Jean-Luc Pickguard

Yep: mustangs, thunderbirds, Precisions, u-basses, flatwounds, NS uprights, lightweight cabs, long suede straps, cmnfort strapps, lollypop tuners, lightweight tuners with traditional looking keys, daphne blue, sunburst (inc cherry) aged white pearl pickguards, passive controls, nickel hardware, trussrod adjustment at the headstock, vintage gear in good condition Not Yep: Roundwounds, Jazz basses(sorry!), ricks, heavy cabs, short or slippy straps, reverse winding tuners, black or gold hardware, 5 (or 6) string basses, active controls, tuners with 'Y' shaped keys, lined fretless, having to unscrew the neck to adjust the trussrod, skunk stripes on back of neck, bright white pearl pickguards, filthy/smelly gear

The 4mm allen key that comes with a lot of non-US basses including Epiphones & Squiers is OK, but easily lost. I've found an alternative which works much better and costs less than £2 from various ebay sellers in China. Seach for 'T handle allen hex key wrench spanner 4mm'

They're £175 new and there aren't many alternatives.

The starcaster guitars are listed on the Fender site, but there's no mention of a bass version. I'd take that as a 'no' or perhaps a 'not yet' https://shop.fender.com/en-GB/search?q=starcaster&lang=en_GB

Probably for the best - some daft punters would turn up expecting to see a performing donkey. For one of my previous bands I used different british comedy icons for the posters to give a bit of variety. One of them featured the great Les Dawson in his Ada persona. The landlord told us he had received a phone call from a punter asking if Les Dawson was really appearing at his pub. He replied 'No mate, he's been dead ten years!'

The tag says "Do not connect two or more extension leads together in a chain" I might have to pretend I didn't see that. 🤔

Thanks for the heads-up on this, I've just got back from lidl with a bag full of biscuits, crisps, and one of these very handy looking cables

The seller will probably stand a chance of getting a better price if they could have spent half an hour removing the stickers and cleaning it up.

"made by a gentleman that makes violins in good condition" I dread to think what his violins look like "Good luck" - if anyone buys it they'll need it

To get it to intonate I reckon the bridge will need to move about two inches back.

Eastwood's take on a telecaster tenor guitar looks a bit more balanced visually for me

I bought a blackstar amplug2 bass which I believe is very similar to the vox. - it sounds really good with my Beyerdynamic DT-150 phones.

My best buy was an EMG Geezer Butler passive pickup, a Fender HiMass Bridge and an aged white pearl pickguard for my '81 Cherry Sunburst Precision which is is now sounding and looking better than it ever has since I bought it 37 years ago. I couldn't do anything about it weighing about the same as a small planet though. My *worst* buy was when I was looking for a hardcase for my sunburst epiphone vintage pro thunderbird & I managed to get a slightly beaten up but solid & perfectly usable epiphone t-bird case included with another sunburst epiphone vintage pro thunderbird for a bargain price. The plan was to sell on the bass resulting in me getting the case for peanuts (or possibly free). However the idea of owning two identical thunderbirds grew on me and the second one was just as nice as my existing one so I kept it and treated it to the same upgrades as my existing one - mushroom strap buttons & rubbery strap holders, an XL comfort strapp, Gotoh GB640 res-o-lite tuners, Gibson logo TRC, and a set of Ernie Ball Cobalt flatwounds. I list it as my worst buy as it was originally meant to be a money-saving wheeze but ended up costing quite a bit more - still a bargain I suppose, and still a great bass but I just didn't *need* to buy it & all the upgrade bits. Luckily the missus hasn't caught on that I have two identical basses yet as I only have one out at a time when she's about.

Awesome bass player and songwriter. I just hope I don't ever have to mime his name in a game of blues charades.

I have a Warren Ellis Tenor tuned as a (low G) tenor ukulele - all unwound strings. Its great for recording guitar parts as I sound a lot better on uke than guitar. If I didn't have the Eastwood I'd be all over this tele.

A tip: If you ever need to remove sticker residue, I've found that the best thing to use is lighter fluid. The stuff from poundland for a quid works just as well as a much more expensive product I used to use called 'sticky stuff remover' which I now suspect was the same thing but with an added orange fragrance.

The replacement tuners have been fitted at a bit of a jaunty angle - who do we know that would do such a thing?

This is about 40 miles from me, if the final price is right it could be worth a trip.

Many people don't listen to lyrics - for when example brides request 'band of gold' to be played at their wedding reception

most of the yellowish discoulouration (supposed to be fake cigarette smoke stains?) on the pickguard of my JMJ mustang has rubbed off so I think it is in better than mint condition

FFS!

I've sucessfully used just a couple of small dots of superglue to hold a new nut in place - its strong enough to keep the nut in place when you want it to hold, but giving it a clout from the side is enough to break the bond without causing any damage to the fingerboard or nut when you do want to remove it.

I had a B9 for a short while. I really wanted to like it but it didn’t really work out for me so I sold it on. I think my main issues were that it didn’t track reliably and would occasionally glitch. This was probably due to my sloppy technique or it might have had something to do with using a mustang with flatwounds.

It could afford to lose the P bass bridge cover

Here's the latest update of my board. I've added a Mooer bass sweeper as I was feeling nostalgic for the original bassballs I had years ago To add the new pedal I moved the caline power thingy to the back and tidied up the cabling - including cutting a pair of the jack cables in half and soldering a new pancake connector to the cut end of each to make four very short cables. The sweeper is great. I found it worked best as the first pedal before the thumpinator & spectracomp. It can make same weird noises I remember my old bassballs doing but can also make some very usable sounds - now to convince the band to do a cover of the (Detroit) Spinners's rubberband man so I can make some funky noises with it.