I ordered a set of flats, in those specs from them.
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The Squier Mini Precision Bass Club
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I ordered a set of flats, in those specs from them.
the mikro strings i bought on amazon didn't fit my mikros.
one of those reviews is from me.
My new pickguard material has arrived and I am taking it over today to have the pickguard made. And I must say the brown tort I ordered off Amazon looks MUCH better in person than in the photos on the website. I will post pics when I get get it back and have it installed. Should be just a couple of days 
My new pickguard material has arrived and I am taking it over today to have the pickguard made. And I must say the brown tort I ordered off Amazon looks MUCH better in person than in the photos on the website. I will post pics when I get get it back and have it installed. Should be just a couple of days
Outstanding.
I don’t know what tool is used for a pick guard but I was wondering: if there would be an easy way to fab a pickguard cap instead of a full thickness pickguard.
The thought is that just a thin cap is made that gets installed on top of the existing guard. That eliminates the task of taking the other pickguard off which for me led to breaking the wiring.
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Unless it could be paper thin, stacking another guard on top of the existing one would limit the pickguard screws' grip length. You'd probably want to get a set of slightly longer screws to make up the difference.
For me, for strings for this bass, we have a winner:
ENR71 DD Halfs.
I'm mad at myself for losing track of these strings. I discovered them a very long time ago, and used them often. At some point, I lost track of them, and my ever failing memory is not telling me why.
Anyway, they feel and sound great on this bass. And the E cut and wrapped around the post without incident.
Done.
ENR71 DD Halfs.
I'm mad at myself for losing track of these strings. I discovered them a very long time ago, and used them often. At some point, I lost track of them, and my ever failing memory is not telling me why.
Anyway, they feel and sound great on this bass. And the E cut and wrapped around the post without incident.
Done.
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The US public has one too, I hear.
Glad to hear that you got a good result.
I'm not surprised that they sound decent.
I have been using the GHS Brite Flats version of this string class for several decades on my Ric, AFAICT originally made by GHS for Dean Markley as Ground Round Wounds.
But I had no idea whether and how your D'Addario Half Rounds might fit a Mini-P or similar bass.
Glad to hear that you made them work.
So tell us, are you using the short scale version of them, with up to one turn of full wrap around the post ?
And gauges are 45-100 ?
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Quick gig tonight with the Mini. I played through a friend's Ampeg BA108 or something. Pretty tiny and thin amp but the Mini rocked. Featherlight but the tone was deep and warm. I love playing this thing.
Note to self: replace the munchkin strap buttons or at the very least get some of those Grolsch rubber rings, the upper horn kept falling out of the strap.
Note to self: replace the munchkin strap buttons or at the very least get some of those Grolsch rubber rings, the upper horn kept falling out of the strap.
Just a quick recording session with a couple of friends. We played Harvest Moon by Neil Young and Somebody To Love by Jefferson Airplane. The Chromes were just perfect and I got used to the lower tension very quickly. My friend made fun of how small the Mini is but I am secure in my masculinity.
They are literally in the middle of rounds and flats. Both in feel and in tone.
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That's why I like and have used ground type strings for so long.
They have a large enough part of the sound of rounds, but more of the feel [and no harm to frets] of flats.
Just before my Ric, I had a Fender P, and used RotoSound RS66 rounds on it for I think a couple of years.
When I got the Ric, new in 1974, I put them onto it as well, and after about 2 weeks noticed wear marks on the narrow soft frets which Ric 4001s have become known to have.
Off they came in a hurry, and I ran Ric's own flats for a while, then D'Addario Half Rounds, then Dean Markley Ground Round Wounds, which seem to be the same string as GHS Brite Flats now are, and most recently the actual GHS Brite Flats.
My original frets are still on it and doing fine.
This class of string has a tone which does not start out as bright as rounds, but does not change very much as the strings age.
And they feel a lot like flats to the fingers, and almost as little sliding noise.
It's a very decent compromise, the best of both worlds, IME.
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The guy I took the guard material uses very old methods for everything. When I was over there yesterday he showed me how he makes guitar necks and shapes them with a hand file! He had a bunch of his custom built guitars and lots of vintage guitars that he has either owned since new ('65 Strat that he bought new when he was 9) or restored (1952 Ibanez acoustic). He is particularly into restoring Teisco guitars.
So on my pickguard he is going to cut it manually and then bevel the sides with a hand file. It's what he does and he says he doesn't care about the time it takes.
We were also talking yesterday about the possibility of him building a custom short scale bass for me LOL!
[RIP Joan Rivers]
