Jean-Luc Pickguard

I've been thinking about changing the spark plugs in my mustang, so maybe I'll have to get hold of this book. Hopefully it'll be able to clear up my confusion over whether bass spark plugs are any different to guitar ones or if they are they are interchangable.

Any idea why there are two versions with different covers? Is one better than the other?

What about the other Dave D?

[quote name='Grand Wazoo' timestamp='1319306749' post='1412606'] That bass looks great! [/quote] Cheers - it sounds as good as it looks and is fun to play. The neck has a bit of birdseye in the grain which looks cool and the ebony board is beautiful. It's the only bass I've taken to a jam night & received compliments about my bass & playing. Maybe there's something about an unlined fretless that makes people think you know what you're doing.

I don't think the japanese fender-style bodies and necks were part of the eko stock. I have no idea where he got them from, but then again I don't know where my local tesco get their cauliflowers from either. I took a trip to the warehouse at Wembley and picked out the bits I wanted.

This is my fretless precision - I think it cost me about £450ish to put together all-in including Fender, hipshot & Kent Armstrong bits. The Brandoni body is practically identical to the one on my 1990 MIJ '62 reissue Fender. i don't have a pic of the tele and I can't take a pic as my mate likes it so much, he's had it on loan for about a year - that one was made from the stock £200 bundle sold as a build-your own kit.

[quote name='Grand Wazoo' timestamp='1319304127' post='1412558'] pssst.... (wide berth warning) [/quote] why? I built a telecaster guitar brandoni bits including an upainted alder body & my fretless precision has brandoni body & neck. Both are top quality, comparable to My Fender Japan instruments and can indeed be used as replacements for Fender parts. It was several years since I built those instruments, so have they changed suppliers?

Actually I'd love to have one of these - if only to feel like one of the borrowers when playing it.

Blummin' 'eck! Eric Pickles has turned into a bass.

My NS has a preamp, however I have made piezo pickups (using cheapo piezo elements from maplin for under a quid) for guitar, banjo & ukulele that have worked very well with a behringer ADI-21 pedal as a preamp. The ADI used to sweeten the tone of the Dean Pace bass I used to own.

I also find that a bit of reverb with the room set to the size of a DB body helps as well - I explained this to the engineer when we were recording by asking for a reverb room the size of a cupboard. Now when I get an NS bass tone that meets someones approval, it's described as 'nice and cupboardy' by the band members.

[quote name='mikeswals' timestamp='1318930232' post='1407756'] There used to be a better color version of this. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeH2ls71CWE[/media] [/quote] They all look like they forgot to go to the bog between having a few pints and going onstage & are trying to make it to the end of the song without peeing themselves.

They look good unless the colour clashes with the bass.

Once I walked into a packed pub with a a gig bag (multiband charity gig that had already being going for some hours) & someone asked "is that a six string guitar or a four string guitar?" I told him it was a five string & he thought I was taking the p1ss.

wilco? Surely that should be Wilko - he's the one with the Norm T-Shirt

Bryan Adams tribute eh? I don't think I would be able stand the excitement.

Probably the original body or at least a correct one - fender used to glue together all the ugliest offcuts to make musicmasters, I've seen alder musicmaster bodies where the alder on one pieces range from the usual pale colour to much darker pieces with a massive variation of grain pattern. Not sure if this is the result of a stain or other process - perhaps the outside plank in each batch was treated with something - I don't know. This is probably why early musicmasters always had a solid colour - of course this one was so fugly when stripped, the veneer was added where a nice coat of paint would have looked much better.

The mustang being available in just vintage white or fiesta red is a pretty poor choice. They should reintroduce 60s & 70s versions of the mustang in more colours, particularly a daphne blue 66, a 70s sunburst one & a natural ash 70s one with maple fb.

I'd have sworn it was a warrior. Even though its not the kind of bass I'd use it would look nice hanging on the wall

[quote name='Slipperydick' timestamp='1318090820' post='1398040'] Having said that, a lot of 70s copies were better than present day copies, so might not be all that bad, might be good as a project, [/quote] That's not my recollection of 70s copies.

That t-bird 5 string looks amazing. I wish I had some money

The retailer has offered a refund hasn't he? If that is the case, I can't imagine how chasing up people further along the chain can achieve anything better.

*cough* Warrior *cough*

'tis a warrior innit