gary mac

Reading through this thread, certainly shows a massive amount of over thinking the subject. I had a P bass in for repair yesterday. It needed a shim as the bridge saddles were all the way down and the action still too high. Had the neck off, a piece of laminated card in there and all back together, perfectly adjusted within about thirty mins. Guess what? No loss of tone/sustain/volume and the action is just lovely now. Maybe, just maybe, the card will compress a bit in a few years time and then the whole complicated job will have to be done again.

That is looking pretty fab Kevin.

Sounds like a fair and reasonable price to me.

Great looking P

I felt it was exactly the right way to play a few songs that were in the last band's set. So that's what I did 🙂

Don't forget to discharge the capacitors 😀

Healthwise, if you can do it, then do. I'm very near to sixty and still gigging, I still get a kick out of and find it to be a very valuable morale booster. It is exhausting for me and I need a few days to recover but unless my health deteriorates and/or bands don't want me, then I shall continue to kick up a din for as long as possible. I've had to go for progressively lighter rigs and give consideration to the weight and balance of basses.

Great job, well done. Diagnosis can be difficult, especially if the buzz is actually a hum or vice versa

Are you all sorted on the buzzing issue. Good luck with the surgery.

A great and generous idea

What a great, challenging project. Good to see that you are getting there with it.

I've seen the cap recommendation as a safety aid before but personally would not put faith in it. Only a fast blowing fuse could be relied upon. I think Taylor might be one of the manufacturers who do just that and install a fuse.

Sounds like a grounding issue. Worth checking amp and cables though. Assuming it's not a cable problem or a problem with the electrics in your house, then carefully inspect all the pots, output socket and ground cables, look closely at the solder joints.

I'm very impressed with their customer service. I was recently repairing one of their amps, it was out of warranty but they happily sent me the parts FOC.

Don't desolder the wires at the pick up end but from the controls.

Despite the gruesome weather and road conditions, the gig went ahead and we raised over £2000.

What a looker, very handsome.

Happy to recommend Sean, he was a pleasure to deal with and very prompt with posting.

Sad to hear that.

He should be delighted with that bridge, they are so well engineered, easy to use, once fitted and in my opinion, look great. Re the pick ups, as with guitars the choice is huge and there are provably more good than bad. Might be easier to make a choice based on the style of music that your lad enjoys playing, or if likes the tone of a certain player, that could help. IN my P basses, I love G&L MFD SB1's. I'm about to do a P bass build with Fender 62 reissues, as I've been so impressed when hearing them. I would also happily use Entwistle pickups in guitar or bass, the quality is great, even though they are very cheap compared to many others on the market. I recently fitted a set of their humbuckers to a customer's Les Paul and he was totally delighted with them. Anyway, hope he is happy with whatever you get for him.