kodiakblair

@Jimothey hit it right on the button. Get a skin, £20 from this place bloody good value compared to spray cans of paint and finish 👍 https://axedecals.com/shop/guitar-skins/flags/union-jack-flag-guitar-wrap-skin/ Found out this week Billy and Dusty from ZZ Top use skins on their gear so you'll be in good company.

Years back I took £250 + a beat up 70's SG for my Wal JG. Needed month's deposit for a flat and nobody in my circle had any cash.

Probably not mad but in need of cash pronto. You'd get a better price on BC but would have a week of "cracking bass", "GLWS", "what's the weight ?" and "If I had the cash I'd be all over this". No good to you if bills are overdue .

Single coil P-basses have replaced Peavey as a passion of mine. Apart from looking great,IMHO, they sound great with flats or tapes. Another passion of mine 🙂 After trying various single coils I came to the conclusion 1 sounds pretty much like another. Bit of a blow that,especially when you like tinkering. A thread on another forum, (No Love for Telecaster Basses ?), has been a source of fun and inspiration. It was there I heard folks mention the Dusty Hill custom from Seymour Duncan. $140 + shipping + VAT and import duty ! To a fella who thinks all single coils sound roughly the same !! Madness !!! Not that mad,I knew there'd be a solution 🙂 I'd swapped the £8 single from China (very nice) back to the Bloodstone 51 and was enjoying the bass . Still had the 28K Dusty Hill niggle so got in touch with David at Bloodstone to see if he fancied making one similar. David was up for it but warned me 28K on a single coil was a big ask.Knowing nothing about making pickups, I told him Id leave the details up to him.He did explain the problems, wire gauge vs available space/gaps between coils. Only input I could give was Id heard the Duncan was bigger than a standard single coil and since I was yet to cut the body there was no fixed size. David had some 28mm alnico 5 slugs from another project then set to work. Projected build time was 3 weeks but it was done and dusted in 3 days 😎 Work hampered the new build so it went in the pine slab yesterday,sunk the pickup cavity by 10mm. It's a monster !! Not fitted in that photo,next to the 51 so you can gauge the size. Wired in series to keep it simple,Dusty's has series/parallel & tapped options Does the fella who thinks all singles sound alike still think that ? Give me a week and I'll know for sure 😀 ps David was brilliant. It was over my head but he kept me in the loop so at least I felt I had some part in it. Length of time to build,communication and the price were all fantastic. We have some great people in this country and I reckon we should look to them first.

Puts me in mind of a Cabronita Boracho,only in reverse 😃 Those had a TV Jones pickup too. Pretty nifty 🙂

No joke. I-phones are thought to be,by some,the pinnacle of mobile phone tech yet they are made by folks on low wages. It's merely an example of "get what you pay for" on reasonably high priced goods.

Hope you don't own an I-phone 👍

Not sure what you mean by that. Do you think lower paid workers can't produce high standards? I'd say that was nonsense. Minimum wage in Mexico is $9 per day, a cushy factory job will be sought after so workers will be on their toes. Beats working in on a farm. If you low pay means buyers expect lower quality and companies can get away with lesser standard goods then I agree.

Pass a shoelace underneath the knob,make a loop then pull upwards. No chance of slips and scratches. BTW. Was your scratch plate 3 ply or have Thomann followed the big F and went with single ply these days ?

No. Not even close I'm afraid.

Nice little earner for somebody. Pretty sure that bass sold on eBay end of July for £341. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Awesome-Partscaster-Relic-039-51-Telecaster-Bass-Not-Fender-Not-Squier-/323859997411?hash=item4b678f62e3%3Ag%3AtKQAAOSwudBdLgex&nma=true&si=ROjRO9ZZjNtTW7ESk5qfa7pH3NY%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Fella over on Talkbass is over the moon with his PJ-75 VW, £50 over your £100 budget 😞 https://www.talkbass.com/threads/i-own-a-harley-benton-club.1123735/page-321#post-23095149 i owned the 4 string PJ HTR a few years back. TBH don't remember much about it,that's not a negative cause I'd remember if it was crap 🙂

Can't beat it 🙂 Put a 0.1 cap in my pine slab body, have a single overwound to 28k in the pipeline to join it 😎

If you read the blurb the main man retired from "Finances" and this was a good stress-free way to fill his time,can't argue with that 🙂 Limiting the options to passive only/no 5 strings will help keep him stress-free. The big pickup rout allows for most option + less work. The stencils reduce finishing time + less work. Doubt the fella needs to do more than 1 or 2 a week to tick over and keep the pension fund intact. Wish them the best of luck. p.s. I don't recall many complaining about the Cort headstock,this Bite is really just the Cort reversed

Then leave as is. I'd made up templates for BC'ers but I never did the reshape to any of mine until that post last year. Still have one from 2014 with the HB headstock.

It's ten minutes work. I was 2 hours tops on this. That included smoke/coffee breaks,taking photos and cleaning up.

I've never had any problems with the pots or jack socket on my PB-50, 5 years down the line and still going strong 👍 Totally agree with Hooky regarding playing the PB first before deciding on a pickup swap. 1 alnico V single sounds pretty much like another. Bought an £8 single from China,just for the hell of it I recorded a scale using it and 4 other singles. Stuck the clips up on Talkbass and asked folks to guess which was the Chinese cheapie. From 600 views only 20 responded 😞 Funny thing was it was an even result,each pickup got 4 votes 🙂 Interesting thing about the Roswells is the pole pieces,it's the same Alnico V slugs as the Duncan 1/4lb'er. Don't think it's overwound to the same extent as the 1/4lb'er as it's a bit warmer.

Bought a Behringer P1 from Sean. Dead easy purchase. Hes a Top fella.

My favourite style of bass, I really should sell all the others. A couple have hum-cancelling singles. Most also have 2 saddle bridges. Have to say the reissues from Japan are excellent.

Could it be a very young Coco Cunningham ?

Or do you punt the body ? I may know a Scotsman who'd be interested

CITES wasn't a problem then. Norwegian customs were playing safe.

Should not matter. The Mexican factory is owned and run by Fender, they set the QC conditions nd decide the parts used. The cynic in me thinks it's deliberate so folks spend the extra for USA.

Bought a bass from Hungary, arrived in 6 days with no hiccups. Must have bought 4 or 5 from Germany, 3 to 4 days for arrival. Again no problems. Sent a bass to Norway, not technically an EU country. Forgot to include 3 copies of the customs paperwork and it was tugged for CITES. DHL got in touch both times, printed the extra copies and passed on my declaration there was no rosewood. That caused a 24 delay. Not bad for £24 delivery charge 🙂

My intention of buying a slug gun were quashed by 2 pals learning guitar. "You can play bass" they said. Boy down the road was selling one,Commodore semi-hollow. Mine was green,the pots were mounted on a piece of ply as there was a big hole in the body. Stuffed with paper if I mind right 😃 Pickup screws had been replaced by brad nails. Buttons on the tuning pegs were missing,used pliers to tune it's 3 strings. Aye it only had 3 strings. Cost me £1 😲 Folks banned me from using the tape recorder in the music centre so I'd rest the headstock against cupboard door while trying to play along with Jim Gregory's"Play Bass Guitar" book. First amp was a Badger Bassman .