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DIY jaguar bass build looking for any help I can get
Grangur replied to Hazza590's topic in Build Diaries
You can't beat having new screws to put the bass together. Somewhere that's really good for buying screws and other parts is WD Music. http://www.wdmusic.co.uk/hardware-parts-c1 They also sell some really good necks. Not the cheapest, but they are good and no import duty to be paid on your purchase either. -
I'd go for the FNA out of those 2. The weight would clinch it for me. Also, on the Jazzman, you can select the pickups to be the same as the Corvette. That said, the pre-amp on my FNA isn't as good as those I've had on Corvettes. But it might just be mine.
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I'm in Bishops Stortford; 30 miles down the M11. I've got a Barefaced One10, so it's nice and portable.
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DIY jaguar bass build looking for any help I can get
Grangur replied to Hazza590's topic in Build Diaries
I have 2 chrome knobs. They're push on ones. I know they fit the small pots I have here. "Bent Bit of Tin" Chrome bridge. Its in virtually "as new" condition. I'm happy to put them in the post to you. Don't post your address here. If you want them, PM me. -
My ex-next-door-neighbour works/ed at Stansted airport. Not in the bit we go to, but in the posh bit up the road. 2 customers he dealt with were Alan Sugar and Rod Stewart. I know nothing about AS, but he spoke well of Rod and he was invited to many of Rod's parties. Now this guy was nothing more than a driver and baggage man, so it's possible that Rods attitude in the wings of the stage is all part of the act?. Or maybe avoiding distraction when he has to have a clear head for thinking?
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Something I've picked up in my later 50s: Practical things are odd. Some of us find it SOOoooo easy. It takes no time and what to do to get a great job is reeeeeallly obvious. To others, practical stuff is a total mystery and no matter how many hours they spend on YouTube, they'll still end up wrecking things and stripping threads. It's a shame, but that's life. I can't sing and I'll never be great on bass, but I can do most things to fix up a bass. Each to their own. Don't knock folk for what they find hard. It's not helpful.
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DIY jaguar bass build looking for any help I can get
Grangur replied to Hazza590's topic in Build Diaries
I was just thinking I and some others might have some bits hanging about we can contribute. I've probably got knobs and might have a bridge. What I do have is all the tools for leveling and crowning the frets. I'm down the road in Bishops Stortford. So if you and Dad fancy a drive over, when the time's right, I can help you out with a go with my tools. That will save you needing to buy them. -
Corvette pricing has become a nightmare recently, what with "Rockbass" and "Pro" and all manner of others. It's frustrating to see prices of Rockbasses going up and catching up the German made basses. $$ Corvettes go for more than the normal ones; adding to the confusion. I agree with much of the above. £850 is a bit high. I had a 5-string bubinga. That weighed just over 5Kg. It's not something I'd want to have hanging on me for 2 hours. I got £850 for mine when I sold it.
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Having read Bill Wyman's book about his days in the Stones, it seems within the bands there are some people who are Premier League and others who're not accepted to be in the front line. In the Stones Mick, Keith and Brian were the "in crowd". They lived together in 1 house. Charlie and Bill were never on the same league. Ian Stewart was even never accepted to be on stage even though he was in the band. "A good face for radio", i think is the term used. Bill Wyman says in the book, Jagger tried to convince Stewart that even if he wasn't on stage he was just as much a member of the band. Bill did he best too to help hold it together, but he says, it hurt. It always did hurt Ian Stewart and he never made as much money as anyone else.
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Given that a string that's made as an "E" string, on a bass of 34" scale length, needs to achieve a pre-determined tension for it to put out a note that will be an "E". I find it hard to see how this can happen, unless the string is faulty, or you're tuning it to an E an octave lower than the actual E that it's meant to be putting out. Either that, or the tuning head isn't keeping the string to tension.
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Hey, @Jus Lukin I guess neither "Castrol GTX" or "Crisp'n' Dry" are the best route to go?
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Yes 1. Tune up, 2. Relief, 3. Action height at the bridge.
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This does seems to be a "new world problem". The fact, is DPD say he's free to have other clients. The reality is, if he's got 5 days work, he has no time to have any other clients. Years ago I was working contract as a design-engineer. At that time HMRC work closing down on self-employed contractors who only had a single client. They were then arguing that you're not self-employed unless you have more than 1 client. I guess, big-businesses have strong-armed the Gov't and facilitated this and zero-hours contracts, because this is the way that large companies can get cheap-labour to cover out-sourced contracts like hospital/school security, cleaning, maintenance, and all the other similar things. It's a mad world. Can't wait to wake up and find it's all a dream.
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My guess is the OP's band would have got a slagging off for something, anything, whatever they'd done. By contrast. Mrs G and I went to see Imelda May at the Corn Exchange in Cambridge. Mrs G went off to the usual place, as one does and Imelda May was next in the queue for a cubicle. I'm sure there MUST be facilities backstage, but I guess some folks like to mingle with normal humans. Mind you, I guess they can also have one way of dealing with the public and another for support artists/bands.
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Just saw this on The Guardian web site: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/feb/05/courier-who-was-fined-for-day-off-to-see-doctor-dies-from-diabetes This doesn't make one feel inclined to use DPD for bass deliveries. But I guess many couriers will have folk on the same types of contracts.
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Nice colour! It'd be good to see a pic where we can really see it.
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Changed my mind
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I agree with Happy Jack. What bass have you got? What is it about the current bass that makes you want something different? That's to say, what's missing, or what are you wanting from the "new" bass?
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You are right. Squier basses are metric. It's best to just go and get a good set of Allen keys. Wickes do some good ones. I use this set http://www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-Long-Pattern-Hexagon-Key-Set-of-30/p/167811
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I got an email from Warwick. Although the site says "out of stock", they do have stock. So 1 is ordered and on the way to me now.
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The body of a bass is pretty thick, it's also wide. I know I'm a wimp, but I've never succeeded in bending a body over my knee. I have, however managed to bend a neck over my knee. On this basis, it's my personal theory that there's more chance that reverberations under the vibrations of the string will be greater in the neck than in the body. Please do tell me I'm wrong. Always happy to learn.
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Isn't a lot of this "tonewood" discussion also, as @chris_b says, down to the situation you play in, and the tone you use? @NancyJohnson plays in a band using a lot of distortion. NJ will disagree with me, I guess, but IMHO, in this situation a bass is a bass, is a bass. If, as I do, you play solo, no effects, analysing the tone and ring of every note, you're probably going to notice a lot more of the small differences in the character of the tone. Have to agree that wood from the same tree will resonate differently. The wood at the heart is more dense, than the younger wood at the outside. But I would expect different types of woods will have a more marked difference. But there are also, possibly similarities between some woods. Doubt if the loss of rosewood will kill off music all together though. Light is still pretty useable these days, even if we don't use gas or oil any more.
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@NancyJohnson I was there for the shootout that @Lozz196 did, and it was, indeed behind a curtain. Over all the basses, the ones with the Rosewood necks were all distinctively had more bite in the sound. The maple neck basses were all more thuddy. I liked the maple necks, much to my surprise, as I've never owned one.
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From my experience Nitro goes on very thin. If you're looking for a hard shell to protect from dings, then you'll need a lot of layers to get anything like the thickness you're used to seeing on some of the Fender-style instruments. Don't try to spray it thick all in one go. If you do, all you'll get is a bumpy surface like "orange peel". Or otherwise, even worse, it will run. Take your time. Make the room as dust-free as you can, and use a face mask and goggles. If, between coats, you find you get "nibs" in the finish, (Nibs = dust and crud that make small lumps) wait until it's dry, then rub the rough bits with the back of a sheet of glass-paper or emery-paper. This will smooth it off without taking you back to square 1. What you'll have is an oil finish. You can check this online at www.warwick.de. Go to "Support", then "Serial Numbers". You can then type in the serial number and it'll tell you something like this: You can always try first to get rid of the oil finish on the back of the neck only, then if the spray doesn't take, you can always re-oil and wax again.
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From work in wood finishing; when we wanted to re-finish oiled wood with lacquer, both of the above are right. I've always used white spirit to wash the wood with to remove as much of the oil as possible, then sand it down. If anyone has ever used silicone spray polish then give up on day one. You won't ever be able to get rid of that successfuly. Before starting though, what is the advantage of satin nitro that you want? The benefit of oil finish is that any scratch or ding can be easily removed and repaired by sweating the dent out and sanding. Lacquer finish is far harder to repair. The disadvantage of oil is dirty sweaty hands can stain the wood. I guess the choice is yours.
