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Mikro project!!

fuzzy beard

fuzzy beard

Mar 8, 2011
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Aurora, Indiana
#1
Here i am again with a few questions!:)

I have a Ibanez mikro that i want to mod!

So i am looking for is more of a classic p tone! I will be disconecting the jazz pickup but leaving it installed. I was thinking maybe fender 62 p pickup?

What tone and volume pots should i install?

Anyone found a black bridge and tuners for these yet?

What strings do you suggest?I was thinking rotosound trubass 88 strings?

What size tuning machine shaft do i need?

What am i missing?

Thanks for any help i can get!!
 
#3
I was aske to share the story over at the mikro club so i guess i should put it here also so you know how i got where i am.

Well It started its life as a $40 CL find! That i just loved the short scale. Then in may i was involved in a bad motorcycle wreck! And spent 10 weeks off work with a broken leg.

So in a depressed rage i was playing and the A string was buzzing. So pissed off i took the strings off. Well then got tired of seeing the black bass in the corner! So i used my crutchs to go to the side porch and got my mother inlaw to bring me the bass, palm sander, and music!

Then i really got mad. The plan was to sand it down and stain it but after sanding for HOURS!!! i found it was not one peice of wood not even the same woods! So i chucked it across the yard! Left it out side all night i was so pissed. Well the next day i decided to finsh it. So i sanded the rest of it down.And took me a few days to figure out what i wanted to do wih it.

So my mother inlaw a SAINT of a woman! Is very artistic so i asked her to paint it. and after hours of talking about it she recommended inking it instead. And i am glad she did! So we came up with what i wanted scroll and a owl and she spent her free time over next few weeks working on it.

Well then it came out so amazing! I couldnt belive it only things wrong with it where done by me when i was sandin it and when i threw it! The art was so perfect for me! She even put my initials on it MPW ll.

So i took it to a guy i know who paints cars and had him clear coat it. It has one coat of somthing that is suppose to protect the ink from lifting. And then 3 coats of automotive clear coat!

So no there are no other pics. This started at a dark time for me but shows that over time all things can get better! So now i am trying to finsh it. I started another thread about the parts i want to install. Please stop if you can help with ideals!
 
#4
that's a really great looking bass you have there. Glad that you were able to take the negative energy and emerge with such a positive result; nice!

as for the pickup, I find that Lindy Fralin makes a great precision pickup. Has a great sound, but I've found it superior to most of the Fender model p'ups.

the bridge looks to me like it's a fender-standard 5 screw; most bridges designed for a fender should work. I think Gotoh makes their 201 bridge in black, which would be really good. Not sure about the tuners...

Best of luck on your hunt for the little parts.
 
#6
That is really pretty! However, I'm not sure I get your motivation for disconnecting the J pickup. I doubt when it was dialed right out of the mix it was somehow meddling with the P pickup tone.... unless you are thinking the magnet might have an effect, and it is 'on' all the time....


I think there must be a name for the condition whereby bassists think "I have a P/J bass, and even with the J pickup dialed right out it still isn't a P bass!!!".
 
#11
Well i ordered 62 p pickup, fender 250k pots,strap locks, rotosound trubass strings, shielding tape, And black speed knobs! And a new strap and cable take off $30 coupon and i just put $230 into a bass i bought for $40!

bass $40
Custom finsh $100
Upgraded parts $170
Cool one off mikro PRICELESS!!
 
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