The Last Bass Outpost

I'm hoping what's really important are the specs, not the physical appearance.  As long as the numbers are close I'll be happy to drop one in my project.

Very large Marshall amps will make up for a lot of signal deficiency.

Just watched the new FREE Live DVD.  Fraser's tone and playing are incredible.  To me Bruce's tone is muddy in comparison on Wheels of Fire.  Can't fault the playing, must have been that cap!

These saddles are adjustable height and carriers for length , threads don't strip, saddles are steel, carriers decent pot metal that lock in with setscrew into channel wall .  Walls of channels are about 6.5mm wide, saddles about 12. 

You could even drill and thread the saddles for a screw and spring and toss the carriers.

Cheap individual string bridges also use these exact carriers and saddles and cost about $4 US each in sets on the bay.  The bridge shown is used on Lace Helix basses.  I got this one from Grizzly a few years back.  You can remove a lot of metal from the saddle assembly without it failing.






In a slightly different vein: Anybody got a picture of Bicentennial Tbird saddles?  It seems those would be pretty easy to fab.  I see a lot of mention about them being scarce.  I never liked them, had a brass nut on mine and briefly tried to find some metal saddles... eventually got tired of the neck dive and thin neck and traded it straight for a '76 Stingray.  Still wondering why I did that.

Good idea!  


Maybe with chrome tape it could look even more convincing?

Sure would if still is available  Stuff I used is basically aluminum foil on a mylar adhesive backing.  It's used for A/C duct joints and has no insulation.  Made by Nashua and sold at Lowe's.  A roll with enough tape to do 10 complete basses including fretboards is less than $10.  Of course your song selection might be limited after that.

MAGNIFICENT!

Whoops screwed up, this one's mine, really!

Ooh, nice EB-0. The single coil tele pup almost looks like it belongs there. Anyway no use regretting mods done 30-40 years ago.

Thanks, the angle of the pup to fit the string spacing was just right to match the bridge angle.  Hard to screw that one up.  Definitely no regrets!

That's going to be one sweet bass!  Mine's a '60 I bought in '65 for $40 and modded and refinned around '72. '68 tele bass bridge pup was a freebie from a bud. The combo of it, the mudbucker and longscale rotosounds still sounds good to me.  I guess I could stack pot it to get more control over the blend.  Little did I know then what I was doing to the "resale value".  Probably would have dropped a split P pup in it if someone gave me one.