Fill the knot with resin.
12 Likes
Fixed it. 
4 Likes
Somewhere @eric.kiser on an acoustic guitar forum you know that âToneResinâ has already been debated.
5 Likes
allow me
8 Likes
Nice.
3 Likes
Good news and sad news. The good news is I got my Tele Bass (although itâs not even telecaster adjacent) all sorted out.
Turns out it was user error. Donât ever use flats with this pickup. Thatâs the sad news. They just do not go with this pickup. Weirdest harmonics out of it.
I have flats on my Squier and theyâre fine but not on this bass.
Anyway, lesson learned.
Another lesson is I thought that cylinders for the bridge without a notch in the saddle would pose a problem, nope, the strings line up perfectly every time.
Anyway everything is all set, back in business
8 Likes
I genuinely donât know enough about pickups to even guess at this but why would a flat string as opposed to a round wound string not be able to be used.
Is this a thing with this style of pickup? Iâm not picking a fight I just donât understand why flats canât be used.
If I were to buy that bass (because it looks great) Iâd want to put flats on it.
3 Likes
Neck humbuckers can be pretty muddy, combine with the loss of higher harmonics and generally less bright sound you get with flats and it might have been pretty odd sounding.
2 Likes
You can use them technically
It was indeed odd sounding. Thank god I only used a set of Fender flats, which are relatively cheap. Replaced them with a set of NYXLs I had on my shelf, 50-105. Some would say thatâs an upgrade
2 Likes
NYXL are good strings. I have had them on my Mayones, which has a naturally darker tone from its Aguilar ceramic humbuckers.
Like all rounds, the NYXL were much brighter when new, and they sounded great. But now that theyâre well played in, they sound too dark on the Mayones for my taste.
1 Like
Yeah, you just have to change rounds periodically. The thing about NYXL is the strings last longer than others and youâre tempted not to.
I have also had good luck reviving rounds with a little cleaning. I donât mean the âboil them!â thing, I mean just quick alcohol wipes and snapping. But really the answer is new strings.
1 Like
Oh, I know. Iâm totally familiar with rounds from decades of guitar playing. Iâve got quite a lot of hours on the NYXL and, like I said, they sounded bright and spunky for a decent amount of that early time.
That said, from the get-go I noticed they have a warm-ish character to their tone that, when combined with my Mayones natural warmth, creates a too dark overall tone for me. Donât get me wrong: the bass sounds killer with NYXL and certain genres, just not with all, in my subjective opinion.
I have a trove of rounds string sets to experiment with from various DRs (Pure Blues, Sunbeams, Hi-Beams) to SIT Power Wound Nickels to TI Jazz to even Ernie Ball Hybrid Slinky Nickels (got the EB strings for free with a new bass; I guess they ran out of bowls of soup 
).
3 Likes
In an interview archtop builder Bob Benedetto was asked how he determines whether to use bone or ebony on his builds. His answer? âI use bone on guitars with white binding, ebony on guitars with black bindingâ.
7 Likes
Practical and fashionable answer. Benedetto builds outstanding archtops.
3 Likes
âŚand thatâs one with a white binding and ebony nut
2 Likes
Looks like a black TUSQ nut.
2 Likes
yep could be
Totally agree with this neckbucking is really really warm and produces very unique tone like Rickenbacker style. You gonna need brightness from the strings to wake it up.
2 Likes
2 Likes
Stainless is a whole different sound and feel. I personally did not like it.
1 Like