I really missed a bass in my set up. And I really wanted a bass that would fit into surf/garage/shoegaze vibe I tend to play.
Additionally I wanted something light and short scale to counterbalance the 68 precision that I try to restore.
My ideal cheap 60's shortscale would be a hiflier bass so I put up some alerts and have been looking around for the past 2 years, I unfortunately missed out on a few deals. Until last week when I found a hiflier bass for 25,- euro's which was reserved by the seller. I kindly send a message letting them know the bass itself is worth quite a bit more than 25,- euro's and they were so happy with the message that they let me buy it for 75 euro's.
So the bass is in a semi bad state. It hasn't been played by the current owner, who got it from someone with a bunch of gear incl. another bass.
It had a good layer of grime, rust and mouse Jimmy in the cavities. So after a deep clean with steelwool and kitchen grease cleaner it's looking better again.
I sprayed the switch which made the neck pickup work again and I have good hopes I'll get the electronics completely cleaned out and working again.
But now I need your help finding some replacement parts
The biggest issue is minor but important, the tuner bushings are missing on 3 tuners. The matsumoku size seems not standard and I have a hard time finding replacements, does anybody have the golden solution? Otherwise I'm afraid I need to get some gotoh tuners.
besides that I need to do something with the neck pickup. I got screwed down to the body so I need to find out if the screw holes got enlarged, what size they are and order something that works with what I have.
The nut broke so I need to get a new one. But the Goldo ones seem to fit and are cheap
