Jonnyboy Rotten

Just got home. Really enjoyed it and set my heart on a Dingwall Combustion, though perhaps a slightly less Green one!

[quote name='dmccombe7' timestamp='1393433210' post='2380286'] Could barely hear it at 50% on Vol / gains. Dave [/quote] Isn't that what happens after years of gigging anyway?

My addition -

Hi Bart - welcome!

[quote name='Immo' timestamp='1393499678' post='2380993'] That's how I look right now. [size=2](Bass with an exclusive photo-tuning [/size]) [/quote] My Squier tuned like that (with the tuners all in the same direction) apart from the end tuner and it really wound me up and I had to restring it just so I didn't keep wishing it matched the rest of them! OCD?

How can I be jealous when I am doing the exact same thing!? Baffles me but it might be something to do with the Babicz bridge you got. I think they are the trickest looking bridges out there! What colour tuners are you having, gold or chrome (or black just to mix it up?)

Cool! Slightly left field but looking forward to see what you come up with! BTW what is the black bass you got in the garden there?

I don't get why people don't like the SR5 scratchplate. I think it looks great (even - dare I say it? - better than the normal one) !

Thanks Anthony. I did try that but couldn't find it. Will try looking again.

ooooo shiney!

Gotta be either a Dingwall Combustion or Stingray 5..... here's hoping (and saving!!)

Is it anything to do with the white and black notes on a piano. For example - if you tune a string to C then the marked frets would be all black notes and the unmarked be all white notes? *Edit I can't work it out but I think I am wrong anyway but I can't think of any other pattern or reason.

So here we are - entering the final stage of the rebuild for this lowly Squier P. I may decide to swap the neck for one with a maple fretboard but this would only be for aesthetic purposes as the current one is fine. Over the weekend I started doing the body refin and stripped it down entirely. I unscrewed the neck and found in the neck pocket a piece of square plastic. I think it is a section of that strong, flat plastic tape that is often used to bundle newspapers and magazines together. Someone has obviously thought it needed a shim to lower the action or something! I also noticed that there were several piles of compacted wood dust around the screw holes which I am hoping doesn't turn out to be the remains of someone heavy handedly stripping it the thread in the neck screw holes, otherwise I may find getting the neck to fit tightly again is rather difficult! There are also some other holes in the centre which I am assuming are from the factory when they were painting the body? So I went round to my mates (the same one who helped me before) and we got stuck in to stripping the paint. I have read some other threads on here about the three options you have. 1) Sanding, 2) Nitromors and 3) Heat Gun. Well my mate had a heat gun so it sounded like a good option especially as I didn't fancy the idea of sanding it and I have read mixed reports about the effectiveness of Nitromors. All in all it probably took an hour to remove all the paint from the body. This didn't include a 10 min interlude because my mate managed to get his hair caught in the heat gun. "Unplug it from the mains - QUICKLY" he said! I thought I would oblige. He didn't sustain any lasting damage, you will be pleased to hear, but he did tie his hair back after that! Stripping the paint off was very cathartic and satisfying, especially when massive chunks of paint were coming off! After that we sanded the body down using a rotary sander attached to a drill. We didn't need it completely, babies bum smooth, but to get rid of all the remains of the chunks of paint. So this is the body - completely prepped and ready for the finish to be applied.... You will notice if you look carefully that I didn't manage to get that de-headed bridge screw out - but it doesn't matter as my new Schaller bridge has three holes and will be centered on the existing centre hole and then two new holes will be drilled for it - and in fact you can see these holes already drilled into the body. You will also see that I have filled the scratch plate screw holes as some of them were starting to strip the thread and others for some reason were wonky. So here is the finish starting to take shape.... I bought some old, yellowed sheet music and tore it up and burnt the odd edge with a lighter and am applying it the body with decoupage glue. You can see in the photo where the glue is still fresh, it is blueish in colour. Its tough to get it to look good and stick down around the more contoured areas of the guitar such as the horns and the edges. You have to make small tears to get the paper to go flat on three dimensional corners and radii. After drying a while but still not completely dry, this is more what the finished article will look like: I decided to name the bass 'Serenata' after the title of one of the piece of music I ripped up! . There is more to come as I still need to decoupage the back and I am going to finish it with Nitro to protect the paper. One bad thing is I have 'lost' the strap peg hole at the bridge end of the body. It is there somewhere but I want to avoid drilling another one if I can incase it is too close to the original one and weakened etc. The only way I can think of to find it is compared it with another Fender or Squier Precision. Trouble is, I don't know anyone with one. Can anyone help?

Welcome Jimbo!

Nice project! I am part way through a similar one although I used a Squier Affinity P as my starting point! With regards to your choices of hardware: Babciz bridge - looks amazing and will probably be brilliant but it was outside my budget so I opted for a second hand Schaller jobbie. Seymour Duncan SPB-3 - Can recommend them highly enough! They sound great! Tuners - I went for all-black hardware on mine so I got a set of Wilkinson ones which are great value and good quality - my only slight complaint is that they don't all quite fit on the Squier headstock so I had to grind one of the corners off the end tuner. But you will probably be fine with a Mighty Mite neck. Looking forward to seeing how this progresses.

I have bought stuff off Ali Express before but only small electronic type items in bulk. Never a guitar but some of those basses look gorgeous!

Currently loving: Omnium Gatherum, Phinehas, Hope for the Dying, Ghost Brigade, Eluveitie, Lorde, Coco Rosie.

Following urban bassmans post you could always call yourselves 'Hey Presto'...!