hiram.k.hackenbacker

Bought a CV body from Paul. Arrived super quickly and was as described. Thoroughly recommended. Thanks again.

I've recently bought two looms from John. Super easy to deal with and loads of free advice to make sure I was buying exactly what I needed. Thanks again.

Bought an amp from Paul. Super quick delivery and exactly as described. Super easy to deal with and an all round top bloke. Thanks mate 👍

I’m in Essex. Happy to take a look at it for you mate.

Hell is just any bass guitar show I’ve ever been to 😂

I would expect a few of those lots have reserve’s on them and the low starting prices are there to lure people in. Cornford and Soldano make great amps.

It sounds great anyway, but The Boss says.... “It’s the only album where it’s the entire band playing at one time, with all the vocals and everything completely live. The record is the first record that I’ve made where the subject is the music itself... It’s about popular music. It’s about being in a rock band, over the course of time. And it’s also a direct conversation between me and my fans, at a level that I think they’ve come to expect over the years.” Wow!

What I've heard so far on the radio I have really liked. Just listening to the full album now.

Yes, me too. Took forever to get it built, but the wait was worth it. I’m going to have to be seriously impressed to feel the need to replace/upgrade it. Enjoy your pedal @s1m0n and let us know how you get on 👍

That’s weird. If it was the person you sent it to, surely they would be aware you would spot the knobs had vanished? Or were they banking on the fact that the bass wouldn’t make it back to you? You couldn’t make it up could you.

I would advise everyone to follow this example - skip to 12:55

Yes. Possibly the last place on Earth I would hand my Stingray over to. I might, after careful consideration, let them have a go at setting up a couple of my ‘air guitars’, but they would probably fnck that up!

Yeah, let it settle and go back to it. Completely different strings/tensions. Where are you based?

Playing that Celinder, I’d probably watch too 😉

Bryan Beller on my left. Geddy Lee on my right. We’re all watching Lemmy. I would be happy.

I had an excellent teacher 😉

I’m sorry, do you know me then? Beedster, you, me, anyone can pick up a bass and in five seconds know whether the rod needs adjusting with no tools. Explain to me why you wouldn’t want to know that before making any physical adjustment? Reading between the lines, if that bass was on my bench, I would be thinking there is a reason the saddles are SO high. The OP says they are right at the top of the saddle screws which I would suggest is slightly unusual. My guess, rather than actually making any sort of adjustment, is that neck relief MAY be an issue and the previous owner has just raised the saddles to eliminate fret buzz rather than dealing with it properly i.e. adjusting the relief.

Does the OP say that there are no issues with the rod? Given that it takes two seconds to check it and you don’t even need a capo, I don’t know why you wouldn’t do it first. It’s the most intrusive adjustment out of the three (rod/string height/intonation). Or is this thread JUST about lowering saddles?

If you can bear any more video content, watch these. Jason explains the order of doing things and why. https://www.fodera.com/how-to-set-up-your-fodera/

It doesn’t matter what the saddles are doing. To check the relief, you take the saddles out of the equation anyway. Capo first fret, fret the string where it joins the body and measure the gap between string and fret around midway. Adjust accordingly.

@AndyTravis would know better than, but there’s something about the shape and the decals on the headstock that looks wrong to me.

I think it’s just for little comments that aren’t threadworthy.