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If you want it plain and brutish and hairy assed with no messin and keeps the P style then ditch the mm plate, add another hole for the extra nob and put the black scratch plate on as it is although are the holes for the P pup in the right place? Less bling and more 'The peoples bass'. Dont you just hate ponsey blinged up, flashy, poshwooded basses?? hahah Keep it simple man! Make it look like its forged from the good soil. And that black scratchplate would look nice with an ebony thumbrest A

If you veneered the front face you could do without any scratchplate or put any shape you want on it and not have to worry about the old screw holes. I was supprised at how easy veneering is especially if you use the iron on dry PVA method. Let me know and Ill tell you how I did it on Bernice and Rosie. Im a sucker for the MM scratchplate (being a symmetry fan lol) but just an MM plate may look cool WTF is that plate from? A two knob MM Plate??? Thats just plain wrong lol. A

There you go again. Im the same!! Realy dont like the VVT set up on a J. Dont see the point. Realy difficult to get a blend and maintain the volume and visa versa. Im pondering changing it to a mix vol tone (is that MVT??). I didnt know any different when I bought it. Not sure the MM plate would go on that Ryder hmm. But an MM pre would be cool A

How you going to wire it? Im assuming being an (ex) J man its going to be vol vol tone? A

Looks like a through body The wood looks better than I thought for a 3 piece. A

Love it all. Good call on the ebony fingerboard and the binding around the edges is a very nice touch. Ebony looks lush fretless but Im looking forward to seeing a fretted one A

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' post='1213466' date='Apr 28 2011, 07:23 AM']Not quite as much about fair/safe working conditions though I hear?[/quote] Now you tell me! If got a bond with Arifin and Wakim (from the body QC stamp) after Bassassin and I worked out who they were!! A

And if your a bit of a name snob who doesnt want a sheep in wolves clothing. I took my Ray34 apart and found a birth date and ........................... A CORT by any other name. Still Im not complaining (Since I knew they were Indonisian) shes still a beaut A

Sounds like you have two options: 1. Get that pot of elbow grease out and have a day in the garden making dust OR 2. Leave it to [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=133065&hl="]the experts[/url] A

Exellent write up J I think they do look matched in a wings and central piece sort of way. Even with the white spirit finish its looking nice and mellow. On the SMB4A v SMB4D thing. I thought it was the other way round regards tone!! The A being a modern sound and the D being the old skool? Oh and best ryder mod?? Hmm never mind a ray off how about a ryder off A

[quote name='mcnach' post='1209259' date='Apr 23 2011, 04:06 PM']Come up to Edinburgh for a "Ray-off" would love to try that Ray34.[/quote] Well judging by your lust for Rosie Id probably come home empty handed A

Im realy happy with mine. Its a Natural with Maple (the expencive ones) but got it for under £600 (and Im not talking £599) Realy love the sound but not being a Ray expert I couldnt tell you if it beats the real thing! A

[quote name='mcnach' post='1207565' date='Apr 21 2011, 09:39 PM']That's some beautiful bass! I'm pretty sure I still have somewhere documentation to the effect that you were willing to send it to me for very little [/quote] Thanks Jose (again! ) Im pleased with her Erm documentation? Im sure it was a typo So Proove it A

[quote name='Ancient Mariner' post='1208624' date='Apr 22 2011, 08:23 PM']looks really good - again! Is that fingerboard a veneer or did you de-bond and replace the entire board?[/quote] Thanks A' Mariner Its a replacement. The old one was machined off. I got a blank piece of ebony and machined a 11" rad. (I do have a short vid of this). Then glued it onto the neck (sort of, see above reply). It was machine trimmed back then the rosewood binding and brass side dots put on. A

[quote name='XylemBassGuitar' post='1208551' date='Apr 22 2011, 07:02 PM']It does seem more like a p/u problem. Have you done a lot of soldering before? Maybe one of the solder joints is cold (i.e. the solder/parts didn't make a good bond)? Did you have to heat any of the parts a little longer than usual? It's possible to damage electronics with the heat from a soldering iron. Also, how well did the new fretboard glue to the neck? Got any tiny glue lines between the two or is the joint invisible? By the way, I really like the look of the bass after your mods![/quote] Thanks XylembassGuitar Im pretty good with a soldering iron even though its been a few years. Ive double checked for dry joints and no I was pretty quick with the soldering. There were two connections. The only one that could have caused damage was the earth to the pot body. Its all a bit academic now since Ive splashed out on a Symour Duncan MM replacement pup and preamp As for the finger board. Erm well OK I admit the bonding wasnt the best One side was not very well glued at all so I filled it with glue and filler. However She plays so well, very low action shes worth the electrics replacement. You can hear the 'Good sound' through the mud of the old pup so Ill get back to you when I fit the new one. A

0.6mm is the standard. Thicker veneer is called structural veneer. Try googling that or 1.5mm veneer, 2.0mm veneer etc. EDIT: Or stick some 0.6 together to get your width Or Use it as a capping veneer rather than trying to fill the whole thing with it Or wait until someone who knows what thier talking about puts a reply up A

Those holes for the through body stringing look a bit 'off centre'. Going to re aline them and make them bigger so 'real' strings can go though? The one I sanded back was 3 piece to. Nice wood but not matched. A

That sounds (metaphoricaly) very interesting especially the way its does the mid or bass&treble boosting. This gives you loads of options I suspect. One thing I dont like the sound of is all those presets and caps tucked and screwed away inside. Id be for ever unscrewing the thing just in case I havent got something quit right lol!! And yep that ryder scratchplate does look cool. That thumb rest looks awfully close to the E there Jose? Never put you down as a gentle strummer hahah! A

7 and never leaving the front room. Im the proverbial "All the gear and no idea" sort of guy A

They are no where near each other. There are two wires. A thick one and a thin one. Now when I took it apart i did make a note of it but lost it. I do remember there the connections where and its pretty obvious. The thick one was to the vol pot body (You can see where the old solder was) and the thin one (Im assuming the hot wire) was to a white wire coming from the preamp. A

So heres Rosie Originally a Vintage Stingray Copy. Modifications: Replaced Fingerboard with Ebony - machined from blank Rosewood Neck binding with Brass dot inlays Scratch built Brass Nut Head veneered in Rosewood Body resprayed black including originally black rear cover to match Scratch built scratchplate with Rosewood veneer and Boxwood binding All hardwear and Pickup is stock Wilkinsons. As always there are a few things I would do differently but its all a learning process There are a few flaws too especially around the edge of the scratchplate and the base colour is coming through on the back Grrrrr. She went together and played straight off with just a quick shim of the neck to compensate for the lack of frets. BUT she doesnt sound right!! Originally I could get an ear pearcing twang form the maple fretted and roundwound set up but now with the Ebony fretless and GHS bright flats (Ground wound) (Which are lovely to play and much nicer than the half round rotos Ive tried) she's dull as dish water!!!! But Im not putting it down to the change in fboard so much. It seems more a pup issue. The output muffled and sounds like its coming through a MW radio. A bit of tweeking of the korg helps but its not right. Hmmm very odd. A new pup and preamp min order I think Anyway...... heres the pics with a 'before' for comparison. ALL comments, good or bad , welcome......................... [attachment=77814:full_fnt.JPG][attachment=77823:body_fnt.JPG][attachment=77816:fingerbd.JPG][attach ment=77818:body_side.JPG][attachment=77817:head.JPG][attachment=77821:neck_side.JPG][attachment=77819 :full_back.JPG][attachment=77820:body_back.JPG][attachment=77822:the_before.jpg]

[/quote] [quote name='mcnach' post='1199888' date='Apr 14 2011, 08:28 PM']I tried the transparent doublesided tape suggestion (thanks to apa for sending me a sample! It works! This stuff is fantastic! I can now think of a million uses for it! (I think I can put some on teh drummer's stool, hmmm... ) So I'm testing the positions. I removed the tug bar on my Squier CV P-bass and used that first. Nah, a bit too low. Turns out, unsurprisingly, that the position I really like is where the Stingray pickup is located. That means somewhere overlapping the edge of the pickguard. This tugbar is a bit too long to be fitted nicely under the bass side pickup... But I had a metal thingy that the previous owner of one of my OLPs had fitted as a thumbrest (ironically at the P position ) so I put a bit of tape under that and tested it. Perfect. It's the right spot, and this tape is *amazing*. I now have to find some shorter bars or something else that would do the job and look ok. [u][b]Maybe even fashion one out of wood and paint it black. [/b][/u] Another great solution found at Basschat. It's good to see that it's not GAS all I get here [/quote] Fashion one out of wood? Well why didnt you say! I have a nice bit of ebony that would do just fine. Ill pop it in the post for you if you like? Its left over from modifying [i][b][size=7]ROSIE[/size][/b][/i]. Did I tell you about [i][b][size=7]ROSIE[/size][/b][/i]? You can find [i][b][size=7]ROSIE[/size][/b][/i] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=132409"]HERE[/url] if you havent* A * Ha ha sorry couldnt resist and had a good excuse. Besides you told me to

[quote name='Monckyman' post='1199308' date='Apr 14 2011, 12:44 PM']Trubass arrived this a.m! ta for the replies, chimes with my thinking.[/quote] Hope youve got your nut slot files handy, thier thick buggers