just take your time, remember you can always strip it and start again tomorrow

think every company had a bass that looks like this in 87, this ones quite early to the scene being from 86, i notice the emg type pickup covers hadnt quite taken over by then.superstrats were popular so lets try and make a superpbass! i think the japanese liked the 32" scale for the domestic market as theyre generally dont have as big hands as westerners

@@MADMALKO I think the smaller basses are generally one of those things that's trying to get people to play bass, whatever their size, across the world. Started with those godawful violin things that McCartney used to play and various other short-scale basses. Then you had medium scale, then you had... various mutations XD The skinny pointy guitars were just popular in Japan because there was a lot of bands in the country at the time that were sort of rock, sort of metal, sort of glam, sort of punk. All sorts of weird and wonderful guitars/basses evolved from that and just didn't get exported much. This was still going on in the 90s - I have a 1996 Burny/Fernandes EB-95X that originally just made for one bass player in the Japanese band 'X Japan' and then it was made for general release. It's quite mad, even tho' it has a sort of Rickenbacker neck on a BC Rich Mockingbird pickup/electrics setup... but it's all on steroids (switch it to active mode and it turns into its own distortion/fuzzbox). Generally I think Japan has a lot less conservative market than the US and they don't really care what Fender do as they can do better anyway ;)

hahaha

i think 500k , my current thoughts are the 250s kill the treble, its easier to tame extra treble with a tone knob than it is to try and brighten a muddy sound.i keep meaning to mess about with resistors, a push pull pot could coil split a bucker and at the same time run the 500k pot in paralell with a 500k resistor - that should make the pot a 250...in theory..i think. was a bad thing having 250s in this bass - the 500s were much much better- so much more punch so its 500s in a p bass fo me!

@@MADMALKO thanks! I wonder how a resistor in parallel with a pot might affect its taper. I tried a few with inconclusive results. But if my math is right, it's R1 x R2 / (R1 + R2), which would make it 250 at one end and 167 mid way?

@@ScottfromBaltimore oh im not sure how that works...guess ive got to try...

not with a clamp no....could be worth a go...i will tell you how i get on

I just put a bean bag under the nut and another under the last fret, frets facing down, and kneel on the back of the neck. You get a sense of feel and no risk of denting the neck.

@@JesHill yeah that sounds a good idea

hmm id have thought the pacifica 312 should be better... unless you dont like the neck profile, i wonder if it needs a bit of a setup..in saying that the erg is a fantastic guitar, theres nothing wrong with this erg121c but it does have a few chips etc and i figured i could "upgrade free" to get the new one which is in better condition, has gold parts inc. better tuners but mainly for the vastly superior painted black headstock! - rock on!

oh im a bit out of date if you are buying new...if looking 2nd hand theres a stagg BA20 amp that can be found really cheap and its really good.i love my roland cube bass but theyre expensive

the pointys seem to be coming at you fast- ive never seen one apart from yours.yeah think your thunder is in the transition phase

haha, never thought of that "built like a tank...and painted ...like a tank"

that could be it - think i looked up the catalog from 2013 for the specs though...but i do reckon thats mahog

tone is in the eye/ear/mind of the beholder!

@@MADMALKO 🙏

hope you kept it?

i used to use them always...theyre cheaper in the long run...will see how i get on!

the 2 are very similar designs, im gonna have to do a shootout!

hey man this bridge also had a successful career playing guitar in U2!

@@MADMALKO Ha Ha!! I've actually heard that before. Totally legit! No doubt.

i had to look up the catalog there , the 440 is the same as this everywhere that matters - yours are just more rounded off round the top and mines squarer to fit the binding.the edge trem roadstars dont show up often for sale!

haha! - yeah i maybe put it out at a strange time

i think it may be the prettiest guitar i own...

Agreed

haha i just want clothes that dont have holes in them - and jumpers for a pound! 80s mik? do go on..

only one i know is enola gay... 10 cds for £2 though...i gave her £1.50 for 6 (i remember hot rocks being £30 on cd!)

@@MADMALKO In my Humble "Souvinir" was their Best Tune. I remember it on the Radio back in the Day.The Moby remix is good as well.

@@PontiacS i will tell you how i get on with it in the car

whit you lookin at?

just like every company they started off better then got cheaper built as the bean counters took over.stagg are just a distributer brand over here doing everything from music stands,trumpets,amps etc. - there was an old stagg company that made guitars in japen (i assume thats where they bought the name?) but ive never seen one in person

@@MADMALKO I had a fine SG they made long ago. It was better than the real thing.