Cuzzie

It will be really simple passive 2 pick up design and this https://store.stellartone.com/product.asp?specific=2130

This will be fully passive - I am not doing the Jag electronics, but burning no bridges in case anyone wants a change and will have the switches in there for people to wire up, except the pre amp

Basic is a name of the guitar model, but it is anything but, it’s not different to a Ken Taylor, California etc. Electra is the ‘lesser’ level (it’s anything but) parts manufactured in the Far East but full assembly and final QC and check is done in House in Germany. Its why it’s slightly different to the other lines you mention.

Cheers Doing it for my brother - think he will get a corker - esp the Haüssel tonestyler combo

Cheers chap

What do you mean by ‘Basic’ Berg? 434 is not comparable with the California range, neither really the electra range, it is sitting below that

I have to add, I did do some judicious blow torching to further pop the grain, and scorch a little - love a little fire!

So with rub n buff you use it on wood which has grain like this, swamp ash, maple etc. you need to do a very good and even sanding job on the body. I would go to at least 400. Stain the wood, after that has dried use the rub n buff and press into the whole body and this should penetrate the wood grain. Let that dry for about 10 mins, then use teak oil to take the excess off. Now I think I over sanded the body to 1500, and sealed most the grain off, also maybe I took a colour gold too close to amber so the grain didn’t pop as much as I thought, by you still get a shimmer I think.... this wasn’t me, but this was a black stain with a silver rub n buff more grain pop, this was only sanded to 400. once I got the colour I wanted I use Gun oil diluted with white spirits and sanded it in for 2 coats. Then undiluted oil, wet sanding inbetween before final buff. Thats about it!

to remove the sticky Tru oil/ gun oil finish obviously use 0000 wool, but after that I was buffing it with a non lint cloth and the micro fibre that came with my sunglasses. Top amateur tip - I found wrapping a tennis ball inside the cloth gave a great taut surface and also an easy grip to buff away!

Electronics will probably not be original Jag wiring. Should be Haüssel big pole jazz pick ups With Tonestyler Duo 6 plate. I’ll pop the switches in the horns, but not connect them, so they are there for future use and merely for show. Will make a powerful and ultimately less fiddly controllable Jag!

Evening chaps and chapesses! Picked up a MIJ Jag body colour partially taken down, and I have taken the project on..... sanded all the way back to pretty much 1500 grit from 80 Bit of Amber Stain.... then some rub n buff gold.... gave it a bit more depth of colour. Gun oil with wet sanding and then buffing and take a little sheen off.... Neck not prepped yet, but this will go on it... Neck will get a Matt Gun oil doing - Neck is walnut with Tigerwood finger board There you go!

Maybe also I am also in the minority that I have played more Bergs without Delano's than with - and there are no conclusions to be drawn from that, they have not been actively ignored

Profiteering happens to most people when they sell and depends on your view point. Some people list something at a price point where they know it will go quickly, that is enough for them funds wise - so they will profit from the fact that they can move the funds on. Some people have a shelf and try to eek as much out of a sale as possible and don’t care on the time scale. Have you ever picked up a ‘bargain’ and then sold it for more than you paid.....? Is that profiteering or shrewd business? How much people can spend, how they buy their stuff is completely their own call, maybe being fortunate enough spend £1.5k on a bass without a second thought is the problem. Whether it’s £150 or £1,500 (certainly for that amount) I would do complete due diligence and know exactly what I am getting, pick ups, hardware etc. So that then out the box it’s as close to ‘amazing’ for me as it can be for the owner, so if it’s a stretch, it avoids disappointment.

More have Delano’s, so the numbers of complaints may be higher, but who knows proportions

Then you have Sandberg of some description Delanos say Delano’s on them

Log pots are a bit more old school and were also used a bit more on guitars where you want to keep the crunch till the very end. With the takers on the pots there are also vintage and modern. Loads to play with

Sounds like the Delano’s are perfectly balanced to let your rig shine.....

Again that pre amp and pick ups are ‘stock’ but also ‘stock’ are Sandberg own and Sandberg Black label at no extra cost, Haüssel’s are a small up charge, Darkglass Tone capsule is a recent ‘stock’ and of course you can go passive and not pay for a bass pre-amp at all. The single hang up on a bass seems to be the single most easy thing to change and actually one that never needed be a hang up at all. Of course sometimes it takes using a a piece of equipment to find out what works, but actually if you think about it - sell a bass at approx £800 loss, or after selling the pick ups and pre-amp etc and buying new ones spend in total another £1-200 - then it becomes a no brainer if everything else on the bass rocks.

Sounds like a Tech21 Bass Fly Rig.....

Nope

It’s probably a lot easier to look purely at solid state vs Vacuum Tube amplifiers. Once in each area then you can break down the why’s and where fores. Class A goes through to about T and within these classes is all about your transistors, dissipation Of heat, how much gain to bring into the signal. Class A to C have various degrees of just under 180 degrees of conduction through to 360 degrees Class D to T use non linear on off switching. All this leads into efficiency, power loss, distortion of signal. Vacuum tubes need power voltage, more heat dissipation and are very linear, hence ‘cranking’ to get the break up, obviously you need a few to ramp up the signal. Mesa call them themselves ‘Trans class’ and have trademark by it, it’s just a bunch of transistors really. It’s not necessarily A/B but it will have its own characteristics.

It’s a great tone - P badass bass and Orange Tube Amp. Even better with your own ears. Its a Nash bas for anyone who wants to know, he also used a Nash Jazz for a tour a couple years ago for his album and that too sounded immense

You knurrr nuffin Sid Snurrrw

@fretmeister absolutely and the same with Jazzes as well - I prescribe to that view fully

Nice pipes Tameica!