neepheid

Oh, so [i]that's[/i] why no-one's bought mine yet!

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I'm pretty slow with this fretting business. I've done 10 frets tonight in an hour and a half and I got bored and went home from the workshop. Which brings me to my next question - what on earth do people use to cut fret ends down to size? They're bloody hard. I've been using the Dremel to cut them but even it takes its sweet time to cut through, and I don't fancy a spinning wheel of death next to my fingerboard.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='479225' date='May 4 2009, 06:55 PM']I can stick it to the casing fine but usually use a lot of solder, do I need to make sure the contac is with the casing rather than with the solder?[/quote] It should be fine. On brand new pots, I rough up the area where I'm going to solder first, I think I read somewhere that helps. As long as the solder has taken to the casing and the wire's in the solder then it should be fine.

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='479189' date='May 4 2009, 06:15 PM']Shielding your bass and ensuring a good earth contact. The soldering to the casing is usually the hardest part with a dinky electric soldering iron.[/quote] Agreed, I crank out the 40W iron for pot casings. I really ought to get an adjustable temperature one to save me swapping between the 25 and the 40 during a wiring job.

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='478523' date='May 3 2009, 08:54 PM']Whatever you do stay away fae RnB unless you actually like paying through the nose to have your bass chewed up. I'll extend the same invitation as Neepheid. Of course only one of us can do a "quailty" set up. [/quote] Quail-ty? That must be me - you're a veggie

[quote name='Buzz' post='478730' date='May 4 2009, 01:55 AM']Whatcha gonna do to that angled J-pup hole chap, fill it in like the other or is the pup going there as well?[/quote] I'm going to cut out a hole large enough for 2 EMG 40s and a zebrano ramp inbetween them (which will end up being almost exactly the same size as an EMG 40 pickup, funnily enough). These terrible holes will be completely obliterated in the process.

Actually got off my butt and got some work done on this: - Ground down the nippers and removed the frankly pathetically installed old frets - Hammered in my first fret - Started to make the template for the pickup/ramp routing

I'll do it

[quote name='boabskiboab' post='478158' date='May 3 2009, 12:26 PM']I am having a sunday morning think, never a good thing after a saturday night on the sauce. Lets say i have a jazz bass. Would it be possible to set it up with qp's that are connected with quick connectors. So that i could swap out for a set of EMG's in minutes. Is there any reason why this wouldn't work?[/quote] Nothing's impossible, but bear in mind that QPs are passive, EMGs (I presume you're meaning EMG J or JV and not HZ) are active. Which means that you need 250-500k pots for the passive pup and 25k pots for the active ones. Not to mention remembering not to fire +9V through your QPs by mistake.

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='477116' date='May 1 2009, 03:46 PM']I get a lot of turbulence from my passengers at high speeds. [/quote] <python> "I fart in your general direction!" </python> (That's twice for that gag, I wonder how many more situations it'll be appropriate for)

I had a problem with mine - I think a cap went potty and burned out a resistor in the power rectification stage for the valve preamp. Replaced the caps and the resistor and it's been great ever since. Obviously a total showstopper has to be traced from the power lead backwards. The attached file might help.

Good luck, hope it all works out for you.

It depends. I've just invested in EMG pickups and EQ for my Les Paul so I had better bloody like it active! But seriously, the original passive circuitry had very little tonal range and was mostly thick humbucker sounds. This bass has become my workhorse and I simply wanted the sound to be brighter. I went 3 band EQ so that I can have a degree of mid scoop regardless of what I'm plugged into. So far in 3 venues out of 3 I've been DIed into the PA, so the more control I have before that happens, the better I like it. Having said that, I resisted advice to put some sort of preamp into my Bronco. It just seemed wrong - it already has a sweet tone, it's just a bit quiet. Well, that's what amps are for. So, like I said - it depends.

I rather liked American Idiot.

[quote name='chenzo_1' post='475869' date='Apr 30 2009, 12:05 PM']A mate of mine is selling his peavey milestone for £35 is it worth buying it ripping the frets out, whackin in some nice pups and adding an a nice set of flatwounds?[/quote] It's worth it for an experiment, but not much else. [quote]If i ever decided to sell it on after woulds would i be able to break even?[/quote] No. Keep the original pups and if you sell on, whip out your nice ones and put them in something else. Put back in the old pups. You'll probably still lose a little because you ripped the frets out.