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I polish frets with either T-cut or Brasso, whichever mild abrasive I have at the time. I mask off the fingerboard with masking tape running next to the frets, then crack on. Obviously this is purely cosmetic.

Nice one, glad the cab made it down in one piece, that you had a good gig and the sound (and weight ) is to your liking.

Vin bought my Zoot 4x10 cab. Everything went smooth, good comms, paid super promptly. All good here

[quote name='Colonel36' timestamp='1479447715' post='3176584'] Thanks Bass bunny / Thunderbird. I've ordered one of those and just hope I've got the right length. Incidentally....what's the difference 'tween mono or stereo ones. [/quote] Stereo ones have a third terminal (for the ring part of a stereo jack). In electric bass terms this is mostly used to complete the circuit to switch on the power to active electronics using a mono jack plug (this bridges the ring and sleeve connections). In a passive bass it is irrelevant - use the tip and sleeve terminals as usual and ignore the ring.

All things going well I'm going to see 'Arry in May 2017. Unbelievably, Maiden are coming to little old Aberdeen again, Glasgow being the only other Scottish date. To be honest, I thought 2011 would be the last time they ever came this far up, 1990 being the time before that. This will be my third time seeing them (also saw them at Download Festival 2007). Excited!

Cool, in time for Christmas

Here is a wiring diagram, taken from Cadfael's passive wiring book (http://161589.homepagemodules.de/t29f2-Cadfaels-kleine-Schaltplan-Sammlung-fuer-passive-E-Baesse.html - very good resource, PDF link is at the bottom of the page) If the wiring looks sound then check the switch - if some of the contacts aren't being pushed together enough by the physical action of the lever then it might cause cut out. Chandlers == replacement pickguard. Perhaps the old one cracked or warped? Hope all that helps.

[quote name='ivansc' timestamp='1478248560' post='3167789'] Nope - the travis/bigsby guitar in the country museum hall of fame in Nashville predates the strat by a long way as far as I know. [url="https://www.vintageguitar.com/1807/bigsby-merle-travis-electric-guitar/"]https://www.vintageg...lectric-guitar/[/url] Not a good photo but the story is there including dates and of course there are others. [/quote] I reckon the sticky out tongue smiley suggests the author was very aware of this

Yamaha BB1200s Musicman Big Al 4 SSS Gibson G-3 (original, not 70s Tribute - I miss mine a bit) An old, beat up, missing bits post 1972 Gibson EB-3L for restoration. Money available for this - none. Anyone feeling generous?

Aberdeen Originals: Krakatoa, Cafe Drummond, Vulture Lounge, Underdog, The Tunnels, The Lemon Tree, Upstairs at O'Neills, sometimes The Blue Lamp Covers: The Globe, The Rusty Nail, and probably many others that I'm not aware of.

Now see, I quite like this but I would get an all-in-one pickguard made to replace all those chrome switch plates. I don't like too much pointless bling on a bass. It's maybe not so bad with the white guard.

A 4SSS is on my bass bucket list, but I do have a history of weird shapes and triple pickup basses

It was no bad - they had a wee raised area for the band and a not bad wee PA thing (one of those tall thin type speakers). We didn't have a huge amount of folk there but those who were there danced around twice as hard to make up for it They had a bit of a setback this year when there was a fire in the place (faulty fridge I think I read somewhere). I don't know how that has affected Zee's plans for world (or at least Stonehaven) domination Pay wasn't great for us either, but we're used to getting crap/non-existent/exposure pay being an originals band - we offered to do it for a nominal sum to help him get the ball rolling but he ended up giving us a bit extra than what we asked, so that was nice. Nice guy, enthusiastic, I hope putting on bands works out for him.

[quote name='grumpyguts' timestamp='1477028082' post='3159300'] Our guitar man couldn't do band practice yesterday. So with Bass, Keys, Sax, Drums and vox we sounded lovely - well i thought so. I could actually hear what Mr Keys was doing plus bass sounded great in a bit more space. Excellent, happy to do more without guitar. [/quote] We've been gigging and recording in a similar config (as above plus trombone) without guitar for years. We're not anti-guitar, that's just how it happened

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1476444304' post='3154349'] If you're unsure as to whether you need a Precision, I've made this handy flowchart to help. You're welcome. [/quote] I'm getting dizzy.

Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V

No, you don't /need/ a P bass. Contrary to common belief, it is feasible to be a bass player and not own a P bass If you /want/ one, go for it.

Already been discussed, and it looks like Strings and Things won't give you much trouble about it: http://basschat.co.uk/topic/291856-hercules-stands-with-sticky-grip/

I play originals so I just do what I do, there is no tone to replicate

Fenderbird type instruments aren't really my thing, but it's nice to see the old 'Bird's place in history being nodded to once again. Looks like a good deal for the money, some of the flavour of the NR Thunderbird of old has been captured (including the (IMHO) daft jack socket position between the pots ), top horns look right, pickguard looks good too (and I know what people are saying about the guard being shaped for a bridge pickup which isn't there - but Gibson did exactly this back in the day - they used the same guard regardless of whether or not it was going on a Thunderbird II (single pickup) or IV (dual pickup). What bugs me about it (and it took me a minute to work it out) is how cut across the bottom it is - it's almost a straight line, and it looks downright weird to me, like someone took a saw to it. It is probably the literal reversal of the Reverse design body, which makes logical sense but the bottom (bridge) end of the Non-Reverse body is much more rounded than that. Whether this is was intentional as a weight relief measure or just to give it its own distinctiveness (by becoming a hybrid of the top of an NR Thunderbird and the bottom of one of those Greco NRs (which was pretty much a Reverse body, reversed - or an upside down lefty with the right handed controls), or an error in communicating body shape/dimensions is not for me to say, but it spoils it a little for me, as a former owner of an actual NR Thunderbird (albeit the modern, this century reissue).

I'm with you on the lipstick pickup: It was a GFS strat bridge (8K) one. It was quite a few years ago, so I don't remember where I got it from or where I got the black pickguard, sorry. I also fitted full size tuners and the Squier Musicmaster 4 saddle bridge - if I remember correctly the mounting screws aren't in the same place as the 2 saddle bridge, needed filling and redrilling a couple of them. It's also designed for string through only, so first of all I drilled holes in the back of the plate to allow top loading strings and eventually modded the body to allow the through body stringing. Then I sold it, because I was even more fickle then than I am now

Being geographically challenged (here in the actual north, not flamin' Newcastle, call that "north"? ) I don't have a lot of choice other than courier basses and stuff to people, because that's where most of the people buying stuff are. Damn right you should all come up to Aberdeen and pick up stuff in person to make my life easier, but that just isn't going to happen The main bugger of it all is that it limits my choice of stuff sometimes because my willingness to post is not reciprocated by people who can't/won't post for whatever reason. Yeah, yeah, boo hoo, suck it up, I chose to live up here etc. etc. And if you think I'm wasting a day going to Glasgow/Edinburgh to maybe buy something - you're sorely mistaken. The £40 of fuel is just the start - what about time? I don't have the luxury of having fantastically stocked bass emporiums within a handy distance, so I deal at distance. If I don't like it, new stuff is covered by distance selling regs, second hand stuff just gets tossed back into the market. I have learned to set up basses to my liking by myself so I don't need any help or after care from the retailer unless the item is actually faulty.

I think one of mine has the sticky syndrome - nice to hear they're stepping up and not shirking it.