Mr. Foxen

Going to pick this up today, managed to blow up one of my 15s before last gig, so its needed. Excited.

Kay with a BIN. [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Vintage-1970s-Kay-Copy-of-Iconic-USA-Bass-Guitar-K-20B_W0QQitemZ160292875842QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item160292875842&_trkparms=39%3A1|66%3A2|65%3A10|240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14"]160292875842[/url]

Been thinking of a new bass player phrase for situations involving the whole wear on your bass debate; 'What would Jaco do?', he'd play rounds on his fretless cause it sounds good, then go and forget which side of the stage his tech was waiting to catch his bass and throw it over the amps on the wrong one. Your doing well to play enough to wear something out.

As with anything, its value is whatever someone will pay for it. Think one went for around £300 here, but might have been a different rating or something. Think its a good one to have. If you can get it for current sorta rate - repair cost, and play and use it for a few years, you are likely on a winner if you want to move it on then.

Wnever I've bought a bass on ebay and expected postage, I've sent a set of instructionson packing it. Basically, I use the 'I'm totally cool with you unbolting the neck if you are happy doing that' and if they aren't they'll be glad enough of some packing tips, licke slacken the strings and cover the machine heads in their own box. Have recently added don't used shredded paper or crumbled polystyrene as a packing material, as I got one in a gig bag delivered to work in a box, and figured it would be easier to take on the bus in just the bag. Spent my whole break tidying that up.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='307720' date='Oct 16 2008, 10:56 AM']It doesn't change static string tension but it can slightly change the feel of the string when playing by reducing the compliance of the string (due to the windings round the post compressing and/or the strings round the post stretching). I noticed a significant change in feel when going from a headless Steinberger type bass to a conventional bass, despite matching scale lengths and strings. Alex[/quote] Would that be the same sort of difference felt with through/back stringing and reverse headstocks?

I'd totally have left the scorch marks on, so when some venue stuff has a moan about you fiddling about with socket testers you can go 'See this?'.

Got a 5 string one, everything is great except the being a 5 string.

Degrease bottom of pedals before sticking it on, ensures good stick, I wiped mine with meths, but some rubbery bottom stuff dissolves a bit in it. Whats the deal with the terrible string winding on the Bass Day ad?

OK, not last night but Saturday, was waiting for photos. Woke up horribly hung over having been stressing about the gig and gotten really drunk. Tried to practice to the recording and was rubbish, fell asleep and was woken by drummer saying he was on his way. Threw my stuff together and was off. Venue is tiny and my 2x15 is dwarfed by a huge Sunn guitar stack. Chipper, set to play before us had some tech difficulties with he laptop, so soundman/drummer mic'd her up to join our set with some improv. I didn't fluff anything major, pretty pleased in the end, nearly lost my headstock on the pump that gave the venue its name though. This is only pic with me in, thanks to some random blogger: [url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_x6fzq_Hk3fg/SPJgbQ6Nd0I/AAAAAAAABZY/GI1CSzF44UU/s1600-h/c2.jpg"]No hotlinking[/url]

[quote name='Bassassin' post='305153' date='Oct 13 2008, 12:17 AM']Oh, I do like that mock 4000 that Ash is selling. That's probably about the only way you could make a Fujigen Faker look halfway convincing! And here's one y'all missed, just finished today and my jaw is still on the floor... [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=120312992469"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=120312992469[/url] Just goes to show what a feeding frenzy there is for anything remotely Rick shaped. Or maybe it's the way "he" sells 'em... J.[/quote] I was all copied ready to paste into this thread before I noticed a familiar name.

[quote name='bassaussie' post='305277' date='Oct 13 2008, 10:32 AM']As I think you suspected, that IS the bright box. Not sure why the seller has referred to it has a "horn box". Maybe that's how it makes him feel. [/quote] Might have a new nickname for my favoured lady.

Other option, if you sometimes use tone all the way down is to have a push/pull to turn tone all the way off. I added a j pup to my p bass, but put it in the neck position, balanced about right there, but the hum thing was annoying.

Recall some fuss being made about someone being after one of these. [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/trace-elliot-horn-box_W0QQitemZ260299579752QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item260299579752&_trkparms=39%3A1|66%3A2|65%3A10|240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14"]260299579752[/url]

More time spent finshing would defeat the point and make him the same as every other custom bass maker. There is nothing stopping you setting the intonation as the bridge is floating, bit like some Carl Thompson fretlesses. If you order one finishing is an optional thing, and you are much better off doing it yourself, paying a luthier to sand is poor economy. I put a chunky metal bridge on mine and it totally killed it. Just sounded like any other fretless, lost all the woody thunk. And the wood seems plenty hard enough to deal with the strings, no much issue there, was gonna drop washers in the holes, but ~I looked and it was fine.

Whats going on with the neck heel?

Saw them post Caricatures practice in the Reckless Engineer. They had a proper band argument, and had a load of kids about apparently doing work experience as road crew. Then the played ridiculously loudly considering both the dozen people there and the fact I'd just been locked in a small room playing our stuff for 4 hours, so it must have been loud for me to even hear.

Old guitarist put them in his Mexi-strat, sounded better, but still sounded like a sucky guitarist playing tired blues licks.

[quote name='man_at_arms84' post='302566' date='Oct 8 2008, 09:56 PM']By the way, your band kicks arse. Just had a quick listen. Where you from?[/quote] Cheers. Based in Bristol, but singer and drummer live in Bath, and guitarist lives in Weston-Super-Mare. Not so sure about revealing my Ebay secrets, struggling to keep a step ahead of Joe Garcia when it comes to scoring parts of giant bass rigs.

[quote name='escholl' post='302172' date='Oct 8 2008, 02:06 PM']how do you figure that? [/quote] Contact area innit, same as my the badass is big and machined at the bottom.