The Yamaha BB mega-thread

[neepheid]

4 minutes ago, Maude said:

The tuners are adjustable and it's possible yours just need a little tighten. 

Although quite rare to come by there is a little 'c' spanner that fits in the hole in the tuner shaft to nip them up. 

I would imagine there's non Yamaha tools that would also do the job. 

 

Heh, just snuck in before you

 

[Paddy777]

Yeh there’s no tools included with it unfortunately so looks like it has been lost over time, but I’m very glad to hear that there is a fix - I was quite surprised that the tuners were seeming to be knackered when everything else is so well made? I’m sure I’ll be able to sort them out then, very pleased with that  thanks for that 

[djc63]

This 

[AndyTravis]

I did post about 309 pages ago a method of doing it by hand…

 

Old BB gas rising. 
 

Wallet says no…

[RobD]

14 hours ago, Paddy777 said:

Well my BB3000s arrived today and

i have to say I’m absolutely blown away by the quality of it! 🤩 I had obviously read/heard how good they were but I guess I’m still taken aback somewhat at how nice it is to play, and also how great it sounds - I don’t quite know how to explain it, but the tone is absolutely perfect, it’s like it’s hard to sound bad playing it (but I’m sure I’ll manage to give it a good shot 😂).

 

It has a really lovely neck - it’s not particularly wide but it’s a bit thicker than a jazz front to back, it feels like you just glide your hand where it needs to go and you get this lovely even tone all over the fretboard. I do have a bit of a tendency to get carried away with new basses and then a month or two later after a few gigs I’ll find there’s one or two niggly things I don’t like, the only with this I can see at the mo is that the tuners don’t hold their tune very well at all, in fact the A string is so bad it actually turned back the other way a quarter turn after I’d tuned it, but I just put it down to being 40 years old. I’ll have to sort something out - see if I can find

some replacement gold Yamaha ones the same otherwise I may stick some Gotoh’s or something on for now. Anyway, suffice to say I am more than impressed with it - it’s really got some mojo, decent weight too - a few grams over 9lbs 
 

Couple more pix 👇 

 

That's a lovely looking bass, nice seeing a 3000S with the uncovered pickups.

Would you mind measuring the nut width? I've been looking out for a 3000 to go along with my 2000, but haven't been sure about a 3000S in case the neck is all that much slimmer.

 

[Paddy777]

Yeh I will do @RobD 👍 

[Misdee]

On 09/01/2025 at 20:23, Paddy777 said:

Well my BB3000s arrived today and

i have to say I’m absolutely blown away by the quality of it! 🤩 I had obviously read/heard how good they were but I guess I’m still taken aback somewhat at how nice it is to play, and also how great it sounds - I don’t quite know how to explain it, but the tone is absolutely perfect, it’s like it’s hard to sound bad playing it (but I’m sure I’ll manage to give it a good shot 😂).

 

It has a really lovely neck - it’s not particularly wide but it’s a bit thicker than a jazz front to back, it feels like you just glide your hand where it needs to go and you get this lovely even tone all over the fretboard. I do have a bit of a tendency to get carried away with new basses and then a month or two later after a few gigs I’ll find there’s one or two niggly things I don’t like, the only with this I can see at the mo is that the tuners don’t hold their tune very well at all, in fact the A string is so bad it actually turned back the other way a quarter turn after I’d tuned it, but I just put it down to being 40 years old. I’ll have to sort something out - see if I can find

some replacement gold Yamaha ones the same otherwise I may stick some Gotoh’s or something on for now. Anyway, suffice to say I am more than impressed with it - it’s really got some mojo, decent weight too - a few grams over 9lbs 
 

Couple more pix 👇 

 

 

 

 

That's a true classic in the most sought -after colour. Great find.

[Paddy777]

1 hour ago, Misdee said:

That's a true classic in the most sought -after colour. Great find.

It’s a really lovely bass, the only thing is I also took delivery of a US Lakland 55/94 this week as well, which is a totally different type of bass, but has upstaged the Yamaha a little bit! I’m going to give the Yamaha some love & attention this week, it’s maybe not used to being a side-piece 😂 I’m also undecided on strings - whether to keep rounds on or stick some EB Cobalt Flats or even some Tapes on it, I’m going to try a few and see what sounds best, I know a few people who have tapes on Yamaha BB’s with these pickups on and they sound really good, not my usual strings but could be a nice change