Hey Dave, thanks for all the great movies. Your last project on the trashed 72 Jazz reminded me of a British car show called Wheeler Dealers in which they look for and buy a cheap car that needs work. They replace, repair parts and sometimes repaint the car then sell it for a small profit. You could do the same with guitars & basses. Would make for great viewing and you can feel proud to be giving an unloved beater/ classic to a new home. Merry Christmas.
Hello, Dave from Massachusetts. I just to give props to you and what you do. With that said, I 'd like to know if you had made any videos on each of the tools yo ues to fix bass guitars. I don't know if you have made such a video, but I think it would be very informative. Some of us that do own bass guitars wouldn't mind a tutorial on the tools you use, and how to use them correctly. I believe as bassist and guitarist, we should be able to care for our instruments. You are our mentor in these situations, which is why we reach out to you. I do hope, if you haven't already made some tutorials on the various tools you use to repair and set up basses and guitars. Looking forward to those videos, if you haven't made it already. Thanks. E B.M. - Boston
I did a Made in Japan 84 Ibanez Roadstar II Series recently. And I was thinking that too of keeping stuff original blah blah blah. But that would too expensive for a guitar that sat in pieces and pick guard destroyed and not playable to 10 years. But i got it playing again. Cheers Dave! Thank you I've learned alot watching your show
Thanks for a fun filled year on your channel Dave! Merry Christmas to you and your family, happy and healthy new year 2017 with lots and lots of videos with rants, gooches and fun stuff. ...looking forward to continuing to be your patreon!
Have a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year! Some folks just don't get the picture with pickup leads and how brittle they'll be after a bad solder job from the guy that tossed together a hot mess... literally.
gotta wonder if whatever corroded the neck screws also damaged the pickups and tuners too, like that bass was flood damaged at some point or spent a day surfing on the beach. too bad. thanks for all the great movies dave.
I know this is the tail end of the year, but this just might be the most interesting video of 2016! Almost everything needs fixing on this beautiful classic, so it should make for a great series. Looking forward to it. Cheers!
Hey Dave, you ever have Buddy come in and say, "My axe won't chooch. Please fix it right, every problem, whatever you find, spend the time, put it back to spec, call me when it's done and I'll just pay the bill"? Or do people have to be nursed through every horrifying discovery? How does that play out most of the time?
so if you're a patron your cool and thanks for watching,everyone else mehh , whatever I enjoy your show anyway but weather or not you realize it,you address the patrons directly. love the show anyway keep it up?
Another great adventure, Dave. But, I must say I was a bit surprised that you were hoping to install a Badass II on there. I thought you really disliked those bridges? Had this case actually worked out, would that still have been the best option for the bridge replacement? Was coverage the biggest deciding factor?
Merry Christmas Dave,thanks for sharing, great video. I am in the mist of building my own bass guitar and I just finished soldering the pickups and was wondering if from your experience there's supposed to be an inheritable sound difference between Bridge pickup and neck pickup because for some reason when I tap the neck pickup the 'dump' sounds much boomier then the neck pickup
Just a real shame that someone thought it a good idea to turn that into a 70's coffee table complete with a badass ashtray! I'm sure it'll be a win by the time you finish! Best wishes!
You know, if it were me (and it's NOT...) I'd just get halfway decent replacement pickups or even cheap shitty ones so I could at least use the instrument while I figuring out if the existing ones are cost-effective to fix. Hopefully it's something easy like the coil's in or out wire(s) coming un-soldered. Is it even worth getting so-called "vintage" bobbins rewound? Like you said, once the original wiring's compromised you may be SOL in terms of value...
I should have sent you the old P-Bass body I swapped out. So much high quality spoon routing that the neck didn't fit correctly. You'd have had a bunch of laughs over that one.
The mistake was the original Badass bridge wasn't designed for Fender basses but for Gibson basses. Next all that flux hides the fact that there are cold soldering joints all over that plate. Probably used too much heat on those pots too. I would not trust those pots at all. This is an interesting patient, I'm looking forward to the bridge replacement and electronics repair on this one.
So lets re-cap: neck - good but frets poor, almost need replacing, tuners stiff and need lube or replacing. body - OK, but need to patch the route. electronics - needs new pots, new pickups, new wiring. Nearly everything needs good chunk of work - is it still worth it?
Well, like other equipment from 72, you can try to get NOS parts and attempt to restore some amount of it, or spend the money and put new stuff in it. If your buddy has any sentimental attachment, sounds like this bass gets to start from scratch. If your buddy doesn't have any sentimental attachment, sounds like this bass is destined for a wood pile or somebody elses hands.
I'm going to ask a question, because I'm curious of your opinion, and know it ultimately falls down to time, money and what the customer wants. The guitar products company that we love to hate has done a video on replacing a section of body wood on a Telecaster using similar wood, and attempting some grain matching. With this bass having the finish that it has, would you consider it a good candidate, assuming it's what the customer wanted? As towards the electronics, from what I could see from the video, it didn't appear that the leads were damaged. Is is possible for a break where the leads are soldered to the pick up, or do you suspect damage to the coils themselves?
Dave, what are your thoughts on installing a musicman style humbucker in a jazz bass. I have a super super shitty squier jazz bass that I gooched the finish on and fucked up the bridge pickup, and I was thinking about routing out a spot for a humbucker. think it would sound any good?
im not dave but i can tell you that it would sound like shit, squire j-bass sound fine so no idea where you bought your super shitty one from, i guess off some dude in a parking lot, fell off the back of the truck, etc.
Iggy Tubmen nope. It was my first bass, and I got it new. It has always sounded awful to me. I don't like J-basses very much. I prefer humbucker basses like stingrays and WAL's. And I was only wondering what Dave thinks because the bridge pickup is F.U.B.A.R. and I only play my Ric now, so it's either the trash or giving it a musicman pickup.
Harubro Haruhara How attached are you to the guitar? If not much I'd say just go for it. Take take your time and plan it out. Have a backup plan in case the humbucker doesn't work out.
Heath Barnhart it's going in the trash if I don't do it. So I'm not attached in the slightest. I gooched the bass to absolute shit when I was 14 (got the bass when I was 5, and I'm 20 now) I went through a metal phase and stripped all the paint off and repainted with white and dripping red. It looks awful. So yah. It either a music man pickup with extra heavy gauge strings, or scrap wood.
With all the great aftermarket Jazz Pups out there (Delano, Nordstrand, Farlin, Aguilar and even the dreaded EMG has JVXpups, why would you fuck around trying to save this shit hole electronics. Even Fender has reissue jazz pups. Buddy needs to get his priorities straight. Does he want a bad ass rock solid bad to bone bass, or is he looking for a 100% original piece of wall art or looking to ,ale a quick score on selling it off to someone else? If that was my bass, I would have already been on the phone with Carry Nordstrand and getting new pickups and a new plate with Oil capacitor on it for tone and called it a day. This guys got a bad ass bass and all he cares about is the "Original crap that's already gooched. Knock so sense into this fool for us Dave. Ps. Love watching you do your work Dave. Keep up the great work.
You need to pull the pickups and see if the leads are properly attached/soldered to the points on the bobbins. I agree that it is worth making an effort to clean up the original pots and try to use them.
It's not worth the effort at all. This is a 70s Jazz Bass. Fender has made hundreds of thousands of these things over the years. They are still in production today and you can buy a brand new one for $1000 USD. This isn't some vintage Ferrari where the only made 250 of them. Even vintage pots and pickups can go bad, but they are still making them. You can go buy brand new CTS pots and a Switchcraft jack and an orange drop cap for $20 or $30 total. It sucks that the pickups crapped out, but again, you can buy new ones. You can even spend the money on Fender pickups if you like, but for some single coils that are wax potted and at 7.8kohms, guitarfetish.com sells them for $40 a piece. So really, for $100 USD or so, you can completely rewire that guitar to be in stock configuration with pickups that will more or less match the stock voicing. For $200 or so, you can have a prewired EMG pickguard. Why play around with old broken electronics that were mass produced to begin with, when you can have new reliable stuff and enjoy a nice vintage bass?
Why play around with old broken electronics that were mass produced to begin with, when you can have new reliable stuff and enjoy a nice vintage bass? Many would consider any vintage Fender "old broken electronics" and if utility is the only concern then just get a new one. Most people in the market for an early 70s Fender bass want it all original, however -- and that certainly increases the value of the instrument.
If you were taking about some early model or rare artist custom, I could see the value. But this isn't an early model and it isn't rare. This ain't a '59 gold top signed by Les. It's a run of the mill J-bass that isn't original anyway. It has Bad Ass bridge and has been refinished. It's a player.
That may be how "you" feel about it, but there is clearly a market out there for Fender Jazz basses from this era in original condition. People are clearly willing to pay introductory vintage prices for them, and clearly besides a refinish, the biggest modification that degrades value is non-original pickups/electronics. None of this is "my" opinion, but it is an objective fact reflected in the market.
But you make a good point that this one is refinished already, which has pretty much destroyed any vintage value it has. Still the original pickups -- if defective -- could be rewound by Lindy Fralin, which would be cool -- even with new pots :)
it's a real shame people mess up nice guitars like this, I once saw a genuine 50s (57?) p bass on ebay that some asshole from the 80s had routed out an put pj emg's in it and done a slapdash job... ugh cringe. anyway merry Christmas Dave can't wait to see what's next.
Yeah Dave it looks like some stupid ass used plumber's solder and totally gooched the components. Really makes ya wish people that don't know what they are doing would leave quality instruments the fuck alone... Geez you must have seen your share.... Anyway pal, you and yours have a Great Christmas and kick ass New Year.
What happened to this one? Did it get a second lease of life or was it laid to rest? You can't just leave us/me hanging, like the last episode of a good series.
Anybody that thinks a guitar must be hallowed ground just watch that video with the curator of the 59 Les Paul that Peter Green sold to Gary Moore. Totally a legendary instrument but treated like any old axe by the player. A guitar has to be useful or it's just a chunk of wood.
One aspect of uploading videos that must be difficult is the negative comments you receive. I notice how even guys who know what they're doing end up sounding/being preemptively defensive because they know they're going to receive a bunch of whining when they make a certain decision. I think it's great that your reaction to seeing that horrible wiring job on those pots would be to say, "Fuck this!" Why not just cut the Gordian Knot and just start over with new stuff that you know will work?
maybe couldn't lower the string heighth any further, action was still too high so routing was his bad idea for compensating-Probably should have just put a shim in the neck pocket instead raising the fingerboard. Who really knows what this gfuy was thinking.
I had a 90s USA Fender Jazz Bass. It was heavy as an anchor. I think they're over rated and over priced, like a Harley Davidson. I sold it for stupid money and never gave it a second thought.
Merry Christmas, Dave! I enjoy watching your videos!
Hey Dave, thanks for all the great movies. Your last project on the trashed 72 Jazz reminded me of a British car show called Wheeler Dealers in which they look for and buy a cheap car that needs work. They replace, repair parts and sometimes repaint the car then sell it for a small profit. You could do the same with guitars & basses. Would make for great viewing and you can feel proud to be giving an unloved beater/ classic to a new home.
Merry Christmas.
I'm thinking 2 new pickups, new bridge, new tuners, all new wiring, new pickguard, and new frets. can't wait till the next video!!
Brian Esposito once you replace everything except the body and the neck, is it really a 72 Jazz bass anymore? Not really worth it.
Great stuff as always, your vids are always fun and educational.
Merry Christmas.
Could this Jazz Bass be a Katrina floater? Merry Christmas Dave thanks for all the fun and smarts.
Dave,
Happy Holidays.....you're the best ! Love the, "reach around" line...very funny.
Cheers.
Tell it like it is Dave, I call em. Always a good lesson when I watch your Videos Dave.. Merry Christmas...
That bass is the Gooch Who Stole Christmas. Merry Christmas everyone!
Dammit Dave, with all your recent videos you're gonna make me go buy a Jazz Bass and I don't even play bass!!!
Hello, Dave from Massachusetts. I just to give props to you and what you do. With that said, I 'd like to know if you had made any videos on each of the tools yo ues to fix bass guitars. I don't know if you have made such a video, but I think it would be very informative. Some of us that do own bass guitars wouldn't mind a tutorial on the tools you use, and how to use them correctly. I believe as bassist and guitarist, we should be able to care for our instruments. You are our mentor in these situations, which is why we reach out to you. I do hope, if you haven't already made some tutorials on the various tools you use to repair and set up basses and guitars. Looking forward to those videos, if you haven't made it already. Thanks. E B.M. - Boston
Merry Christmas Dave. I do get a lot out of your videos.
What a great episode, Dave. Thanks! Such a nice bass, and cool Sherlocking on the road to fixing it up.
Merry Christmas Dave and Fam!
Merry Christmas
Thanks for the videos
"It looks like they routed it with a F&^$-ing spoon." Love it.
Merry Christmas..... Love the videos!
Great troubleshooting!!
Happy Christmas Dave. Another great vid. Keep them coming.
Dave Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to your house
Dave, thats the nicest Jazz bass , Ive ever seen, love it !!
I did a Made in Japan 84 Ibanez Roadstar II Series recently. And I was thinking that too of keeping stuff original blah blah blah. But that would too expensive for a guitar that sat in pieces and pick guard destroyed and not playable to 10 years. But i got it playing again.
Cheers Dave! Thank you I've learned alot watching your show
cheers
Happy holidays Dave! Still enjoying your channel!
Thanks for a fun filled year on your channel Dave!
Merry Christmas to you and your family, happy and healthy new year 2017 with lots and lots of videos with rants, gooches and fun stuff.
...looking forward to continuing to be your patreon!
Have a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!
Some folks just don't get the picture with pickup leads and how brittle they'll be after a bad solder job from the guy that tossed together a hot mess... literally.
Nice opportunity to build a great bass out of some vintage wood. Could be a cool project!
Merry Christmas Dave !
Dave you rule dude. You deserve an award and a big check for all the shit you teach us.
Merry Christmas Dave .
So that guy needs new tuners, bridge n all new electronics. Luckily he's still got wood.
I don't know Dave, I'm thinking lubing one's nuts while they're out is critical. Merry Christmas and here's to more of your entertaining vids sir !
Happy Holidays Dave, always look forward to your vids. Cheers.
gotta wonder if whatever corroded the neck screws also damaged the pickups and tuners too, like that bass was flood damaged at some point or spent a day surfing on the beach. too bad. thanks for all the great movies dave.
We have the same meter. Awesome
Happy x-mas, Dave! Cheers from Lithuania! o/
linksmų Kalėdų .
I know this is the tail end of the year, but this just might be the most interesting video of 2016! Almost everything needs fixing on this beautiful classic, so it should make for a great series. Looking forward to it. Cheers!
Merry Christmas Dave, love your videos, keep doing what you, you always make me smile and I always learn something , thankyou !
Hi Dave, daft question.if you know nothing about trussrods , how can you tell if your turning a 2 way or a 1 way trussrod?
Thanks Dave . Have a good Christmas mate.
Hey Dave, you ever have Buddy come in and say, "My axe won't chooch. Please fix it right, every problem, whatever you find, spend the time, put it back to spec, call me when it's done and I'll just pay the bill"? Or do people have to be nursed through every horrifying discovery? How does that play out most of the time?
so if you're a patron your cool and thanks for watching,everyone else mehh , whatever I enjoy your show anyway but weather or not you realize it,you address the patrons directly. love the show anyway keep it up?
Dave have not seen your videos in a while and was wondering what happened to your guitar manufacturing store? Homestead FL.
I love bound-and-blocked Jazz Bass necks!
Kinda a heartbreaking way to start my morning
David, when are you inviting Adam Savage to the workshop!?
Another great adventure, Dave. But, I must say I was a bit surprised that you were hoping to install a Badass II on there. I thought you really disliked those bridges? Had this case actually worked out, would that still have been the best option for the bridge replacement? Was coverage the biggest deciding factor?
Merry Christmas Dave,thanks for sharing, great video. I am in the mist of building my own bass guitar and I just finished soldering the pickups and was wondering if from your experience there's supposed to be an inheritable sound difference between Bridge pickup and neck pickup because for some reason when I tap the neck pickup the 'dump' sounds much boomier then the neck pickup
It's Kent armstrong pickups, yes he did label 'B' and 'N' it's just that I think the volume of the bridge pick up is a little lower then the neck one
OK. My bad... Opened the pickup to reveal the wire and it turned out that I didn't solder it correctly.
Just a real shame that someone thought it a good idea to turn that into a 70's coffee table complete with a badass ashtray! I'm sure it'll be a win by the time you finish! Best wishes!
Ouch! What the crap were they thinking on that bridge rout?
Welp if they are prepared to spend it can be made OK again.
Merry Christmas.
You know, if it were me (and it's NOT...) I'd just get halfway decent replacement pickups or even cheap shitty ones so I could at least use the instrument while I figuring out if the existing ones are cost-effective to fix. Hopefully it's something easy like the coil's in or out wire(s) coming un-soldered. Is it even worth getting so-called "vintage" bobbins rewound? Like you said, once the original wiring's compromised you may be SOL in terms of value...
Well... on the upside, the Neck Plate works :-) As to the rest, the owner now has some interesting looking Door Stops. LOL.
I should have sent you the old P-Bass body I swapped out. So much high quality spoon routing that the neck didn't fit correctly. You'd have had a bunch of laughs over that one.
You'd think the bass died in your arms.
Please This Capacitor is?Thku.
The mistake was the original Badass bridge wasn't designed for Fender basses but for Gibson basses. Next all that flux hides the fact that there are cold soldering joints all over that plate. Probably used too much heat on those pots too. I would not trust those pots at all. This is an interesting patient, I'm looking forward to the bridge replacement and electronics repair on this one.
Such a bummer. What sucks is it probably needs too much to have any kind of vintage value once it's all fixed up. :-(
So lets re-cap: neck - good but frets poor, almost need replacing, tuners stiff and need lube or replacing. body - OK, but need to patch the route. electronics - needs new pots, new pickups, new wiring. Nearly everything needs good chunk of work - is it still worth it?
That is a real heartbreaker why would anyone put a shit badass bridge on such a thing of beauty
Where did the guy store this bass, out in the tool shed??
in an out-house or the ice-fishing shack.
Well if you don't fix it at least it could warm you for an hour while it burns in your fireplace on one of those cold Canadian nights.
Well, like other equipment from 72, you can try to get NOS parts and attempt to restore some amount of it, or spend the money and put new stuff in it. If your buddy has any sentimental attachment, sounds like this bass gets to start from scratch. If your buddy doesn't have any sentimental attachment, sounds like this bass is destined for a wood pile or somebody elses hands.
I'm going to ask a question, because I'm curious of your opinion, and know it ultimately falls down to time, money and what the customer wants. The guitar products company that we love to hate has done a video on replacing a section of body wood on a Telecaster using similar wood, and attempting some grain matching. With this bass having the finish that it has, would you consider it a good candidate, assuming it's what the customer wanted?
As towards the electronics, from what I could see from the video, it didn't appear that the leads were damaged. Is is possible for a break where the leads are soldered to the pick up, or do you suspect damage to the coils themselves?
I'm with ya on the "new back". I'll talk to my new president, maybe he'll make a deal with alibaba & we can order one. Have good "New Year"...
Dave, what are your thoughts on installing a musicman style humbucker in a jazz bass. I have a super super shitty squier jazz bass that I gooched the finish on and fucked up the bridge pickup, and I was thinking about routing out a spot for a humbucker. think it would sound any good?
im not dave but i can tell you that it would sound like shit, squire j-bass sound fine so no idea where you bought your super shitty one from, i guess off some dude in a parking lot, fell off the back of the truck, etc.
Iggy Tubmen nope. It was my first bass, and I got it new. It has always sounded awful to me. I don't like J-basses very much. I prefer humbucker basses like stingrays and WAL's. And I was only wondering what Dave thinks because the bridge pickup is F.U.B.A.R. and I only play my Ric now, so it's either the trash or giving it a musicman pickup.
Harubro Haruhara How attached are you to the guitar? If not much I'd say just go for it. Take take your time and plan it out. Have a backup plan in case the humbucker doesn't work out.
Heath Barnhart it's going in the trash if I don't do it. So I'm not attached in the slightest. I gooched the bass to absolute shit when I was 14 (got the bass when I was 5, and I'm 20 now) I went through a metal phase and stripped all the paint off and repainted with white and dripping red. It looks awful. So yah. It either a music man pickup with extra heavy gauge strings, or scrap wood.
Go for it then. Even if it doesn't work out you'll learn something
Yeah it looked like plumbers' solder etc. But I believe the bass could be fixed. After all the neck was straight. But it needs new electronics.
Gooched.
Can you re-guitar it?
Yep just as I thought, them electronics have bin bag potential
I'm surprised the truss rod works though, I called that one wrong
With all the great aftermarket Jazz Pups out there (Delano, Nordstrand, Farlin, Aguilar and even the dreaded EMG has JVXpups, why would you fuck around trying to save this shit hole electronics. Even Fender has reissue jazz pups. Buddy needs to get his priorities straight. Does he want a bad ass rock solid bad to bone bass, or is he looking for a 100% original piece of wall art or looking to ,ale a quick score on selling it off to someone else? If that was my bass, I would have already been on the phone with Carry Nordstrand and getting new pickups and a new plate with Oil capacitor on it for tone and called it a day. This guys got a bad ass bass and all he cares about is the "Original crap that's already gooched. Knock so sense into this fool for us Dave.
Ps. Love watching you do your work Dave. Keep up the great work.
You need to pull the pickups and see if the leads are properly attached/soldered to the points on the bobbins. I agree that it is worth making an effort to clean up the original pots and try to use them.
It's not worth the effort at all. This is a 70s Jazz Bass. Fender has made hundreds of thousands of these things over the years. They are still in production today and you can buy a brand new one for $1000 USD. This isn't some vintage Ferrari where the only made 250 of them. Even vintage pots and pickups can go bad, but they are still making them. You can go buy brand new CTS pots and a Switchcraft jack and an orange drop cap for $20 or $30 total. It sucks that the pickups crapped out, but again, you can buy new ones. You can even spend the money on Fender pickups if you like, but for some single coils that are wax potted and at 7.8kohms, guitarfetish.com sells them for $40 a piece. So really, for $100 USD or so, you can completely rewire that guitar to be in stock configuration with pickups that will more or less match the stock voicing. For $200 or so, you can have a prewired EMG pickguard.
Why play around with old broken electronics that were mass produced to begin with, when you can have new reliable stuff and enjoy a nice vintage bass?
Why play around with old broken electronics that were mass produced to begin with, when you can have new reliable stuff and enjoy a nice vintage bass?
Many would consider any vintage Fender "old broken electronics" and if utility is the only concern then just get a new one. Most people in the market for an early 70s Fender bass want it all original, however -- and that certainly increases the value of the instrument.
If you were taking about some early model or rare artist custom, I could see the value. But this isn't an early model and it isn't rare. This ain't a '59 gold top signed by Les.
It's a run of the mill J-bass that isn't original anyway. It has Bad Ass bridge and has been refinished. It's a player.
That may be how "you" feel about it, but there is clearly a market out there for Fender Jazz basses from this era in original condition. People are clearly willing to pay introductory vintage prices for them, and clearly besides a refinish, the biggest modification that degrades value is non-original pickups/electronics. None of this is "my" opinion, but it is an objective fact reflected in the market.
But you make a good point that this one is refinished already, which has pretty much destroyed any vintage value it has. Still the original pickups -- if defective -- could be rewound by Lindy Fralin, which would be cool -- even with new pots :)
it's a real shame people mess up nice guitars like this, I once saw a genuine 50s (57?) p bass on ebay that some asshole from the 80s had routed out an put pj emg's in it and done a slapdash job... ugh cringe.
anyway merry Christmas Dave can't wait to see what's next.
Oh, God!
It might not be strictly polite, but I'm curious how much you usually charge for fixing some of these crapped out guitars with electrical work needed.
Yeah Dave it looks like some stupid ass used plumber's solder and totally gooched the components. Really makes ya wish people that don't know what they are doing would leave quality instruments the fuck alone... Geez you must have seen your share.... Anyway pal, you and yours have a Great Christmas and kick ass New Year.
You can get a whole set of pots two new pickups all complete for $130
So you can build a new guitar on an old frame. For less than the cost of a new U.S. Fender Jazz?
What happened to this one? Did it get a second lease of life or was it laid to rest? You can't just leave us/me hanging, like the last episode of a good series.
Did you watch the vid after this one ?
Anybody that thinks a guitar must be hallowed ground just watch that video with the curator of the 59 Les Paul that Peter Green sold to Gary Moore. Totally a legendary instrument but treated like any old axe by the player. A guitar has to be useful or it's just a chunk of wood.
The Pots are shot to shit.
Could it have been marine salvage?
One aspect of uploading videos that must be difficult is the negative comments you receive. I notice how even guys who know what they're doing end up sounding/being preemptively defensive because they know they're going to receive a bunch of whining when they make a certain decision. I think it's great that your reaction to seeing that horrible wiring job on those pots would be to say, "Fuck this!" Why not just cut the Gordian Knot and just start over with new stuff that you know will work?
Bass is for sale on Reverb lol..
A truss rod without issues!!!
Just a friggen shame to see whats been done to this bass. Merry Christmas.
Was this guitar in a Flood?
Damn man I don't think I've ever watched one of your videos where you cursed so much
why the fuck would someone route to install a new bridge? cant you just install it without routing anything? or were they just stupid?
minimum string height was probably too high so they had to route to lower it
maybe couldn't lower the string heighth any further, action was still too high so routing was his bad idea for compensating-Probably should have just put a shim in the neck pocket instead raising the fingerboard. Who really knows what this gfuy was thinking.
first badass bridges were shit, you had to route the bass in order to get a normal string action
If the owner decides not to fix it, would consider buying it and fixing it for yourself? It would be a shame if it ended up in the fireplace.
Rosin core solder.
my god Dave, now we know why u r crazy...
Poor Dave, he ain't jesus. Maybe christmas will bring you a torch to "fix" all the guitars on gooch street.
I had a 90s USA Fender Jazz Bass. It was heavy as an anchor. I think they're over rated and over priced, like a Harley Davidson. I sold it for stupid money and never gave it a second thought.
hope that guy didn't pay much
Hi Dave, Hey, check your Facebook inbox. I send you a guitar photos and question? Happy Holydays. Cheers
Gooch street
i've filled a floyd cavity with epoxy, then tape and sand to 5k....
gooched
It's a gooch all ways up, they could sell it as a 'do-er upper' It's a shame it's been re-finished too.
Without watching the pups should be around 7-8K and they are gooched.
Why is that metal canned cap laying on the pot?
alwaysopen
-250 for those pups.
Goochery
Dave hook up a test pickup to verify those pots.