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    I have no idea how the HB is so weighty. Its a Jazz in natural finish, black scratchplate, a copy of the Fender 75 J I believe, Luckily I only use it for 3 songs in my current set ( 4 if the drummer gets in a bit too quickly with the intro to "Sat in Your Lap" ) but even that digs in to the old shoulder a bit. Im seriously thinking of routing away some wood underneath the scratchplate to try and lighten it a bit. Anyone know the pros and cons of such an exercise?
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    Me and the wife stopped at the services recently for some breakfast. We got two fry ups, two coffees and two jam doughnuts. I got to the cashier and I said, "I'm sorry, love, but I only have a £50 note." "That's okay," she said, "just put the doughnuts back."
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    Oh yes, I was VERY shocked to see my HB come in at 7.9kg
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    I rather like mine, but need to invest in a reinforced shoulder
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    Here we have an OLP Stingray in natural. I bought this as a bit of an experiment, I favour slimmer necks than this offers though. Condition is quite good, a few buckle rash dents in the back but none that peirce the lacquer. the control plate edge has lost a little of its chrome plating, but still looks great. (pictures show no strap buttons - it does have these, I took em off for cleaning) Im after £160.00 Ideally Id like to say collection only, but I will .post the at the buyers cost. Im based in South Devon, near Lyme Regis Overall, a great looking bass at a decent price. [url="http://s392.photobucket.com/user/sprocketflup/media/005_zps2d5c9cc1.jpg.html"][/url] [url="http://s392.photobucket.com/user/sprocketflup/media/004_zps107ac499.jpg.html"][/url] [url="http://s392.photobucket.com/user/sprocketflup/media/003_zps94882e6c.jpg.html"][/url] [url="http://s392.photobucket.com/user/sprocketflup/media/001_zpsb291b029.jpg.html"][/url] [url="http://s392.photobucket.com/user/sprocketflup/media/002_zps2aae04da.jpg.html"][/url]
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    A bloke threw his coat behind me and asked me to look after it mid song. "Sure" I said "Im not doing anything else right now...."
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    Hi Im after doing a bit of fret crowning/levelling, can anyone recommend a decent file or set of and where to get them please? Ta
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    I have an affinity PJ and am well impressed with it. that Jazz may have to go on my list as the HB jazz I bought (identical) weighs the same as a small town
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    I had chance to noodle with an Ibby recently and fell in love with it straight away. Was hoping the shop would do me a deal for cash but it wasn't to be, so a bit more saving required. But yes, I think my decision is made, thanks for the input everyone
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    So the time has come to replace my home-made b*st*rd fretless. Current model was a five string Westfield, which I defretted with a JCB and lost the saddle on the lowest string so it plays as a four now. Large gap up top of fretboard lol It has served me well, but Id like something a bit nicer. Im looking for a 4, I have a preference for slim necks, my current bands output requires that the fretboard has a 2 octave span. (yes I know I could do away with that by having a C string on a fiver but Id like to stick with 4 strings for now) Ive narrowed it down to 2 so far, the Ibanez SR700 Portamento and the Spectorcore fretless 4 that Bass Direct had in red maple sunburst. Neither of which Ive tried, tho I may have chance tomorrow to noodle on an Ibanez. Anyone tried either of those basses can offer some pros and cons? Or offer up any alternative suggestions? thanks
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    Hi Monckyman, maybe a daft question but how are the necks on these please? wide? thin? shallow or deep
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    My fave ST album is Join the Army but not sure if Robert played on that
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    The Art of Rebellion is a cracker
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    Industrial noisemakers Whitehouse aren't industrial noisemakers at all. A blown circuit board in the engineers desk meant there first album, which was years in the writing and months in the making turned out like so much white noise. Angered by this, they decreed that all their recorded output should be thus. In German.
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    [quote name='chriswareham' timestamp='1421938152' post='2666835'] Wait until you see the warts I'm genetically engineering in my [s]garden shed[/s] laboratory. [/quote] Just cut rice Krispies in half and superglue them on
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    The artist formerly known as Prince is well known to be a little vertically challenged. A friend of Snow White, if you will. Anyways, truth is, and you can tell if you look really closely, he sold his lower legs from the knee down to fund his way through college
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    the rapper Ice T is of course the b&st&rd child of Booker T and Vanilla Ice
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    yip. Have you not heard his rendition of Cone-caine? White room was written about a particularly harrowing episode when his Mr whippy machine exploded, splattering its contents just about everywhere
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    That may have been Clacton :/
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    Expressive art hairdos Milli Vanilli now rather ironically run a small kiosk on the sea front at Margate selling candy floss
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    3hr rehearsals? pftt lightweight nice jazzer Moo, if I had the dosh Id have it, sadly not tho glws
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    was toying with buying that myself. As said above, not usually a fan of headless basses but that really is a cracking looking bass. Nice one fella
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    I have my beady eye on one of these.....
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    The Bombay Bicycle Clubs bikes all have no seats - none of them can sit down after eating them spicy potatoes all the time
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    [quote name='sprocketflup' timestamp='1416145633' post='2607295'] Got one of these winging its way to me, Ill weigh it when it arrives. [/quote] ok, im a bit of a slacker lol weighed it today and it came in at 7.9kg or 17.41 lbs. its fairly weighty, you feel it after a while. Im actually toying with the idea of taking the scratchplate off and routing some material away underneath it just to make it a bit lighter, how do you think that would affect the tone? Its actually a really nice bass, im well chuffed with it, and I reckon it looks the absolute dogs ball-locks, but then ive never really been a 'label' kind of a guy. Goes well with my George Atasda clothes
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