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[quote name='thedarxide' post='148831' date='Feb 29 2008, 10:06 AM']Is the headstock decal right for that bass? I thought they had "Precision bass" in small under the Fender logo?[/quote] Depends which year they're reissuing, that's a late 60s/early 70s reissue by the looks of things. Fender Japan did a 1970 reissue, didn't they?

[quote name='ped' post='148816' date='Feb 29 2008, 09:45 AM']Looks like the string tree was [b]a bridge too far[/b] too[/quote] Fnar fnar.

I find that very difficult to believe. The story or the price.

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='148245' date='Feb 28 2008, 09:27 AM']I can appreciate you'd be annoyed but you'll be wasting valuable time and effort trying to report him. What can you report him for? If you claim that he was trying to do a deal off eBay he could reciprocate saying that you made the approach and were trying to make an offer of eBay... you could end up in the cacky! I'm not saying you are wrong but it will likely as not be a fruitless exercise. [/quote] Reporting blatant ripoff auctions to eBay is frequently a waste of time so I don't suppose they'd do much about this. I did word my response very carefully saying that I was not willing to do business outwith eBay and that he should relist, so I think I'm clean in this respect. They might take a dim view of my "it's a bass neck not a ming vase" retort though

Hmph Had my eye on a bass neck in the states. Before I have placed a bid, guy pulls the auction - supposedly because of an incorrect starting value. But it never re-appears, so I message him asking if he's relisting it. I get messaged back asking me what my offer is. I told him that I wasn't impressed and that if he wanted to do business with me, he ought to relist. I did hint at a value I'd be prepared to pay that he might want to list it at. He doesn't get back to me, so I tell him I'm not being held to ransom. He messages back to say that he's had an offer above what I said. Bull. I think I'll report this, it ain't right. How the guy has racked up 700+ feedback (100% positive) is beyond me.

[quote name='Sibob' post='147894' date='Feb 27 2008, 03:32 PM']18 volts [url="http://imageshack.us"][/url][/quote] *grumbles something about "it's what you do with it that counts"*

[quote name='tauzero' post='147616' date='Feb 27 2008, 09:20 AM']I'm feeling a stirring of interest in an Artec. One question - do they come with knobs (they don't seem to)? If not (er, two questions), does anyone know any suppliers of reasonable cheap metal knobs to suit them?[/quote] No knobs. They use split shaft knobs for single pots and concentric pots are solid shaft (by design/necessity anyway?). Axesrus are good for random little things, and no postage. [url="http://www.axesrus.com/axenob.htm"]http://www.axesrus.com/axenob.htm[/url]

Sullying the name of my city! That's my job! Hmph.

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[quote name='OldGit' post='146594' date='Feb 25 2008, 02:15 PM']That looks great .. I've just got an Artec SE2A for my Project SX P bass. No room for the battery so I need to fit a rear battery box. Is it hard to do with a basic hand router?[/quote] Virtually foolproof if you make a template first. It's all in the template. Get a piece of MDF most of the size of the body. The trick is to make sure that you've got template material over the neck pocket and the control cavity for easy clamping points that won't mar the finish in any way. Measure your battery box. Now comes the maths. Decide what router bit you're using. Needs to be deep (I used a 50mm deep cutter) and you're unlikely to get one thinner than 12mm at that length. Most routers come with a guide bush that screws into the router base. It's usually 30mm wide. Assuming you use these figures (12mm cutter, 30mm guide bush), then you'll need to make your template 9mm bigger all round (from the centre of the cutter, the bush is 15mm away and half the cutter's diameter is 6mm, so 15-6 = 9mm difference). Cut out your template. I use the router to do this too. Measure from the extremity of the cutter you're using to the flat edge of the base plate. Clamp a straight edge the required distance away from your template hole and use this to guide the router along the edge of the hole, one side at a time. Do a test first! Fit the guide bush to the router. Clamp the template to some scrap wood block and do a test rout. Let the guide bush ride along the edge of the template. Check that your battery box will fit. Also, don't strain the router or the bit by trying to be a hero and doing the hole all in one. I do it in 10mm steps using the depth gauge on the router. For a battery box like the one above, you have to go down about 33mm if memory serves, the side on boxes are shallower, but require a bigger template. Your other option is to make the template the exact size you need and use a router bit with a roller guide at the top of the cutter. The roller will follow the edge of the guide. As you plunge further down the roller will follow the hole itself. Practice makes perfect. I remember the first rout I did took hours, I was so nervous.

[quote name='SJA' post='146582' date='Feb 25 2008, 02:02 PM']aren't the Musicmaster machineheads non-standard? I'm pretty sure you can't get a Hipshot detuner in the exact style of the ones on the bass in the bass porn forum.[/quote] Depends on the age. Later ones used normal fender branded 1/2" post tuners. '71 MM later MM

Ha, I just got rid of one of those sets of drinking chess on freecycle - someone gave me it years ago and I never used it. Got a taker within 15 minutes. Sounds about right for Aberdeen. Never saw the point in it personally - chess is a thinking game of skill, strategy and judgement - you can't play it drunk.

Very Gibson-esque cherry red finish - very nice indeed

[quote name='Mcgiver69' post='145696' date='Feb 23 2008, 06:54 PM']Hey how do those Artec SE2A sound? I'm really tempted to buy one for a project I putting together.[/quote] Pretty good range of sounds available, depending of course on what kind of pickups you're using. I used an Artec SE-2 in my first self build in conjunction with an MM humbucker and a Jazz single coil. That can do anything from mud to twang. I'll try and put some sound clips together.

[quote name='pete.young' post='145389' date='Feb 22 2008, 10:54 PM']Very neat job. Where did you get your Artec and the stacked pot from?[/quote] Thanks for the kind words. I got my Artec from an eBay seller in Singapore, and the knob came from axesrus. Edit: I misread you - the stacked pot comes with the SE-2A - it's attached to a small circuit board. Also you can get Artec gear from Thomann.

I thought I caught a glimpse of the 3 pickups of a G3... [url="http://www.gibsonbass.com/grabberG3.php"]http://www.gibsonbass.com/grabberG3.php[/url]

You may recall a while ago that I added a string hold down bar to my OLP MM3. Well, it pinged out under the stress of the strings. Oops. Never mind, it spurred me on to make more improvements! 1. Accursed break angle at the nut, remixed: got myself a Hipshot 3 string retainer. Covered up the mess left by the failed string hold down bar. Looks really neat too 2. Active 2 band EQ: Hated the standard wiring (2 volume (1 for each coil of the humbucker) and 1 passive tone) so installed an Artec SE-2A. New config: 1 blend pot (all rear coil > both full > all front coil), master volume, stacked treble/bass. 3. Battery box: for testing I found a space underneath the pickguard and wedged the battery in with foam, but for the permanent fixture I had to get the router out. It's a much more useful instrument now. Incidentally, I discovered that OLP used linear pots for that wonderful "all or nothing" feel. Joy.

OK, done. I'm not going to make any more changes to it right now. If you have spotted something that needs improving, go into the wiki and change it yourself. That's the whole point of it being a wiki!

[quote name='queenofthedepths' post='145043' date='Feb 22 2008, 01:50 PM']I take it you're referring to this bit: I believe it should read:[/quote] Doh, cheers for that. At some point in the calculation, I made the shipping costs disappear. If only I could perform that trick outside a wiki article

[quote name='Toasted' post='145045' date='Feb 22 2008, 01:51 PM']Also, VAT is charged on goods and shipping. [b]Import duty is only charged on the goods.[/b][/quote] [quote name='HMRC']Customs duty - this is usually charged as a percentage of the value. The percentage varies depending on the type of goods and their country of origin. Duty is charged on the price paid for the goods including any local sales taxes plus postage, packing and insurance costs. However, postage is excluded from the calculation for duty on gifts sent by post except for Express Mail Service (EMS).[/quote] Reading that, what you say is only true if it's a gift (and not sent EMS). Am I reading it wrong?