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I've been sticking PCB terminal blocks to pots for a good few years now, makes swapping caps or pickups a doddle 🙂 Photos are mock ups at the request from a Talkbass fella last week.

Christ, this has jogged a memory. Had to learn "3 boats down from the candy" for one of the first bands I was in. Bit out of the norm for me, Anti-Nowhere League's So What being more my style 🤣

If we're expanding the list to the rest of Europe, it'll get lengthy 😀 There's Hepcat over in France, Heaussel in Germany and Lundgren in Sweden. Spain had Jess Loueiro but I'm nit sure if he's still trading. Reckon I can add a few more when on lunch time break 👍

Bloodstone Guitarworks Herrick Pickups. Fletcher Pickups. Armstrong Pickups. Fife Pickups. There's also a lad called Martin Harmer, I've an alnico 2 spilt coil from him along with a 51 alnico 2 single coil and a pair of 51 singles for a Tele jazz bass. For the latter Martin cut me custom bobbins to match my string spacing at neck/bridge positions, wound the bridge pickup hotter (to hold it's own against the neck position) and RWRP for hum-cancelling. Turnaround for the pair was 1 week and they were under £100 with postage.

Aye, they were short lived; two years tops.

Spectacular @cetera, keep up the good work 🙂

Brilliant, you're the first I've heard from owning a bolt on BXP 5'er 😎

Right, unless it's not as old as you think or it's a Zephyr/C-5 you've got me confused there. Timeline for the Grinds went like this. 2001 the Grind is launched. Assembled in the USA, the 4 string is an active 34" scale PJ with a bolt on neck/ 5 string is 35" scale bolt on with active JJ pickups. 2002 saw the BXP versions arrive, again 34" active bolt on PJ 4 string/ 35" active bolt on JJ. Late 2003 all 4 models are discontinued. 2004 the Grind BXP NTB comes out of Vietnam, 4 & 5 string models are 35" scale passive basses with soapbars. Few years later production moves to China, briefly, then Indonesia. In order of appearance. US Grind 5 BXP Grind 4 Grind BXP NTB Vietnam Scooped out area at lower horn had disappeared by 2008 Indonesian builds.

That's my go-to 🙂

Spent about a year playing my Grind, completely unaware it was 35" scale length 😁

Nor me. I'm thinking it's a repeat of the 2017 Cirrus reissue. Then the Cirrus was a couple hundred more expensive than folk were paying for 2nd hand US models, this time it's a $2k difference. Real killer though is the market. In 2017 none of the distributors ordered any reissue basses, Peavey had just the US market to sell them in. The line was dropped by 2018. Same is happening this time, distributors outside the US have no interest in them.

It is when you have a dual action TR, single action is just wound on the threaded rod. The G&W wheel I linked could work quite easily. Remove the neck, slip the hex shaft of the TR wheel into the base of the neck then lower the neck back into the pocket. You'd then mark the Allen key slot where it fouls the wheel and remove the offending material. Much depends on the wheel's hex shaft matching the Sire's TR nut. As for locking the wheel in place, you don't have to. Once the wheel is engaged and the neck back in the pocket the bottom of the slot cut will keep the wheel snuggly in place. Shown here by the black arrow in red circle.

This any good ? https://guitarsandwoods.com/Tool/Type-of-Tools/Truss-Rod-Tools/spoke-wheel-for-truss-rod-1940991554.html

They said that 2 or 3 NAMM back but these won't be US builds, those days are over since they've no factory, staff or materials. New Cirrus are coming out of the NBE. Corp place in the Czech republic.

Aye. You measure the difference using wee kitchen scales marked for grams not bathroom scales marked for lbs/Kg.

Brand identity. Milestone I & II were Peavey in name only. Company was looking at overseas production but didn't want to invest too much money so got their peghead and logo put on basses already being built. Sales were good so the changes were made to stamp Milestone III & IV as actual Peaveys with the skinny horn G-Bass/Millennium body shape.

We live in a time where manufacturing has never been cheaper or more productive. Material cost of ash has dropped 25%, maple is down 30% from 2020. FMIC hourly rates are the same as 6 years ago, maybe longer. Fender charges what they think the market will pay and what will keep their books looking good for owner Servco Pacific Captital. An alteration to the system used by cheap Japanese guitars/basses of the 60's.

No truck with plasma, takes up valuable space needed for caffeine, codeine and nicotine. My body is a temple 😎

I can't say all of mine were excellent, wasn't too keen on the Sarzo and I loathed the T-45 😁 Some I thought were great but those were mostly lower tier models, Patriot and Zephyr being stand out IMHO. Course that says more about my needs and expectations, contented root note player like myself has no place owning a Midibase; didn't stop me buying one 🤣

Just had a saw slip, ripped down length of the thumb and bite a chunk out the index finger. Logged into BC while waiting on the blood to congeal, might have affected my sarcasm detection skills 👍

What were you were saying? https://vintagejapanguitars.com/the-true-story-of-lawsuit-guitars/ https://www.adkguitar.com/blogs/news/what-do-we-mean-when-we-say-lawsuit-guitar#:~:text=THE Lawsuit Guitar,that lawsuits were very rare. https://flypaper.soundfly.com/discover/truth-lawsuit-era-guitars/

It will end up in the for sale ads along with the rest. Just need a burst of energy for photos before paying my subs, must be 30 odd Peaveys in the cupboard so that energy is a big ask 🤣

Urban myth. There was only ever one law suit. Gibson filed against Ibanez over the 'open book' style peghead. Never saw trial as Ibanez had went with a different shape before any date was set. That's the whole 'law suit' saga in a nutshell. In the 90's Fender tried to retro-file their body shapes as a trademark, but this was in the USA and again never gained any traction.

Afraid I can't help if it's a 1st gen model, mine now lives in Hungary. Still have a 2nd gen 🙂