Doctor J

When is your one due to arrive, Andy?

Given Jaco's strings never actually made contact with the wood of the instrument at any point, surely the type of epoxy used, how thickly it was applied and the percentage of resin to hardener is what's really important here? Jokes aside, in the video with Jerry Jemmott, Jaco sounds like Jaco playing a J bass with a fretted all-maple Precision neck. How you play is going to get you closer to the Jaco sound than any tonewood witchcraft.

Having grown up with records, I was quite happy with the sonic upgrade to CDs too. I never sold my old records, still have them, still have a record player, but would always choose the CD to listen to first. I like the large artwork but that's about it. The price of new records is something I find quite astonishing. I remember filling my boots in the early 90's when you could pick ip records for a quid or two, they couldn't be given away. On the other side of it, it seems that it's mostly younger folks buying these and, if this is what it takes to get kids interested in music and the artist gets paid too, then it's fine with me.

You're right. That does not make a lick of sense.

A collection of very serious business, indeed.

I watched countless videos of single coil and double coils Ps and what sounded nicest to my ears were those with the Seymour Duncan SCPB-1, so that's what I went with in the end. No electric funny business after all, which is quite unlike me. The Warmoth stuff has been good to work with. The neck pocket is snug, though would have been too tight if I had sprayed the neck with lacquer instead of an oil finish. I've rolled the fretboard edges and had to slightly widen the output jack hole but that's the extent of the woodwork, pilot holes aside. Fret dressing and polishing was straightforward. It's coming together nicely. Schaller tuners, brass nut, old Gotoh bridge leftover from a previous upgrade to another bass, SD pickup and shielding done. Just the pots, output jack and associated control plates left to do from a functional perspective before I string it up. I'll add a bridge cover and Cabronita-style mint scratchplate for the sake of aesthetics too.

Is the damaged screw flush with the body or is any of it exposed?

It takes more than $4,300, it would appear.

I sold my one last year for €350, I think it was. Lovely bass. The price being asked is a bit steep, I reckon.

On the plus side, you now have licence to refer to relics as Old New Stock.

That's fine, but was it exposed to sunlight daily during those 57 years and, if so, for how many hours per day, which hours and at what latitude?

Looks like it means about $500?

Fender's quest to make Fodera prices look very reasonable continues at pace 😂

Reminds me of my old 77 which was less NOS and more POS 😉

Are they very faded jeans or are you actually wearing white trousers?

The current squeezes, clockwise, Levinson Blade B4, Warwick SS1, Bacchus Grooveline, ESP 400 Series, Godlyke Disciple, Zon Concorde, Ibanez SB900, Hamer Chaparral, Alembic Orion, Bacchus 24

You'll love my new video - "Leo got it right first time on his third go"

The Badass III is string-through. Is adding a small shim to the neck an option? It'll give you a bit of leverage regarding the action.

150 milleeeeeyyuuuuuuuunnnn?

I suppose this is as good a place as any to put this

A long time ago, this started in a wardrobe. Two wardrobes, actually, with some MDF and an old curtain. Then I realised I could save space by making a free-standing unit with two tiers, given the ceiling clearance of your average gaff. They're safe, they're secure, but they're also close to hand and there's no faffing around with cases, all for the price of a couple of sheets of MDF and chipboard from your local DIY shop.

Pickups are the most important part of the sound of a bass. Whatever sound you're looking for, the pickup will play a bigger role, more than anything else. How a pickup is made and what it is made of is very important to the sound which comes out of the instrument. Modern mass-produced budget pickups are not the same as what made the sound you're chasing.

You're possibly the only one. You might say there is nobody... next to you. I'm very sorry.

At least he didn't sell it for... Peanuts.

Same here. A Thumb is on the list for sure. Lovely bass, congratulations.