Isn't it amazing the stuff they've come up with? I just picked up a Brubaker that this gent paid somewhere between $5,000 and $7,000 since I don't know if he got it from the Brubaker shop directly which means he probably paid MSRP or what. In any event, I paid much less than either price and this bass uses the Bartolini pickups and preamp with a bypass ability for incredible range of sounds. You can even take a fairly inexpensive instrument and provided the neck, bridge, are in good shape and just change the pickups, you can get a nice instrument out of the deal. Of course quality of wood etc. does play a role in producing a nice instrument and even whatever they seal the wood with can have some effect as well.
On Feb 15, 2008, at 9:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > if the frets are good, the neck is right, the bridge and the nut are > right; you can buy better pickups than come standard. > Ask at your local guitar shop, maybe not guitar Center, about new > pickups > by > Demarzio, Duncan (my favorites) and so on. > I put a ?59B? in front, a humbucker classic strat in middle, and a hot > Duncan with a tapped pole to reduce the output in the tail position. > But, they had to do routingfor depth and put these nice frames > around the > so it was way beyond me. > That guitar is gone. > But I've had new nickle alloy pickups put on my Yamaha Les Paul copy > and > they also sound better than the original. > My above guitar was an alder wood Fender Strat. > This is a yamaha copy, as I said. But there are some primo pickups out > there. > Ask you guys at the shop what they think is required for the sound you > want. > > On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Matt wrote: > > > Mine is not an old guitar in my opinion. > > It's a Japanese knock off of the fender stradacaster which I > bought when I was 16 or so and I am now 37, so it's old, but not pre > plastic or anything ya know? > > hahaha, > > My question is, could I possibley rework it myself? > > Replace wiring and such if necessary, or should I just finally > invest in a new guitar? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Matt > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > Scott Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
