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Wiker wrote:Original tape on my 1979 is 24 mm.
http://www.amazon.de/Scotch-Greener-Mas ... 050+Scotch

Hi Wiker,

This is what I was looking for!

Thank you very much,

Mich

No, there are 3 different:
http://www.3m-buerosortiment.de/produkte/produktsuche

I don't have an original pickguard at hand now, but as I can remember, none of those have the correct width.

aceonbass wrote:Try Scotch 3M #2050.

Great. Sounds good. I'll take a look at it. What width should I take?

Thank you

Western Europe. We don't have that kind of stuff in our stores here. We just have Tesa and that's not the same. Or funny colors masking tape. I need to order it somewhere on the net. What would be the correct width?

Kopfjaeger wrote:It's just regular plain ole masking tape.

Thanks Sepp,

But where can I buy this kind of masking tape? I've almost searched the whole net and I didn't find anything that looked like this...

Mich

Hi,

I replaced my pickguard, but I can't take the masking tape off the old pickguard, as the tape wouldn't stick anymore. Where can I buy original looking masking tape for the back of my '76 4001?

Attached is a picture I found here in the forum.

Ok, thank you

These are tools to be used to do what we love the most: play music. In this particular thread, the bass is not a pristine "closet classic" example as set forth in another thread. This is a player that has paid its dues and suffered at the hands of someone else. It's time to get it back to ...

God bless you Scott. That's exactly what I want.

Replace the 0.047uF tone cap (you have to decide which pickup's tone control you want to mod) with the two 0.1uF caps wired in series.

I understand. But the problem is that I don't want to replace anything of the original wiring. I want to leave it original and just bypass the original treble cap ...

That is a good idea. I recently put a 0.1uF cap in my bass and like the results.

How would I wire it? (The original cap will stay, the bypass and the second 0.1 uF cap will be connected to the switch)
Which switch?

Normally you don't find instruments like guitars and basses on the fleamarkets here in Luxembourg either. I just had loads of luck

Well, one thing you could do is to put the .0047 inline cap on a mini switch to wire it in/bypass, like the new 4003 basses have the push-pull.

Hi Scott,

thanks for your reply.

As the cap is still on its original place I would like to leave it where it is and make an on/off-switched bypass ...

This is how it looked, when I got it:

http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/3166/img5133small.jpg

http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/2610/img5132small.jpg

But now, not even one week later, it almost looks like new :lol:

Please notice the small switch next to the 3-way switch and the hole ...

+1 mute switch: How would I wire it? A switch (What kind of switch, as it should wire 2 ins to 2 outs?) between the pots and the output socket harness or a on/off switch between the ground and the output socket harness? :?:

+1 pickguard: I'll order the pickguard anyway, but as the Ricky was like ...