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I'm right - found this from Strings Direct. Advert for Sunbeams and spec says no silk https://www.stringsdirect.co.uk/strings-c1/string-sets-c865/bass-guitar-c34/dr-strings-sunbeams-nickel-wound-45-100-bass-guitar-strings-4-string-long-scale-p945

I dont know, things could have changed at the DR strings factory, but the only DR strings that have silk wraps were the flats. Sunbeams should not have a wrap, and have brass ball ends

I had Gen 1 Xvives and they lasted 2 years till the battery wouldnt charge up anymore. Sneakily, the manufacturer didnt design them with replaceable batteries so in the bin they went. W@nkers Think i paid around £115 for the pair. Not very economical is an understatement. I decided never to buy anything similar. So i plumped for Line 6 Relay G75, which has been utterly faultless. Yes, it's bulkier by some margin, but it least it wont be in the bin 2 years on. In fact we're already past that

I have a fretless with Rosewood and a fretless with Richlite. Unfortunately, both are at assembly stage, so i'll post when both are playable

https://www.stewmac.com/video-and-ideas/online-resources/learn-about-guitar-pickups-and-electronics-and-wiring/wdkent-armstrong-humbucking-pickups/

Stewmac had the best diagram for KA 4 conductor pickups, and it's now soldered up

Her hugeness Mrs bag says not really

I nearly skipped this because of the title... So Yes. Who the hell are they. But, with dwindling members, they'll end up like Trigger's broom. They were awesome in their heyday though

fleabag didn't notice a thing. I'm a bit crooked meself so it looks straight from where i am

Aha - that makes sense , thanks. I cant help thinking that they ship the pickups out with red + green twisted together for series humbucking.

I dont own a multimeter, but why do you think the pickup arrived out of the box with red + green twisted together , on both pickups ?

Turns out that ABU has gone rogue and no longer did it's job, causing the above in my last post and more misdemeanours on other sites. Kicked out ABU, and drafted in uBlock Origin for Firefox and all is right with the world.

I should add, just to confuse matters, that the pickups from new, had the green and red wires twisted together, which suggests thats the series option ?? I just have feeling that me twisting black and white wires together seems wrong, as does twisting green and bare wires together. Surley most manufacturers use black as ground, and in this case, black + bare together for grounding. Rightly or wrongly, i would have thought red+ green together would be series, black+bare would be ground and white would be the hot ?

I'm about to install a pair of KA Claymore soapbars, and the bass will just be Vol Vol Tone, as per a Jazz bass. But JB wiring uses each centre lug on the Vol pots for hot wires from pickups. See .jpg The KA wiring, ( 2nd pic ) as downloaded from KA, uses the outside lug , and they only show one pot, not two, which i need. I'm soldering KA pup black and white together and taping off, as per their diagram, for series only. See .jpg It seems to me that i should run the hot and grounds ( Red = hot, Green+Bare = ground ) as per the Jazz B wiring and ignore the KA diagram. But i'd like to check, as wiring is not one of my very few talents. Last pic is my actual pickup, with wires twisted together as per the KA wiring, but somehow seems wrong

Rather weirdly, my ad-blocker stopped me posting any replies in any threads today. ( Firefox + Ad Blocker Ultimate ) Never done that before , no changes made by me. It just decided this all on it's own. I've been using ABU for years, but it never has hindered me on BC. Till today. I hit reply to a thread and the message box won't appear , but the ' add files ' box does. I checked ABU first and that was the problem. Soon as i disabled on here, the reply message box appreared as normal. Confused, Acacia Ave., Tonbridge Wells.

There is no right answer, as we're talking very personal choice here, natch, but if that wood is decent, i would sand it back and maybe just re-stain it in a different finish, perhaps darker, ( see my Manton pic ) seal it, oil and wax finish and that's that. No paint, unless the body wood is shoddy.

I'm also routing for ya !

CSL ( Charles Somerfield Ltd ) were also very good copies

It should be in ped's vault somewhere unless he's deleted it. It should only be hidden though, as that was the arrangement. I've never requested ped resurrect it since it was secreted, so it should still be somewhere in the secret files stash

Yes he is. Last visit was Jan 11th

There certainly is, and still maintain my original thread was probably the worst scenario dealing with a bass shop anywhere. I'm not sure back then why i asked ped to hide the thread. I'm tempted to ask him to resurrect the monstrous catalogue of BS he gave me over the course of a few months, so the uninitiated can have a good read of the bloke's nature.

That's the one 3b. Helluva head

No probs for me. They only appear when you open a page but within a nano second, i'm scrolling the thread anyway and they've gone, so i dont understand the issue.

I had one of the Peavey heads with white face panel and red word printing. Something 700 model ? I cant recall exactly. Oh.. maybe Firebass ??