The neck is good - nice and straight with good action (and dirty, very dirty), there's a buzz in the electronics even with the volume all the way down, and the body is pretty beat up - lots of chips and dings.
By dirty I mean dirty - my hand sticks to the neck, and I've wiped it down a half dozen times already. The seller was a smoker, and the whole thing is covered with that nicotine-tar sludge/muck that things that don't move for years in a smokers house collect. I wash my hands copiously after handling it to get the smell and stickiness off them.
I'm going to disassemble it completely, refinish the body (trying to come up with ideas for a cool way to paint it out), clean everything, clean everything again, maybe a third full cleaning, then put her back together and see what I have.
My last lucky find was another Foundation (same year of manufacture, by the serial numbers) that had been defretted by the previous owner. The pickups on it have a great sound, so I hope I can get this one up to that level.
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What about samick, I've seen a couple on gumtree
Korean models are supposed to be ok , think I would go for a Squier thoughCheck out the post by Guinny in this thread that Affinity model with mods looks very cool
don't forget I don't play in a band so I don't really need one that good its only for my own pleasure plus I like to tinker with them and mod em up a bit. But you're right those two in the picture were a bit dreadful
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don't forget I don't play in a band so I don't really need one that good its only for my own pleasure plus I like to tinker with them and mod em up a bit
That's cool I'm guessing you get as much fun fixing em up as you do playing them
Me I just need one bullet proof bass for practise,rehersals & gigging. if it plugs in and makes a noise for an hour and a half were all good
Have been in a few bands playing punk in the late 70s early 80s then joined a band doing ozzy and other similar covers, then had kids and money was tight so music went out of the window for a while. Started playing again mid 90s and joined a band called bad voodoo doing AC/DC covers that lasted a few years till drummer legged it, then the same drummer a couple of years later had me joining an upbeat soul band where every thing was beefed up so my heavy handed rock style of playing actually fit in quite well and ths lasted till early 00s when most of them became star struck and getting agents involved which was not for me so I gave a couple of months notice so they could get a replacement sorted and not played in a band since and sold every thing then for my 50th daughter bought me that mini lemmy rick and I started collecting copies of all the basses I,d ever owned
