Woodinblack

Ah - gotcha, sorry, not thinking of the small stuff like tonewoods

Then we are both not bothered. I thank you for measuring it as now it is pretty tempting, even if it is a 6 which I know I struggle with and I am not supposed to be adding before I remove.!

You are, I'm not bothered if it is 16.5 or 17, just as long as it's under 18 as that is when it falls apart. more accurately for the people who pile in at times like this and say "I don't know what your problem is, I don't mind a foot between strings", obviously I can play whatever but what is very clear on my basses is that when something has a spacing of 18 or over, it will end up not being overlooked for others when I go to pick something up, and thus eventually sold. but obviously, maple or wenge, all sounds the same to me!

You said it is the one that you originally called the 'bridge tone', which is the one nearest the socket in your image? I would see that as the bass pot, the treble pot appears to be doing what it should isn't it?

Sorry, I meant R6 (in the diagram - above the pot that says 'bass'). But it may not be that, just that if there was a break at some point around that resistor, it could lose all bass when turned down. So the bass control is the bottom one on the outside, so on your circuit board picture it is the one on the top left. So around here: Check nothing is obviously broken or badly soldered or something.

I would say that it sounds like the top connection of the bass pot has broken off or has a bad connection. If this is the circuit, which google says it is, if there is something missing around R8, top of Vr1, you would probably get something like that

I was going to say, are they not bass and treble? It wold be odd having a tone for each pickup

I don't care about the tonewoods or the pickups, but I really do care if the strings are the right distance from each other!

Oh yes, I am sure it is fine, I was just a big disliker of shergold headstocks. I had one many years ago, and my friend had a guitar by them. They were actually ok, but never got on with the headstock

I took mine to a gig the first day I got it. I messed up quite a lot of songs. Turns out my abilty to switch between a 4 and 5 without issue is that I subconciously measure strings from the smallest up, and someone had added another smaller one! Loved the colour of that thing though, wish they would use it more.

I advertised it on here for a while, noone was interested Ooh - a sherwood headstock, not so keen on those!

What with the terminals built into the plastic? That seems even riskier, pull them out of that and you have to replace the entire case.

Because that is all that they sell. Frankly the 9v clip mechanism is rubbish. But the choices are a bit limited, I had a messinger that just had metal contacts that I put the battery in the wrong way round and next thing I knew smoke was coming out of the back! Now don't get me started on people who use a diode shunt for power protection...

Yes, I would say that is 17. thats pretty good . I normally measure from the two outermost strings and divide by (n-1)

Thats why I got rid of the GVB, I loved the 14mm at the bridge but it was way too wide at the nut

Yes, so that is what I would call the spacing too. Which is a shame as 18 is just a bit too much, especially on a 6

Oh hope someone screen shotted it - it was there a few minutes ago

That would make no sense, so If I asked for a fan fret with a saddle spacing of my favourite string spacing of 16.5mm, I would actually have a physical string spacing of 13.75mm. That would be a bit tight (although still prefereable to 21mm on the ibanez). Not sure what you mean about string guages, that has no relevance to string spacing, the sadles are in the same place whether you put strings on or not. Just in case we are talking at cross purposes, this is the Ibanez. I would call this 17.5mm spacing (as do ibanez), its 21mm between saddles

They do a peppermint one: I think they look great, apart from I think the dropped the ball with the pickups, which should have at the very least been filtatrons if not something more retro

Hmm.. wondering how they are working that out. Obviously the spacing between strings on a fan fretted bass is going to be less than the distance between the saddle centres. On my ibanez fan fret, the string spacing is 17.5mm, but the sadle centre spacing is 21mm. I guess they must be going for the first way

Looks interesting. Like this sort of shape? https://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/Hartwood-Charger-Electric-Guitar-Strawberry-Milkshake/31J1

what is the spacing on those 6 strings? I mean like the parallel spacing if it was flat. Is it less than 17mm?

Yes, but he doesn't have a bass VI. the GK3B fits that fine. I have had a GK3B on both a Squier P Bass and a G&L L2500.

If you remember from previous threads, the GK3 has the wrong spacing for a 6 string bass

Agreed wholeheartedly, although I am a great fan of guitar synths, you do need to be very good on them to get up to "passable keyboard player" level.