LukeFRC

[quote name='Stroopy121' timestamp='1353401446' post='1874536'] Given that it's a "cheap" bass with no sentimental value or anything, then if I were you I'd redo the body again myself if you're not happy with it? Keep doing it until it's right, learn a heap, improve your skills and if you manage to completely butcher it, THEN send it to be redone or buy a new body. That's just my 2p though. Thanks for this thread though, I've always thought it'd be "not toooooo hard really.." to refinish a body, gonna do a lot of second-guessing and research before I jump into some of the projects I have in wait! xx [/quote] I think I made some major mistakes and had problems that caused it.... mayjorly the construction of the body I was using. additionally don't decide on a whim to saw a bit off a body to reshape it with no planning, sand for a long time after it seems right/you're bored. and take it slow. To be honest it only all really went wrong when I tried to put on the awful clear coat I bought.

[quote name='99ster' timestamp='1353400712' post='1874526'] I'm getting it as well - on every page... And, to be frank, that casual throw away response of "[i]Someone hacked the front page of the site a few days ago but it's all been cleaned up.[/i]" is a little worrying as that means someone has gained access to either the FTP login details for the entire site or the CMS control panel. WTF? [/quote] just got the same thing as other folk - for every page - that link OBBM posted (not going to click it) and additionally Safari doesn't like it and wants we to leave. It was ok at 12:00 last night.

WTF is going on with the condition section of that listing?

it certainly looks nice, and a passive bass through your amp must be nice. Talking of which found an interesting thing today... my amp has a 'taste' knob, similar idea to the timbre contol on your amp I would guess.... well with the warwick it brings in two different types of sucking.... with the newish jazz- they both make the thing come alive.

So been playing the thing at home for a while... and... it sounds amazing. So yes thanks to chrisdabass 's excellent fret job the warwick sounds better, and yes cos it's well made and lightweight and feels good the P bass is great - but the tone of this jazz! it's got a fatter tone than you would expect from a jazz, playing around with pickup heights I've minimised the both on volume drop, it's got great.... it just sounds amazing- playability and set up need some work... and the body.... I dunno, part of me thinks with a bass like this I should spend a bit more $ and get the body redone/new body. :S

[quote name='warwickhunt' timestamp='1353347247' post='1874047'] Mainly finger and I have to say that the opposite is true! As the pup slopes up and away it is far more comfortable (for me) than any standard 'straight' pup bass that I have ever tried. [/quote] sounds like someone may have found a keeper

It looks awesome - I'm so glad it's a good one - it was odd on the one I tired (edinburgh not glasgow ) that such a well made and finished bass would have the odd problem going on with one of the strings- it's great your one is a good un! I one I tried was a good bass that had gone wrong at some point (and it was s/h so maybe not cavin's fault!) happy for you!

[quote name='Rick's Fine '52' timestamp='1353190199' post='1872675'] Indeed, like this. This is a Squier bass, all original. Is it unreasonable to mention Fender in the ad title? I'm always a bit baffled by peoples hang ups on this subject, Its a Fender Squier, a Squier Series Fender, a Squier by Fender, whatever it is, it's still a Fender. I would add though, that they should put [i]all[/i] the information in the ad, but I don't think anyone is ever fooled, life's to short to be bothered, but thats just my point of view. [/quote] what is the bass in the pic? JV?

I love the way they tried to make it look like a traditional jazz bass. Like no one might notice it's squinty!

[quote name='Warwick_Official' timestamp='1353172207' post='1872414'] Our dealer in the UK is Play Away Guitars: Play Away Guitars Unit W4, Knoll Business Centre Old Shoreham Road BN3 7GS Hove, East Sussex Great Britain Phone : 0044 01273 423950 Mail : [email="[email protected]"][email protected][/email] Thanks! [/quote] went to their website... no mention of Warwick!

[quote name='gary mac' timestamp='1353169465' post='1872368'] Looks good in the new colour. I've seen this bass somewhere recently but can't think where, here or ebay I guess. so what now then Luke, keep as it is or another respray? [/quote] I've stuck photos on here recently. don't know really. Part of me thinks a nice new wood body, wax finish might be the way forward. dunno

[quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1353171319' post='1872395'] Compression built into amps is at best a poor alternative to 'the real thing', and more often completely rubbish IME. Avoid at all costs.... [/quote] I bought an amp, it has one button and one knob for a compressor - it does things nice to my sound depending on how I use it. I like it. If I didn't have that knob on my amp I wouldn't have gone for a "real thing" as everything I have tried labled compressor up to getting my amp seemed to suck the life out of my sound. Mind you- like you said 'the real thing' - and knowing how to use it - probably wouldn't. But hey my 1kW amp with a one knob and one button compressor weighs less than 3kg!

someone in bounmouth could find out!

[quote name='Bobo_Grimmer' timestamp='1353089429' post='1871615'] Ok so your saying the amp and cab are the over kill bit? or all of it? The rack effects and the pedal board are all stuff for sounds we use..... The good thing about the amp is that it goes loud enough for playing big venues like the O2 and is tonally lovely at a lower volume in my local [/quote] I wonder how many bits of kit make a big difference in the band mix- and how much makes a difference for the audience? But from the players perspective I don't think that that is primerally a physical thing as much a mental thing- how little would you/me feel comfortable using? Personally I have a bass amp I like the sound of (with a nice compressor on it) and basses that sound nice - and for me unless I need OD of fuzz or chorus or something thats enough. When I did use more effects I built something with 3 effects in the same box- fun but ... often not needed. I think sometimes gear can become a crutch - all this fancy gear makes up for a lack of confidence in our playing.

I had 3 basses once and sold one cos at the time it fitted my head better having just two. Life's too short to be worrying - and if that means changing the rig so be it. I wonder if it could be made more modular so you can take bits of it.

[IMG]http://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee497/LukeFRC/DSC03081.jpg[/IMG] now sporting Bartolini pups. it took a while to grow on me.

[quote name='Rick's Fine '52' timestamp='1353078568' post='1871399'] I'm down at Andy's next Tuesday or Wednesday, for a spot of trading, so, if its still there, I'll try and have a whirl on it, and let y'all know how it plays. I just hope it doesnt draw me in too much. As has been said, it should be on display at MM. Looking forward to seeing it though! [/quote] involving a bass starting with R? It did strike me today - we talk about ground breaking bass design - and getting it right first time etc etc and the fact Leo seems to have done it right so many times - it strikes me that the important thing he designed wasn't the bass in itself - it was the pickup and where to put it. Thinking how a 51 and 57 P, a Jazz and a Musicman all have a distinctive pickup - in a certain placement that gives it it's sound. My guess would be that many of the other design decisions after that were let by economy and marketing as much as engineering. (sorry Luthiery) Expand that outwards - what else has a "classic" sound - and it's not so much basses as the pickups -Rickenbacker, Wal, and so - all with their own pickups. I wonder with the tendancy for many builders to use the existing designs if we miss out.

[quote name='DarkHeart' timestamp='1351879481' post='1856586'] here are the 2 together, the Funder Jeff Bass signature range [/quote] how come you have all the luck? 3 bodies, 3 good bodies and they come out well. I get one body and it turns out to be a dog of plastic coated basswood! looking good! (what's your plans for the blue stripped body btw?)

[quote name='gjones' timestamp='1353030018' post='1870838'] Now I know why I never attempted to respray any of my basses. [/quote] yeah it's not worth it unless know know what you are doing. I should have just bought a new body and waxed it! it's together and plays ok, memory tells me it sounded better before i messed it up

So attacked the thing with wet and dry - it's not a good finish, but it'll do, it's kinda a dull satin now. Bolted the thing back together. Set up and it's alright, too late to plug it in. here's a wee photo.

yeah, that doesn't seem really stupid for what they say it is. Interesting looking through their other items - great looking lake placid blue jazzmaster (would need to learn to play with 6 skinny strings!) - the vintage stuff I can understand how there is a market and so on that drives the prices - so £6k for a 60's bass, I'm not buying but I get it. £7k for a brand new PRS???? why?

[quote name='Selrak' timestamp='1353021127' post='1870752'] Buzzard JE Signature from Selrak, bassist of catalonian brutal drone doom band [url="http://entropia.ppcc.cat"]Entropia[/url]. [url="http://youtu.be/e8yTEgLXT28"]View buzzard videoclip[/url]. [/quote] did you mean Caledonian????

P bass wise.... I would go for... well I don't know much that would top my current P bass, so we'll keep that... Jazz bass.... my dream jazz would be a dakota (or candy apple) red with maple neck, white pickguard. Dunno why- the 50th anniversary jazz looked pretty nice. Part of me thinks though that if I did go the custom route and I wasn't too hung up on it saying fender on the headstock I would go for a local UK or EU builder.

[quote name='Rick's Fine '52' timestamp='1352989914' post='1870223'] My slab body is all finished, packaged, and with USPS mid-Atlantic as we speak, should be with me in the next couple of days, so I can start the assembly of my 'slab'. Will be interesting to see how [i]it[/i] sounds! All components are as the original, with many of them from '66, so we'll see! [/quote] quite exciting that!

Bugger Was meaning to start this thread for a while... but just been getting on with it. So picked up this bass in a trade which was supposedly a 1994 japanese squier jazz with a 1994 japanese squier body, well it still might be, who knows? But I picked it up as it was a good japanese neck to base a project on. More or less going to keep the neck and change everthing else. Got the thing home though and man - it's amazing sounding and playing - it's not quite a trad jazz sound more authoritive- and really really fun to play. So plan B is keep the bass as it is- I can't think of much that would defiantly improve it. Except someone had wrecked the finish- and oddly the chips are really sharp when you play - so strip it off and refinish in nitro! Price up Nitro nooo, poly finsih! So sand paper and paint stripper are bought and I set work on the finish- and it doesn't really do much. The paint stripper does nothing and the sand paper.... well lets just say that is sat sanding the same 2 inch square section for an entire film and still didn't get to the wood.... super hard finish - which would explain why the chips left sharp edges. I don't have a heat gun but I do have a gas cooker (you can see where this is going can't you?) but as it came off I found a really off thing. The body was basswood and had a thin laminate of plastic/wood stuff stuck on around it with a hard shiny finish - the thick hard paint had then been laid ontop of this - I guess it makes sense to give a good painting serface. ended up taking them both off. the top and bottom... first annoyance... where the plastic has been stuck with the grain it peels off easily - where it is against the grain, like on the sides, it doesn't - it just won't shift, doesn't really sand off and arrgh. So out comes the chisel and its all slowly chipped off leaving a ragidy edge to sand back. So that's all done and sand and reshape the body, sand the radius's by hand copying my JV p bass. Mistake number 1 - get so into shaping the edges I forget to give the front and back a good going over. Mistake number 2- see how the bottom horn looks too big? well trying to cut bits off is not a good idea. so then go to paint it - I go for Molotow graffiti paint- this stuff is amazing - great coverage, looks good and is cheap. It shows up all the inperfections (and holes) but hey ho! Mistake number 3 - I should have got a good finsih with cheap paint and left it at that. But go and get some poly clear coat gloss finsih for on the top. Mistake number 4 - graffiti paint is dead easy to spray and doesn't run - this comes out supper fast and before i know it is running everywhere leaving big white patches- Probably I could have left them to dry clear but... Mistake number 5 - I wipe them off with some kitchen roll and start again. And unwittingly get some moisture somewhere - leading to big cloudy patches. Sand back to get rid of them, a few rub throughts and then run out of paint. bugger. Ignore it respray - again it likes coming out fast. Ignore it, leave it to dry it's going to work whatever it comes out looking like now cos blowed if I have any more money to throw at it, and not sure I could do a better job anyway - next time pay a pro to do it. I should have sold this body as it was for £20 and just bought one already painted. Pictures soon