LukeFRC

[quote name='Beer of the Bass' timestamp='1357245791' post='1919893'] That does look good. I take it the Molotow paints are about as nasty as any other nitro and need a proper respirator? I'm sort of tempted to have a go at a telecaster body some time, but the faff of trying to find a suitable space and not make myself or anyone else ill puts me off somewhat! [/quote] define "need" .... Background.... my first degree was in sculpture... we used to do quite a lot of daft things using materials we shouldn't have used that way... so I guess you learn ways of not breathing in too many fumes. (there was a time late at night when spreading dope on a plane wing type thing I forgot... and didn't sleep much that day! So Molotow is graffiti paint and half designed to be used indoors, it also makes very little dust (ie less stuff in the air) you'll see all the pro graffiti guys wearing masks and I think if you used it everyday then you would. The first body was mainly sprayed outside... which as the weather went cold didn't really work.... I ended up in the basement! Not exactly good ventalation but I wasn't stupid about it and... well it's nice paint so you don't end up with red snot which you would with some paints. It's not nitro cellulose - but Nitro Alkalid which I think is a more acrylic based nitro - GREAT coverage (i.e. if you didn't want to sand back you could do it in one coat) and drys and behaves like nitro does. It will be interesting to see how it wears with time. I'm not expecting it to fade or decolour really. But for £3.50 a tin... it's great stuff and fairly idiot proof. Work somewhere well ventilated and you'll be fine. You prob know it but Underground Solution on cockburn st have them behind the counter.

[quote name='Mudpup' timestamp='1357238318' post='1919669'] Good job - looks great! [/quote] [quote name='gub' timestamp='1357241121' post='1919756'] Nice ! [/quote] [quote name='kevin_lindsay' timestamp='1357242360' post='1919792'] Looking good! [/quote] [quote name='DarkHeart' timestamp='1357246661' post='1919918'] Looks good! [/quote] [quote name='Mark Dixon' timestamp='1357342419' post='1921519'] Love the colour! [/quote] thanks guys!

Another option... get another G&L L2000 and stick a new body on it with Jazz pups- If that is the neck that feels "home" for you then maybe that's the answer? (second thought, how close to a jazz sound can a L2000 get, you can do single coil can't you?)

[quote name='thisnameistaken' timestamp='1357387890' post='1921902'] I think that guy's most obvious problem was that he was a bit of a knob. I've met a lot of guitarists who know very little theory but still behave like that. I don't think knowledge is the issue here! [/quote] Aye a knob - but I could deal with that - it was the lack of understanding at how a "wrong" note could even be considered - he obviously knew enough music theory to try and teach me why I was wrong (which I already knew) but not enough to comprehend a dissonant note!

[quote name='lowdowner' timestamp='1357333277' post='1921365'] I'm glad I don't fit that description, but many do and it seems a little harsh on them... each to their own... who are we to judge? Back to the topic - erm, surely a Warwick Thumb 4 Bolt-on? I can't think of a more iconic bass... not their 'top' model, but perhaps one of their most distinctive? Obviously I'm biased [/quote] I think any "classic" warwick will be a neck through - made in germany, probably before 1992-94 and depending how good the new ones are after whatever point they went up market again.

is that you singing along there or just moaning orgasmically?

I know a bit more theory than the OP, but not much more. I can memorise a lot less than 200 songs (having the chords written down makes you lazy!) But I can pick up a bass, listen to a song and come up with parts that work and are right and good. And folk seem to like my playing. So I think I'll call myself a musician. Plus a little theory can be a bad thing. Years back in my first band I couldn't make a gig - so a friend of a friend dep'ed for me - that band was mostly really really simple lines and he turned up and wanted to add double thumbing on a song, and could play all this stuff that was technically way beyond me - obviously he had a bit of theory behind him. We had one song where... well the bass was playing the "wrong" notes I think it was something like the keys was on this pattern in some form of A major and the Bass in a pattern based around A minor or something - can't remember exactly - but what it meant was you had these two shifting melodies and you had dissonant tension and release- and I thought it sounded great! (it did) This fella couldn't cope with the "wrong" notes and dissonance so of course had to tell me it was "wrong" and put it all in the major key - hence the song didn't work!

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1357335481' post='1921403'] Technically, they do ;-) [/quote] make a difference or a massive difference?

what doesn't look right about it?

shove more stuff underneath it.

A good mexican (if you find one) can be as good as an american. Having said that the US vintage reissue series is pretty special.

I have tried both high and low mass bridges.... and a lot of the time I don't think they make a massive difference. My preference is for the sound of the normal fender bridge rather than the more decoupled sound of a high mass bridge- but that's just my preference. Where I think they are a massive upgrade is on cheaper basses - I stuck a high mass (badass sort of size/weight) on a friends squier PJ bass- it took a dull sounding bass and livened it up no end. On a already good sounding bass I think it's less of an upgrade.

[quote name='harleyheath' timestamp='1357291248' post='1920332'] sounds about right!! an yh I think Alembics an status could be banged in place of the streamer? [/quote] Yeah- I stuck alembic on there and then took them off. Mainly because apart from music only bass players listen too I couldn't think of one Alembic player. I guess John Entwhistle?

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1357244580' post='1919857'] In my opinion... I'm not convinced that everything on this list would be considered a "classic". I think that for something to be considered a "classic" it would have to be easily recognised by Joe Public, not only by Bassplayers - not sure that the Warwicks, MM Rays or the Peavey have done that [i]yet[/i]. [/quote] ahh but the James Jamerson defence says just cos Joe Public hasn't heard of him doesn't mean he isn't a classic....

Luke's list of classics.... Fender Jazz Fender Precision Rickenbacker 4001 Stingray (2eq) Stingray 5 G&L L1000 Warwick Streamer Stage 1/Spector NS (controversially I would say warwick is the more "classic" version of Ned Steinberger's design, at least this side of the pond) Warwick Thumb NT 5 Gibson EB Gibson Thunderbird Hofner Violin Peavey T40 Beyond that there are the Wal/Steinberger/Jaydee 80's stuff, and some quite cool stuff from Gibson in the 70's but none of it would be classic I think.

should be fairly easy fix - I can't imagine they use high spec parts. Only thing may be how do you get to it? hopefully not through the F hole....

[quote name='Horizontalste' timestamp='1357229590' post='1919447'] Looking good, well done. [/quote] cheers! It was fun - turns out it's a kinda nitro I used - cheaper than "guitar nitro-cellulose" though!

[quote name='Rick's Fine '52' timestamp='1357207641' post='1918981'] Looks good Luke, you know it needs the chrome covers though! [/quote] was tempted... but the best sound is either a smidgin in front of the neck pup or over the bridge so they would get in the way!

Finished - been meaning to stick photos up for a while. My other half calls it the tomato soup bass... as you can see why! [IMG]http://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee497/LukeFRC/DSC00686_zps2d53f603.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee497/LukeFRC/DSC00687_zps10c43a40.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee497/LukeFRC/DSC00688_zps3f75b6bb.jpg[/IMG] you can see the bit where the bridge went on in the wrong place. oops. [IMG]http://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee497/LukeFRC/DSC00689_zpsa880e52c.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee497/LukeFRC/DSC00690_zpsfaedf3e3.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee497/LukeFRC/DSC00692_zps9db9f8be.jpg[/IMG] the red goes well with the vintage white and the chocolatey brown of the fretboard

I can see ol'bluey

why don't we all just tune the 4 strings BEAD and see what happens?

I had one bass. needed a P bass so bought that. Sold my first bass to buy a Warwick which I had wanted for ages. So had two basses. Picked up a variety of fretlesses and jazzes and stuff just to try. Didn't cost me much and I could try something new and sell it for normally the cost of a cinema ticket.