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A good friend worked as an engineer for Peavey so had access to QC fails and returned items. On one of his T-40s he used an all maple Milestone neck. Ronnie had no concerns about the slight gaps in the pocket corners nor the narrower not size. That may be an avenue worth pursuing, the...

Peavey used a very primitive truss rod system. It is just a bent length of metal with a nut and an anchor. This video shows the limitations of such a system. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mjhzefLg2jw

Chip Todd recommended drilling a 12.5mm hole at the end of the heel then striking the truss rod at the headstock and driving it out through the hole. I've his email detailing the steps but it is saved on my PC which, as I've moved house in the last few days, is yet to be set up. It will be...

The Hipper lives up to his name, very cool. I have a couple of Lobes and huge respect for Steve's attitude 8D

I care not, my interest is with the Wishbass :D

Bruce Foxton from The Jam preferred a P bass so had a split coil installed at the neck position. Unfortunately I don't recall if this was in his Ric or the Ibanez copy.

It can add weight for little actual benefit. For some reason in the 70's we were obsessed with adding weight to our basses, anyone recall these:rofl: Which handily leads into @Cee asking "Does it make the bass sound or play better?" about reshaping a PB-50 peghead. The 4 inline peghead...

No longer, he moved to England a few months back 🤬

Simple answer from me is I prefer the Tele peghead shape.

@MrTommyGrowls The re-carve is quite simple and can be performed using basic hand tools, just a rasp/flat file, saw and sand paper. Link is for a "how to" I posted on Basschat some years back. https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/321909-pb-50-headstock-re-shape/

I long admired the single coil P-bass but many years passed before I actually played one, then I was hooked 🙂 Built most of these. This one came from Japan. Theses 2 are WIP. The Pgs require some alteration. This is my latest, walnut on mahogany body/panga panga neck.

Seen on Japanese basses back in the early 60's.

Steve Chick's idea for MIDI bass was quite innovative, look at all the bits crammed into my Peavey. Have not a clue what they do but they're in there :rofl:

Strictly museum pieces, only 4 of the Audiovox basses still exist. I suspect there are even fewer of the accompanying Audiovox bass amplifiers, the bass fiddle was sold as a complete package. Tutmarc's son Bud also followed in his father's footsteps, his Serenader bass appeared in 1947. What I...

My friend Rick restored one when he worked for Gruhn. Travis Bean did aluminium necks nor were Modulus alone in developing graphite necks, don't forget Steve Mosher (Moses)/ Rob Gren (Status) and Patrice Vigier were all doing graphite necks around the same time.

Not my experience. You ask "Why build when you can buy?" My answer is why buy when you can build. I've 40 years working as a carpenter, that's longer than most St Leo employed 😃 Duck egg blue on the left cost me £130 to build, 40% went on the Jess Louerio pickup. Over on the right the Dirnt...

April found me in an odd situation. Home workshop was packed away in preparation for a house move yet a significant birthday happened. Not to feel left out I took the unusual step and asked a local fella to handle the build. This one brings my total of 51/54/Telecaster/Dirnt style basses to 13...

The sunburst has a "Foto Flame" finish, similar to the process Fender Japan used. The finish may show a 2 or 3 piece grain pattern but below will be different. The body is also protected by a thick poly finish, no easy task to remove. As for the quality of the bass, they are good. The single...

I would say around 1976 as by 1978 some of the Japanese companies like Aria and Ibanez had ditched making copies for high quality original designs.

There is no certainty regarding that happening. I've played the PB-50 on the right since April 2014 and all the stock electronics remain fully functional. PB-50 on the left received a pickup swap June 2014, it also has fully functional crackle-free stock electronic parts 🙂 The Harley...