Lovely body Wokka - uh, the guitar's that is... :-P Blackwood is a wonderful local timber and one I've thought of using one day when I have enough skills to be let loose on a valuable slab of...
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Lovely body Wokka - uh, the guitar's that is... :-P Blackwood is a wonderful local timber and one I've thought of using one day when I have enough skills to be let loose on a valuable slab of...
I'll be interested in hearing about your journey with this project PP. I'm looking at doing something similar with a recycled (ex eBay) bass neck and making up a Danelectro style masonite &...
Having been doing some research into a recent eBay bass I bought, I've been coming across some Japanese Teisco basses that have nice/interesting bodies but to my eye could do with a paper bag over...
Wow - excellent toy uh tool shed you have there! One day - well - I might actually have cleared out some boxes from mine so I can at least have a workbench or two reassembled... :-D
Well, that's definitive. I swapped the iffy string with an old one I had and all is working as it should now - high volume output and there's the string on pole-piece "clack" like the other strings...
Aldi had some Strat clone guitars recently. I took a look at one as it was price-cut to $60 or so (from $90ish) and I swear it had a dotty printed sunburst finish/sticker exactly as Pablopepper...
I checked the electrical connectivity today - it all seems fine, but the string-on-pole-piece click test and volume is still low. Double checked with each pickup and the tone controls too but no...
Thanks for your tips guys - and yes it's on my new JBA-4. Acoustically it sounds OK, it's just electronically NQR. I'll check the continuity with my multimeter to make sure it's connecting to the...
Judging by the number for sale second hand, they won't play them if they're shaped like that either... (who'd've thought it?)
Wondering if anyone can suggest what I could do to fix a peculiar issue I have with my bass' E-string. It seems much quieter than the others and on further investigation doesn't appear to be getting...
Nice vintage PB Brendan - the black 'guard gives it a nice contrast to the chrome and pale wood :-)
Maybe - gotta learn to play it first! ;-) Was very happy with the grain, it's exactly what I hoped it would do and why I was keen to avoid stains, etc. sticking with natural and transparency. ...
In case you wondered about the name, Jenny was our first Staffie and it seemed a good fit with both Jazz Bass and Pitbull Guitars. The colour scheme was partly inspired by her too (as well as...
"Jenny" my JBA-4 (ash-bodied) is finally done. Orange Shellac and Tru-Oil finish, everything stock (for the moment) with added copper-foil shielding (to excess... :P )...
A few more photos that I managed to get in the sunlight this morning before the clouds rolled in.
The headstock holes looked pretty evenly spaced but come mounting the tuners there is obviously some...
Well "Jenny" my JBA-4 Jazz Bass is finally finished :) I left everything as stock apart from adding copper foil shielding under the pickguard and in the cavities and my own custom decal design. ...
Well I finally finished my JBA-4 - I had to settle for a few flaws (I prefer to call them "character") as I was getting well and truly sick of redoing shellac on the headstock over and over.. I had...
When I have one I want to make properly (a pedigree not a mongrel) I will definitely look into a proper built to spec neck DB ;-)
Well that sucks - the eBay G.P.S. company refused to send the neck from Kentucky, so I'm without a short-scale neck but at least I will get a full refund... So it's take two - this time with a...
I'd forgotten about that build, and hadn't noticed the HB was a short-scale... Maybe next time - I've got to get this Danelectro/Silvertone/lipstick-pickup bug out of my system first. Perhaps if...
I picked up a second hand neck from the big E - not a Dano but has 70s? style closed tuners on it that I hope will will be usable. It'll do for this DIY experiment - a bit of a junkyard/pawn shop...
Signed it AJ - sorry to hear about your sister :-(
Lovely! (provided it is real wood, not some simulacra - the plastic trim/buttons on my Logitech gaming mouse has a sort of optical effect not dissimilar to that which appears much deeper than it...
Nice grain there, you get massive shine off the light-coloured wood in those wide banded sections, but it's the darker bands that seems to catch and play with the light best, changing from light to...
On my Ibanez - a 4-string SoundGear but pretty much the same layout - the cover is considerably larger and recessed with a decent ledge for it to sit on (as well as having metal thread inserts for...