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Yesterday was a 2 new bass day for me, first , my custom Sandberg arrived which I ordered in mid December , and it’s far exceeded my expectations, it’s a one piece lightweight swamp ash body with ebony fingerboard and black hardware and the neck is by far the best I’ve ever played. I think because of the woods the sound is so resonant , even when not plugged in. When plugged in the eq really kicks. I was a bit concerned that it wouldn’t be bassy enough, I needn’t have worried , the bass control is huge, you really can play reggae on it😀 . IMO Sandbergs build quality is superb 🙂 The second is my first ever 5 string, it’s a Yamaha bb 415 wr , it’s fitted with half rounds, and the low B is so nice, it took me a few hours to get used to the extra string being there, and I muffed a few Basslines, but I think it will come 🙂 and I I really like the controls on this, especially the toggle switch, in P mode this thing really drops some serious bass. So I can now officially comment in the Sandberg thread 😂 and the Yamaha bb thread 😂. No doubt I’ll be hearing from @AndyTravis 😀

I've gone for a satin nitro in the end for this one as the neck had already been finished in nitro. Quite chuffed how this is finishing. This is how it looks at the moment, still got quite a few jobs to do but it's getting there!!

@fleabag wanted some specific designs of decals for the headstock. I followed up a link that @BassTool put on his recent thread for Rob at GuitarDecals.co.uk. Superb! Best decals I've ever used - super, super, super thin and including whites! Still have to do the overcoating of finish on them, but this is how they look at the moment:

https://www.joinmyband.co.uk/classifieds/ding-ding-who-wants-me-t1073138.html

Dressing like that is a Cardinal sin.... sorry...

Entirely reasonable level of expectations for a pre-Madonna. No doubt the manager, publicist, PA, choreographer, video director, fashion designer, make-up artist, hairdresser, personal trainer and spiritual advisor are already in place.

I think I've got one of those up in the attic. I'll have check. Edit for: No laser but I found my old command Zeppelin. Any use? Ah, dear, lovable, conceited Ernst: never an employee of mine, more of a supplier of peripherals. It all went tïts-up for Ernst when he developed a cat allergy. Sitting in his high-backed, leather chair stroking a goldfish didn't really inspire his minions to put on a hard hat, pick up a Schmeisser and do battle with Tiger Tanaka's ninja commandos as they abseiled into the dormant volcano. So they all came to work for me, apart from the excitable little Chinese scientist feller who went off to Camber Sands and bought an ice-cream van.

Eye candy 😂

My latest 800mm /31.5" scale semi hollow build getting close to finishing.

You might have warned us about the drum solo!!!!

Ref talks / demos, I have two thoughts if there is an interest: Either: A talk through my journey towards lighter-weight instruments, including some of the design and construction considerations and practicalities. I (and @Len_derby) can bring along a number of instruments that people can try 'on the strap' including Kert's Camphor single cut bass (weight lightened conventionally), and then illustrating my present construction approach Pete's piccolo bass (& my almost identical electric guitar) and @Len_derby 's full-scale Swift Lite bass. or A repeat of the veneering demo Doing both is probably a touch too much Andyjr1515 for one session! What do you reckon? Andy

Picking up my new 32" P type bass tomorrow. Overly excited for an older person.

Me too.

Here's the semi hollow bass I'm completing at the moment sprayed with rattle cans of satin nitro. The finish is really nice.

OK, here's my 31.5" gang! I should really get some better photos done, details etcs. Eude

I met Norman back on 2007 in a guitar shop I was working in. He bought in his Jazz and Precison and we sat and chatted while I had them plugged in (and drooling). He said his late wife bought him the Precison in the early days and that it is his most special bass, he calls it the Rythmn Stick. The Precison is outrageously good, with a killer neck, super worn in. He bought the Jazz after, saying he prefered the neck for gigs, but it wasn’t as sentimental to him. We took the Jazz apart to check it out and he seemed really chuffed to find out more about it. Top bloke.

All together lads! Happy Birthday to you Happy birthday to you Happy birthday Dave and Graham Happy birthday to you.....

Good to see Bjork's name added into the debate.. Definitely another unique, genius level female artist of the last 25 years... 😊

Ah, the old "I like X & don't like Y, therefore X is brilliant & Y is crap and that's a fact" chestnut. Comes round as regularly as a number 9 bus, this. Popcorn, anyone?

As a long time fan of both Joni Mitchell and Kate Bush, it's seems to me to be an utterly pointless argument to say that one of them is a (musical) genius, whilst the other is not. They are both extraordinarily talented songwriters, singers and musicians in their own right but they come from very different cultural and artistic backgrounds IMO, which makes comparing them more about personal preference and opinion than fact. Their back catalogues, record sales, worldwide fan bases and respect from amongst their own musical peer groups tells its own story though and they both have those things in abundance. I'm just grateful that they have made the fantastic music they have over the years; my life's been all the richer for it.

https://www.joinmyband.co.uk/classifieds/madonna-tribute-act-looking-for-musicians-t1151835.html Would-be Madonna tribute vocalist looking for someone with 'a good sound system and mic'. Eh? Think I'll look for a band that can provide a good bass and amp!

Very nice! Wish you had more hands, huh?

Did you bankrupt him, with your demand for a £20,000 fee?

C'mon Cuzzie, is it done yet?!!😉

I rather suspect that her previous experience consists of singing into her hairbrush in the bathroom mirror.

Whatever you choose MAKE SURE you save your back if its telling you to. I didn't (work not bass related) and my back went, and it was literally 4 years of not being able to properly move, bend or walk for longer than 10 minutes. The irony is is that the damage had been done, but I didn't know, then one day I lifted a light box and BANG the back went. Oh and you become really grumpy if you have a bad back - it just seems to affect all your body. I've gone the following: Quilter 800 - awesome and 2kg. Trace Elf - even smaller and lighter - great. Line 6 helix. Laney nexus cabs - 23kg for a 4x10. 19kg for a 2x10. And now, an active bass, as well as a passive precision v4, giving me all the tone I need. I could take any combination of those to a gig - even just the active bass and elf and 2x10 and be very happy with the tone. And when i get home, I'm still full of life, not bent over in pain.

Here you go...

That’s a real shame 😪. I was hoping it was the magic pixie dust sprinkled on it at the factory, or something! The action is, I would say, medium low. About the same as my US Jazz; set up just a bit lower than Fender recommended settings. I was thinking of dropping the action slightly but, in case that breaks the magic spell, I’ll let sleeping dogs lie. Whatever it is, it just plays like an absolute dream and I couldn’t be happier.

I have sibling to Mr @ead‘s Finn P, also 32” scale: Edit - but mine doesn’t have the fancy top!

Here we go folks ACG Finn 32" scale P bass Alder body with quilted maple top natural satin finish 3-pc ash neck with Maple board P bass pickup, passive electronics, detuner on E string Weight 7.4lbs Crappy phone pic, will so better ones in due course.

Wendysday belongs in the middle of the week surely?! ("Stop calling me Shirley!" 🤐)

Agree 100% Nik

It is normally, but on Fridays and Saturdays i use my alteo egos. Fridays i'm chuffed and Saturday you'll be referring to me as Wendy

If you want, but I thought your name was fleabag?

Well we've all made contact by email! Drummer and I both keen to do Going Back Home, hope one of the the guitarists can do a Wilko! 🙂

I’m with @Muppet with the amp modeller/preamp IEM route but if that’s too big a change (although by far the best weight wise) you could get yourself an amp modeller/preamp + FRFR cab set up so you do still have a cab on stage. This is my entire set up now and my back thanks me...

Get stuck in. https://www.moneyclaim.gov.uk/web/mcol/welcome

I'd say a Hayman or Shergold.

Are your band members in the Musician’s Union? Well worth having a chat with them as their legal department can assist with “writing a firm letter of intent”. Recovering fees and protecting yourselves in the future is something they can help with.

I think 31.5 to 33” is fair cop for medium scale?

Got to say the teaser pics show how awesome it’s going to be! I was playing my one at a musical last night, I love it so much

Love Rory and Gerry but that has to be one of the worst bass solos I have ever heard!

If it's happening (and I'm not ruling it out) it's happening very slowly. Top tip, Jazz basses need to be propped up in a corner. If you just leave them against a wall they will fall over eventually, possibly many hours after you last touched them. Don't ask me how many times I heard the ominous thud from upstairs before I worked this out.

My birthday too - many happy returns

Good suggestion. For really spiffing results, try ethyl mercaptan, aka the smelliest substance known to man. I used to play in a band with an industrial chemist and he put just a smidgeon in the loos of a pub that upset us. Place emptied in short order.

It's funny how so many bass players absolutely hate skilful bass playing, and seem to have the idea that bass should be sitting in the background doffing its cap to the "lead" instruments while respectfully muttering "yes sir, no sir"! Bass is whatever the player wants it to be. If you don't like what the player's doing, that's fine; but that's just taste, not what should or shouldn't be played...