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I don't mean to be rude
- Thread starter GodPlayedBass
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Somehow I think yours looks great and the OP bass I still don't like. Maybe it's the extra pickup. Or the lighting. Also, who cares what I think.
You have to keep in mind that white pickguards back then were designed to look good with a nicotine patina that modern pickguards just can't emulate.
Yeah, my coffee can stay in my cup. Anyway, I heard science is doing big things with washes, glazes, paints, and stains nowadays.
devnulljp
Supporting Member
I love all the effort and energy that goes into pickguards...
OP is back again riling up all the seniors. I think it's pretty hilarious.
Next do a post disparaging basses under 7lbs, with the lightest gauge strings, using the widest strap plugged into the lightest combo amp. This place might have a genuine meltdown.
I kid!
Next do a post disparaging basses under 7lbs, with the lightest gauge strings, using the widest strap plugged into the lightest combo amp. This place might have a genuine meltdown.
I kid!
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If the knobs on your Paranormal J don't wobble enough to be a problem, don't ever loosen the set screws unless you REALLY have to!
The problems may start when you re-tighten the screws, unless you're VERY careful. On my Paranormal J the knobs wobbled too much out of the box. The split shafts on both pots were probably already slightly deformed. Bending the split shafts back to a perfectly circular circumference can be done, but the shafts are extremely fragile and break very easily. It's not something I recommend trying (wobbly pots are better than no pots...). It can also be quite difficult to get the shafts perfectly circular and even the slightest deviation will make the knobs wobble, which isn't a huge problem with "normal" pots but it can make stacked pots rather useless.
I just googled "paranormal jazz bass pots" to see if I could find a pic of the JUNK pots I replaced in my Paranormal J. The first search result was a talkbass thread where someone was complaining about the behavior of the pots (from the description I suspect they may have been linear pots, rather then audio/log pots).
https://www.talkbass.com/threads/squier-paranormal-jazz-bass-stacked-pots.1513325/
But these were Korean Alpha pots, which are normally quite decent quality pots in my experience. These are NOT the same type of pots that I removed from mine. The stacked pots in my Paranormal J were a type I've never seen before. There was no factory stamp on them. They looked really weird, with a sort of "scaffolding" of metal bars holding the two chassis' together. I've never seen anything like it. But they were definitely audio/log pots. I did not experience the problems mentioned in the post I linked to. The pots were still useless though, because of the wobbling that cause the upper/lower knobs to get stuck into each other. And they looked/felt really cheap so would probably have replaced them anyway.
I guess Fender/Squier/Yako must have used different types of pots in these basses....???
Maybe the pickguard should have covered the entire front of the bass, ya know, to protect it from all that wear.
T$
I like my EBMM Stingray sunburst with white pickguard. Looks cool to me. Also like black on Sunburst on my ATK305.
Works for me too !
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[/URL]https://postimg.cc/MM6GJjGBAnd the neck of your bass looks awesome !
I think these two posts well demonstrate my opinion that a white pg looks nice with brown or tobacco sunburst and a black pg looks good with 3-tone sunburst (with red in it).Works for me too !
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