AndyTravis

So body, pickguard and pickups all left their respective starting points today... place yer bets...

The 5 crops up pretty often. Normally in an absolutely stunning blue. Then pay for a respray 😉

Just done a quick ebay trawl... gotoh strat buttons - the bass had come with Schaller strap locks and I can’t stand strap locks. Fender felt washers for strap buttons - I had a pack of these, must’ve run out or lost them. Will definitely find them next week. New Fender pickguard screws - just want everything equally shiny.

I’d be offended if it wasn’t 100% true

Well I’ve ended up with Nordstrand 70’s voiced now. I like the stock sound, but I’ve got a feeling this blue miller and the blue sadowsky will be the “go to” basses - so wanted the same pre. @Normski told me he’d been gigging a miller with aguilars. It seems to be a popular mod.

All the bits are in the post back. Wednesday looks busy.

Wooo! Nice gift!

I’ve just asked the wife for £5k ”I don’t get it Trav, I just don’t...”

Yeah, it was 7.85lbs, and then when I took the badass off for a vintage fender and took the Duncan 1/4lbs for Aguilar it was about 7.5lbs. Still regret it not Being mine. I took delivery of 6 fender American deluxe jazz basses in 2010 when they changed to block/bound etc. Lightest was 8.2lbs, heaviest was 10.5lbs. most sat around 9.5/10lbs. Some Ash, some Alder. It was literally luck of the draw.

Haha. My playing wouldn’t suffer if I lost all my fingers in a terrible woodworking accident. The Bass was fine. weirdly held into the neck with a nail. Classy.

I took the pickguard off my violin bass - as it read “The Cavern” If there’s no electronics mounted to it. Go for it. Shove it in a ziplock bag and shove in a draw, or case. The lad who I sold the violin to kept it as it was and still has the pickguard in the case where I left it.

I was wrong on this one.

Not for me that. Everything barring the facings is perfect.

Aged White Pearl

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They did an advert in ‘bassist’ magazine For these which was a colourful whole page affair. I thought these were the absolute pinnacle of bass guitar design, lovely looking basses. I had the ad stuck on one of my school work books.