LukeFRC

thanks - your reviews of stuff are by far the best around - but really hard to find!

Mesa Walkabout Thunderfunk 750a GK 700rb but after years of searching I went back to the first one I had Hughes and Kettner QT600 - I love it

For good reason!

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I sold half of mine last month - it was liberating

I had a Japanese Precision '57ri - which got replaced with a big Fender logo early Squier JV '57 ri Given I've now gone full circle and am looking for a Precision bass again I should have kept one of them!

what a genius tool - why have I never seen one of these before? https://www.hosco.co.jp/en/luthier-tools/wrenches/h-trw.html

Basses with sustain would be easier to passably play after 6 bottles of wine?

If I were a harpist in the Canary Islands would ebay with an English language advert be in your top ways to sell? I I were posting a Harp from the Canary Islands would it really only cost double a bass at £200?

I emailed him for more pics of the 63.... Everything on both screams scam to me. For a start there’s not many cameras These days that can get as low Quality images

interestingly theres a "63" precision listed from the same spanish island https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1963-Fender-Precision-Bass/133538462183?hash=item1f178339e7:g:iZcAAOSwbFdffCjm

So we had a cable running to our garage- electrician hooking up power to our outhouse so I ask: can you quote for lights and power in the garage, and if the cable is good we do that too. so he spends a day installing lights, plugs, breaker box in the garage - then tests the cable to find it’s bust ... 🤦‍♂️

I got the Edifer version of the PJB headphones. Arrived broken so exist held together by electrical tape now. If they are the same they are good buy at the Edifier price and not so much at thePJB price. With the refund I bought a cheaper secondhand set of AKG K249DF which are a lot better (though not really in the same league)

U ok hun?

That is either the cleverest idea ever of the most stupid!

talking of flawed physics... noticed how purveyors of higher mass bridges suggest they both allow the vibrations to be better transmitted into the body, and also decouple the body from the strings vibration... at the same time!

but if you were modelling that energy, sustain in itself wouldn't be the main aim.... longer sustain would mean a longer lower peak ... which I guess would sound more compressed. A sharp punchy attack would use up more of the given energy... (probably flawed physics on display here.)

I think the more important quality is the attack envelop of the note -rather than the sustain, though they are linked. I used to have a Warwick streamer, lovely thing, and like a lot of well built thru necks could sustain for hours. But when I got it it had active MEC pickups the attack was so quick it could sound like a machine gun, it sounded like it wasn't sustaining at all... based on the attack of the note. When I put passive Bartolini in it the attack was more subdued and it sounded like it had a lot more sustain... even though it really didn't.

I got to try Walshy's '66 precision at the weekend. That was a mistake, I now want one Might need to be satisfied by a bravewood.

Problem is - Other than bro drivers there’s two ways you can go lightweight ... Use thinner Lighter panels or properly brace lighter thinner panels. so there’s part of me thinks that construction quality can’t be completely taken out of the equation in a conversation about weight

I was wondering how the shafts were long enough - very clever

https://www.taylorguitars.com/ebonyproject/