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Should sound good in both circumstances…. I would just add, I had a 121P combo with a rock/pop covers band many years ago, and found it lacking a bit, both in terms of headroom and tone. Beautifully made, light, a nice thing, but just not my sound, even with a NY121 extension cab it struggled to punch through. I do know though, that plenty of others have been really happy with theirs.

Definitely a possibility

Ok.. so I’m going to be honest…. I’ve had a mare. I used a water based stripper on the fretboard to remove the varnish that had been painted over it in its entirety. The stripper has been way more aggressive than I thought it would be, and has lifted the grain right across the fingerboard. It looks pretty horrendous…. and at this point I’m not sure where to go with it. I’m not defretting it and sanding it back, that’s way more involvement than I had planned….. although, it could use a refret….. sigh

Well I have a problem with regards to this….. My amp, an old Ashdown ABM EVO 2 combo, is my sound. Absolutely love it whatever bass goes through it. However….. we live in an upstairs flat…. we rehearse in an upstairs rehearsal room…… It’s an issue

Janek Gwizdala, afternoon workshop and evening gig last night in Nottingham. Beautiful bass tone from the Mattison bass, and fascinating to talk pedals and techniques. Just a shame there weren’t more bassists at the workshop. Such an amazing player, great night.

If you play with your fingers over the pickup, you get used to the feeling of the pickup beneath your fingertips. If you move in front of the pickup or between pickups, there’s a big hole where there’s no plastic to stop you. A ramp fills that hole, and gives a consistent distance under the strings all the way across it.

I think that whatever makes your instrument feel better to you, like a ramp or anything else, is absolutely a great idea. I must admit to buying a fret wrap, but as someone who pounds the roots and rarely goes above the 12th fret (in a live situation at least) I rarely use it.

Yep, I’m a ramp guy, I’ve made a few for my basses, including one for my fretless and one for my 5 string. I find having one super comfortable, and, makes me play more consistently too.

Thought I recognised that profile pic Welcome back

Could be knockoff , the seller thought it was a Kay, but didn’t know. But, yeah I don’t mind either way, it’s a bit of fun, if it ends being playable even better!

Yep, there’s a new (old) two saddle bridge on the way. Which hopefully will fit, although it’s had a couple of bridges on it by the looks of things. It’s also had a bridge cover at one point, and, yes, I can see the covered holes where the upper horn guard used to be. Yep, the pickups work, which is a bonus. Its meant to be a fun thing, not a full restoration back to its original state. It’ll probably end up with flats or tapes on it, for a full on old school vibe.

Yes, I’m ok with most things, but getting into removing fretboards is beyond my abilities. The main goal is to get it to function at this point …… although, predictably, once you start, you open a can of worms!! Right now there are worms everywhere!

I thought you might say that

Interesting truss rod alterations A new “bullet” truss rod nut ordered. Which will mean the neck will have to be removed to alter it, but…. finding the correct one for a sensible price isn’t easy.

Nice varnish….

So, I bought this, for not much money as my next project. I’m told it’s around 1970, but could be a year either way, no idea of the model, as there were so many. Badly re sprayed over Sunburst I would guess. I could strip it, but it’s plywood (I expect) and I can’t be bothered. I think the red looks ok from a distance. The pickups work, and the replacement string retainer on the headstock, that I ordered in advance, fits perfectly as you can see. I have the bushes for the tuners too. Some clown has battered the fretboard with varnish, so stripping that out is the first job. This could take a while. Any input from Teisco experts welcomed.

If you want to get into this DM me

Don’t take the pi55

It’s a discussion mate, don’t get on your high horse. It’s irrelevant when the act can’t do it any more?? Ha Ha, that’s laughable. That’s the exact point! That they can still do it. That’s why they become popular in the first place, because they could do something people liked. If they can’t do it anymore, they shouldn’t be doing it?? ****

I might have to try that

You should see me trying to eat peas on a fork, most of them end up on the floor…. I can still pound the hell out of a Thunderbird though

Almost always one, but I throw in ghost notes with my second finger quite a bit.

I’m 58, still gigging, still proud of our music and still deafeningly loud 😆 We have no plans to stop anytime soon, I guess until I just can’t sing the stuff anymore. I’ll be honest, there’s a couple of our songs from the 80s that I’m finding physically hard to sing, songs that when I was 18, were easy, but not any more. when the time comes, I’ll be too proud to struggle on through them, but again, I don’t rely on it to pay my bills, so I don’t have to.

This ^^ was exactly my original point. Its not about age, I’m 58 and still singing our original stuff. When my voice goes, I’ll have to stop. I understand that music isn’t my sole income, unlike someone “famous” who rely on the income. So I accept that it’s a difficult decision, but nevertheless, if you’re a singer who can’t sing anymore……. Maybe it’s more about genre? Maybe, as a rock guy, I see singers fronting metal bands who literally cannot hit the notes anymore. Maybe in other genres of music it’s less noticeable?