kodiakblair
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Trace Elliot SMX amp head - Shredded Allen bolt heads!
kodiakblair replied to Davy's topic in Repairs and Technical
I use an old 1/4" chisel. Spent years doing commercial kitchen refits and fixings generally are filled with gunk. -
Where do you leave your bass after a respray?
kodiakblair replied to Jonesy's topic in Repairs and Technical
I've been thinking of buying a greenhouse tent,the indoor type should do nicely. Could even double as a spray booth. -
Trace Elliot SMX amp head - Shredded Allen bolt heads!
kodiakblair replied to Davy's topic in Repairs and Technical
Cut a slot in the head of the bolt then unscrew using a flat driver. -
Mine's is another vote for 2 pickups ๐
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I was for single coil,no scratchplate and rear mounted pots. Little margin for error with that so planned on pre-drilling before hand. Course the pine arrived in one big bloody block ๐
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Can't beat a slab pine body :-). Did you roughly mark pickup and control cavity positions then drill the hook up wire hole before gluing the body together? I'll be trying that if there's another build.
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It's a pretty unique system. https://schack-guitars.com/covered-neck-fixing-sytem
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Owned that model, damn fine bass. Company behind Revelation bought Hohner UK and since Alan Entwistle had been their top man he does design work for Revelation.
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Wasn't a great deal to see though there was a technique to flipping the combo horizontal, so it could slide in the handy amp storage area on the bus. Designed with handles being closer to the top made that easy,same can't be said for my 158lb Peavey cabs.
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Aye. No car back then so bus it was ๐
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Mine went to a Glasgow rehearsal place couple of year back. That was actually my 2nd one.bought the first from Grants in Edinburgh early 80's. The old Alexander's buses had a storage area for them,often hijacked by women with prams ๐
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Bass Collection SB310 Active - Pick up installation
kodiakblair replied to aquiel's topic in Bass Guitars
Yesterday a fella on the FB owners page had a post about Fender MB-5 pickups. Says they drop in no problem. Course a google search shows the MB-5 was discontinued years back๐ข -
Bass Collection SB310 Active - Pick up installation
kodiakblair replied to aquiel's topic in Bass Guitars
The Duncan is basically a humbucker ,they say "hum-cancelling". The 2 joined wires mean it's wired in series,stacked pickups tend to lose a bit output and series wired stops it losing more. @BassBunny is correct red is hot. -
Thomann selling Harley Benton basses as 'Decoration only'
kodiakblair replied to Annoying Twit's topic in Bass Guitars
B-stock come with 3 year warranty and paid returns. Dekos are QC fails so have no warranty and,if it doesn't match the curtains, you pay for any return. -
Thomann selling Harley Benton basses as 'Decoration only'
kodiakblair replied to Annoying Twit's topic in Bass Guitars
Not missing much. Fan fret guitars have been on there for 6 months,so has the fretless neck through 5 string. -
Pickguards - how are they cut
kodiakblair replied to Grahambythesea's topic in Repairs and Technical
Last scratchplate I did the only tools were a hacksaw and rasp for the shape,drill + various bits/countersink for the pickups etc. Drew the shape out then cut straight lines as near to the outline as possible. Curves and bevel were done with rasp. Was undecided on pickup at this stage so hid a Warman jazzbar below the scratchplate. About 90 minutes work. -
jess loureiro pick ups - what to buy instead?
kodiakblair replied to Combed20's topic in General Discussion
I've the split coil single in a PB-50, bloody good pickup. Postal service in Spain is terrible, that bad locals don't really buy mail order. -
Both use the same pickups and the preamps in each have the same boost/cut at the same frequencies. Only real difference is the USA used a Korean built PCB and the BXP had a SMT module. Alder bodies with a decorative cap was standard for both BXP & US as was pau fero boards. Most BXP did come through body with single saddle bridges but then Peavey thought that was good enough for the US "custom" bolt-on versions.Those bolt-ons used the surplus preamps from the,then, recently discontinued Millennium. Always smile when I hear folks brand those Millie preamps as an upgrade,it was simple economics ๐ Must say I'm surprised you think there's such a huge difference between the BXP version and the US. Last year a friend picked up a BXP 5'er on her travel up to visit,lovely darkwood model it is. With Gill's 3 US and my 4 it's safe to say we know the Cirrus tone well. Her latest looked,played and most importantly sounded exactly like a Cirrus.
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Hotmail.com. It was already in the "junk mail" folder.
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Just had an email supposedly from DHL asking to confirm delivery details. It says in reaction to lost parcels their new policy requires name,address etc. To things flag as spam. Mandatory is spelled "mondatory" and "rbkaocc.xyz" seems a funny email address for an international company. According to myonlinesecurity it's been running a fair while. https://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/fake-dhl-confirm-your-delivery-details-phishing/
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So, just how many basses do you own ????
kodiakblair replied to musicbassman's topic in General Discussion
Sadly they didn't go too far Dave. No sad ending though ๐ Gregg Parker runs the Blues Museum in Chicago and Tony Saunders (bass fella) has kept busy. I exchanged a few emails with him,said he had fond memories of the Parker days. -
Comments/Discussions on Sales Threads
kodiakblair replied to Mykesbass's topic in General Discussion
Saw an ad last week, Nice bass,decent price etc. I was going to comment but somebody else was giving background info and saying it was an overlooked classic. Trouble was their info was wrong ๐ What should folks do in that situation ? Info fella was quite enthusiastic and a for sale ad didn't seem like a good place to correct him. Last thing I wanted was to hinder a sale. Bass was sold but there's at least 3 people with duff info in their heads. -
Congratulations on that beauty John. Seeing various items getting moved on by your good self this last wee while had me wondering. Now I see it all went to a worthy cause ๐
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Now you get an inkling of the crap many of us learned to play on ๐
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Another P-bass will shortly be getting a 2 saddle bridge thanks to Keith ๐ Paid for late Thursday night,in the post Friday,delivered Saturday morning. It doesn't get much easier than that ๐ Fella's a credit to BC.
