LukeFRC

you're not missing anything. The guy selling may be...

[quote name='lettsguitars' timestamp='1347377921' post='1799972'] Spring off an old carlsboro head inplace of a truss rod. [/quote] genius! for your next trick... say I wanted that lesley revolving speaker sound... can you build one of them into a bass too?

Plate reverb bit screwed to the back?

built in reverb?!

[quote name='mybass' timestamp='1347364605' post='1799772'] The question was for a 'guitar shield'..I would never use a bass one ! [/quote] ah makes sense- I did wonder, but though with this being a place where well, we talk about basses a fair bit don't we?

[quote name='Shonks' timestamp='1347316270' post='1799371'] sorry, not sure what your getting at.......what are you saying? what's wrong with writing for the Gooners? best paid job I ever had, I produced it too. I had the whole team in Wessex Studios, it was quite a day. Of course my car was the cheapest in the car park... [/quote] COYS!

so as a shop they have a certain duty to sell things in good electrical knick don't they? whats the bets they havn't had it serviced, and cannae give you any guarantee that it will work, I wonder how much the price would come down if you start asking about the state of the tubes and the warrantee.... ?

This may be a silly question.... Drummers are loud, put a screen round them and mic them up. they can play like Keith Moon and not drown out everyone else Valve bass amps sound better louder, run them somewhere with screens at the front (and back?) and mic them to get the fully saturated valve guitar sounds. A bass amp... in most cases not so volume dependent.... why not just turn it down?

[quote name='gafbass02' timestamp='1347118929' post='1797166'] Sorry to hear that mate. Fwiw I returned a ray34ca for the same reasons. The neck/fretwork was a mess and no set up would fix it. Gutted..until With the same money I bought an early 90's stingray. [/quote] woo way to make the OP feel better!

Shonks, you've been around for a while. One of the family, I'm sure we've swapped PM's before (can't remember what about) and you seem like a good guy. Good to talk to. Then saw your resume. Now the great bass posing, that's not a problem. You wrote a song for the gooners

To the OP... if you're getting a bass made with two MM pups, and have a HH ray, what don't you like about the ray. The Warwick $$ secondhand may also be a cheaper option. [quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1347227842' post='1798358'] 'sweet spot'? I'm putting a MM pup in my home-made P bass this week, and from what I've read, the ideal place for the MM is 54mm from the G string saddle. Any advances before I start 'wood-butchering'? [/quote] search box on basschat.... search "pingray" made by our own resident genius.

[quote name='Raggy' timestamp='1347226132' post='1798332'] If it is a Shuker I can get the pups in exactly the right position and the neck profile I like. [/quote] If I were you I would talk to Osprey Guitars (AKA Ou7shined) as well as Shuker for what you're after....

why not just wait a few days?

bloody funny kind of jazz that

[quote name='funkypenguin' timestamp='1347148427' post='1797515'] Tell that to string players that use Stradivarius violins worth millions day in day out including flying all over the world. I buy an instrument to play it, irrespective of age (not that i have 20k to spend on a fodera, to my regret) [/quote] How many violin players play Stradivarius every day? Isn't this the same as a handful of top pros, Guy Pratt, Flea for a while etc gigging their early stack knob Jazz basses?

[quote name='Rick's Fine '52' timestamp='1347146081' post='1797498'] Exactly, but it would appear to some, that i should be playing my £20k P down the Frog & Fiddler, otherwise I'm offending the bass community, kept me amused for 5 mins anyway Luke! Oh, and you tearing down the road on a pushbike, with your JV in a bag on your back, still concerns me, you should let me keep it safe for you!! [/quote] I've stopped since you pointed out how daft it was for me! Not getting played as much now though, well thinking about it that may also have something to do with moving to a new city and not being in any bands. anyway, you're moving your JV's on. mine would feel left out!

[quote name='Rick's Fine '52' timestamp='1347145770' post='1797494'] Same thing as i said to funkypenguin. I don't think[i] your [/i]attitude is very real at all. You obviously don't own a £20k bass. [/quote] no but he's got a pretty tasty looking red jazz bass

[quote name='Rick's Fine '52' timestamp='1347143369' post='1797466'] People can do what they want with their stuff, I'm sure they have others they play. If, by keeping them, it means others can play these vintage gems in another 20 years time, then its fine with me. If someone had a rare, historical instrument, worth £15k, and played it at the dog and duck on jam night,that could get irreversibly damaged at any moment, then that would be a bigger crime to me. [/quote] but equally if I had £x thousand to pay and had to choose between an instrument sat in a hard case for 20 years in a loft, or one of yours sat in your house and played everyso often I know your one would be looked after and playable. Mind you when you get above a certain point playability isn't the point is it? you wouldn't buy a '50's fender to gig regularly (baring in mind for the last few years i've been carrying my bass in a gig bag while cycling.....

[quote name='wishface' timestamp='1347092826' post='1796828'] Thanks. I was under the impression that the break angle off the nut has to be as little as possible and that each successive string wind goes under the last so the string comes off the neck with as little bend or angle as possible into the tuning peg. the gapp between the 12th fret and the E, with the 1st and 24th fretted is about 1mm at most. [/quote] nah, it's the other way, a bigger angle at headstock and bridge is better. you want as much winding down as possible. so as you wind it on wind it down- as Mcnach says it stops ratteling and also helps with the string tension. Try winding the E string with the wrappings going down- my guess is it will sort out your flappy E string a fair bit. To set the intonation.... when the strings are at tension they push down on the saddles - thats why they don't move easily. I always find loosening the string makes it easier to move without toomuch force when setting the tension. I would recomend loosening the tension, moving the saddle then tuning up, repeating till it's spot on. If you look online you can get a computer based tuner for free somewhere to help you set it correctly. Don't forget everytime you move the saddle you'll have to retune the string!