oh id replace the trem on the japanese guitar..theres quite a jump in quality between korean and japanese.i was playing a jet guitar yesterday that has a wilkinson floyd that seems pretty good, not sure how much they cost but im pretty sure it doesnt NEED to be an edge, others will fit....

@@MADMALKO thanks. Ive had the 1570 since 2004, it’s absolutely destroyed. I think everything on it needs replacing 😂 Any advice on the pickups? Still use the stock ones which I’ve never really had issue with.. more for sloppy 80’s solos. Ideally I’ve always wanted a floyd strat but being a lefty my options are sadly limited

@@AR-ym5qx everyone always changes the pickups in ibanez...personally i dont think theres anything wrong with the v7/v8 stock pickups (i assume thats what you have?) ive 2 "rgs" the pgm has dimarzio steve vai evos in it and the rg470 has 3 seymour duncan buckers in it.both these guitars had been upgraded before i bought them.the evo pickups are quite odd sounding - they really really show up mistakes! theres loads of forums n stuff online where folk rave about certain pickups but very few of the folk who post stuff havent tried any other types, its personal preference! i like dimarzio super distortions, possibly just because most of my old 80s japanese guitars have similar type pickups as stock

hahaha

yes i think everyone forgets something the first gig!

haha its a wine from devon made by monks in buckfast abbey - for some reason its scotlands other other national drink...

@@MADMALKO haha!

i do like the theatrical element of opening a bottle of bucky for the last 2 songs...but id be driving whenever posible so not likely soon

yes!

and now proper vintage! - wood was just better in the past (or easier to get/less rare)

i dunno? never heard the band , never played a hagstrom!

@@MADMALKO ✌️

@@MADMALKO just wondering if the guitar is good quality.

@@hayro1088 im not a huge gretsch fan myself but it is a good quality guitar if you like this sorta thing

oooh

@@MADMALKO Alder blue burst.

woohoo!

yes it worked on yours so i did it again!

sounds a bit like me and les pauls, strats are a bit weird though, very thin sounding and they show up mistakes more i think.once you get used to a strat they can do anything but there is a knack to making it do anything..a tele you just plug it in and hit it hard!

sounds like the curse of having too many guitars - ive heard of that

yeah i remember them being terrible too....i think they looked very plasticy and toy like when new, now this ones 30 odd years old its collected some mojo.encore has become one of my fav cheap brands thesedays, theres still shit ones but theres a fair chance of a really good one.i knew this one was good as soon as i saw the ad , i know an indian one immediately now!

@@MADMALKO yeah its probably a different model to the argos catalogue ones or at least a different build if you go into the really minor details i think alot of it was the setup though and hte fact we were turned loose on them often without even knowing what a setup was anyway thats irrelevant now i mean youv got this one you like it it sounds good to everyone listening who like the sound of guitar so lol enjoy 🙂

just to illustrate a point ive got my fryta custom sat on my lap plugged into a marshall jvm210 100w full stack valve amp with rather expensive ish pedals and im not sounding half as good as you are lol so i suppose i did have a point sometimes budget gear used right setup right played right can sound alot better than expensive gear played by me basically lol

@@markjames1713 haha expensive stuff does tend to feel nicer..

@@MADMALKO true yes i mean i wouldnt swap what im playing at this moment for the encore even if the encore was lefty but still shows you dont need a 4 figure guitar and a four figure amp with a 4 figure set of speakers to sound good and have fun doing it

average, neither noticably light or heavy

im not sure what colour it was from the factory, first time i saw it was black but im not sure that was original, was sanded like this when i bought it

@MADMALKO I know u said I did not know what to play on p 90s with a les paul but U can u tube David gilmore playing a p 90 les paul wich he used for the "5 am "track so give that a listen and see the solo for "this is heaven ...the solo for another brick in the wall was a p 90 les paul so u can start ther ...I k ow p 90s are the thing right now ...the guy on Friday fretwork is using them all the time now ..Good luck

I think Hofners were all manufactured in Germany at that time, my Hofner Verithin has a Selmer model number and I think some models may have been exclusive to them but I'm pretty certain they're German built.

im not sure..i think so yes

@@MADMALKO either way it’s a gem.

these ones are quite flimsy..but theyre 60 years old and seem to work fine..

yes ive played a couple of them!

ive never heard of those "artist" guitars - they sound cool! i knew about the sustainers and i remember the ravelle guitar but not seen many fernandes, over the last few years they have been making burny les pauls which i reckon must have bankrupted them , ive played a couple of these lps and theyre pretty much the same as the gibson but cheaper to buy....folk will pay twice the money for the gibson badge....

@@MADMALKO - I just had a look around the Internet to refresh my memory around said 'artist series', as it's now 40 years ago that I'd read the Blackmore Strat's review 😅 It looks like the latter had belonged to the 'The Revival' series, just like my friend's P-bass (It says 'The Revival' in the decals), and the other models I mentioned, including also a b/w Michael Schenker Flying-V, were made under both the Fernandes and Burny names 🙂

@@mightyV444 oh i think ive heard of the "revival" series - not cheap! i was watching this bass for a couple of weeks and saw the price drop, i then offered just over 1/2 the asking price and got it - the guy was pissed off coz he snapped 2 e strings and wasted 2 packs - reckoned there was something wrong with the tuner angle or something... ive been a bit careful restringing it but had no such probs

@@MADMALKO - Cool that you were successful with haggling the price down! 😉👍 The neck being that slim around the higher frets reminds me of the '79 Ibanez MC900 bass I'd once owned. Which was great also otherwise but unfortunately also very heavy 😅 34" scale, though. I sold it during financially challenging times a few years ago, after having owned it for a decade 😏 And my friend's Fernandes 'The Revival' P-bass had once been his brother's daughter's, who'd left it behind when moving from NZ to Australia, and as his brother owned 'too many' basses already, he gave the Fernandes to _him_ , and for free, too! 😄 I think it even has period-correct tuners that turn the opposite way! 😀

i have a solution , take the speakers out the cab and use the cab as your coffin - sorted!

Yes, I'd heard the same sad news only a few days ago myself.

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

if we had sun in scotland...

@MADMALKO I know what you mean. I'm heading to the island tomorrow ,fingers crossed.

@@mr.whitesnake8421 oh where you goin?

@@MADMALKO A wee island in the north of the country. We steemin' tonite?

@@mr.whitesnake8421 indeed we are!

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

@@JesHill did it and it worked! , got another 1/2 turn on the trus rod and now its perfect - CHEERS!

Cool, that's great to hear.