Pea Turgh

Don’t know the circumstances, but happy to help one of our own. Hope things work out alright Lee.

I love it! 🤣. If it was priced accordingly, it could be brought back up to spec? (Apart from the ferrules 😬). Gut feeling it plays nice. Are you happy to share how much you paid for it @ronswanson?

You’d probably be better off with Barefaced 10s - they are vintage-voiced (man I’m miss my Two10!). The 12s are supposed to be more full range flat response (FRFR).

As would the nice paint job eventually!

Is that an Ashdown Geezer Butler head on the floor next to the red toolbox? Time travel indeed!

Those are oddly satisfying to look at. I’d take one of these over a roadworn! (…ducks for cover)

The way I’d approach it would be to stick paper to the (stripped) body so I could map out the position of the neck and pickup. Firstly rough cut the edges so I can run a straight edge along the sides of the body. Then I’d just follow the body lines for the lower horn - that’s the bit that needs to be bang on for me - uniform spacing all around! I taped a pencil to some other objects to make a jig. Repeat until it looks right, then stick to your sheet and get busy with a jigsaw. I then scraped a 45 degree bevel on the plate with a Stanley knife. I appreciate that might be a bit Heath Robinson for most though!

Headstocks all look stupid if you look at them for long enough.

Love the Delta (top one). 40mm nut. I can live with that. Headstock not as cool as the body (but headstocks are always a funny one to get right).

Impressive looking cab! Would be ace to get the box measurements to see what driver would suit the box/port size.

Perfect! 10/10!

Ah, that’s where the Silverstone went to - did wonder about that when I was browsing the other day. Nice.

Had to find a lookalike of my first amp. Did its job I suppose!

2 soap bar pickups? Black hardware? That would be ace. As would changing the strings! 🤮

That’s a deposit for a house

Saw something very similar about a year ago. Some kid leaving the local rehearsal studio was carrying one. Had a chat, picked it up (heavy). Action was too high to play and someone had cut in to the back of the neck - assuming to do with the truss rod nut. That example you linked looks in much better condition!

What about mocha? That grain would gert lush darkened up a bit.

Thought that was a really nice green body for a minute, then wondered why the little Korg thing was inside the pick-up hole 🤣. That would be a cracking shade for a p-bass body!

I like the wood version much better!

I discovered a good relicing technique - let your teenage kids use your gear. Sooo many more dings in everything now. Even the walls. Not so much of a fashion, but they are especially talented at relicing my f*****g leads! It’s like a bowl of rice crispies when I plug anything in. On a more serious note, that Monty’s stuff on the fretboard seems great (though your board seems nicely dark already in the pic). Also stick a lit fag behind the nut on the E string and let it scorch the wood!

That’s an impressively over-engineered bridge - it’s massive! Cool looking bass overall. Classic from afar, but with modern touches.

Cool bass! I love an old Japanese mystery. That scratch plate doesn’t look original - would look 10 times better if you made a new one that followed the contours of the body.

The problem with having kids that are in to music too is that they keep on nicking my stuff! My daughter commandeered this bass after I cleaned it up, so haven’t yet had a chance to see if the active circuit still lives!

Would a Strat pup cover for, I wonder? Or maybe someone makes one specially for ‘51s.

Thought I’d lower the tone of all these super nice NBDs with a lowly Toby! Played the perfect Toby Pro in 1996 or so, but couldn’t afford it. Bought a lovely example from @AndyTravis a while ago, but didn’t gel with it like that one back in the 90’s. Sort of forgot about this Deluxe I bought off fleabay about 15 years ago. Leant it to my wife’s cousin years ago, but as he wasn’t using it he returned it to me. A little bit dusty and unloved, but a quick polish and a tweak of the truss rod has it sorted. Will need to investigate the electronics as battery that expired 11 years ago had leaked! Might pull out the preamp and wire it passive, too. I don’t know loads about actives, so any comment on the at plan are welcome.