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Posted: **Wed Feb 16, 2005 3:48 am**

but....the neck and headstock look so....so.....so tame!!!

Posted: **Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:38 am**

With single coils, make it an 8 string. With the existing pickups, make it a 5'er.

Posted: **Wed Feb 16, 2005 8:06 am**

I was thinking maybe the opposite ... either way I am undecided ... right now it is strung BEAD ...

Posted: **Wed Feb 16, 2005 8:53 am**

To each his own. Whatever way you go, you could probably leave the existing humbuckers in there and tap them.

Posted: **Thu Feb 17, 2005 2:08 am**

Leave it as it is, man! (4 but with BEAD)

Posted: **Thu Feb 17, 2005 8:32 am**

4-2-5!

or 25 or 6-2-4...

Posted: **Thu Feb 17, 2005 2:05 pm**

it is now a 5 string bass ... the BEAD thing was weird and the EADG tuning was missing the low B ...

Posted: **Thu Feb 17, 2005 2:51 pm**

Wow! That was fast. How long did the operation take? Those A D & G tuners look awfully close. Are you sure they all clear each other?! (I know you're a trained professional and all!)

Posted: **Thu Feb 17, 2005 5:16 pm**

If I have all of the parts a conversion can be done in one day ... or one evening ... and I am not a trained professional ...

Posted: **Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:12 pm**

That bass came out pretty cool Jeff !!
What is the distance from the tops of the pickups to the bottoms of the strings on that bass?

Posted: **Fri Feb 18, 2005 3:59 am**

close enough to growl and far enough so the strings don't hit ... I'll measure later ...

Posted: **Tue Mar 01, 2005 11:26 am**

bump...long story!

Posted: **Fri Mar 04, 2005 9:08 am**

Here is a pic of my 1998 Jet-Glo.

Posted: **Fri Mar 04, 2005 9:16 am**

lov that Jetglo!

Posted: **Fri Mar 04, 2005 11:06 am**

bit of work in the (rather messy) studio

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