How do you remove a pickguard from a bass guitar?
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To remove scratchplate from a fender Precision.\n\nhave a cloth handy to put over the bass body to prevent scratches from the electrics.\n\n1. Remove the strings.\n2. Take off volume and tone knobs. this is easier whilst the scratchplate is still on the bass.\n3. unscrew the screws around the edge of the scratchplate.\n4. CAREFULLY lift scratchplate - electrics will come up with the scratchplate. REMEMBER that there is an earth lead connecting electrics to the bridge. DO NOT BREAK THIS WIRE or the Bass will hum when you play it. Put cloth over body and lay electrics down on it.\n5. release pickups from scratchplate\n6.undo rings holding volume and tone potentiometers to the scratchplate.\n\nScratchplate should now be loose and can be put to one side.\n\nThen to fit new scratchplate, reverse the process.\n\n7. feed volume and tone pot spindles through holes in new scratchplate. Put on rings.\n8. feed pickups through holes in scratchplate and attach.\n9. lift scratchplate, pull out cloth and fit electrics into body caverty. Ensure all wires are in the caverty,and the scratchplate fits properly to the body.\n10. replace scratchplate screws .\n11. replace volume and tone knobs\n12. restring and tune up\n13  Rock on!
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How bout lowering the pickup instead? Just turn the 2 little screws on either side of the pickup until it is low enough.\n\nOtherwise, there are 2 ways on a Les Paul Standard depending on the bridge. You either use a screwdriver to unscrew the posts a little, or there are little thumbscrews that raise the bridge.\n\nBe forewarned... you may have other problems that have little to do with the pickup or bridge.
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Try a variety of picks.  Also, practice finger-picking.  And when you practice, spend a lot of time playing along with songs you know and like.  This will make the session more enjoyable as well as challenge you to learn different techniques, rhythms, chord structures, and familiarize yourself with your own abilities and limitations.  This will speed you along faster than practice alone and reward you when you are actually able to play a bass line.\n\nDon't worry about spending money on high-end equipment until you feel you need to invest in it.  Go to a pawn shop, used music store, or classifieds for used bass heads and amps.  You will find some good deals, and many used amps actually sound better than new equipment because it has aged and been played.  New equipment tends to sound "new" and may take time to break in.  Take your bass with you when you try out amps, most places don't mind and actually encourage you to try out different amps.
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I made earrings out of guitar picks and to install the french wire I melted a hole at the pointy end with an awl/ice pick.  I heated up the metal tip of the awl on the gas stove and used it to melt a small hole in the guitar pick.  Cool idea, now I'll make a matching necklace!  Thanks!
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Look at the unit carefully, you only need remove about 4-6 screws to remove the case and they are on the top border and the upper areas on the sides, you only want to remove the very outer case.  the trick is sliding it off, use a Flathead screwdriver to looses it after you remove the screws and remember it doesn't take brute force and should not be plugged in or connected in any way while you are doing this..
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Contrary to some of the other answers, it is NOT a good idea to file the string nut. The nut is responsible only for the action at the first fret (when you push down a string beyond the 1st fret the nut does nothing).\n\nI would recommend taking it to a shop, but will outline the steps if you choose to try it yourself...\n\n1. Hold a string down at the 1st and last fret. Look at the space between the fret and string. If there is more than a credit card thickness between the string and fret at the greatest distance, then the truss rod needs adjustment. More on this later.\n\n2. If the neck checks out OK, then you can use a small allen wrench to lower the strings at the bridge. There are 2 tiny screws on top of each saddle that you can adjust about 1/2 turn each at a time until action is good. You'll need to do this with each string. NOTE! If you have a whammy bar you will need to make sure that there is quite a lot of tension on the spring in the back of the guitar BEFORE you do this.\n\n3. If the saddles are as low as they can go, then you will need to loosen the strings and remove the neck. Place a piece of plastic credit card (or cut up pick) about 1/8" wide and 1 1/2" long at the base of the neck pocket and bolt the neck on again. You might even find that there is already a shim there. Leave it alone and add yours. Readjust the saddles as #2 above.\n\n4. The truss rod should never be adjusted for overall action, but only to correct excessive neck bow. Ultimately, when checking the neck as described in #1, you should have about 1/64" to 1/32" where the distance between string and fret is the greatest. This provides a very slight bow in the neck called "relief". No guitar neck should be straight as an arrow. Depending on the model of "Strat" copy you have, the truss rod is accessed either at the heel using a big screwdriver (you will probably have to remove the neck for this) or at the headstock with an allen wrench. Turn the screw CLOCKWISE NO MORE than 1/2 turn. My guess is that there is no tension on the truss rod so you can probably get away with adding ONE MORE 1/2 TURN after you feel resistance.\n\nWORDS OF WARNING- If you must adjust the truss rod there is the possibility of breaking it. If you are tightening it and it suddenly becomes loose, it's time for a new neck (replacing a truss rod will exceed the value of your guitar). Don't overtighten your neck bolts if you have to remove the neck or you may strip them out. Use the proper tools...a nice big flat screwdriver (for the truss rod), a nice big phillips screwdriver (to remove the neck), and correctly sized allen wrenches.\n\nPut the thing back together if you have to, string it up, tune it up, readjust the bridge, and off you go!
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Using a butterknife, you should be able to take the keys off.  Uses a warm damp rag to clean up the mess.
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cut it off with a hacksaw.  \n\nyou might have to take it to a welder to reattach it.
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Here's their website. You can contact them direct, through it.\nhttp://www.fender.com/
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Take a replacement string of the same gauge (thickness) and push it through the spare hole at the end of the metal bridge plate. Pull through until the stopper blocks it moving any further and then feed the end through the tuner peg hole. Ensure that the string is aligned into the groove at the end of the neck and allow some slack into the string before tightening - about enough to get a finger between the string and the fretboard. Tighten the string around the pole using the tuning peg - I tend to wrap it once above the string then the remaining times below. Tune up, then stretch the string by placing your palm over it near the lower frets and pulling the string gently away from the fretboard with your playing hand. Tune up again, repeat the process, then plug in and rock out!
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Welcome to the family, Little Sister. I hope you have a very long and happy stay with us.\nTo start off, there are NEVER stupid questions, especially when discussing music. If anyone refuses to answer your questions, or gives you attitude, remind them that someone was kind enough to take pitty on their sorry souls at one point, and that they were not always the "gods" that they feel they are now.\n\nAnyhow, to answer your questions:\n1.) Do i have to use a pick while playing bass?\nNo. I usually do not use a pick, and many "professional" players do not use them. Many players do use them. It all boils down to which is most comfortable for you.\n\n2.) Do i have to play bass with an amp or is it ok to do with out for a little while?\nIt is definately OK to do without for a tiny while, however it will more than likely impede your learning at this point in your career. I very rarely use an amp; however I have been playing for almost 20 years and can feel when I made a mistake. There are many decent beginner amps on the market for $100 or less. I would recommend getting one as soon as possible so you acn hear what you are playing.\n\n3.) I am not exactly sure on how to tune it correctly and i don't wanna break a string so any advice on tuning bass would be great. \nMy best advice is to buy an electric tuner. They can be purchased for almost nothing, and will help you out immensel;y. Barring that ,there are a few online tuners that are available. Here is the one I usually send people to- www.guitarforbeginners.com/onlinetuner.html\n\n4.) and if there are any websites that you know of that can help me as a unexperienced begining bass player can you let me know them?\nhttp://www.activebass.com\nhttp://www.basstabarchive.com\nhttp://www.basslessons.com\nhttp://www.visionmusic.com\n\nOther helpful advice:\nPractice EVERY day. Not for long periods, but rather 15 minutes or so at a shot. By practicing for that short amount of time, you are able to learn in small doses, which is best, and it doesn't really give you a chance to get bored, which will kill your desire to play.\nDon't EVER let anyone get you down by telling you anything negative about you or your playing, or your desire to play. If someone tells you that you suck, think about who they are and what they hyave accomplished. If they are not musicians themselves, simply hand them your bass, agree with them, and ask them to show you what a "real" bassist sounds like. If they ARE a musician, and they talk trash, explain that you forgot that they were born being a great musician, and very quietly hand them your bass and ask them to show you how to be better.\n\nIf you ever get discouraged, or want any more information, contact me through here, and we'll see what we can do to make you the best you can possibly be.
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Since the Bass is tuned E-A-D-G and the guitar is tuned E-A-D-G-B-E you can easily learn bass runs on a guitar. Just use the four low strings.\n\nTurning your guitar into a bass won't work because first: bass strings won't fit through your tuners; second:the length of your acoustics's neck and fret spacing are shorter than that of a bass:third; string tension would never be right and you wouldn't get much sound; fourth: because of string tension and legnth of frets and strings you'd always be out of tune.
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I get the Cabelas and bass pro catalouge. They have several things for this application. Look online at Cabelas.com or Bassproshops.com for information
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Remove the "but cap" and trim back the handle to expose the blank and cut it with a hack saw or fine tooth saw so as not to crack the blank. You can go to WWW.mudhole.com they sell fishing rod blanks and stuff to make and build rod
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yes go to drop tuning which usually youll go drop d and anything lower then that and you may want to get yourself a bass guitar.  but if you dont know how to go to drop just get a tuner and wait until your reading for the 6 string comes out as a 3d and that would be drop d tuning
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You might try www.basspro.com , www.cabelas.com , or maybe Wal-Mart. :)
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put white glue over it let it dry all the way and then pull it off ,the splinter should come right out....good luck!!