The Last Bass Outpost

Quote from: Basvarken on May 23, 2024, 11:45:27 AM
Jason Momoa jamming with Cesar Gueikian on a replica 1959 Explorer bass

https://www.facebook.com/reel/825795722929003

Damn.  The man is like 8 feet tall and he can't find jeans that aren't too long?

Oh, a 3000 dollar FenderBird.  With EMG's.  No thank you.

Looks great!  Curious why you didn't change the neck pitch instead of sinking the bridge?  Is there a benefit?

Dogs D'Amour - Satellite Kid

Quote from: Dave W on April 10, 2020, 09:43:09 PM
Very cool!

Mike Lutz of Brownsville Station played an earlier Shergold-made Hayman 4040 -- essentially the same bass -- but I think you need to emulate his outfit and stage moves. Especially the boots and open-chest shirt. 

That bassist is cool as all get out.  The guitarist on the other hand, looks like a cross between Geddy Lee and Garth from Wayne's World.  Probably the one rock band where the bass player got more leg than the singer.

This is the place I was thinking of:

https://mircweb.com/

That was most likely refurbished by a third-party outfit, not a factory job.  There are several companies doing this.  They get the damaged products from the shippers, or insurance companies, or whatever, fix them up and sell them as "USED" or "2ND".  The biggest one is in I think Tennessee or somewhere in that vicinity, the name escapes me.

That's not the NOS one that sold in Austin a few years ago, is it?  A local shop had a handful of Gibsons that were still in the original shipping cartons since the '70s.

Good tips.  Also, I like to keep the front of the bridge just slightly higher than the back, not perfectly parallel to the body.  Increases the break angle over the saddles and slightly counteracts the tendency to pull the inserts out of the body.

Quote from: copacetic on March 13, 2020, 03:56:13 PM
I have an old '55 Precision with a single coil Seymour Duncan. Now this was done 20 years ago and I forget all the details, however it has that hum. I'm thinking start with shielding and see how that goes and if still there replace the pup, maybe a Lindy Fralin '51 which supposedly would drop right in. Any one here have any suggestions for a better procedure or parts? Thanks

As you probably know, the pickup itself does not generate the hum, it derives from external sources.  I can usually just turn 90 degrees or so, and find a physical position where the hum goes away.  If it's there ALL the time, then most likely a grounding issue.

Quote from: uwe on March 08, 2020, 10:36:17 AM
All I can say is that all early TB Plus innards looked like that and that there was no dif between Bass IV/V and '87 onwards TBird mounted ones. Changes came later.

When would you say Gibson started the changes to the pickups in the T-bird reissues?  Any idea why they were changed?  I remember someone posting a pic at one time of one that resembled a P-bass pickup underneath the standard black plastic cover.  Myself, I'm used to seeing the black epoxy-potted pickups in the reissues.

Quote from: amptech on March 05, 2020, 11:30:11 PM
Just for reference, how wide are those blade magnets? I've been looking for T-bird bobbins and magnets for some time now..

Don't know, I didn't measure them, and it's back together now. They look to be about the same size as standard PAF magnets.

These pickups have the blade magnets only.  There's nothing on the bottom plate except some remnants of adhesive.  It's not really even a baseplate, just sort of a very thin tin cover.

Here's what the pickups look like. To me, they look much closer to real '60s Thunderbird pickups than the ones that came later in the reissues.