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Welcome to the collective your assimilation starts now. Oh and mines a pint of bitter and a packet of Cheese and onion crisps. Cheers

+1 for the fag burns, the headstock is far to new looking

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1368027249' post='2072235'] Thanks for the update Dr Frankenstein.... but how is his bass progressing? [/quote] PMSL

Thanks Guys, I've now added so La Bella Deeptalkin' strings which are wonderful. The scratch plate is going to get replaced at some point with a more reddish tortoiseshell.

Love them, try thomman as I got mine for £60.

You should rename the band to part of the topic title "Minefield"

Welcome Guy, this is a great site filled with mostly great people. Have fun

Quite enjoyable, you should be quite please with yourselves, My only minor gripe and it's probably just me but I'm not too sure about the high pitched parts of the vocals, very darkness sounding. Still very good though.

Phil bought my Ashdown Electric Blue 130 bass combo, really nice guy and a pleasure to deal with. [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Can happily recommend him to any other Basschatter[/font][/color]

Last week I got a new set of La Bella deep talkin' Jamerson strings £38 delivered, LOVELY sound to them, will only get better with age (unlike me ).

Grangur is spot on with his advice. As an alternative that I've used is to apply a good quality paint stripper and then place the body in a black bin liner for a day is quite affective, though you will still need to sand down. but be warned about the fumes and getting it on your skin etc. Also, when your'e down to bare wood a light covering of white spirit will remove any crease before applying sealer/undercoat is a good idea. Another choice that I've not done is to just remove the lacquer and then apply an undercoat, but in the case of the hand painted one will probably not work so good. I used Halfords paint and it gives good results but allow a good week or so before applying the lacquer.

I had some Fender ones MANY years ago that were light blue but Fender flatwounds I currently have are green though.

To me very slight differences but my vote goes to the MIM as to me I liked the tone of it. I think all this will come down to the tone that you prefer be it the CIJ, MIM or USA. Was there a difference in playability between each one i.e. action, fret-ware, pickup hight, neck width.......that could change the tone?

Congratulations!!!