The Last Bass Outpost

I don't live south of the border, John; property values up here are good.  Especially in the downtown core.  We actually live accross the street from a decrepid housing project that will be torn down and replaced with a park by 2010 - ka-ching! 

Thanks guys.

Mark would be an excellent bridemaid.... if I were the bride, or even not, but Dana isn't doing the bridesmaid thing (much to the chagrin of some of her friends) - it's gonna be a small wedding.

Also, my spelling still sucks.

That's way too high p[riced.

Capsule is kinda known for that around here.  I used to live down the street from that place.  It's where I bought the Triumph pup I sent to Rob years ago (the only decent buy I've ever seen in there - they had no idea what it was, they just saw the 8 leads and the Gibson name and put a $100 sticker on it).

Your luthier continues to impress me.  That's a very nice job.

Good interview.

So John, have you tracked down Marion Hayden to buy that maho RD yet 

Man, just when you though you'd seen that pic for the last time; there it is again.

Still funny, poor guy.  He makes me feel better about my own hairyness.

*Note: "Invasive" is not a reference to any past military conflicts.

Though it may reference medical procedures and/or sexual acts.

Thanks Rob.  I looked at Jules Pot database before when I was investigating this more closely and I think I found inconsistencies between differant versions of the diagrams and Jule's DB.  I was planning on eventually measuring mine to confirm (haven't got around to it yet because I'd have to desolder the pots from the circuit to measure them).  I'll do this eventually.

drbassman, regarding the trapeze.  You can use a geetar one - file the 2 E slots bigger to accept bass-size strings and make 2 new slots for A and D (or use the geetars A and D but widened away from each other if that makes sense).  That's what I did because I couldn't find a bass trapeze short enough (the Hofner was too long).  If you look closely, you can sse that the D string heads slightly North behind the bridge:



As for the bridge proper - I hate those unintonatable jobies, I wonder if the tune-o-matic style (as found on Ibanez Artcores) would fit on that base, just like geetar tune-o-matics will.