Dave Vader

Top Bloke, helped me out a great deal, thanks Howard.

You can't be rude about JT's doubleneck, he'll ban you!?!?!? Oh, phew, thought I was over on TB for a minute there. It's hideous, and will break your spine.

[quote name='Doddy' post='1228711' date='May 12 2011, 01:02 PM']Apparently the Hofner Violin Bass is often known as the 'Craven Bass'???[/quote] Yep, cos it's useless in a fight, goes to pieces on the first impact.

I don't want to be mean and poke fun at somebody's hard work, so I am leaving this link here for you all to have a look. Time to get rid of those pesky metal spacers kids.... [url="http://www.fretlessbassguitars.com"]http://www.fretlessbassguitars.com[/url]

[quote name='Robert Manning' post='1228441' date='May 12 2011, 09:12 AM']yeah thats right, only the one though, i'll send it your way when i manage to get hold of a normal TBpickup [/quote] One is better than none, let me know when you get sorted

[quote name='Robert Manning' post='1228427' date='May 12 2011, 08:54 AM']my thunderbird is a 1996, so yeah i think that would be the newest ones? at the moment, is has a crappy SG style hb![/quote] Is that the big sidewinder/mudbucker one? Might be interested in having them off you once you've managed to source replacements *likes crappy sounds*

Or start wrapping bits of wire round some magnets and seeing what i can make myself.... you could be right...

[quote name='henry norton' post='1227765' date='May 11 2011, 04:57 PM']Considering your issues with 'bog standard' pickup shapes, bear in mind the Nordstrand Big Singles are basically soapbars but with exposed pole pieces stuck at a jaunty angle. They are very cool though. I've had big issues with off the shelf pickups. Building classic looking basses, finding chrome covers is very difficult unless you go for the boutique stuff, all of which pushes into megabucks. And why don't DiMarzio make a chrome covered Model1????? It's enough to make you want to build your own........[/quote] Yeah, it wasn't so much an issue with the shapes as the obvious sounds of P and J and soapbars. The chrome look would have been a nice bonus, alternatively, I have now found that rosetti do Mudbucker chrome covers, but not the bucker itself of course, could just gaffa a couple over the soapbars I've got in it at the moment and see how it looks...

[quote name='Hobbayne' post='1227938' date='May 11 2011, 07:46 PM']If its a 60th anniversary P bass then why have they used the updated 57 shape?? [/quote] Fender don't do vintage on the anniversary models, check out the iconically beautiful 25th Anniversary Strats with big 70s headstocks for verification. (Pieces of crap, but very pretty)

Toneriders get good reviews, and were silly cheap. [url="http://www.dangleberrymusic.co.uk/p-165-tonerider-pickups-city-limits-set-3-pickup-set-for-fender-strat-in-white.aspx"]http://www.dangleberrymusic.co.uk/p-165-to...t-in-white.aspx[/url] Still pretty cheap, and supposedly very good.

[quote name='Eight' post='1227248' date='May 11 2011, 10:34 AM']I could kiss you Dave. Stay away from the north for your own safety. My initial efforts to find some Sonic Blue paint in the UK were fruitless; you've just solved a big problem for me before I even hit it.[/quote] No worries, I'm on my way North soon.... (only getting as far as wales though, should be safe)

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='1227275' date='May 11 2011, 11:00 AM']I think if you don't naturally move to the music you're playing then you probably shouldn't do it at all.[/quote] +1 A sense of rhythm and an inability to keep still when it's good are generally quite closely linked (source: my head a minute ago, probably a lie)

[quote name='henry norton' post='1226820' date='May 10 2011, 10:16 PM']How about DiMarzio Model 1 for a mudbucker shaped replacement, Schaller HB for narrower, gibson spaced 4 strings in a standard guitar humbucker casing, Rio Grande Pit Bull, much the same but in chrome without adjustable pole pieces. They're all about the 50-60 quid mark (the Rio might be a bit more) but much less than boutique pickups like Darkstars.[/quote] Had looked at the DM model 1, the others also look promising, might have to stop giving a toss about how it looks (like usual) and might bite the bullet and get them Nordstrand Big Singles I've had my eye on.

Has anyone done this one yet? /coat

Pretty sure we have a spiny norman on here as well.

[url="http://www.manchesterguitartech.co.uk/shop/category/nitrocellulose-lacquer/"]http://www.manchesterguitartech.co.uk/shop...lulose-lacquer/[/url] Fender colours.

[quote name='Norm' post='1226796' date='May 10 2011, 10:03 PM']always bring the note up to pitch not down. Why? Not sure but somebody might enlighten or shoot down in flames [/quote] String slippage, if you tune down the windings are more often than not, not quite taut anymore, giving you a fairly high chance of going down even further. Me, I give the strings a good hard yank if they're sharp, and usually they go down to where they should be again.

I have no idea what anything is worth so i stick it on the bay for 99p no reserve generally. If I could do that here I probably would.

[quote name='hillbilly deluxe' post='1226425' date='May 10 2011, 04:58 PM']You might be right.[/quote] He is

[quote name='tauzero' post='1226309' date='May 10 2011, 03:23 PM']Les Pauls are crap[/quote] This.

[quote name='Low End Bee' post='1226285' date='May 10 2011, 03:06 PM']Where's that old thread about not being a bass player unless you use a valve SVT through two 8x10s for a pub gig.....[/quote] Oh I liked that one, was it one of TIMs?

Could be a plan, looking fairly long term at the minute, as I am proper skint at the mo, can't afford a custom wind just now. Any pikey options around?

I may be adding to this thread at the end of the month as my latest originals band (dreamy spacey kate bushy swooshy loveliness) have been booked to support Vice Squad (yep, that Vice Squad, Bristolian Punk) in Wales. We may get lynched....

Oh my, those Thundertrons are lovely. Probably sound nice too, now if Mr Armstrong could do the lipstick humbucker for a bass like he does for guitars, that would be cool, I had forgotten about those. Nobody making mudbuckers except allparts then?

Anyone know anywhere I can get something shiny and silvery, ideally like Gibson Mudbuckers or Tbird pups, at a relatively decent price? I am tired of using the same old pickup types all the time, and want some of them big shiny humbuckers like on telebasses and EB gibsons. All I have found so far is the allparts mudbucker, which looks fun, but I want choices. Don't tell me to ask Andy at Wizard yet, as he may be my last resort (with a pleading note in my voice). Oh, and while I'm at it, I also need a set of cream covers for a P-bass pickup set at some point, any ideas there? Ta for any help you can give.