Telebass

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Howdy, Timmyo!

[quote name='gilmour' post='58398' date='Sep 10 2007, 07:31 PM']I know it's a worry that it might get damaged, but I'd rather mine got damaged during testing than whilst I used it.[/quote] If the person testing is competent, and they are using proper kit, there's not even the passing possibility of it damaging your kit. At all.

Used exactly this amp for a year now - tremendous piece of kit!

Public Liability Insurance: If you're an MU member, you're covered. You also get £1000 worth of gratis kit insurance cover. Worth joining just for those two. PAT: Fully qualified electricians are usually the worst, in my experience, at doing the "down-rate the fuse" trick. I'm a fully qualified electronics technician, and also hold the appropriate C&G cert for PAT testing. The cert is a good thing to have, but can be got by someone with no other elctrical knowledge, which is rank insanity. I spent 3 weeks going round our factory once, upgrading fuses downrated by a fully qualified sparks who really should have known better. And Electricians, at that time, had no formal PAT test training anyway... And, what Homer said about venues - if they can't produce THEIR installation test certs, there's no need for yours either. And there is no, repeat no, legal requirement for anyone to have PAT testing done anyway. It was introduced in order that companies such as the one I worked for could shift blame for electrical accidents to the PAT tester, who takes full responsibility for initialling that label.

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It's all down to playing angles, strap length, etc. I play contoured and uncontoured Precisions, and have no problem. In fact, the square top of the Slab is a handy arm-rest!

Welcome, Federico! You are correct, the only way to relic a bass is 30 years of steady gigs!

Welcome! Coffin dodger? 28? No chance! Now, 54, that at least approaches being a coffin dodger! Still gigging, though!

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In a great many ways, though this is far from 100%, if properly used, the actual wood makes less difference than might be supposed. Although not directly related to solid basses, think of Bob Taylor, he of acoustics fame, who decided it was his skill, more than the wood, that made a good guitar. So he made a top-flight acoustic out an old oak pallet from his factory dumpster. The whole guitar is made from this! And it sounded awesome. Like most of these things, it matters less than you'd think. Further confirmation comes from the likes of Bob Benedetto, doyen of archtop builders, who has stated that close-grained spruce is almost always given the nod for tops, when, in actual fact, the closeness of the grain is of no practical importance. And if he don't know, who does?

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I'd really like a Precision with a neck by m. Vigier!

Good looking axe! Slightly OT...why do some think that Basslines is some sort of second string to SD? Basslines IS SD. Yiou cannot buy, for example, a quarter-pound pickup that [u]doesn't[/u] have Basslines on it. That is something I, personally, find irritating, but it's not a different brand

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T.B. Player, welcome! Although I confess I'm saddened that TB didn't stand for Telecaster Bass!

Welcome! Bienvenu! (I think I spelt that correctly...)

Welcome! I haven't been to la belle France properly since 1994. Time I paid another visit!

Oh yes. Now that I work in a guitar shop, I get to play many. Still not remotely influenced to move away from Leo's Finest! Even have a Squier now, and it, too, is a good bass.

[quote name='movwkd' post='47462' date='Aug 19 2007, 06:29 PM']i then removed the bridge and chucked that in my useless fender parts bin and put a badass 2 bridge on it ..[/quote] I cannot imagine what a Badass II is going to improve on a string-thru-body. Mass is meaningless, all you need is a good breakover. The stock bridge does that perfectly...