Reggaebass

Welcome Simon

Self build isn’t it

I’d be wanting a new one myself, but if you are happy to keep that one and receive a discount i think no lower than £250 would sway me , nice looking bass

Hi, I haven’t myself but a few people I know have used Armstrong pickups and a few people here I believe have too

Yes I’ve got one of those, they mute the strings quite heavily , which is good if you’re looking for that but I found it a bit too much, i did lots of experimenting with different types and sometimes the foam under the strings at the bridge does a good job

Thanks for that info Paul , mine is 2 years old now , I don’t know much about the technical side and the manual says these are in my one Preamp: Tube (2 x 12AX7) Driver Tubes: (1 x 12AX7, 1 x 12AU7) Power Amp: (4 x 6L6GC) RMS Power Handling: 100 Watts RMS Speaker Outputs: 1 x 8 ohm, 2 x 4 ohm, 2 x 2 ohm

Some Gregory isaacs today

Couldn’t you have got the original ones rewound or wasn’t that possible

If you could get a bit of the material the case liner has would work too , I’ve had a few nitro basses hanging on Hercules hangers with no problems

Driving to East Ham listening to some early paragons

Welcome LP

That would look good, similar to the Yamaha BB

Came across this great track by Bunny Scott before he became the singer of Third World , he was also in the early line-up of Inner Circle

You could be right , I’m no expert either but it looks right to me, it’s 4 ply and has what I think is an aluminium shielding plate on the back

If all is working ok and there’s no problem with the neck it’s a nice find

It’s worth experimenting with a few different offcuts of wood before gluing to get the closest match you can

If you don’t mind me saying, the block is showing end grain so won’t match, you will find it hard to match exactly but will get closer if the grain is running the same way 🙂

57 is the precision 👍

Underrated- Behringer ultrabass amps Trace Elliot cabs Overrated- Squier Jaco

I wouldn’t say I’ve regretted buying anything as such, but I’ve lost count of the amps cabs and basses I’ve had, lots of them were my fault for not doing any research and just buying what I liked the look of, whichever basses I bought I always went back to a fender jazz or precision, so I now know exactly what’s good for me, and of all the amps I’m settled on the Ampeg sound, it’s all a learning experience and if you don’t try these things you’ll never know

Looks like the 57 and 62 both had 250k pots , not sure about the cap though but a 66 I looked at had this cap

Welcome Teller

And for home practice they are totally silent, no fan noise

Heard this recently and it took me way back in time