New entry: Oxford English Dictionary phrasing - "Strap Button Fuckery" = to drill a hole in an attempt to attach a strap to any form of stringed musical instrument. To destroy valuable property. To ignore an engineered design in preference of a new, inefficient design. I'm sure there are more definitions....
I've owned dozens of guitars and I've stripped a bridge screw only once from intonating when it was under tension. It was a mastery bridge for my 61 jazzmaster.
What an awesome sounding bass. Even sounded great through the little noise maker, can't imagine what it sounds like through a big rig. Great video. What a pain it would be to have to loosen the string every time you adjusted the bridge saddles.
Welcome back Dave! Always look forward to your videos. Learn something new every time, like the simple fix of cleaning the output jack with a rattail file instead of replacing it. Was actually thinking of buying a new jack until I saw that. Cheers, man! Keep 'em coming!
Really enjoyed this Big Dave... You just stayed with this and ended up with a long video, which I like! You are the best and once again, I learnt something I didn't know... By the way, where do you get your shims, or do you just make them? Thanks Dave...
Love watching your uploads, I have set up my main bass often but your video's have made me understand the mechanics of how it all works, thanks for that and all this great information.
I have the very same d'addario chrome flat wounds on my p bass and absolutely love the sound minus having to crank the neck and drop the bridge to the deck. But after knowing nothing but round wound strings I'm not sure why flat wound ever died out
I have to agree with you Dave. Pledge is a horrible thing. I once made the mistake of using it on my first bass guitar. I was trying to rub it off for an age afterwards. It just leaves a horrible thick layer of greese or wax on the surface.
Are those threaded inserts for the ashtray cover?. Never seen anybody do that before. Whoever drilled the hole in the neck plate must have some serious drill bits. Chrome plating is something like RC 72. The icing on the cake would have been the rare paddle tuners.
What do you recommend to clean the body of the guitar? Simple Green or something else like the Nomad polish? The bridge on this bass looks like a Schaller.
Good job. Maybe the shim wouldnt be neccessary if the original bridge type was put back ? Shaller roller bridges have fat bottom and low action sometimes cant be achieved. Same thing I noticed in badass bridges.
looks a lot better after the cleanup / fret polishing. what did you end up doing with the oversize potentiometer and the foam situation? Is that a Schaller bridge?
My 79' Musicman Stingray has a hole in the neck plate for adjusting the angle of the neck (instead of a shim). I was waiting to see a stud in the neck when you took it off the body, but no stud, so the question is, is this the original neck, or maybe not the original neck plate, or, as you said "someone drilled a hole", if it's the latter, why would they have drilled a hole Dave ? Great video Dave, even though it took me four years to find it lol . cheers
Dave, do you have a recommendation for bass guitar pickups? I have a very old jazz bass (Leon) haha, that I'm using as a learning tool for refinish and wiring. Really appreciate your knowledge and enjoy your videos very much.
Hi Dave! Could you elaborate on J. Torres a little bit? Found online that he was working for Fender as quality control, and today he is a big shot engineering over there. Any special value to an instrument that passed his hands? P.S. love your vids
Great job cleaning and setting up that old bass to make it more playable. Do you recommend DeoxIT or equivalent for the scratchy sounding jack and pots?
A quick casual question: Those Chromes are really high tension strings; as a vintage '69, if this bass had the stock truss rod, would there be any concern over the neck's ability to cope well over time?
You're a splitting image of this guy I worked on a couple of go-karts with. He was this calm, cool, collected type… if you were messing something up he'd tell you about it straight up without any P.C. crap… didn't get upset… salt of the earth, reasonable… just went with the flow of life and lightened up the joint with some dry humor. His name was Dave, too. The world could use more Daves. There'd be less bullshit.
If anyone has some wisdom to share, I have a 30 inch scale length bass with .40-.90 gauge strings. I want to try to get string tension to match that of a 34 inch scale bass since I'm forced to play lightly on it...
Yeah, I haven't actually tried the bass yet, as they only deal direct. But I just thought it was cool having a scale between what's considered 'short scale' and standard scale. Short scale's have a more 'zingy' sound / trebely sound as there is less tension on the strings don't they?
Sure, just mount a gumball machine and parking meter where the bridge used to be and we’ll just disregard the holes that got added to the body. It’s just a tool.
Strap button fuckery.. That's a good one! I have severe strap button fuckery on my old Les Paul. *taps 4 fingers on my face at whoever did that* BTW I have the exact same shirt.
Dave i need your help on my 65 jag guitar - it has the same buzz issue as your other bass video - is there anyway i can contact you to ask a few questions to clarify a few things? i want to fix my jag!
+Mat Melton hey mat do you get like a little pop sound when you touch the metal in your guitar? i have a single coil bass and when touch metal it stops the hum and makes a pop noise, then when i take my hand off the metal it buzes, but is not 60 hz cycle hum is like something weird, it can even pick up my computer buzzing
+Mark Lucio Doesn't have to be brand new but ditch the intermediate guitars and buy a really good American Strat. I bought (and recommend) a Fender AVRI 65 Strat off of Reverb that still had the plastic on the pickguard for $1400. Not a scratch on it. Saved about a grand and I LOVE that guitar.
+XLBiker13 I'm probably going to buy an american strat, my heart won't be fulfilled until I do. I do love the vintage style more than modern. The only problem is that fender came out with the elite in that cool blue burst, and it seems like something that could become collectable because it's the first year. Seems like a good investment opportunity. So, if I go american i'm probably going to get the elite.
Mark Lucio I agree, if you're spending the money you have to follow your heart. I currently own about 10 guitars ranging in value from vintage (immaculate '65 Strat and '63 Jazzmaster) to Gibson and Fender custom shop guitars down to MIJ and MIM Fenders. I love them all and play them all but in my experience you always get what you pay for. Whenever I've spent more money it was well worth the extra money. You definitely don't have to break the bank to buy a good guitar but if you spend the extra money and know what to buy its always worth it.
+XLBiker13 You my friend, have the right idea. I guess deep down inside I already knew the answer to my question. I just wanted someone to back me up on spending some big bucks haha
The damage to the pickguard is not unusual. Back in the day there were no guitar setting up books, no Dave on TH-cam, nothing supplied by Fender and no real experts around. So how do you adjust it?. Surely not by taking the neck off, that would be silly, wouldn't it.
Sir if i could ask you a question about my bass neck. I wanted it to have a low action but when i adjusted the trust rod on the neck, it seems that there’s no more room to adjust it. There is a bit of bow that i’m hoping i could Atleast make the neck straight but the turn for the nut might have reached all the way in. What needs to be done for this bass sir? Or is there a problem with my tryst rod . The bass only experienced 2 times of adjustment since i got the bass. It’s a fender 64 jazz bass Custom shop. 10 years old.
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I totally love this guy, and his crazy but highly informative videos.
New entry: Oxford English Dictionary phrasing - "Strap Button Fuckery" = to drill a hole in an attempt to attach a strap to any form of stringed musical instrument. To destroy valuable property. To ignore an engineered design in preference of a new, inefficient design.
I'm sure there are more definitions....
"To try and do stupid shit"
I've owned dozens of guitars and I've stripped a bridge screw only once from intonating when it was under tension. It was a mastery bridge for my 61 jazzmaster.
guh. scraping the input jack reminded me of the dentist
Dave sir - you are the man - keep on keeping on
Love watching you work on vintage Basses. I have a 67 and a 73. Love the precision better. Carry on buddy!
A very nice bass though I'd be tempted to put an original bridge back on it.
What an awesome sounding bass. Even sounded great through the little noise maker, can't imagine what it sounds like through a big rig. Great video. What a pain it would be to have to loosen the string every time you adjusted the bridge saddles.
I have the exact same neck on my '73 Jazz bass! I like it so much more than the modern Jazz bass neck shape.
simply beautiful bass. Thanks for sharing Dave
Welcome back Dave! Always look forward to your videos. Learn something new every time, like the simple fix of cleaning the output jack with a rattail file instead of replacing it. Was actually thinking of buying a new jack until I saw that. Cheers, man! Keep 'em coming!
Nice to see you Dave ! really missed you, Cheers !
What a beauty. Love the burst on this one and with a blocked bound maple neck. I’d located a stock bridge and return it to its stock glory.
Dave you are the best, amusing & entertaining + informative , glad I discovered you!...................keep on doing it!!!
ha how I miss you dude keep them coming you brighten up my day !
I like using a touch of Brasso, a Q-tip, and paper towel to clean a dirty input jack like the one on that bass. Works quite well.
You are a very funny man, Dave. I love your work. May it continue - forever.
Excellent job Dave! Great job! Cheers!
Always good to see you Dave ! I really appreciate everything you've taught me , and look forward to learning more . Love ya Brother, Cheers !!!
Good job ,, sounds very nice after your work on it .. Dave .
Really enjoyed this Big Dave... You just stayed with this and ended up with a long video, which I like! You are the best and once again, I learnt something I didn't know... By the way, where do you get your shims, or do you just make them? Thanks Dave...
You're the best Dave, thanks. I didn't think you were buying stewingmacs shims.
You have such an eloquent way of putting things. But at least you make sense!
Love watching your uploads, I have set up my main bass often but your video's have made me understand the mechanics of how it all works, thanks for that and all this great information.
whoever carved into that original pickguard @ 3:40 rotflhaha. good tip on the output jack fix
That after market bridge is totally going to screw the action...I don't know why people mess with that shit....great job...I love your channel...
Strap Button Fuckery lqtms = laughing quietly to my self
I've learned so much from you over the years! Thank you!
What a tone.. Beauty
1 year younger than me
15:40 "Oh look at these lovely flat wound strings, *I HATE FACEBOOK"*! Welcome to the club Dave.
Great to see you back Dave!
Welcome back, sir!
Looks a bit like a 71/2 neck on a 69 body? What was happening with that first fret inlay - mental!
That thing's a monster. Cool.
Love my jazz bass
Laughed my ass off watching this "strap button fuckery" Dave you are a true guitar detective figuring out all that.
wow excellent Dave
Nice video Dave...thanks
"Always in the hole" Love it.
Thanks man! Awsome. See you tomorrow.
Is that the original neck for that bass?? It looks like more of a 70s jazz neck with the black binding and block inlays
I was wondering when you pop up again👍
Nice shirt.
I have the very same d'addario chrome flat wounds on my p bass and absolutely love the sound minus having to crank the neck and drop the bridge to the deck. But after knowing nothing but round wound strings I'm not sure why flat wound ever died out
Right on Dave. Thanks for da vid!
-Cheers
Liked for fine information. Loved for mocking prayer.
Sorry to hear your faith lives on Gooch St. Still think you are a great guy and enjoy your channel.
I love the creepy mask in the top right corner.
Loved your videos!
Boss job man. Great channel from Liverpool UK. Home to a lil known beat combo you might of heard of? Lol.;) Stay safe.
that is a beauty. no gooch there.
I have to agree with you Dave. Pledge is a horrible thing. I once made the mistake of using it on my first bass guitar. I was trying to rub it off for an age afterwards. It just leaves a horrible thick layer of greese or wax on the surface.
I love you Dave
Strap button fuckery!! I nearly pissed myself. And 3 dicks across the face...in the same video, no less! Thanks David, that made my weekend.
I'll pray for you Dave>>>>
Are those threaded inserts for the ashtray cover?. Never seen anybody do that before. Whoever drilled the hole in the neck plate must have some serious drill bits. Chrome plating is something like RC 72. The icing on the cake would have been the rare paddle tuners.
This is so cool, I'm learning so much, but don't worry about sharing your know how, I don't want to be a Luthier, I just play bass guitar
where ya been? I need my fun stuff fix!
your friken awesome buddy , always look forward to your vids :)
hell yeah new dave video
What do you recommend to clean the body of the guitar? Simple Green or something else like the Nomad polish?
The bridge on this bass looks like a Schaller.
ronsonol lighter fluid..to start for built up crap..then music nomad THE ONE
good stuff Dave, nice to see you back. ever worked on a Spector bass?
Good job. Maybe the shim wouldnt be neccessary if the original bridge type was put back ? Shaller roller bridges have fat bottom and low action sometimes cant be achieved. Same thing I noticed in badass bridges.
looks a lot better after the cleanup / fret polishing. what did you end up doing with the oversize potentiometer and the foam situation? Is that a Schaller bridge?
My 79' Musicman Stingray has a hole in the neck plate for adjusting the angle of the neck (instead of a shim).
I was waiting to see a stud in the neck when you took it off the body, but no stud, so the question is, is this the original neck, or maybe not the original neck plate, or, as you said "someone drilled a hole", if it's the latter, why would they have drilled a hole Dave ?
Great video Dave, even though it took me four years to find it lol . cheers
Dave, do you have a recommendation for bass guitar pickups? I have a very old jazz bass (Leon) haha, that I'm using as a learning tool for refinish and wiring. Really appreciate your knowledge and enjoy your videos very much.
Hi Dave! Could you elaborate on J. Torres a little bit? Found online that he was working for Fender as quality control, and today he is a big shot engineering over there. Any special value to an instrument that passed his hands?
P.S. love your vids
This guitar deserved more love than it got from you Dave....Sad
Great job cleaning and setting up that old bass to make it more playable. Do you recommend DeoxIT or equivalent for the scratchy sounding jack and pots?
"I'm back, I'm here... turn off gooch street and get this man a beer!"
A quick casual question:
Those Chromes are really high tension strings; as a vintage '69, if this bass had the stock truss rod, would there be any concern over the neck's ability to cope well over time?
Store cards make great shims
When I pulled my Prodigy apart to do a thorough cleaning/inspection/set-up on it, it had a Winston matchbook cover in it for a shim.
Would like to have seen the shim installation. What did he use?
I think the screw holes were for the bridge cover
If that were my bass, I'm getting rid of that bridge and those flatwounds, and get a refret asap
Crazy talk my man, flats on a jazz bass are the tits!
Ivan Gushkov I respectfully disagree
You're a splitting image of this guy I worked on a couple of go-karts with. He was this calm, cool, collected type… if you were messing something up he'd tell you about it straight up without any P.C. crap… didn't get upset… salt of the earth, reasonable… just went with the flow of life and lightened up the joint with some dry humor.
His name was Dave, too.
The world could use more Daves. There'd be less bullshit.
who gave you that bass? my music teachers bassist has a jazz bass from the late 60s or early 70s that looks just like that
If anyone has some wisdom to share, I have a 30 inch scale length bass with .40-.90 gauge strings. I want to try to get string tension to match that of a 34 inch scale bass since I'm forced to play lightly on it...
Rondomusic does a nice 32" P/J bass, I'm getting one soon as soon as the other guitar I want comes back into stock
+shoominati23 that's cool, I made the mistake of getting a short scale when I can handle a long scale fine
Yeah, I haven't actually tried the bass yet, as they only deal direct. But I just thought it was cool having a scale between what's considered 'short scale' and standard scale.
Short scale's have a more 'zingy' sound / trebely sound as there is less tension on the strings don't they?
+shoominati23 I can't really say, if you get a short scale in the same room as a long scale, try it, but I don't think it effects anything too much.
I noticed he doesn't say too much about pickup height, but really nice. Makes me want a jb.
Strap button fuckery😂 You crack me up👍
"It goes into...the hole.... bent over...." Oh Dave 16:23
Nooice!!
could you feel the edge of that first fret marker while playkng?
+vaheica
You should be playing on the frets not on the markers.
Sure, just mount a gumball machine and parking meter where the bridge used to be and we’ll just disregard the holes that got added to the body. It’s just a tool.
Strap button fuckery.. That's a good one! I have severe strap button fuckery on my old Les Paul. *taps 4 fingers on my face at whoever did that* BTW I have the exact same shirt.
That bass is 31 years older than me
Dave i need your help on my 65 jag guitar - it has the same buzz issue as your other bass video - is there anyway i can contact you to ask a few questions to clarify a few things? i want to fix my jag!
+Dave's World of Fun Stuff thanks man sent you a message
+Mat Melton hey mat do you get like a little pop sound when you touch the metal in your guitar? i have a single coil bass and when touch metal it stops the hum and makes a pop noise, then when i take my hand off the metal it buzes, but is not 60 hz cycle hum is like something weird, it can even pick up my computer buzzing
Good afternoon Dave. How do I get a Dave sticker . Great show . I've leaned a lot from watching you work on jazz basses
It's the end of a long, hard shift at the strap button fuckery
I want to hold that bass and tell it everything is going to be okay. It seems like it has been through a lot lol
Should I upgrade my intermediate guitars or save and buy a brand new american strat?
+Mark Lucio Doesn't have to be brand new but ditch the intermediate guitars and buy a really good American Strat. I bought (and recommend) a Fender AVRI 65 Strat off of Reverb that still had the plastic on the pickguard for $1400. Not a scratch on it. Saved about a grand and I LOVE that guitar.
+XLBiker13 I'm probably going to buy an american strat, my heart won't be fulfilled until I do. I do love the vintage style more than modern. The only problem is that fender came out with the elite in that cool blue burst, and it seems like something that could become collectable because it's the first year. Seems like a good investment opportunity. So, if I go american i'm probably going to get the elite.
+MomoTheBellyDancer Do you have any expensive guitars?
Mark Lucio I agree, if you're spending the money you have to follow your heart. I currently own about 10 guitars ranging in value from vintage (immaculate '65 Strat and '63 Jazzmaster) to Gibson and Fender custom shop guitars down to MIJ and MIM Fenders. I love them all and play them all but in my experience you always get what you pay for. Whenever I've spent more money it was well worth the extra money. You definitely don't have to break the bank to buy a good guitar but if you spend the extra money and know what to buy its always worth it.
+XLBiker13 You my friend, have the right idea. I guess deep down inside I already knew the answer to my question. I just wanted someone to back me up on spending some big bucks haha
The damage to the pickguard is not unusual. Back in the day there were no guitar setting up books, no Dave on TH-cam, nothing supplied by Fender and no real experts around. So how do you adjust it?. Surely not by taking the neck off, that would be silly, wouldn't it.
"oxidization" LOL
Is this an alder or ash body?
coming up on your 69,000 subs so that's pretty ironic
Ha!!! I'm older than that bass...
strap on dvey
Strap button fuckery!
lol
Sir if i could ask you a question about my bass neck. I wanted it to have a low action but when i adjusted the trust rod on the neck, it seems that there’s no more room to adjust it. There is a bit of bow that i’m hoping i could Atleast make the neck straight but the turn for the nut might have reached all the way in. What needs to be done for this bass sir? Or is there a problem with my tryst rod . The bass only experienced 2 times of adjustment since i got the bass. It’s a fender 64 jazz bass Custom shop. 10 years old.
You should get a head mounted GoPro. Then we can see what you see.