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I rather like the old floorboards look of the body under the black tbh!

Blimey, have you got Mark Knopfler on guitar?... Love the Keytar btw

That's brilliant..I have done a fair bit of metalwork ( tho more welding and big hammer stuff ) and I was toying with making something DIY bridge wise.. your version is an inspiration for sure !

That's actually a very good idea 👍

ps I foresee that when these are in position and fixed down I'll find they are giving me a way too high action, the measurement, body top surface to top of fretboard that Bassassin gave me on his build is slightly less than here, (and his action was a little high I believe) so I'll have to work round that, whether I file a bit off the bottom of the saddles or what.. I'd really rather not have to carve out slots in the body for 'em...we'll see.. Anyway at the mo it's more just a case of get the units in their correct position and breath a sigh of relief. Pity it's not a bolt on neck, a slice of fag packet under the neck heel, job done 😉

Forward to the more tricky part, I won't be able to do my usual mindless thug act here, I'll have to do measuring and stuff.. Not having graph paper I had to do some 'technical drawing' ie 4 lines 20mm each apart and some dots ! I made a kind of paper template and punched holes where the screw holes would occur to transfer them to the unfortunate bass's body. Positioning the template is a bit of a faff,( I'm sure any proper builders out there will be shaking their heads) I used the original bridge and its screw holes to assist in lining up the drawing. One issue is the compromise regarding the saddle positions, I'll have to consider how much movement I have available and where the units go. if I were one of those proper guitar builders I'd perhaps 'stagger' them but doing this neatly would be asking for trouble, so I'll do them in a straight line ( hopefully.) The butt end of the body has a bit of an forward lean too a bit like a Jazz bass tho not as much, this would also favour a staggered arrangement of the units, but, not doing it ! i'll have another look in proper daylight before thinking about drilling holes as I reckon i'll still need to shift the template a bit more to be happy with the position of the bridge units. this is where a one piece thing like the old Overlard of Music set, or similar would be somewhat easier as you don't have to juggle 4 individual pieces.

It's also a cheaper base courier price, when on odd occasions I've sent one, a full size bass especially in a hard case seems to exceed a certain set of dimensions that push it into expensive territory to start with. And as mentioned it's way less fragile if dismantled and wrapped well in a stout double box

I gots hundreds of these to flip back thru now...! Nice bit of tenor sax on Barry Biggs.. I take it that's a tune from the (prob early) 80s?

Super looking bass, I particularly like the gnarly crack like marks on the body, top job sir !👍

V. small bit of progress, I did a basic trim of the post execution headstump my idea always being to trim it right up to the metal block, so a bit of filing and sanding ( dead flat bit of wood with abrasive cloth glued to it) took it to the basic rough shape. I will be wanting to radius the corners a bit so it doesn't look so abrupt, I need to be careful not to take too much off as this lump has the mounting screws for the block going in a fair way, I don't wish to suddenly come up against a screw, and need to leave sufficient meat to provide a solid platform for the block. I may just leave it like this temporarily and do a cosmetic shaping later.

An instance of this was a thing I did where pretty much all the music and chord / structure was originated from my bass lines, someone else wrote the words.. Subsequently the wordsmith /singer claimed entire 100% authorship of the whole musical output...

I've frequently put a capo on a bass if that counts... as regards "tenor" I made (butchered) a 4 string tenor guitar from a reg 6 string, and tuned it like a G banjo (minus the little drone string) relatively speaking that is.. I subsequently tried that tuning on a bass (tho you're going down rather than up) as it's a good tuning to play" tunes", it didn't really work well but I may experiment further perhaps with a capo. Interesting to fiddle with different tunings, not so common with bass as guitar, good call👍

So despite being say, double boxed and secured in the manner a manufacturer might despatch it, they won't insure it? How about if a bass is for instance sent "neck off" effectively disassembled, it's then "musical instrument parts" , and their collective value is surely what it is.. ?

As I understand it they don't make these anymore as they had the j. Hall threats too..

This has been suggested many times, a top idea, they'd sell millions of them, but clearly they just don't want to..( They'd also eliminate the hated "fakers" they persue so vehemently) ain't going to happen it seems, Go figure

In the mists of time past I've had a couple of 70s 4001s and they were fine, obviously many older ones have been abused and busted but perhaps an older one is a better option, and pretty much go for similar prices..?

Do they tend to overheating then? 😁

I've noticed a lot of ebay sellers of basses have switched to "collection only" possibly one of the reasons, also factoring in the bad name couriers of all kinds have (usually deservedly) been getting

Cool, somewhat easier if it's in a rattle can too, I'll check it out a little further. Interestingly I believe they punted the MM US Sub finish as a "truck bed finish" I've certainly see it referred to as such..

Do you mean bed liner? Seems to be called that in UK, seems to be available in rattle cans too

If you'd just have persevered there was some astonishing whistling after that, I dunno how he did it, talented them Dutch.. 😁

^^ Fixed that for you (as they say on 'tinternet)

Ah yes take your point...

You should have stayed for the yodelling, truly epic stuff