DanYmaL X Posted March 1, 2003 Share Posted March 1, 2003 Hey, I just found someone willing to trade me his no-name P-J special copy for my POS crate 15W guitar amp... Personally, even though the amp is in excellent shape, and it is the one with the overdrive channel, I am about as much a fan of Crate as I am of Seinfeld. I got the better end of the deal, since I've played this bass, and although only one of the pots actually works, and it has a piece of plastic for a nut (cut from a plastic Colt .45 bushing wrench,) it really doesn't play or sound half bad. It actually might make a decent bass. I know there are a few Crate owners, and in all honesty, I have not ever tried their Bass gear, but I really don't care for their guitar amps. The guy I traded it to has a 30W and 80W Crate already, so I'm sure he thinks he skinned me... well I got news for ya, buddy! So, a trip to GC is in order, for a new set of pots and strings, and maybe a nut if they have one. Oh yeah, it came with a gig bag too. DX So much for having my GAS under control... Aerodyne Jazz Deluxe Pod X3 Live Roland Bolt-60 (modified) Genz Benz GBE250-C 2x10 Acoustic 2x12 cab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrick_dont_fret Posted March 1, 2003 Share Posted March 1, 2003 I'd say that's a pretty fair trade...Oh, and lemme know how the project goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jode Posted March 2, 2003 Share Posted March 2, 2003 Dude, I'd just go totally Frankenstein's monster with it. Hot rod it to hell and back. Pickups? Paint job? Hack it into the shape of a Dodge Charger? Have some fun with it. Drill a hole in it and put a compass in it like a Red Ryder BB gun, just for kicks. Do all the perverted tech experiments you could never bring yourself to do on your most prized axe. Think of it as a different form of practice. "I had to have something, and it wasn't there. I couldn't go down the street and buy it, so I built it." Les Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassaddik Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 i dunno- but the title of your thread has me LOL!!! Praise ye the LORD. ....praise him with stringed instruments and organs... Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. excerpt from- Psalm 150 visit me at: www.adriangarcia.net for His glory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremy c Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 Sounds like an ok deal. You didn't want the amp anyway. Cover the bass with duct tape and get that homeland security look. By the way, you can use duct tape for anything except ducts, it doesn't really work for that. My laundry room is full of lint because I tried to fix the vent pipe with duct tape. Drill holes all the way through it to make it lighter. Paint over the Squier logo with a Danymal_X logo. Paint the whole thing blue, that's my favorite color for basses. Buy a new pickguard, make sure the holes are in the right place. I just bought a pot for 6 bucks at guitar center and rewired a squier belonging to one of my students. The wiring in there was all wierded out, I think the Chinese slave who put the bass together must have been on crack the day he did this one. There was a nice wiring diagram on the Fender website. Notice how I got something from a hella lot of threads into my reply. Oops, I have to say hecka at my Christian School. And I have to say wicked when I visit New England, they don't know what hella means back there. I wonder what they think about the No Doubt song. (which I use my Boss bass synth pedal on when I play it--thereby replying to still another thread.) And DX, since we both live in the Bay Area, you can show it to me when you finish frankensteining it. Free download of my cd!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Sweet Willie_ Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 Jeremy, LOL, man, LOL. Peace. --Willie spreadluv Fanboy? Why, yes! Nordstrand Pickups and Guitars. Messiaen knew how to parlay the funk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanYmaL X Posted March 4, 2003 Author Share Posted March 4, 2003 Jeremy... you are nuts. I would never waste valuable duct tape on something as trivial as a bass! Actually, I think the same chinese slave may have wired mine... when I pulled it apart and shook the crack dust out to clean the pots, I was expecting some kind of electronic black widow to jump out at me... neat little red, white and black spider web going on in there! But now at least the bridge volume and master tone pots work. The neck pot just spins its little self silly... DX Aerodyne Jazz Deluxe Pod X3 Live Roland Bolt-60 (modified) Genz Benz GBE250-C 2x10 Acoustic 2x12 cab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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