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Oh man!!!!..
That's great looking!
If I had some extra money and didn't have so many 5560s already...
drool
Hi guys! Need ur help here. So I recently bought a Lakland Skyline DJ5 made in 2012. Just need help to identify if the pickups are the stock Lakland vintage ones because there isn’t any visible markings or Lakland logo on the pups.
Do stock Lakland pups come this way?
Do stock Lakland pups come this way?
Hi guys! Just dropping in to say hi. I don't have much to report. I got new shoes I guess.
I still have the Triple-bucker Carlo bass and the Caribbean burst Lakie. These aren't going anywhere! I'm about due to go see Carl and get setups. I am thinking about having him change the switches on the Triple-bucker from single coil to series/parallel, as I have found the singles sound to feel a little thin. I'll let you know what I decide to do!
I still have the Triple-bucker Carlo bass and the Caribbean burst Lakie. These aren't going anywhere! I'm about due to go see Carl and get setups. I am thinking about having him change the switches on the Triple-bucker from single coil to series/parallel, as I have found the singles sound to feel a little thin. I'll let you know what I decide to do!
I just got a Lull jazz that the previous owner set up with a series/parallel switch and it does make a difference- I was surprised at how much so.
look stock to me. the color of the leads is the tell-tale sign.
Yeah. Hanson pup leads are red and green typically.
I'd add also that AFAIK, Hanson pups have undergone some tweaks over the years. The ones I saw a couple of years ago were mounted to circutboard type materials.
I'd say it's pretty likely that those are the stock Hanson pups as I think that by 2012 the DJ's were no longer coming with the Aero brand pickups they were originally designed with.
So, I got to spend some quality set up time with my new to me 55-01 Skyline. This is my 6th Skyline and this is teh first giving me a bit of a fight to get the the same setup specs I always get on the others. With a decent relief, I like 5/64ths across at the 12th fret and 4/64th if I can get it on the high E. On this one there's a razor thin margin of clank to fret buzz, relief to saddle height but I'm there. The interesting thing is that at that measurement the B anf high E saddles are as low as then can go while keeping enough screw pressure to keep them in place. No lower to go. I have never had that with a Skyline. I may not do anything yet but it does have me thinking. Part of teh clank issue may be teh Dunlop SS strings that came with it. They are fairly new andnot particularly pleasant to me. I have used DR High Beams on basses in the past and some presented teh same problem until they mellowed a bit. So before I go crazy I may swap out the strings for something I am more familiar with tension, sound and feel wise. And, depending on tension that could alter the relief setting enough to solve the saddle issue.
Has anyone every flattened the bottom or the saddles to gain the ability to lower a bit more? Seems like that would be an easy and effective mod for the B and high E.
I do have a couple slightly high frets above 14 that I'l address down the road. Perhaps a full light fret lefel wouldn't hurt things either. And there's a bit more fret sprout along both sides than I have had on any other Skyline. In fact that had never been an issue but this one feels like a Mexican Fender Tele maple neck. I had a couple of those that would shred your hand! Thoe will clean up nicely though. Because all my other Skylines were older and this onre is a 2016 it has me wondering if the QC has slipped on newer models or if the 55-01 is simply a value model that doesn't get the attention.
Has anyone every flattened the bottom or the saddles to gain the ability to lower a bit more? Seems like that would be an easy and effective mod for the B and high E.
I do have a couple slightly high frets above 14 that I'l address down the road. Perhaps a full light fret lefel wouldn't hurt things either. And there's a bit more fret sprout along both sides than I have had on any other Skyline. In fact that had never been an issue but this one feels like a Mexican Fender Tele maple neck. I had a couple of those that would shred your hand! Thoe will clean up nicely though. Because all my other Skylines were older and this onre is a 2016 it has me wondering if the QC has slipped on newer models or if the 55-01 is simply a value model that doesn't get the attention.
PM me when you are going...I need to see him as well... Would love to meet up there (with your wife?) And have lunch
Hi nervous, the correct fix is a thin neck shim placed at the bridge end of the neck pocket, I’ll PM you some images. The shim will slightly tilt the neck back, which will require a bit of saddle raising to get the strings off the frets.
JJ to the rescue!
JJ is a great guy.. Always looking out for the betterment of bassists everywhere!
Haha, you’re a nut! I do love helping though, and this is a simple fix.
The shim is the deal.
Although the 55-01 is considered a value model they still cost about the same as an american Fender or G&L.
I have wrestled with this idea and have shimmed necks previously, most notably on my last two MM basses and I still have some of their factore shims in my kit. The choice is A) as you show, which is the most stardard or B) a full pocket shim of the thickness you show which maintains all my other neck settings and position but simply allows the saddles more adjustment range. Not sure in thsi case if changing the neck angle doesn't get me more higher fret buzzing since that's already beem an issue. But, it's certainly easy enough to test. Thanks all.
