AndyTravis

Supernatural, series 3 (?) in pearl pink...custom 5 string.

I had a Roadie II, top basses.

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long shot...

swap?

love...this

TRADED....CHEERS

i'm listening...

please let me know, may take a juggle of funds, but may be able to be first in the queue...

cherry burst needs chrome covers on the pickups...

Love these though.

Rough Sketch,

I'm tired, so i cocked drawing the headstock up (and mispelt Metallic), really i wanted to do a proper drawing, but i think this shows the Fender XII headstock shape works at least.

It needs to be a bit wider at the bottom etc...

anyhow, discussing options with my painter mate...

British Racing Green Metallic, Shell Pickguard, Matching Headstock...
As Above, but Dark Blue Metallic...

Chrome Covers too.

Anyhow, off to lose sleep about what to do next...

yeah, was thinking that too.

I probably have the right saddles on my mim 50's precision, although i'd rather not start butchering my nice fender for a lark with a stagg.

Think thats a realistic plan A, cheers mate.

Through body and ferrules for the 8ve strings.

allparts have one, but its crazy expensive.

Warwick do their tailpiece and just a nut, i can buy them at trade, need to measure the spacing on my corvette std to see if i will have space.

Other options...
Try and fin a used one (time consuming)
Or mod a bbot bridge, employing a string through/recut saddles; may look crap, but i will shove an ashtray over it, function over form.

Have a think, any help appreciated.

oops. That schaller bridge is discontinued...

Further research required.

Hmm...

Yeah, i'd thought of that, i'm used to a 75 jazz with a pencil thin neck, so this clubby stagg may just do it.

I think it's the sound i'm after, and i'll adapt to the spacing...

Worth mulling over though, still no word from schaller atm.

just sat down with a Stagg P copy, and the neck is wider, and deeper than a squier ( a bit of a baseball bat to be honest), may go for one of these...

Plus, if the neck warps, i've not spent much on it, thats why i thought 'get it working, then upgrade it'.

The lads at work think i'm an idiot, so i'm deffo having a go at it to prove them wrong...

Hey folks,
Bad dream last night, i was playing an eight string PBass.
Now i think i want to have a go at it...

Going to buy a Squier P, used.
Schaller 471 bridge.
Reashape the headstock, get my mate (a car resprayer) to match it to the body, i have a load of spare machine heads, enclosed modern types. Shape wise i'm aiming for the Fender IIX 'Hockey stick'.
Plug in the old holes, shape to a solid 'paddle' add two 'wings' and reshape from that.

Will probably add chrome covers, and at a later date, get better pickups in it.

Initially, i want to get it working for just under a ton, may have to settle for a Stagg or Johnson precision, as the 'donor' Squires i have seen have been rough, or about £80.

Will keep you updated, waiting for Schaller to get back to me with a price.

Does this sound feasable? Stupid? Foolish? I know the extra stress on the neck is a worry, but D'addario do a 40-100 gauge set with thin octaves to keep the tension down...

Andy

That's pretty...i like it.

i seriously do - i don't know if it'd use it at the minute...

hmmmmm

[quote name='walbassist' post='862609' date='Jun 9 2010, 08:59 PM']I [i]really[/i] wish these basses would stop coming up for sale when I have no dosh [/quote]

ME TOO...

I want this, very badly - Chrome Covers, and wooden thumbrest almost already on order...

Think i'm too skint, may pm in a bit...

Lake Placid - is it for sale?

[quote name='bubinga5' post='861441' date='Jun 8 2010, 08:41 PM']This is it...hope the someone doesnt mind me showing it..[/quote]

BUY IT...!

Or,

Where is it so i can

Or,

BUY IT; AND SELL IT ME FOR A MASSIVELY REDUCED PRICE WHEN YOU HAVE A CHANGE OF HEART!

trav

burgundy/pink?

Yeah, i'm all over it - the boys in the band didn't get it when i said 'it's metallic pink' until they saw it.

I know LozBass has just got a Pink Nordy - hoping he tires of it quickly and offers it to me!

Takes a real man to play a pink bass. I'm still searching for a Pink Paisley 54 P-Bass reissue.

Trav

i'm too skint Ste, otherwise i'd have this...

my 10 month old daughter, snoring on my chest...

i didn't...

[quote name='jakesbass' post='859540' date='Jun 7 2010, 08:39 AM']it could be that the problem is yours and that's a sizeable bar to learning Andy.[/quote]

There is no 'problem' - it is just how I saw it, and how it made me feel.
I watched all four parts, and that's what i read from it.

Doesn't make you wrong, nor me right; I just probably won't watch many more Ray Brown videos, you'll probably keep on enjoying them.

(Apologies to the OP for the hijack).

that series of videos looks like Ray Brown belittling someone.

So im glad he didn't teach me;

'hey look, you did this wrong, here's me being better than you (hey, i'm the pro) and I embellished upon the third bar, just to make you look a c***...'

no ta.

hahahhahaa - silly c***