New Cruisebass day. 1988.

[Disturber]

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?

[mrjamiam]

Here's mine.  I played with a soldering iron too, but I doubt that years-ago-me made any executive decisions to change the scheme.

[Disturber]

30 minutes ago, mrjamiam said:

Here's mine.  I played with a soldering iron too, but I doubt that years-ago-me made any executive decisions to change the scheme.

 

 

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?

[mrjamiam]

12 minutes ago, Disturber said:

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?

OK, so cap is on the rearmost pot.  Looking down on that pot as we are in the picture, the left terminal is empty.  The center terminal connects the blue wire coming from the center pot to the blue wire going to the barrel connector.  The capacitor itself is bridging the right terminal to ground on the surface of the pot (together with the black wires connecting to the other potentiometer surfaces and the barrel connector plus the green wire connecting the pot surface to the shielding plate).

[velorush]

Imgur is broken this afternoon, so here's a direct upload of my (formerly) '82.

IIRC, untouched wiring, but like yours there was a pickup magnet issue.

[velorush]

Another couple I found:

 

[velorush]

[Disturber]

18 minutes ago, velorush said:

Imgur is broken this afternoon, so here's a direct upload of my (formerly) '82.

 

IIRC, untouched wiring, but like yours there was a pickup magnet issue.

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

[HSB0531]

4 hours ago, mrjamiam said:

Here's mine.  I played with a soldering iron too, but I doubt that years-ago-me made any executive decisions to change the scheme.

Interesting that it has a metal shield plate to solder grounds to. Was that added on later?

[mrjamiam]

13 minutes ago, HSB0531 said:

Interesting that it has a metal shield plate to solder grounds to. Was that added on later?

I don't know.  I bought it off eBay and changed out the pickups and pots for new stuff, can't remember why at this point.  Pretty sure I didn't put the plate in, though.  It's an '86.

[HSB0531]

Ah ok.

Hamer might have added plates in the  later years.

I was thinking that was closer to an 81 or 82 Cruise Bass

[velorush]

My '81 Special had the plate:

The '82 Crusebass (pics) did not, nor did my '82 Phantom.

 Maybe they occasionally ran out?

If any of the three had been monkeyed with I'd say it was the '81 Special. Note the Alpha pots (replaced with later Hamer pots from @BCR Greg). The Phantom was pristine.

Edited November 16, 2024 by velorush

[crunchee]

1 hour ago, HSB0531 said:

Ah ok.

Hamer might have added plates in the  later years.

I was thinking that was closer to an 81 or 82 Cruise Bass

It's got a 'Stadium'-size Hamer logo on the headstock, so '88 would be correct.

[HSB0531]

16 minutes ago, crunchee said:

It's got a 'Stadium'-size Hamer logo on the headstock, so '88 would be correct.

I LOVE the Hamer Stadium logos.

[crunchee]

BIG time congrats on the snag!   US $600 is the new Tree Fitty, perhaps? 

[bry4321]

Congratulations, looks like a great find!

[Disturber]

23 hours ago, crunchee said:

BIG time congrats on the snag!   US $600 is the new Tree Fitty, perhaps? 

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

Edited November 17, 2024 by Disturber

[HSB0531]

46 minutes ago, Disturber said:

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

I definitely agree

[BTMN]

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