SOLD Electric Bass Guitar Repair: Legend by AriaProII P-bass | Mark's Basses and Guitars - Okinawa,

2019.11.03 UPDATE: This electric bass guitar was sold as a used item via Bookoo Okinawa. I hope the new owner will enjoy playing this bass as much as I had enjoyed playing it.

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I recently completed repairing and cleaning up this old electric bass guitar: It's a Precision Bass or P-Bass type made by Legend by AriaProII (or Aira Pro II). Now it is way better than when I first found it the junk section at a local secondhand store (or recycle shop) here in Okinawa, Japan. As you can see in the photo gallery below this electric bass guitar is looking good.

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This electric bass guitar has a white finish that has aged slightly. I don't know how old this particular Legend bass guitar is, but there are only a few minor dents and scratches that aren't very noticeable. It has a black P-bass style pickguard, which still looks pretty good even though it has lost its gloss over the years. I decided to sand off the logo from the headstock to reveal more of the maple wood grain and I think it looks much more attractive now.

The tuning machines aren't of the highest quality (i.e., Gotoh, Hipshot) but they are certainly good enough for a new bass guitar student or an amateur musician. I think I did a pretty good polishing the tuning pegs considering how old this bass might actually be.

I did spend several hours working the frets and the fretboard or fingerboard. After adjusting the truss rod to give the bass guitar proper relief (a slight forward bow) I leveled the frets. After that I crowned the frets, rounded the fret ends, and polished them to a nice shine. Originally the frets were slightly tarnished and looked rather dull.

After I finished polishing all 22 frets I cleaned up the fretboard and then applied orange oil. I used Howard Orange Oil Wood Cleaner and Polish because that is what was available at a local music shop near my home. I like this product very much, but might try another fretboard conditioner after it runs out. The fretboard on this particular electric bass guitar was quite dry to begin with and I had to apply a few applications or orange oil and wiping off the excess.

One of the repairs that I did on this Legend by Aria Pro II bass was to the plastic nut, which was slightly cracked. I used a bit of superglue to fix the nut and it turned out just fine. There have been no problems with the nut what's so ever since then.

Other repairs to this bass guitar that I did included re-soldering some of the electronic connections beneath the pickguard (or scratchplate). I should mention that this particular electric bass came with 500K ohm potentiometers (or pots) whereas most Fender and Fender-type basses have 250K pots, so the tones from this particular Legend by AriaProII bass are slightly brighter. I think I prefer these brighter (or more trebly) sounds and might use 500k ohm potentiometers in some other bass guitar repair and restoration projects instead of 250k ohm pots.

I cleaned and polished the bridge (or tailpiece) before reassembling all of the hardware. Whereupon I put on a brand new set of long-scale bass guitar strings. For me here in Okinawa, Japan the most readily available electric bass strings are round-wound with a gauge of .045 for the 1st string (or the G string) to a gauge of .105 for the 4th string (or the E string).

Once the new strings were on I proceeded to give this bass guitar a proper setup: tuning, relief, action, intonation, and repeating the process over again a couple of times. I even rechecked the setup again the day after, and several times again.

I like the way this bass guitar turned out after all of my time and effort. It looks good, it feels good to play, and it sounds good to listen to. It isn't nearly as fine as my

1994 Fender Deluxe Precision Bass Plus electric bass guitar

but, for the price, you can't go wrong.

I have worked on several entry level guitars and basses and favor the Legend by Aria Pro II over some other entry level brands. Click

here

to read about a

Legend by AriaProII Stratocaster-style electric guitar

that I previously repaired and cleaned up

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Guitars especially electric bass guitars are my hobby. I enjoy playing guitars, shopping for guitars, buying guitars, repairing guitars, restoring guitars, modifying guitars, customizing guitars, and so on. Simply put I absolutely love guitars! Guitars are beautiful pieces of art which in turn are used to create even more beautiful works of art in the form of music. And heaven knows the world needs more music. Make more music!

I am trying to save used electric basses and used electric guitars from being thrown in the trash. I hope by rescuing such guitars that I will be able to sell them at very affordable prices to anybody who wishes to start learning to play. I am trying to encourage a new generation of guitarists and bassists to come on up. The world needs more musicians because musicians are cool. Be a musician!

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