Tech Guys

Here's a lesson learned but thankfully easily rectified

Swapped out my mirror pickguard (horrible looking thing)on my Chris Aiken Squire Precision with a standard black one

Reassembled controls on new guard along with dummy pot as mine only has volume control

But no sound once screwed down

Quickly found to be jack output shorting against the cavity grounding it out as new guard is slightly different in layout

Anyway without boring you further some insulation tape between the two did the job

So if you have an issue with no or poor volume check for shorting controls on the cavity

Marko, another thread I read this morning got me thinking about an issue I have with my 6 string bass.

I have terrible fret buzz on the 8th fret of the E string. Only that one note. Odd. I have tinkered with my action and made minor adjustments to the dual truss rods, but because it's dual I don't want to mess with it too much.

So I'm wondering if switching to a thinner gauge fret wire will help, or just popping all the frets and filling them in and go fretless. It's a rosewood neck.

I may try a pack of flatwounds, but I really don't want to do that on an active bass.

So we are back in business, got the headless bridge and top anchor, need to get the truss rod back out of the neck that I wasnt 100% happy with and get cracked on

Not a massive amount of progress but the bridge/tuners recessed into the body, with a chamfer for each tuner knob

A router for the rebate and a round wood rasp for the knob recesses, then sandpaper wrapped around a drill bit shaft