mikeswals

Yes, Bill Bolton I saw him post something on one of the Facebook pages as well

Yeah! I remember on the FDP forum, there was only fella who has a 62 stack knob, its an Aussie named Bill

Fender is the biggest cash cow for aftermarket and replacement components in the instrument world... Biggest reason is because of fraud bodies & necks or major patches being hidden under a repaint. People are paying for originality on Fenders when its easy to see what you have. Still need to be educated about all the running details though! Whats to keep (as has happened many times) crooked folks to doctor up a Squier body or Allparts neck , throw a paint job on it and claim originality and try and get top vintage dollar? Its best to leave well enough alone, if still all there. No one is making fraud Spectors, or Musicmans, or Status, they have no aftermarket cash cow market. A Wal will sell whether its original or refin'ed or defretted/fretted

Beautiful preEB!!! The "long poles" are actually on the underside of the pickup.

I just don't like them! There is so much richness lost with flats, the over tones that let tube amps bark, and effects speak much better with rounds. I can still mute and thump with rounds for the rare songs that really need such a sound. I still have one bass left with flats, and its a P bass, but I dont prefer playing P's either...its only there because I'm a Jamerson fan. But I'm always wishing I brought something else whenever I do take it out of the house. Ive always had duplicates of basses, and 15-20 years ago I used to keep flats on the 2nd of each style bass, but realized I was never reaching for them. Ive tried lots and lot$$$ of brands of them, and Dunlops being the only ones I stuck with because the tension is most similar to rounds.

His post on September 26th says its getting a blacked-out neck. Back in 2019 I had and order in progress for a Mk3 in white (arrived in 2022). For a quick minute I had Paul send me a few ziricote samples as I had considered maybe changing to gloss ziricote with a black painted neck. But I nixed the idea and stayed the course with white as I had the agenda my last three orders would be red, white, & blue. My blue Mk1 order should be getting painted as we speak, already had my workshop pic sent over a month ago.

usually you only get three pics: the neck, and then when the body is done all before paint/clear coating, and then last when its all finished sitting in the case.

Fantastic looking Mk3! can't wait to see the final product with the black neck.

My 64 & 65 Jazzes. My 78 Ray still has 3.2 years to go!

I have 8 Wals, and all are usually strung with stainless DR Hibeams. For a short period I used R Cocco stainless whenever I could find them, but it got more difficult finding them in the US, and I hated their B strings, so stopped. But my Wal 5's only get Hibeams, the B strings sound perfectly consistant with the rest. I have never worn frets in nearly 3 decades using DR. Lately I had checked out some others, and I have a 4 string MK2s strung with SIT Foundations stainless, and those have been on there for over 2 years now and still bright and zingy!

My GLXD16 is one the best pieces of gear I invested in. I've had it since 2015 and done well over a thousand shows. I have two transmitters for it and kept in Neotech pouches, and have done all the current firmware updates from Shure's site.

If the retaining ring (aka the barrell) for the 3-pin socket has loosened up that it can rotate, then you probably have a failing solder joint. Mine did that and when I realized it wasn't the cable, but in the socket, I was way out of any warranty and had no choice but to open the transmitter up and repair by resoldering the tiny wires back to the socket pins. Work carefully and pay attention because the rubber door can get pinched and not open correctly, but was relatively easy fix. So yes, periodically check that the retaining ring hasn't unscrewed itself.

I have been using the Shure GLXD16 (before the +) since 2015 and absolutely love it still. Rechargable and lasts many hours, unlike my previous G50 that ate batteries like crazy. Built in tuner is great with a 5 string, range isn't an issue at all, and the gain adjustments if you want to add more transmitters with basses with different outputs is great. Firmware updates are easy to load in, and the signal search locks me in every time. I use a Neotech pouch to attach it to my strap.

Aria calls it "high-end revisit". Aria has been making the SB1000 again since about 2009. this time they're using Gotoh bridges and tuners, and to me the new bridge makes way more sense...I never dug the tight spacing. https://ariaguitarsglobal.com/product/sb-1000rib/