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by NickS
Fri Feb 07, 2025 8:12 am
Forum: All Other Guitars
Topic: Vintage Japanese Tele bass
Replies: 9
Views: 137

Re: Vintage Japanese Tele bass

Yes, I have seen those and both of them have the strap button on the inside of the top horn (as does the Aria in their 1971 catalogue). Comparing them shows that sometimes Ibanez-branded models used the bevelled string tree and sometimes the stepped one.
by NickS
Thu Feb 06, 2025 7:47 pm
Forum: All Other Guitars
Topic: Vintage Japanese Tele bass
Replies: 9
Views: 137

Re: Vintage Japanese Tele bass

My latest speculation is that it could be Ibanez. There's a patch of darker wood on the headstock between the two pin holes that could be about right for a logo like this one on eBay:
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by NickS
Mon Feb 03, 2025 8:55 pm
Forum: All Other Guitars
Topic: Vintage Japanese Tele bass
Replies: 9
Views: 137

Re: Vintage Japanese Tele bass

I asked for some wiring advice on Basschat and someone suggested that Aria might not be correct,but it does look very like the one on the Rexbass.com page. The pictures there aren't good enough to make out whether the logo is a plastic moulding tacked on or a decal.
This is another Aria T-bass:
http ...
by NickS
Wed Jan 29, 2025 4:25 pm
Forum: All Other Guitars
Topic: Vintage Japanese Tele bass
Replies: 9
Views: 137

Re: Aria vintage Tele bass

Well, the pots aren't going to help as they've been replaced (incompetently) at some time.
Aria_bass_Pots_1.jpg
In fact, one of the earth wires fell off the pot when I touched it.
Aria_bass_Pots_2.jpg
Another dead giveaway is that the pots have splined spindles and the knobs have screws, always ...
by NickS
Mon Jan 27, 2025 10:08 am
Forum: All Other Guitars
Topic: Vintage Japanese Tele bass
Replies: 9
Views: 137

Re: Aria vintage Tele bass

Thanks for that, Matt, title edited accordingly. I'll get the controls off to look at the date codes on the pots later. Though the chrome is immaculate, the sticker on the back covers some paint damage and there are a couple of paint cracks around the pocket. Action and intonation are both poor at ...
by NickS
Sun Jan 26, 2025 1:58 pm
Forum: All Other Guitars
Topic: Vintage Japanese Tele bass
Replies: 9
Views: 137

Vintage Japanese Tele bass

An old friend asked me to take a look at her late husband's bass that she found was still in the attic. She'd "thrown away the wires and the pedal" because she thought the guitar had gone. 20250126_125419.jpg 20250126_125443.jpg 20250126_125454.jpg 20250126_125510.jpg 20250126_125529.jpg
by NickS
Sun Jan 19, 2025 5:34 pm
Forum: Short Scales
Topic: Help figuring out of this is real
Replies: 14
Views: 262

Re: Help figuring out of this is real

http://support.fender.com/en-us/knowledgebase/article/KA-01874
How can I find out when my Japanese-made instrument was manufactured?
DATING JAPANESE-MADE FENDER INSTRUMENTS

Records on early Japanese-made Fender instruments are not complete and are therefore not completely definitive for dating ...
by NickS
Wed Dec 18, 2024 1:51 pm
Forum: Effects, Amps & Gear, Pedal Building
Topic: pictures of your gear here
Replies: 4477
Views: 1170885

Re: pictures of your gear here

jamba72 wrote: Wed Dec 18, 2024 9:32 am some clones I did from kits from http://www.musikding.de/guitar-effect-kits and http://www.uk-electronic.de/onlineshop/ ... th=105_462.
Nice graphics.
by NickS
Mon Dec 16, 2024 7:00 pm
Forum: All Other Guitars
Topic: Birth year guitars, has anyone done this?
Replies: 20
Views: 349

Re: Birth year guitars, has anyone done this?

plopswagon wrote: Mon Dec 16, 2024 3:03 pm Here’s a picture of me with my birth year guitar.
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by NickS
Sat Dec 14, 2024 7:10 pm
Forum: All Other Guitars
Topic: Birth year guitars, has anyone done this?
Replies: 20
Views: 349

Re: Birth year guitars, has anyone done this?

My birth year guitar? There's a Telecaster on Reverb for £34,300. I don't think so....
by NickS
Thu Dec 12, 2024 10:46 pm
Forum: Effects, Amps & Gear, Pedal Building
Topic: M-Vave bluetooth MIDI
Replies: 5
Views: 145

Re: M-Vave bluetooth MIDI - MS1 and Chocolate

I bought another MS-1 set on a slightly less good special offer.

I bought their "Chocolate" MIDI/Bluetooth foot pedal too. Fun to fiddle with, not quite as configurable as I would like. It has a bunch of different modes, configurable by USB from Mac/Windows or by Bluetooth from Android/iOS. The ...
by NickS
Mon Nov 04, 2024 11:36 pm
Forum: Effects, Amps & Gear, Pedal Building
Topic: pictures of your gear here
Replies: 4477
Views: 1170885

Re: pictures of your gear here

Impressive!
by NickS
Mon Oct 14, 2024 12:38 pm
Forum: Art Shack
Topic: Thank LP2 megathread
Replies: 29
Views: 526

Re: Thank LP2 megathread

Freddy V-C wrote: Wed Oct 02, 2024 9:46 am Third and final single! With a bonkers video from our pal George.
Impressed.
by NickS
Sun Sep 22, 2024 8:13 pm
Forum: Guitar Projects and Tech/Set-up
Topic: N(p)BD: Harmony H27 bass
Replies: 16
Views: 328

Re: N(p)BD: Harmony H27 bass


Here’s a Vintage Guitar Magazine article about it.

http://www.vintageguitar.com/35666/harmony-h27/

Fascinating.
Like its pickups, the H27’s bridge and tailpiece were unique. Touted as “precision 6-way adjustable,” it had a snap-on cover and was similar to Gretsch’s Space Control bridge; i.e ...
by NickS
Sun Sep 22, 2024 10:44 am
Forum: Guitar Projects and Tech/Set-up
Topic: N(p)BD: Harmony H27 bass
Replies: 16
Views: 328

Re: N(p)BD: Harmony H27 bass

That is a nice score.
by NickS
Fri Sep 20, 2024 10:33 pm
Forum: Guitar Projects and Tech/Set-up
Topic: Fun with pickups, pots, screws and bridges
Replies: 0
Views: 65

Fun with pickups, pots, screws and bridges

Just had a fun couple of days with my son Matt's Schecter Diamond Series C1+ that he's decided to recommission. He bought it for a song with his first student loan as it had faulty electrics. Back then we installed CTS pots and an Alpha coil split switch/tone pot, not realising that CTS are 24 ...
by NickS
Thu Sep 12, 2024 9:57 pm
Forum: Effects, Amps & Gear, Pedal Building
Topic: This deal is too good to be true right?
Replies: 6
Views: 203

Re: This deal is too good to be true right?


First the single horny moms in my area

What I used to love was when those ads would try to work out where you were based on your IP address and totally fail because the ISP doesn't give a shit about where you live when dealing out IP addresses.. "Single hot women in Diss* looking for action ...
by NickS
Sat Sep 07, 2024 2:23 pm
Forum: Effects, Amps & Gear, Pedal Building
Topic: M-Vave bluetooth MIDI
Replies: 5
Views: 145

Re: M-Vave bluetooth MIDI for £5.50

I've just discovered that 20 buttons is the default layout for MIDI Commander and I can have many more :)
by NickS
Thu Sep 05, 2024 7:37 pm
Forum: Effects, Amps & Gear, Pedal Building
Topic: M-Vave bluetooth MIDI
Replies: 5
Views: 145

M-Vave bluetooth MIDI

Well, the offer on AliExpress looked too good to be true, and it was.
M-Vave bluetooth MIDI.png
The 4-button controller didn't come with it. Still, £5.50 seems pretty cheap for a Bluetooth MIDI interface and dongle that I can use with the MIDI Commander app on my Android tablet (with an OTG cable ...
by NickS
Tue Aug 27, 2024 7:07 am
Forum: All Other Guitars
Topic: Fender sale is getting kinda wild right now. Prices like it's 1996
Replies: 12
Views: 387

Re: Fender sale is getting kinda wild right now. Prices like it's 1996

I don't see USA Stratocaster prices back to even 2008 prices. Mine was £850.