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A picture is worth a thousand words: This is a coming from a sub 7lb Amazon bass, following the great advice of @JRA in this thread https://www.talkbass.com/threads/sub-8lb-parts-pj-build-body-weight-question.1653225/page-2#post-28506470 As you can see, the screws are in an angle. It looks...

Hi all! Over the past... Well... Forever, honestly, I've been having this strange issue with my amp. It's an Eden EN400 Nemesis 400W bass amp going into a 4 Ohm Eden 2x10 cab. Since I mostly record my bass through DI, it goes (relatively) long stretches without being used. Usually, when I turn...

After having tried several phasers, some considerably more expensive ones too, I finally settled for a Behringer VP1 Vintage Phaser, and I absolutely love how it sounds. Exactly the right effect for my application. However when not engaged it bleeds a swirling background noise that really...

So I bought a 5 string that someone was selling for parts. It’s missing pots, a preamp, a battery case cover, a backing plate, and a jack output. It has some minor damage, mostly cosmetic and what is damaged can be fixed. Just looking for advice on where to find good pots, a preamp, and a jack...

Sorry for the crappy picture. This is a 90s Danelectro and that's one of the screw holes for the pick guard. Because it's slightly off the bottom of the pickguard doesn't sit flush with the top. Any tips on a good enough fix?

Hello! I found a real beauty in a province of Thailand. It's a 1982 Greco RB style bass in off white. It's awesome and I love it... Especially with my VT bass V.2 along for the ride. Here's a video clip of a restoration project where I used the Greco neck pickup and the flat settings on the...

Hi there. I've got a '75 Precision Bass that's got a persistent buzzing at the 12 fret for the A and E strings. I like my action low. I can eliminate the buzz by raising those two strings, but then I have issues with the playability. The action doesn't have to get deadly high, but I'd just like...

I picked up a bass to use for learning to do setups and stuff and here is what I am trying to fix: It is a 5-string bass. The Low B and E strings make a "clacking" sound (kinda like Fieldy's bass tone). Where would be the best place to start making adjustments to try and get rid of the...

I was adjusting the relief on my Fender 63 AVRI p-bass and the neck slid a bit and chipped a bit of the poly finish. Do you think a reputable repair shop in Toronto could fix this? Thanks

Now and then, you'll see a neck which has twisted really badly. There's only two ways I know of to fix them, while keeping the neck mostly original. One method is heat bending. This involves carefully heating the wood up to the point where the grain structure just begins to soften, then...

Bought an older Anvil ATA case on Ebay and only now discovered extensive, but fine, cracked plastic on one side. I got a partial refund from the seller, and want to see whether there's a go-to shellac/adhesive/coating that can get this guy not only serviceable, but still looking...

So my fretless Sterling developed a neck pocket crack in the finish. I had read that you can fix it and at least keep it from getting worse or the piece from breaking off by using some water thin CA. So I bought some of this...

Has anyone noticed some bass teachers' attempts to take concepts of academic learning and try to make them easier to understand instead of encouraging bass students to learn them in their present form? My question is to ask what is wrong with learning music as almost every other academic student...

Ok so I am putting new pickups in a bass and the some of the copper wire that touched the solder that touched the wire disconnected. Is it possible to fix this or should I just get new pickups?

I have an active bass (Ibanez RD808 from late 80s), its fitted with Ibanez Regulated LoZ pickups. So preamp works fine, balancer is for some reason inverted (to the right is neck, to the left is bridge), P pickups have ~15kOhm and sound great, J pickup has ~4kOhm and sounds terribly low output...

hi, need to patch up / fill a crack in an ebony fingerboard. read online that ebony dust and super glue would do the trick. so does one mix the glue and ebony dust together and then apply that 'paste' to the fingerboard? or does one put the ebony dust in the crack and then fill it with the...

Hey Talkbass. Had this account for a while but never really had much to post. Until now! My Marshall B25 MII (It's a combo amp) has recently stopped working unless I plug headphones into the headphone jack. If I don't do that, no sound comes from the amp at all, even when it's on with the...

I have a Markbass CMD 121P and the strap has come undone where the screw enters the top surface of the combo. Any suggestions on how to fix it permanently?

Hello! My avatar shows me with my Tanglewood TW55 FR. It's a bass that has pronounced resonance dead spots on all E, F, F# positions, except on the low E string, low positions. It's quite a long story how I came to buy it (new) and keep the bass in this condition ... but I did! As a result...

So I have a MIM Jazz bass that has been through a bit in life and was cased a few years ago due to a broken nut. I am just getting it out now and going to approach making a new nut, but before that part, I wanted to know if there was anything special I had to do outside of following the typical...

I have a Fender Jazz 24 V bass that sounds great, but when you play in the higher registers, the sound begins to take on a "wavering" sound that almost sounds like an awful chorus pedal is constantly on. What's going on, and how do I fix this? I've made no modifications to this bass ever, but...

I'm having a crackling issue during our last few practices so I decided to take my head home last night. Thinking back my best guess is it only happens when I first turn on the amp and goes away after some long period of time 10-20 minutes. I only hear it when making noise on my bass and don't...

I recently upgraded my bass to a Fender Mexican Jazz Bass. My old bass, an Ibanez SR250 has a cut red wire from where it connects the battery to the rest of the bass. How would I go about fixing this myself so I can sell it?

Didn't want to start a thread dedicated to this but it might be the quickest way to trouble shoot. The led in my old Boss GE-7B (the brown guy, MIT) doesn't work. I swapped out the led for a new one and no luck. I changed the DC jack and no luck. I swapped out the resistor that runs to the...

Mt son is a cadet at Mass Maritime, and plays bass in the school Jazz Band. He has a nice Jay Turser Hofner clone. While digging through a closet packed with old broken music stands and other cast-offs, he came upon this MIM P-Bass, no case, vintage unknown, though I'm guessing it's a 90's bass...

Hey guys I need some help, there's a weird static noise coming from bass when plugged in and the amp is on. It's a static noise until I touch the strings or the input Jack then it goes away. I tried multiple cables and both my amps and it's still there so I assume it's coming from the bass. The...

Would steaming successfully fix these gouges in this fretboard to make them flush again? If not, could you suggest a fix. Click once on photo to link and again at photo site will show a nice close-up.

When I drilled the output jack hole in the side of my bass that I am building the top layers of maple and walnut cracked from the hole to about an inch or so along the front of the body. Any advice on trying to fix this? I was thinking I could try some thin CA and heavy clamping pressure but I...

I undertook this project yesterday. Bought a Sears Silvertone Stereo Console w/ Record Player, Speaker, and am/fm radio. The thing was only $40, so I figured, what the hell. I sanded and restored the wood all day yesterday and today. The 'hardware' looks great. Nice speaker, beautiful radio, and...

I have a '73 Gibson Ripper with no fretboard on it. It's also missing the bridge pickup. I've had it for almost 20 years. I bought it cheap because the truss rod had bent and created a large bump around the 12th fret. I removed the fretboard years ago and, unfortunately, lost it along with the...

alright so I'm building a bass cab. Well currently not somuch building one as perfecting a prebuilt one that I bought on Craigslist, then going to build my own afterwards. Anyway! Currently it has 2 cheapass RadioShack 15's, which very soon are going to be replaced with 2 Eminence Legend CA154's...