JimBobTTD

I just read the build diary...very nice indeed. I like it a lot. Welcome to the forum!

Complete bummer. I hope you find a way to continue playing - all the best, mate!

I would use my Ibanez SR1205 as a template and then make a few alterations. So, I would take the: 5 piece maple/wenge through-neck with SR5 neck shape Mahogany with maple top body, SR shape 34" scale and then go for EMG 40TW in neck and bridge EMG BQS preamp, with two toggle switches to the side for the pickup splits Chunkier bridge (Badass V, perhaps?) Ebony 'board And, as I'd like the body's maple to be flamed, I'd like a translucent green finish please. That is it. If I were to go custom, that would be it. In fact, that's been "it" for quite a while. Luckily for me I already have the SR1205, or GAS would be killing me right now.

[quote name='Musky' post='636340' date='Oct 25 2009, 07:06 PM']It looks very much like the SR700 [url="http://www.ibanez.co.jp/anniversary/expansion.php?cat_id=248&now=18"]in the 2001 catalogue[/url], only that is listed as a walnut finish with black hardware.[/quote] That's what I thought too when I saw it. I have the SR705 from that time and the 4-string which sparked off this discussion looks very similar. The bridge, albeit gold, looks a lot like the black one I have on mine, which also has no model number and was made in Japan.

This place has pics and details of loads of Ibanez basses. [url="http://ibanezregister.com/Gallery/bass_gallery.htm"]http://ibanezregister.com/Gallery/bass_gallery.htm[/url]

This is the bass of the moment for me right now: I acquired it in early August. I already had an Ibanez 5er, and I assumed that this would be better as it is a higher model. I was right. I have changed strings, polished the frets, changed pickups to EMGs, put in an EMG preamp and now everything is about as good as can be. If I had magical powers, I'd change the routes so the EMGs fit perfectly and make the 3 band EQ on 3 knobs. Ah, happy days!

[quote name='simon1964' post='634589' date='Oct 23 2009, 05:39 PM']The one I wouldn't recommend is the Behringer rack tuner. Slow and doesn't track well[/quote] Yup. I leant mine to a friend and am not that bothered about getting it back. Rubbish. It had troubles with Eb, so I'm sure it wouldn't handle B either.

I have been rather harsh of BGM in this thread, and rightly so (as it was quite awful). I must say that the recent couple of issues have been much, much better. There seems to have been a total rethink of the magazine's ethos and staff moral - it is a far better read now than before. There is still a way to come, naturally, but it will never be perfect. I would like to see a redesign of the final few pages, as it fizzles out (adverts) rather than leaving a can't-wait-for-the-next-issue feeling (final interview, tech article or something). Anyway, I shall be renewing my subscription when it is due if BGM keeps it up.

Tjeeeeeeeeeeeeena Jens! Glad to have you on board. I'm in Örebro.

Thankfully my wife has her own hobbies, so she is fine with mine. Besides, giving an ultimatum is a tool to keep excitement from one episode of a cheesy soap opera to the next and has no place in real life.

I knew that there were "supply problems", but not this. Oh dear. Tough times we live in... If anyone finds a Badass V in black and nice and cheap, let me know! Best I can find is $100 incl postage, but with import costs etc, that's a bit much for me right now.

I just bought a very nice Morley Bass Wah off budget bassist. No problems at all - buy with confidence! Thanks!

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='622941' date='Oct 11 2009, 11:38 AM'][...] Will I be able to flog my CV for ten grand when I'm 87, then? [...][/quote] That depends on how old you are now! But probably, yes. I can see today's cheapies going for £10k in 60 years. Of course, at that point, a loaf of bread will be £1k, a pint of milk £850...

Sorry. My brain must have been in the other room when I posted. I understood it as you had installed a cool preamp which somehow managed to split the EMGs or samfink. See? My shame was so complete that it took me the best part of a week to confess!

Sad news indeed.

I am not "someone". I am JimBobTTD - HEAR ME ROAR!!!!!!!!

Did you get EMG 40TWs? I can't see how the DCs can be tapped/split, what with them being in enclosed units. If they can, how did you do it?

Nice - congrats on the new bass. I hear great things about the Bongos, plus a lot of criticism of their appearance. Mind you, I'm positively drooling over the Ibanez in that last pic you have. Mmmmmmm.

Yup - a circuit board with the preamp on it attached to at least on of the pots, different wiring and so on. What that looks like to me is two volumes and a master tone. Ie something that looks like this: which is an EMG pre.