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So the more important veneer - the top bookmatched one. So the main learning from the plain maple was that it is likely to shrink a mm from wet glue to bone-dry ironed First, as with all bookmatching, was to work out which is the best way round out of the 4 options. For this, I cut out a full-size paper template - it is amazing how often the nice figuring is not inside the body shape area! This will work, though: So same process as the demarcation veneer - apply the Titebond to both the veneer and the body and let them dry. When I applied the titebond to the plain maple, this happened: So there was a patch I didn't iron well enough yesterday. And is this going to be a problem? Well, no. Remember that you can reheat and remelt the glue as many times as you want. As long as there is actually glue there (and I know there is) then I know that when I iron on the bookmatched sheet, it will remelt this area too and glue them both So the first side gets positioned. The great thing about the glue being dry is that you can take as long as you like making sure it is where you want it: So that one is ironed on and the bulk excess cut off. Then for the second sheet, I matched up the figuring - but then overlapped the first sheet by 1mm. With luck, it will then shrink by a mm and be a perfect centre join (fingers crossed) Bingo! (Private "Phew!") So am I going to finish sand the edges? No - not yet. This is my cunning plan to try to keep the demarcation veneer white, even though I am going to be dying the top red. If I leave an overlap, then the dye won't soak into the white maple. Then I sand the edges of the dyed top veneer and reveal the white demarcation line! And (really) I have absolutely no idea whether that is going to work!!5 points
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hey everyone, its nice to see this forum still going and helping others pick their first bass! I’m really enjoying teaching myself my fingers are starting to get use to jumping over the fretboard, my audio interface arrives in a few days and hopefully i can start getting covers up on youtube so i can share with you all, hope everyone is keeping safe and well! 😊5 points
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My new Noguera Harmonie Standard Custom 6 Fretless with Brazilian rosewood fingerboard (my favourite wood for fretless fingerboards).4 points
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I’m a great fan of both. For obvious reasons, release of the new album has been postponed. https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1r7fnIS3ya9xbYMkKAbVCuf6ZBFI1mF1-jsa5kYkwhmwfFwobbW2OXC1E&v=uROM05_ARxc3 points
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Things of beauty. Can someone explain what the feedback switch does though please ?3 points
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Erm, having bought and (foolishly) sold an R400 last year, I have a new one winging its way from Poland too 🤷♂️3 points
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If you have ever let your email address anywhere near Scott Devine you will no doubt be sick to death of being inundated with promotional emails for his Player's Path. The idea is to give students a path to follow through all the distracting shiny things and study properly in a joined up way. I've taken the free trial and here's my reflection after just a couple of days: If you've already been to Scotts Bass Lessons you will recognise much of the material. If you're a grown up (which I ain't) I can't tell you how much you'll take from his approach. But if you're an outright beginner, fresh to the bass and Scott, I have to be a little gushing and say I think you will find this quite awesomely useful. For the price of three or four lessons with your real life local, and in my experience crap, teacher, you will get a quite astonishing musical education. I know a lot of people don't like Scott's style or his very American marketing techniques, and I've been as rude as most in the past, but this Player's Path thing I would have killed for when I took up bass 10 years ago and was pitched into my first gig without even knowing what a bassist did, let alone how (there were tears).2 points
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New price: 3.300,- EUR (negotiable) Due to covid 19 and the loss of nearly all my jobs as a soundtech and some extra bills that I have to pay, I´m open for your kind offers. Selling this incredible Jerzy Drozd Mastery VI Absolutley no chips or dents, like brand new. Cause it is like brand new. Cause this bass was totaly refurbished between Dec. 2018 till Mai 2019 by master luthier Jerzy Drozd himself. New truss rod, new fretboard and of course frets, new brass nut, new lacquer with highlighting the pattern of the wood with rich pigments, new pickup. The entire costs were: 2.798,- EUR (bills available) Some specs at least: originaly from 27.09.2005 completly refurbished between Dez. 2018 - Mai 2019 35" scale, 17mm string spacing (between strings) Etimoe (a kind of mahogany) body wings laminated maple neck through body design (2 carbon extra reinforcement bars) birdseye burl maple top with matching head stock extended 32 frets maple board brass nut special custom body design Aguilar obp3, 18 volts preamp Custom Jerzy Drozd JEDX humbucker with maple wood cover Recessed wood knobs weight: 4,3kg on the bathroom scale Original Jerzy Drozd case New price: 3.600,- EUR location: Mainz, germany sorry for my bad english2 points -
SOLDhttps://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+sade+smooth+operator+&&view=detail&mid=F43900A48A15A1F68F84F43900A48A15A1F68F84&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dyoutube%2Bsade%2Bsmooth%2Boperator%2B%26%26FORM%3DVDVVXX2 points -
2015 Fender Custom Shop Postmodern Journeyman Bass in Dakota Red finish. Price: £1900 Weight (by kitchen scales) is a little under 9lbs. I purchased the bass recently but owing to a need to free up funds I have priced this to (hopefully) sell quickly. I believe similar (new) models are currently listed at £3k+. The bass plays really nicely and looks lovely. I really like the marriage of a Jazz neck on a Precision body, and with modern touches like the hi-mass bridge, contoured heel, modern tapered tuners and the A-string retainer, this is an instrument that genuinely offers a blend of the old and the new. As you'd expect, the Custom Shop hand-wound pickup sounds great. Full and meaty, and also warm and thumpy. Pretty much what you'd want from a Precision! It's currently strung with DR Sunbeams (45-105). The finish has a light relic, where there is checking on the paintwork and a few dings and dongs, for those of us who don't mind that kind of thing! Hopefully this is shown in the photos, but happy to take more if required. It comes with the original CS case, but I don't have any of the case candy or certificate. I contacted Fender regarding information on the bass and I have copied their response below for fuller details of the specs. Hey Michael, Thanks for contacting us. This one shows in our records as a Custom Shop Postmodern Journeyman Bass in Dakota Red from February of 2015. Full specs below. I hope this helps! Model Name: Postmodern Journeyman Relic® Bass Model Number: 1500910800, 1500910805, 1500910854 Series: Postmodern Body: Lightweight Alder Precision Bass® Body Neck: Quartersawn Maple Jazz Bass® Neck, '60s "U" Shape Fingerboard: Round-Laminated Rosewood, 7.25" (184.1 mm) Radius with Aged White Dot Position Inlays No. of Frets: 20, Medium Jumbo Scale Length: 34" (864 mm) Width @ Nut: Micarta, 1.48" (37.59 mm) Hardware: Nickel/Chrome Machine Heads: Fender® Light-Weight Vintage Style Keys with Tapered Shafts Bridge: RSD Designed Hi-Mass Pickguard: 3-Ply Parchment (854) Pickups: Custom Shop '63 Hand-Wound Precision Bass Pickup Switching: None Controls: Volume, Tone Colors: (1500910800) 3-Color Sunburst, (1500910805) Olympic White, (1500910854) Dakota Red, Nitrocellulose Lacquer Finish Other Features: Precision Bass Body with Jazz Bass Neck, Contoured Heel, Vintage Chrome Pickup Cover, “F” Logo Engraved Neck Plate, "Stealth" A-String Retainer, Schaller® Straplock Buttons, Lower Vintage Finger Rest I'm not looking at trades and ideally not looking to courier at this stage (apologies to anyone outside of the UK), though this may change subject to whether the bass sells etc. I'm happy for collection or to meet/deliver, subject to distance and of course adhering to social distancing etc. Drop me a line if this is something you want to discuss. Thanks for reading!!2 points -
SOLD Here we have a as new Tribute L100 their take on a P bass. Lovely natural finish, 42 mm at the nut, C shaped neck, saddle lock bridge, D`addario strings, pretty sure it`s an ash body - the spec says alder but hey - weight 4.7 kg or 10. 3 lb`s. Looking for £295 delivered to mainland UK only or if you are local and want to collect with social distancing I`m sure we can work something out. No trades, I`ve got too much stuff. I`m pretty sure that it is the one they used on the Andertons video, the grain pattern looks the same. Any questions ask away.2 points -
Easily done with an MC6. You can even label the buttons via the display to say stuff like “chorus”, “distortion” etc.2 points
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75 Black Sabbath - Symptom Of The Universe.2 points
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I asked Adrian for a comparison of their surf v sea foam green as it looks the same on their configurator and he duly obliged with some photos. As it turned out I wasn't fond of either so went with the valley green instead. Maybe an email is worth a punt?2 points
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Made in Japan literally changed my life. Even today it sounds every bit as brilliant as the day I first heard it back in the 70's. It cost next to nothing to record and no overdubs. The so called 'porky' vinyl pressing listened to on a decent turntable is sonically astonishing, particularly when compared with much of what is released nowadays. Have to say that other than Purpendicular, the Morse era has had little to offer IMO. Gillans voice has been shot for many years now, but at his peak he was astonishing.2 points
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Welcome. I worked in Stevenage for years. A building called antelope house i believe it’s now flats? Lock your wallet away before going into the for sale section!! 👍🏻2 points
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Just put on second coat2 points
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Hondo Deluxe Series 830 Matching Headstock - £179 shipped Mainland UK. No trades please. I think it dates from 1983 if I'm reading the serial number correctly. I also believe the pickup may be a Di Marzio DP122. Weight 4.3KG. A few bumps and scrapes fitting in with the age of the instrument. Looks to be a lovely 1 piece maple neck. Replacement tuners Gotoh, though some 2 have the tabs missing and 1 x extra hole drilled per per tuner into the headstock. Small superficial lacquer cracks on both sides of the neck pocket. Some small amounts of lacquer missing on the underside of the fretboard - see last photo. A decent, vintagey P bass for not too much cash.2 points -
Looks like a blue ghost that is very happy to have escaped.2 points
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I have plasterboard walls too mate. I used the metal plasterboard fixings and they are solid. As I said, they have been hanging for years and I regularly take them down to play them, so they are getting well used. No problems at all.2 points
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Something for Chris Cornell and Audioslave fans here:2 points
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I’m not ashamed to say that this will be a faker. Being a leftie I’ve had a lifetime of music shops with zero guitars for me. This is why I started to make my own. Granted Fender have now started to make the Player Precision, but for yonks all that was available was the Jazz. I want a Roger Walters (tribute) Bass. Not available in leftie. Do Fender make a left hand maple neck that I could buy? Nope. Hence the faker decal on my own neck. Not trying to deceive anyone other than myself 😉2 points
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Could never get into Zep or Sabbath but have always loved DP since a copy of 24 Carat Purple appeared in the house courtesy of my older brother. IMV Ian Gillan in his prime had one of the greatest voices in rock music. There’s an interesting read here that touches on why Purple never reached the same heights as Led Zeppelin. https://www.quora.com/topic/Deep-Purple-band?ch=10&share=1868d6a3&srid=D9y7G2 points
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Assuming the guitarist and drummer hadn't arrived yet, I would turn the volume down, all presets and buttons etc off, put all the EQ to 12 o'clock and take it from there. I wouldn't spend much time working on the sound. IMO rehearsals are to get the band stopping and starting together and to get the geography right, so thereabouts is close enough.2 points
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I did it for a year assuming it would thereafter be a lot cheaper but it was still very expensive. I liked the lessons but got way more from face to face with a tutor. That is nothing whatever to do with SBL and everything to do with the way I prefer to learn. Or as Ped would say, you can't not agree to disagree that it isn't not a good way not to learn to not learn.2 points
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While I agree those three were massive, Zep was always seen as not really a heavy metal band, Sabbath's legend was kept alive partly by Ozzie's continued fame. I wonder how much Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow and Whitesnake helped to bury Deep Purple? And then before you knew it metal was redefined and they were just another bunch of old guys past their sell by. Odd how it can happen. They sound more prog than metal to me now.2 points
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There's one of the red ones on ebay for £25 posted. Seems a no brainer at that price.2 points
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It's on the other side of the board - TC Polytune 2 Noir. If you mean the pedal closest to us, that's an early 1st batch valve EF86 pre-amp called the Edison by Night Owl Industries (NY, USA). https://www.nightowl.industries/edison-preamp2 points
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I like Scott...I've met him a few times and he's always been approachable and friendly. I've found the free stuff he posts on YT really helpful. I would have loved to have had access to somebody like Scott 30 years ago. As somebody who's unlikely to ever earn any sensible money from playing bass I'm not going to dive in but I can see that somebody who's on the way up and motivated could easily get their moneys worth from his courses. Good luck to him...2 points
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I know how much work went into it and think it’s a brilliant idea. Best of luck to him with it.2 points
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Basic mistake....everything's the wrong way round 😉😉2 points
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That is one sexy neck..2 points
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I’ve got a ‘66 P bass. It’s an absolute belter! It sounds amazing and is easily the best Fender P I’ve had. It’s had a refin but that’s about it. Will be my main gigging bass once we can actually gig again.2 points
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Great Fender Jazzbass 1973 with OHSC. Apart from the bridge pickup being replaced with a same but ‘75 grey bottom at some time it is 100% original. Very comfortable player, light, good balance, slim neck and low action. Nice growly fat Jazzbass sound. These early 70's Fenders have something different going on. And oh yes, the bass has some love signs but all works fine, including the trussrod.1 point -
It'll sand out, nobody will notice. 😉1 point
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It's kind-of another voice to the amp, I think. Leszek sent me this when I asked him about it a while ago:1 point
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This is one of the reasons I use a preamp pedal for my eq - only in my case it was unfamiliar amps at gigs rather than rehearsal rooms. Plug it all in, set the amp to approximate flat (12 o’clock on bass/mids/treble) then identify what needs removing - usually low end due to voicing on the speakers.1 point
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Trade with a stunning 6?1 point
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That teardrop-shaped s-p looks really classy!1 point
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Another fabulous instrument Andy! I know from experience the enjoyment of owning one (or two 😊) of your instruments but I can only imagine the satisfaction you must get from building them.1 point
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The other thing do is for a player to refine their technique so they don't hit strings inadvertently. Then they won't have to mute every string all the time.1 point
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According to Wiki: Sklar (also Sklyar), is a Ukrainian and Belorussian surname meaning "glassmaker",1 point
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Ebony neck !!?? never seen that. That bass must sound so clear and shiny, coupled with the barts and the special pickup placement, it must be a killer thing.1 point
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So I haven't had a Nanyo on the living room stand for a couple of months. I took mine into work where clients have had access if they want to learn. Lack of interest meant that I decided to bring this home. In the meantime the stand has been occupied by various Fender shaped basses - these have never been my favourite shaped basses. Uncased the Nanyo this morning - first thing I notice is the (lack of) weight. I can't be rrrsed to checked the weights but the difference is significant. Balance of the Nanyo is superb - they really did their homework when they first designed these. Sits perfectly on the knee, equally sublime on a strap. The neck - I remember how playable the necks on the Nanyos are - the profile is sooo right and the finish, courtesy of the work done on the bass by @Andyjr1515, means that I'm playing a paint free neck - the one thing that bugged me when it was painted. Usual tonal package from the Nanyo preamp/ pickups - again reminders of why I love these Basses so much. I have an Overwater preamp that I bought with the thought of replacing the existing one - don't think I need to - yes, the Overwater may be a "better" pre but there really isn't anything missing/lacking with the standard one. Clearly no need to swap them over (local luthier is locked down anyway). I'd also forgotten what a "looker" it is - aesthetically my favourite basses... It's like being reunited with a long lost friend - welcome home...1 point
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Bought an MXR overdrive from Adam. Great communication and very speedy delivery. Top lad.1 point
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Now for the ace up my sleeve. One of my all time fave live albums.... You wanna some bass... Oh the bass is so up front on this and I LOVE IT......... POW.1 point
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Just from the band name I knew you were from N.Ireland. Class!1 point
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