Disturber

Here are two more with Jeff & the Sunburst.

Now, that was way cool! A sustainblock Sunburst. Is that Jeff Cease or Marc Ford, (looks like Cease). This is the cooest thing I've seen in all of December. I need to start smoking again. Whats brands are good these days?

Must be 1989 or 1990.

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I can second that!

Those Tremulators are bad ass. Mine is never leaving my board. GLWTS.

Very reasonable prices.

Mine has lost some gold too. I was in contact with a firm that could re-plate it with new gold. It would cost between 100 to 250 depending on if the plate also needed new nickel and/or polishing before it is re-plated. Might be easier than finding a replacement.

I think the body shape and colour is cool. I could play that. But I am going to be polite so I will not comment on the headstock. 😁 Congrats to finding a great guitar!

I think all of those SS IIs came with the 17K Slammer humbucker. At least mine did. Great pickups, for being so hot.

@butcher What is the third guitar from the left? Dan Armstrong headstock and a triple bucker, is it a Hamer? These are my bedroom amps. That is a 50 watt 4010 1x12 Marshall combo, same as the 2204 head. I also have a Marshall JTM50/Artiste 2x12 combo in the other corner. What's not to like? I sleep very well with these next to my bed.

I stiil never have, in my life, played a Mesa Boogie amp. I would love to try one out one day. There is an older Mesa Boogie Studio 22, no eq, for sale locally for 700$. Good or not so good amps?

350$

It might just be, due to inflation and all. Now I need to find a decent case and a set of fresh strings.

Thanks. Now I think I am all set for cleaning up the cavity in my bass tomorrow. Up with the Irons!

Many thanks!!! What is happening under the resistor cap? Hard to see. Is it, and the incoming wire, both connected to the third leg of the pot?

I found this one locally for about 600 U$. No case. I still think the price was very reasonable. Frets are good. Neck is straight and it plays very well. The magnets had come loose from under one of the P-bass pickups, (Slammers - Hamer's version of the Dimarzio Model P?). I fixed that without problems. A saddle screw was also stuck but I fixed that too. So altogether it's a 100% working, problem free bass. I am happy. One issue. Someone played around with a soldering iron in the control cavity. I doubt that it is the way it came wired from the factory? I need to clean this up, (my OCD). DOES ANYONE HAVE AN 80'S CRUISE BASS AND WOULD BE SO HELPFUL TO TAKE A PHOTO OF THE CONTROL CAVITY AND POST IT HERE, so I can see how it is supposed to be? I can only find the schematic for the 2nd generation Cruisebass. Also, the p-bass pickup cavity has the numer 478 in it. Any clue to what that means?

Way cool.

No, they sound the same. However these early Dimarzio's vary in output. Some might be around 7 Kohm, some are above 8 kOhm, and I have one that supposedly comes from an early 4-digit Standard that reads above 9 kOhm. But I have 70s early square legged with braided wire and l have early 80s triangular legged, and I swapped them in and out of the same guitar and they sound pretty much the same. I don't know for how many years they used the same magnets that came in the early ones, one side polished and one side rough cast. But I have early 80's Dimarzio's with these magnets. My guess is that they contribute to the sound of the pickup. As these early ones are not wax potted they are very lively. They can be hard to dial in right. Pickup height, pole piece height etc. It can takes weeks of small tweaks. I've had one or two guitars where they have been to bright on the high strings and I tried magnet swapping. An A2 or even an A8 made them sound killer in those guitars (I save the original magnets off course).

RIP Quincy Jones. Sweden was your second home. I was a neighbour to his Swedish son Quincy Jones III when I lived in my first little appartment many years ago. He later moved to the US to be with his dad.

Never had a minidisk player. Still have a portable DAT player and a bunch of DAT cassettes.

Looks like a solid build. I bet that amp can take a bullet or two.

You do not talk about The Black 4 digit Standard. You do NOT talk about The Black 4 digit Standard.

We drove around Österlen this past summer for a week. It is lovely down there. My grandmother was from Lund. It's a nice little town.