Slick)

@LBS-bass went with Gotoh Res-O-Lites here, very solid IMO
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A friend of mine has one of those Gretcsh basses. I played it; very solid player after he had his guy set it up. Didn't plug it in, but I could easily play that thing all night based on how it felt.
 
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LBS-bass said:
OMG tuners. I took my Schecter telecaster bass to a blues band rehearsal last night. Have not given it any love in eons and it was overdue, and I think it fits in well with the vibe of that band. This is maybe a $700 bass but, man, those tuners on there are like iron. Tune it up and you are good for the night. My Fender cost three times that new and I have to retune it several times a night. I'm thinking I need to replace those tuners for something a little more worthy.
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Sometime I have noted changes in tuning throughout a gig/jam/etc. from temperature changes, say one's own body temperature warming up the neck and strings over time. This was quite noticable on my three ZONs and the Kramer 350B, especially. The Alembics, too!
 
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Jeff Scott said:
Sometime I have noted changes in tuning throughout a gig/jam/etc. from temperature changes, say one's own body temperature warming up the neck and strings over time. This was quite noticable on my three ZONs and the Kramer 350B, especially. The Alembics, too!
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Yeah, my Kramer was horrible like that. I don't think these are temperature issues. It's very consistently bad on the Fender and good on the Schecter.
 
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Jeff Scott said:
Sometime I have noted changes in tuning throughout a gig/jam/etc. from temperature changes, say one's own body temperature warming up the neck and strings over time. This was quite noticable on my three ZONs and the Kramer 350B, especially. The Alembics, too!
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I noticed a change in tuning a lot with my Ibanez basses. The necks are thin which makes them easy to go out of tune. I do love two of my most recent Ibanez because of the tone, but my new cheapo Sterling bass really rocks the house. Its neck is sturdier and a little huskier in the middle to the body so it stays in tune better. It just FEELS more substantial. It does stay in tune pretty good by the way.
 
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