Gear geek moment and bass porn in Wanda's favorite color....

[spideyjg]

Spent the day overhauling a sweet bass that suffered great neglect. I got this in trade and although in good condition the electronics were all jacked up.
Armed with new pots, tuners, saddles, and many many many tools I commenced surgery to return her to her glory. Prior operations shielded the cavities and re grounded the bridge.

Polishing cloth from cleaning the frets....

Shielding....Now unless I am near a really bad source she is dead quiet in humbucking and barely buzzy in single coil.

Some of the tools....

Final result is a very quiet L1K and awesome playability. Eats P basses all day long now. This fills the need to cover the one signed by George Fullerton so I can retire it. I'm very happy to finally have it fully functional.

Ain't she purty?

Jim

 

[RoboCaster]

Yea it's nice to upgrade you guitars, I just upgraded my guitars with Orange Drop Capacitors, and they do sound better, kinda similar in tone to a slight flavor of a Boss Super Overdrive tone.

 

[spideyjg]

I may see about getting the orange drop caps. You rave about them quite a bit so there must be something to them. I put in the original value .047 mfd but it was from Radio Shack.
This was more a restoration than an upgrade. The volume and treble pots had been replaced by some moe and they basically had no adjustment for a lot of the range then fell off a cliff. The tuners were the Schallers and I put on the G&L ultralights so that dropped 1/4 pound of weight, and the newer G&L brass saddles.
I returned the circuitry to the way Leo designed it. Some things don't need improvement.

Jim

 

[RoboCaster]

I don't know what it will do for a base, but for a dollar a cap, it's not too much of loss if it don't help, but for my config, I would say that I got used to the tone but would say it produced a cleaner grittier sound with slightly better harmonic response.

 

[Steph Harris]

Spent the day overhauling a sweet bass that suffered great neglect. I got this in trade and although in good condition the electronics were all jacked up.
Armed with new pots, tuners, saddles, and many many many tools I commenced surgery to return her to her glory. Prior operations shielded the cavities and re grounded the bridge.

Polishing cloth from cleaning the frets....

Shielding....Now unless I am near a really bad source she is dead quiet in humbucking and barely buzzy in single coil.

Some of the tools....

Final result is a very quiet L1K and awesome playability. Eats P basses all day long now. This fills the need to cover the one signed by George Fullerton so I can retire it. I'm very happy to finally have it fully functional.

Ain't she purty?

Jim

Nice bass.

 

[spideyjg]

Nice bass.

I figured you would like it Wanda. Kinda matches your JB-2 doesn't it?

Jim

 

[Basspolizei]

Beautiful G&L man and I don't doubt at all it eats P's everyday. That's not hard to accomplish with G&L's. For those, were the actual Leo masterpieces. Still are, in my opinion. If not already gone - DO NOT- get rid of it. My biggest regret yet!!!! G&L are foreign to most who haven't studied the Leo and George history. Life is actually pretty simple. You take what you know to be the best (in Leo's case Fender, Musicman then then ultimate - G&L) you purchase and play one maybe many, then you telll a friend. Damnation, then they learn the truth. No matter how, they start to spread that gospel. G&L, EVERYONE IS THE FOUNDERS, (GOD OF GUITARS), BEST EVER! Play one, then buy it and after many hours go show the world I'm right! Prior 89 models are best but after that His wife still had control and they are still awesome - food for thought. (my wife is always right too)

 

[TheBottomEnd]

Like 4 string porn. Thing is, I know it sounds better than it looks. Sweet sweet bass. Very nice job.

 

[Metallicat180]

That is indeed a beauty!!