mustangbass wrote: Sun Mar 09, 2025 7:39 pm

^ Very nice! Do you want to give us some more background.

Well, it's passed to a new owner, Miles, who I would guess is in his 20s and currently owns a Mustang bass. It's been interesting to work on it but I felt obliged to sell it for a fair market price on behalf of our friend; she told us to go out for a meal on the proceeds, which we won't, so I think ...

Looks like it's a Columbus; I think the pins in the badge on this one probably match up.
http://flatericbassandguitar.blogspot. ... s.html?m=1

I have built a reverb unit in the past, even etched my own PCB.

From the label on the tank it looks like it's a 600 ohm drive coil, 8.2k pickup, pretty standard for Fender designs. The circuitry to drive it is probably the same as the Fender amps of that kind; see http://po-ru.com/2023/03/24 ...

I've actually had some real-life experience with the M-Vave/Cuvave Chocolate MIDI controller. One of the options in the configuration app is to select between configuring the 1/4" jack for an expression pedal input or as a TRS MIDI output. So I made up a TRS-to-DIN cable out of an old 3.5mm stereo ...

I wish I had your skills!

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.

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:

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

plopswagon wrote: Mon Dec 16, 2024 3:03 pm Here’s a picture of me with my birth year guitar.

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My birth year guitar? There's a Telecaster on Reverb for £34,300. I don't think so....

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 ...

Impressive!

Freddy V-C wrote: Wed Oct 02, 2024 9:46 am Third and final single! With a bonkers video from our pal George.

Impressed.