Curious how it sounds. Looks to be a good bass. Maybe something to even experiment with.
I like the reverb pic. I never wipe off the 1/8th in. of dust either when trying to sell something. Dust is a patina too.....
I had a CL dude show up with an instrument that it looked like he used for a dinner plate, for 12 years, unwashed of course..
Common. And the string itself will easily break up there as well. You can likely only put them on a couple times and after that your are just lucky if you can install them again. But drop in bridges helps instead of all that threading the needle thing.
I have $120 invested now with the strings, and seeing how I don’t change them she will be fine with the stock bridge, it actually looks quite nice, but it I didn’t already have this set of strings, I may have.
Silk is very strong by nature, and if it can't handle those strings it confirms there is some toxic material in them.
that may be possible, they seem more polyestery than silky, they are shredding and leaving a powdery purple residue, but it blows away easily, possibly infecting us and making pod people.
Weird. I've been using EBCFs for about 4 years now. Never had silks unravel. WT7?
The epimophone is the second base the strings have been on, my TI flats have been on several and the silks seem silkier, and haven’t shredded like this. The Danelectro set may have been on another base geetar too.
What’s the neck profile like on those? And how wide is the nut?
It’s more jazzy than pbassy. 38mm
it not one of those this wizzardy necks of yesteryear.
Zero fret sprout, she could probably benefit from a little bit of leveling, but nothing urgent.
I DO have a blend pot for both the 21 NR (500k) and the hockey stick FSO (250k) but only have one pot for the hockey stick.
I was getting horrible noise when plugged in, so I checked the bridge and since I don’t deal with black hardware I didn’t know if the fully coated whatever the stuff that was, was completely untouched, was interrupting the ground, I filed off some of the coating, and ran a better ground wire.
Most of the electronics looked unmolested, but somebunny ran a foil tape strip from the tone pot so it met with the shielding on the cover.
Then I noticed the jack may be a CTS, and someone forced it through the metric hole causing a couple stress cracks on the body, AND it was wired backwards.
wired it correctly and the noise was gone.
I cleaned the pots but they aren’t optimal, so I’ll get one more and finish up the vol/blend/tone and my total investment will be about $135
