I’ll admit it is the only thing I don’t care for on mine, but my guess is it might help the balance? And I’ve gotten used to it. And I didn’t care for the matte finish, but I buffed that off and it looks a lot better.
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Thunderbird Club
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I’ll admit it is the only thing I don’t care for on mine, but my guess is it might help the balance? And I’ve gotten used to it. And I didn’t care for the matte finish, but I buffed that off and it looks a lot better.
Great minds! My latest project after selling a bunch of stuff.LOL - I’ll stick to living stage life vicariously through you and Chuck and Irv and Scott and Mike and so many other great band members in this club. At this point in my life I get my kicks out of creating interesting bass instruments, noodling around and playing along with various recordings and very occasionally jamming in the garage with a few friends.
PS - for the record, years ago when I did play in a band I played a White P bass with tort.
You're used to it, but yeah your practice was pretty loud. You guys play bigger stages, so it makes more sense to rehearse at those levels. The only time my cover band is loud is at an outdoor car show gig.We were loud?
I just try to be in a good mix with the drums which is usually about right to "feel" some bass too - the concrete floor in the basement doesn't help that.
Yeah, the fake beers are much better than they used to be. And I can do without the alcohol.
Most of the crew were outside and having to talk a bit loudly over the music!True, but my hands sure were happy when this photo was taken. Their smiles reached all the way up to face!I just try to be in a good mix with the drums which is usually about right to "feel" some bass too - the concrete floor in the basement doesn't help that.
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I believe the thinking was to essentially make it a short scale version of the Studio with the narrow headstock.
I was glad I had my earplugs.
NBD next week (assuming no issues at the border)! 
That’s beautiful! Love the feel of a thin fast jazz neck (probably why I’m drawn to Tbirds). How do you like the EMGs?
Thursday!We were loud?
I just try to be in a good mix with the drums which is usually about right to "feel" some bass too - the concrete floor in the basement doesn't help that.
Congratulations Miles! Glad you guys made it work. I had no issues at the border with the ‘77.NBD next week (assuming no issues at the border)!
Thanks! I love this Jazz neck profile as well. It is very reminiscent of my t-Bird neck.
I love the pickups. These are GZR, passisve, EMG's. I read they were reverse engineered from a pickup in a 1960 P-Bass owned by Booby Vega. Not sure if that is true or not but I have to say, they sound great and I am really happy with them.
This is the first P-Bass I have ever played where that little part in my brain says "Yes!" vs. "maybe if I change this, I will like this better..." As you can see I made the changes upfront that I knew I would want too (neck, bridge) and with this pickup, I am sure its a keeper. I just dropped it off to get PLEKKED and set up. Plus the whole thing weighs 8.5lbs per my digital luggage scale.
It’s always fun to have a goal in mind when building (or even buying) a new bass. Sometime you nail that goal, sometimes it requires tweaking to get there and occasionaly its completely off the mark but inspires you to go in a new direction. I cant wait to see your finished fretless build, hopefully with sound clips.I have cobalt flats on my P. They are better at maintaining calluses than tha laBella DTFs. Bit grippier.
I originally meant "you have inspired my tonal goal for my fretless build."
But very cool to read your reasoned intent.
Sounds like a win all the way around.
I’ve heard nothing but good about the Geezer passives. For a long time now I’ve been contemplating dropping a set in my Eppi PJ Tbird to breathe some new gritty life into it. Any chance you can post a sound clip of your Geezers?
Thanks, Marshall. I'm really stoked. I'm curious to see how the 64 pickups sound vs the Thunderbuckers, too.
I don't have any clips and won't have the bass back for a bit. This demo is pretty good and it shows the solderless install:
I had forgotten my fitted earplugs with the flat filters. But someone had a brought foamies.
New nut day for my Epi IV. The stock plastic one doesn’t fit now that the width is at 39mm.
I made this one out of Corian (countertop scraps).
It seems they didn’t get the string paths aligned quite right. The location of the machine heads mean the strings want to pull the nut to the bass side.
It’s not a problem once you glue the nut.
I made this one out of Corian (countertop scraps).
It seems they didn’t get the string paths aligned quite right. The location of the machine heads mean the strings want to pull the nut to the bass side.
It’s not a problem once you glue the nut.
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all this suspense, did you get a first Gen IV?
