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[RAGER]

Short shafted.  TWSS

[Danny G]

I'll have to look, it's whatever came with the iron. Finally splurged on a fancy adjustable temp iron last year.

That helped immensely. Used a higher temp than I would for soldering pedal parts, 760F over 560F


And heh. Shaft.


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[Muffin Man]

Thanks for the detail on the temperature - that answers my questions better than the brand of solder. I'll dial up my iron temp! Been soldering too low, on the backs of pots anway, for fear of baking them. Better to get in there and out quick, I imagine (and not bake them, derp). I picked up some "Cardas quad eutectic silver solder with rosin flux" for my hifi stuff. Anywho...Rock on.

[Danny G]

Yeah my previous work on pots with a low temp iron was Le cringe.

Turns out it more the iron instead of my own faulty technique haha ugh...


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[neighbor664]

So, I had realized after posting my SoundCloud jam that I never shared this bass with you all. On the jam it's played through my bro's Mark Bass combo with some auto wah for a bit. [soundcloud]https://soundcloud.com/ericdemby/rerun-to-fornever[/soundcloud]
Affectionately called this yellow thing the pee-bass. I have no idea what brand it is. I bought it off of a tweaker in the early 90s for a $10 bag of weed.
A few years ago I pulled the frets out and planned to "restore" it. Never bothered, it sat and sat.
The body and neck are nice pieces of mahogany. The "fretboard" in a 0.5 mm thin stained veneer that almost sanded through in spots. It had been hidden by shitty binding that was crumbling off when I'd got it. I replaced the garbage hardware with cheap Chinese fender-like bridge and tuners found on eBay. The original pick up was just a scab of rust. I replaced it with a generic Chinese pick up, not sure if it's for bass or guitar. I only bought it because of its dimensions it fit the hole of the weird pick up that was in there. I had to ad a small plate of pickguard plastic to fill the gap, another by the bridge, over the ground wire hole. I doubted it would have a good tone at all. I really was just looking for something to do, and another project meant to salvage a few garbage parts into a playable instrument with the interest of satiating my G.A.S. It ended up being great, this is really fun to play has an awesome growl and is really forgiving you can beat the shit out of it it still sounds all right.

[Lumpy]

Cool bass!

[bbottom]

I ripped my pedalboard apart, drilled some holes in it, and installed some desk grommets in it in order to clean up the wiring.  I also moved the power cable to come out of the front of the board.
The voodoo power supply takes up a lot of real estate underneath and this was the best option.








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[James1214]

Built this shelf out of scrap wood i had kicking around the shop, specifically made to house pedals. Have to add some Velcro on the back panel for storage of smaller pedals and things I use with less frequency. Bottom shelf well get the wahs, volume pedals and other assorted larger bits of kit. Overall I'm pretty stoked, and a good way to spend an afternoon in the shop playing around and having fun.

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[Danny G]

Nice

Finally found my bag of cable clips and got all the wires secured on the new pedalboard



Next up is build a case for it


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[Lumpy]

Those pedal risers are cool. I like the shelves too, I wish I had some like that.

[Submarine]

@James - shelves are looking nice.

[Lumpy]

I'm willing to buy the pee bass from you for TWO $10 bags of weed. Double your initial investment! Let me know...

[James1214]

@James - shelves are looking nice.

Thanks, it's a small step towards getting this room in order. It's my catch all art and illustration/boardgame and movie storage/3d printing/music space, and I desperately need organization so it doesn't get absolutely fucking insane (which it currently is)

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[James1214]

Just swapped out all the chrome hardware for black on my glitter tele, added a modern tele bridge and had to shift the humbucker a 1/4" toward the neck to work with the new bridge. I really like the aesthetic much more now, it felt kinda disjointed before (the tuning machines are all black as well) also that bridge just looks good.

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[Submarine]

Sweet upgrade. The black hardware looks better.

[James1214]

Also, this may be some snake oil bullshit, but i think the bridge sounds more solid, more thick, maybe the increased contact with the body? I like it.

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[Muffin Man]

better luck next time. That's a very bad paint job. horrible.

[James1214]

Uh, what? Thats like your opinion man. Its a glittery AF fiddle that I happen to love. What makes it a "horrible" paint job? Because it's not your style?  I'd say it's less than awesome to talk such shit about something someone is proud of.

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[socket]

Looks cool, to me. Shrugs.

[RAGER]

Yeah I like it too. And you're probably right about the bridge.

[James1214]

So does anyone have experience with humbucker esquire style switching? parallel/single/series? Its got a super distortion, which is a 4 comnector humbucker, so I can actually do that, but I dont know how much its worth doing, at least I'd get more tones out of the thing.

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[RAGER]

With just the one p/u I might just do the coil split. The other seems to be utilized with the neck p/u for whatever reason. I've got a cheapo GFS Les Paul with all that stuff and I rarely use it but that's me.

[Muffin Man]

Uh, what? Thats like your opinion man. Its a glittery AF fiddle that I happen to love. What makes it a "horrible" paint job? Because it's not your style?  I'd say it's less than awesome to talk such shit about something someone is proud of.

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nevermind was just teasing although that came of unfortunatley. If I were to play with the circuit I'd probably pull everything except the volume control, super trim it down for pure SD, possiblly to fit a specific amp. Out of the blue, but here's a guitar cable that has adjustable loading and may/or may not get you dialed in tonally. Personally, I have never run a SD but do people split those? I have this cable (not what you asked for but its secret sauce at the studio) If live then TL:DR skip to Reverend Contour....

not affiliated and they've gone on sale from time to time
https://www.undertoneaudio.com/products/vari-cap-instrument-cable


here's another take, 2 volumes. MIght not get you the split you want but get the results. I'll can try to find out the wiring but doubt he'll tell me it was a propriety type deal. I have previous contact so why noy ask and can only hope.
https://reverb.com/item/3417370-whitfill-tejas-billy-gibbons-tele

Another idea is the Reverend Guitars approach - their bass roll-off knob. Vol/Tone/Bass roll off.
https://www.reverendguitars.com/guitars/reeves-gabrels-dirtbike

sadly I'm not seeing where they sell the knob but I can take pics of my Gabrels. It does work really well. No weird phase-y notches in the tone spectrum.   

They call it:
"BASS CONTOUR

This passive bass roll-off is great for tightening up the low end, or re-voicing the pickups. It can make a humbucker sound like a single-coil, or give a P-90 that classic twang. Variable pickup voicing at your fingertips!"

words. none of which answer you original question though.

All the best and remember, less really is more.

[mortlock]

Also, this may be some snake oil bullshit, but i think the bridge sounds more solid, more thick, maybe the increased contact with the body? I like it.

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beautiful tele. I dont think that bridge sustain is snake oil bs. I put a badass bridge on my bass years ago and i love it. Ive never really liked stock fender bridges. Fenders are like old muscle cars. They are meant to be hotrodded.

[bbottom]

Also, this may be some snake oil bullshit, but i think the bridge sounds more solid, more thick, maybe the increased contact with the body? I like it.

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beautiful tele. I dont think that bridge sustain is snake oil bs. I put a badass bridge on my bass years ago and i love it. Ive never really liked stock fender bridges. Fenders are like old muscle cars. They are meant to be hotrodded.

Truer words have never been said.



I'm in the process of rehousing my old bassballs into a smaller enclosure. I'm running more effects than usual and need the real estate on the board