Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[alaskaleftybass]

Worth asking around. I expect it's going to run big spacebucks.

I have an early 80's Ibanez Roadstar. It's in need of some TLC but it's going to have to wait until I can travel to Seattle again. I'm not going through any airports until they figure this thing out.

Your old bass is like an old friend that deserves the attention and care. It's been faithful to you all these years. Might have to send it out of town or wait until it's safe to travel.

 

[beans-on-toast]

I’m wondering, what instrument maintenance repairs do you feel comfortable doing on your own and which requires a luthier?

[1] Detailing
[2] Bridge intonation
[3] Truss rod adjustment
[4] Fret end sprout filing
[5] Fret levelling
[6] Changing a pickup or pot
[7] Lining a pickup cavity with foil tape
[8] Deoxit application on the jack and scratchy sounding pots
[9] Soldering a jack
[10] Nut work
[11] Adjusting and lubricating tuners
[12] Fixing dings
[13] Changing a strap button

 

[StereoPlayer]

I’m wondering, what instrument maintenance repairs do you feel comfortable doing on your own and which requires a luthier?

[1] Detailing
[2] Bridge intonation
[3] Truss rod adjustment
[4] Fret end sprout filing
[5] Fret levelling
[6] Changing a pickup or pot
[7] Lining a pickup cavity with foil tape
[8] Deoxit application on the jack and scratchy sounding pots
[9] Soldering a jack
[10] Nut work
[11] Adjusting and lubricating tuners
[12] Fixing dings
[13] Changing a strap button

I've done them all on my own.
Including a screw/chisel PU in stall in the 70's...not real proud of this. Maybe or maybe not weed inspired.

 

[beans-on-toast]

I've done them all on my own.
Including a screw/chisel PU in stall in the 70's...not real proud of this. Maybe or maybe not weed inspired.

That’s how we learn. I started with an inexpensive instrument that I could afford to botch up. You figure it out. Although there are a lot of special tools that you can get that help. Stewmac is a good resource for tools, parts, and how-to’s.

 

[beans-on-toast]

I like the vintage B&W video as much as the song.

 

[Deleted member 268085]

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Just look at the guy now. Love him!

 

[Jeff Scott]

That’s how we learn. I started with an inexpensive instrument that I could afford to botch up...... there are a lot of special tools that you can get that help "botch it up first-class"...

FIFY

 

[StereoPlayer]

That’s how we learn. I started with an inexpensive instrument that I could afford to botch up. You figure it out. Although there are a lot of special tools that you can get that help. Stewmac is a good resource for tools, parts, and how-to’s.

A couple of years ago, I met up with the guy who had the 71 Fender bass in question. You should have seen the look he was giving me as we discussed it.

 

[beans-on-toast]

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Just look at the guy now. Love him!

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Makes sense. Breweries, distilleries, and wineries all need chemists to help produce their products.

 

[beans-on-toast]

All this talk of botched instrument surgery, I hope that Gwen’s went well.

 

[Charlie Tango]

I’m wondering, what instrument maintenance repairs do you feel comfortable doing on your own and which requires a luthier?

[1] Detailing
[2] Bridge intonation
[3] Truss rod adjustment
[4] Fret end sprout filing
[5] Fret levelling
[6] Changing a pickup or pot
[7] Lining a pickup cavity with foil tape
[8] Deoxit application on the jack and scratchy sounding pots
[9] Soldering a jack
[10] Nut work
[11] Adjusting and lubricating tuners
[12] Fixing dings
[13] Changing a strap button

I do everything except 4 & 12. It's not that I feel they require a luthier, as much as that I simply don't have the need and/or equipment.

 

[beans-on-toast]

I do everything except 4 & 12. It's not that I feel they require a luthier, as much as that I simply don't have the need and/or equipment.

re:12 I fill dings with many layers of CA adhesive, then sand it out with super fine pads. But you can do it without even sanding. Put a partial drop on a needle and transfer it, repeat when dry.

 

[Passinwind]

I’m wondering, what instrument maintenance repairs do you feel comfortable doing on your own and which requires a luthier?

[1] Detailing
[2] Bridge intonation
[3] Truss rod adjustment
[4] Fret end sprout filing
[5] Fret levelling
[6] Changing a pickup or pot
[7] Lining a pickup cavity with foil tape
[8] Deoxit application on the jack and scratchy sounding pots
[9] Soldering a jack
[10] Nut work
[11] Adjusting and lubricating tuners
[12] Fixing dings
[13] Changing a strap button

All of that, except what involves frets, which I don’t believe in for basses anyway. I’ve never needed to mess with tuners though, even after forty years.

 

[Deleted member 268085]

Time for a Friday 'ungrump' session!



What is hip!?!

 

[GwenOnBass]

Fingers and toes accounted for, and

[4] Fret end sprout filing
[5] Fret levelling
[6] Changing a pickup or pot
[7] Lining a pickup cavity with foil tape
[8] Deoxit application on the jack and scratchy sounding pots
[9] Soldering a jack
[10] Nut work
[11] Adjusting and lubricating tuners
[12] Fixing dings

^ these are outside my wheelhouse

No recollection of having gone to surgery. Spent the day sleeping off the anesthesia and behold! Sent home with a few tabs of Oxy.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Good to hear that it went well. I hear that the Oxy tabs work better than the powder.

 

[GwenOnBass]

A little 20 Mule Team Borax in a tall glass of Toilet Duck and we're good!

 

[Al Kraft]

Time for a Friday 'ungrump' session!



What is hip!?!

Outstanding!

 

[Charlie Tango]

Fingers and toes accounted for, and

[4] Fret end sprout filing
[5] Fret levelling
[6] Changing a pickup or pot
[7] Lining a pickup cavity with foil tape
[8] Deoxit application on the jack and scratchy sounding pots
[9] Soldering a jack
[10] Nut work
[11] Adjusting and lubricating tuners
[12] Fixing dings

^ these are outside my wheelhouse

No recollection of having gone to surgery. Spent the day sleeping off the anesthesia and behold! Sent home with a few tabs of Oxy.

Mahvelous! It's always good to be on the right side of the grass. Glad it went well.

 

[12BitSlab]

I do almost zero work on my basses. None of them have any modifications.

On the other hand, I used to do drag racing - strictly amateur racing aka bracket racing. I had no qualms about modding the heck out of a car. Probably did about 90% of the work myself.

Why the disparity? Sorry, but I don’t have an answer for that.

BTW, I used have a 9 second license from NHRA as well as an IRL license. Did my open wheel driving at Kentucky Speedway and got my NHRA license at Edgewater.