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  1. Hellish piece of news. Absolute gem of a man, always willing to help out folk. RIP Nick.
  2. @police squad I fitted dowels to the Mk1 templates sent out to BC members, stopped after discovering nobody was using routers 😅 Dead easy to make, shape your template and position it on the rear of the peghead. Then it's just a dot of glue end of the dowel before dropping through the tuning peg hole.
  3. Alpha RV16AF are mini pots, 16mm diameter. Normally around the £3 mark. Available for solid or spline knobs, with solder lugs, pins or PCB mount. Alpha RV24AF are the full size version. Around £3. NW Guitars sell them, along with plenty others. Products all have the tech drawing so you can pick the correct size. https://northwestguitars.co.uk/collections/potentiometers?sort_by=best-selling Bourns PDB241-GTR https://www.bourns.com/docs/product-datasheets/PDB241-GTR.pdf £4 from Farnell or RS Components but £4 delivery. Banzai Music in Germany carry all the MEC potentiometers; not cheap. https://www.banzaimusic.com/MEC-c-176/ Musikding, also in Germany sell Alpha, Bourns and CTS. Great company, no VAT worries, fast shipping, fantastic prices. https://www.musikding.de/Potentiometer_1
  4. Bought a 51 P-bass neck to check the quality. At £50 delivered it came in £20 more than I'd be for the parts/materials. Neck passed muster with flying colours so ordered up another 4 🙂 Way I normally buy from Ali-Ex is by prices, if the product is say £200 from Europe and there's an Ali-Ex seller asking £70 and another wants £35; buy the one at £70 👍
  5. Me, Finnish rockers 69 Eyes and a squad of lassies all got turfed out of a party in the Cathouse. Felt sorry for the lads, it was their party 😆
  6. There's no law set in stone for fanned frets. Dingwall use the 7th fret as the neutral one, with Ibanez it's 10th; G4M opt for the 8th and on the OP's bass it's the 5th. Right or wrong doesn't come into it, there's only personal preference. Same holds true for the span of the scale length, the radius or how the back of the neck is shaped.
  7. Does it have the Ferrari engine? My suggestion used all of the same parts found on the Dingwall. If going for a custom build you could spec for same body materials and still save £700.
  8. @NikNik Buy the Firebird blueprint from Guitars & Wood, €13. Send it to the Ali-Ex merchant with instructions to follow it to the letter. https://guitarsandwoods.com/guitar-and-bass-plans-firebird-2048190856.html CNC files might also be available. Get as many Firebird photos as you can of things like the transition of neck to body. The more info and details you provide the better chance of success.
  9. You bet it is 🙂 Cheapest Combustion 4 string at Bass Direct is £1850, OP's bass was £280. You could go daft and fit 4 Hipshot tuners/Mono saddles for £200. 3 Dingwall FD3N pickups, another £240. The Dingwall selector switch is £50 and its £160 for an EMG 3 band EQ. Even after a PLEK session you'd have £700 more in your pocket than buying Dingwall. Might have to re-think the logo, £1100 is hardly "Tesco Value" 😁
  10. Both basses used guitar bodies so I went with baritone paddle necks. All maple one from Yinfente, rosewood board from Seimonic/Guitar-Shopping. Cost about £60 - £65.
  11. My old Mam gave me this , bought from Guitar Miniatures' stall at Cleveleys' Market 🙂 OK the colour is wrong but she's 88 so gets 10 out 10 for not only remembering I play bass but that I own a Tele bass 👏
  12. A decent set up + strings. Get the nut slots checked then have the neck adjusted. Get the action and intonation bang on. Have the pickup heights set properly. It's all well and good bolting bits on but unless the bass is set to it's best potential are the bolted on bits an upgrade ? Also helps if you know why you want certain bolt on bits, what they do and will there be an impact. Light weight tuning pegs are a favourite, folk routinely throw them on to counter 'neck dive'. Thing is 4 in line pegheads are prone to dead spots which are related to peghead mass; light weight tuners change the mass and you might find the dead spot has moved to someplace more noticeable. Trying another strap or adjusting the length can fixed 'neck dive', will be cheaper and have no effect on peghead mass. Before looking at new pickups, borrow an EQ (graphic or para). Play with the frequencies, boost some/cut others; it'll make more of a difference than any pickup swap.
  13. Having not played my old Wilson Saffire for years I now feel quite guilty 😄
  14. Do you remember what you were running them through ?
  15. Couple of weeks back I sacked my 4 lipstick P-bass idea for a 51 slab body piezo build. Both had been kicking around my head for years so I'd been grabbing potential bits as/when I saw them 🙂 Those 4 & 5 string bridges you mentioned are still being made, WSC offshoot 'Partsland' distribute them. Trouble is they are bloody expensive now. B&Ch over in Czech Rep have then for €116 or €130 for 5 string 🙁 USA eBay seller "Guitar Madness" have 2 versions for a more sensible £68 and £78 but there's £17 delivery, search for "Chrome Bass Piezo Bridge Made in Korea". I was lucky enough to buy the 4 string version from BassChat's ads section so it might be an idea to run a 'wanted' ad. Will be keeping my fingers crossed you get sorted as it'll be nice having somebody to bounce experiences off. I've the bridge hooked up to a Shadow preamp ATM but it's not working out too well, roll on Monday when the Artec MT-2 gets delivered.
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