LukeFRC

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1360803447' post='1976945'] Don't bother, ask me directly, either here or by PM. The other fellow is only an intermediate, anyway. He never answers without first consulting me. How may I help you..? [/quote] Well he had promised me an amazing gift of a nice bass guitar, coming from a foreign land and a man who likes to hit things rhythmically... I just wondered when I could expect such provenance!?

[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1360776844' post='1976341'] In good art shops years ago you could buy liquid rubber which was painted onto artwork to shield desired copy from an airbrush. Assuming you're handy enough with a paint-brush to paint over the logo & text you want to keep? After you've painted it rubs off with a pencil eraser. No idea if it's still available, but if it is it would be "the very dab" © Pa Broon. [/quote] would that work? like it's not pigment, it's several layers of nitro/acrylic topped with a clear coat....

You in the other thread.... [quote][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]If all works out, this will hopefully become my main bass,[/font][/color][/quote] if it's going to be your main bass then go for it. (personally I prefer them unpainted in most cases)

[quote][font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Replies to posts are always welcome, If I have made a mistake in the post, I am human, tell me nicely and it will be corrected. If your reply cannot be nice, has an underlying issue, or you believe that you are God, please post in another forum. Thank you![/font][/quote] just saw this in your sig. Do you know the URL of the other forum, the one God posts on? be good to ask him something

[quote]Hello Saw this bass. It looks a lot like the warwick thumb I've been longing for for a long time. How much does it weigh? You say it has "same exotic woods, hardware & quality electrics and fittings as its famous brother..." so is that wenge and bubinga neck and a bubinga body, and MEC active pickups, is it a two band active MEC EQ or a three? Also you say it's got the same fittings as a Warwick but then say they are gotoh which is it? Gotoh or Warwick fittings (which were Schaller until they made them in house I think) ? Like I said I've been wanting a Warwick Thumb for the last ten years and this looks like an afordable option! oh is it a neck through too or bolt on? cheers [/quote]

[quote name='clashcityrocker' timestamp='1360739349' post='1975550'] I see your point, I do like the finish as it is but I also like the matt nitro finish, I probs won't do it in the end. Candy apple would never my first choice but it was the only active deluxe Mexican jazz I had seen for sale in here,and I think I got a good deal :-) [/quote] sand it all the way back and respray?

[quote name='Clarky72' timestamp='1360749375' post='1975664'] Have you had anything from them at all? Do you know what their quality is like? [/quote] nope - not a clue.

thanks for that. I should't have gone onto that sort of site... now I kinda want to build a bass again. repeat after me.. I don't need another bass, I don't need another bass.....

the UK lot. they seem to be quite new.... but they do do blanks with routing for strats... and odd things like slab '66 style P basses so guess if you ask they will make things to order. http://guitarbuild.co.uk

[quote name='Clarky72' timestamp='1360747924' post='1975628'] Doesnt look as if they do blanks with routing or paddle head necks though unfortunately... Do you know who the UK company are? I looked at WD but they don't do what I'd need. [/quote] no maybe not... and I'll look it up...

If I were doing it and spending money on it I would get the neck at least from USACG - based purely on the valenti I had that was made by them and top top quality. Last time I checked a neck and body were about the same/less than warmoth. There's a UK company that has started doing bass bodys too.

While I can see how a flat colour would look nice with a matt finish.... I can't help thinking that when you have a candy coat like candy apple red it's kinda a bit pointless/odd. The scratches might polish out with T-cut - wondered why you bought a candy apple red jazz if you didn't want candy apple red?

way nicer!

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1360689133' post='1974756'] Nothing uncool about Rob Slusar mate! Sounds fine as an artist name to me. How about going with just 'Slusar'? Short, snappy and a bit enigmatic. [/quote] I was about to suggest that. Slusar - a good band name!

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1360680146' post='1974479'] How much treble is on this bass tone? Hardly any. Can you hear every note? Hell yes. Mixing bass like this is a dying art. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVlSdY6N7Dk[/media] [/quote] right... I know you'll have some expertise here.... how do you see flat wound strings, and also less valvey sounds effecting how we hear the bass "in the mix" ?

[quote name='Lowender' timestamp='1360673845' post='1974284'] Ever hear a remake of a cool Motown track? The bass is always a more simplified version -- most probably because anything busy and syncopated will not translate with all that monstrous low end the engineers like to use. [/quote] and also we use more simplified versions of musicians now

or your ashdowns ar broken

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1360671808' post='1974227'] I`m not sure of the difference, but all I know is, they make very good basses (which may seem a bit of a daft comment from me, seeing as I`m selling one). [/quote] dunno, If i were selling one I think it would be a good comment. I mean if I were after a white P bass, tort guard and upgraded USA pickups... I know where I would go!

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1360672691' post='1974251'] Yes. Fender Precisions also get this on the A quite a bit, so have encountered this a fair bit myself. Lowering the strings as far as they can go, and making sure you don`t have too many windings (2 or 3 max) round the pegs should prevent this. [/quote] or use more windings to force the string lower down the tuner also has worked for me, esp on the E string

[quote name='Dr Chocolate' timestamp='1360671866' post='1974229'] It's all the strings and they stop if I hold them down just after the nut, but maybe you're right, the strings could go about a mm lower on all the pegs. Do you think that would be the culprit? [/quote] downward tension is your friend. rewind the strings on and have them exiting the string post as low as possible. The bigger break angle over the nut will probably improve the way your bass plays/sounds too slightly

[quote name='GUI101' timestamp='1360619878' post='1973649'] Have done a little more digging around the tecamp 212's and the reviews just seem to say that the S series is just a more compact version of the M and L series. Although they did say that it is a very high quality cab. Also it doesn't look like there are any UK dealers, that can't be right....can it? [/quote] I have the M210 - it's great.

is it the strings or the tuners rattling? The strings should be under tension at this point?

[quote name='mckendrick' timestamp='1360631736' post='1973868'] I think Fender Japan didn't organise into an independent concern until 1984. Although Fender branded product was produced from 1982 I think it was still under the Fender USA umbrella to supply the US market until post-CBS Fender USA picked up in '84 under the leadership of BIll Schultz. Summat like that. . [/quote] I don't really follow this (it is late mind) according to the info (and photo of the announcement) on 21frets.com Fender Japan Co. Ltd was formed March 11 1982 - the site you linked too seems to suggest that Fender japan was formed to stand in for Fender USA for a few years - but (again 21frets as my source) many of the early Fender Japan stuff was for the japanese market or lower end stuff (i.e. JV squier) for USA and Europe - yes a lot of them are very good but I think this was coincidental rather than an attempt to replace Fender USA for a while- if that makes sense. I mean did Fender badged Japanese instruments even get exported to the states in the early 80's at all? I like Japanese Fenders, a lot. I think they can be some of the best and most consistent fenders you can buy - but their is this odd mythologising of them - like how many times have we all read (as in that article) that the JV, SQ and some E series japanese Fenders used lots of Fender USA parts.... which would be nice.... and some of the first JV model strats seem to have usa pickups... but the wider idea that well of course they "all used them", without saying which parts, which ranges and for how long, and where the evidence for that is. There seems to be this desire (perhaps understandable from people trying to sell them) to coinflate everything that says Fender Japan on it with the very best of what Fender Japan makes - an equivalent would be to sell a half decent Fender USA bass with a description of the top of the range custom shop bass they make. Yes there are links but that doesn't make them the same/equal. ... on the whole great basses though!