Jean-Luc Pickguard

The Harley Bentons aren't available at the moment, but I contacted Thomann to ask about them and I was told they should be available May/June and they will produce cases for them which should be available in the summer.

A fix I've used when this happened on a bass was to slightly flatten the thread of the offending grub screw with pliers.

Is this one of those StSanders shreds videos?

Lets hope its less of a waste of money than that tutorial video he released was for anyone daft enough to buy it - the one where Flea talks bollocks to River Phoenix & jams with Chad Smith

I have one on my 2003 highway1 jazz which had a deadspot at the 5th fret of the G string. The fatfinger worked. Before buying it I checked that it would work by using a tiny cast iron g-clamp from the pound shop. I since fitted hipshot vintage style tuners to the bass including a D-tuner which also seemed to help due to their increased mass.

For me there are only two types of strings: TI flats & everything else. I have tried alternatives to TIs but I don't get the bounce thats TIs give me that make them so enjoyable to play fingerstyle. I have sets of JF324, the 32" set, on a Fender mustang bass (thru body) & a Squier Jag SS (fitted with a hi-mass toploading bridge) which is my main bass for playing at home, rehearsals and gigs. I have had no problems with the strings on either of these 30" instruments and even though the set on the jag cost almost a quarter of what I paid the bass, the long life of the strings means that this is not important. I first tried TI 344s on one of my precisions well over ten years ago & the original set is still going strong on that bass.

Make some out of sugru? http://sugru.com

if a bridge's a thicker baseplate affects the action, shimming the neck will enable you to correct that

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1395150016' post='2399184'] Not unless you want to suffer a horrendous poo-storm like the last member on here to do such a thing! [/quote] That might be amusing. Any chance of a link to the thread where that happened if you can find it?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/electric-bass-guitar/121296366161 That looks like a Japan-made 62 reissue Squier JV from 82/83 - should someone tell him to make it a bit more obvious in the title?

The whole Shepherds Bush gig last week is on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3oAaElKxKs

If it was a genuine blocked & bound fender I'd expect to see a bullet truss rod adjuster at the headstock end - not a x-slotted adjuster at the heel end. I think this is most likely an allparts and if so will have 'licensed by fender' on it (unless it has been removed)

my band's guitarist and I both leave our more expensive instruments at home and both use a squier as our main instruments - I have a VM jaguar short scale which was a great buy considering it was £160 new. I haven't even needed to upgrade the pickups, the only upgrades so far are TI flatwounds, a switchcraft jack and a high mass bridge I had going spare in my bits box.

very happy with my bastardised Schroeder 1212L with the trusty LMII

I'm a big fan of the BLE100 - I have two of them so there's always a spare.

Jesus wept! [quote] Dear mdphillips1956, Is there a specific reason why you tried to get left handed tuners to fit this bass or did you just fail to realise there was a difference when you bought them? - jean-luc-pickguard [/quote] [quote] Dear jean-luc-pickguard, Hi Jean, That is really astute to spot that; no they were bought from Ireland and maybe they don't differentiate there! Mind you all four go the same way so it quickly feels natural that way, which is much better than most double sided guitars that have two going one way and two the other. Thanks, Mark.............. - mdphillips1956 [/quote]

When we get requests we make people aware of the band policy that all song requests must be submitted on a fifty pound note & if we don't know the song we'll play another one that has some of the same notes in it.

I have never seen a pickguard age like that naturally - vinyl ones usually just stay the same colour and pick up pick marks. Also chrome doesn't usually age like that - the chrome hardware on my basses including a well-used 1981 fender is as bright as the chrome on my newest bass. Nickel plated tuners often develop a dull patina though, but that would look very different to what you have done. As it does not emulate natural aging I wouldn't call it a relic.

[quote name='mart' timestamp='1342621074' post='1738019'] Huh? Go on, it's a dull afternoon, what's the back-story on this? [/quote] http://bit.ly/Nzk6ZH

I steered clear from a Taylor as I don't want any of my money channeled into supporting scientology. I tried a few and couldn't afford a takamine so ended up buying a tanglewood rosewood reserve which is absolutely brilliant. The sound of any electro acoustic bass is improved with a behringer ADI-21 preamp pedal To prevent feedback when gigging a rubber "feedback buster" in the soundhole works wonders (as does a CD stuck with blu-tak over the soundhole.

It seems to me that a precision (or similar) with just the single precision pickup sounds best with a BBOT bridge (somehow punchier) but once a bridge pickup is added (eg a PJ configuration) a hiMass bridge sounds better. Am I imagining it or could there be a reason?

This thread is making me wince

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