JimBobTTD

Looks fantastic!

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When walking home after having my ears syringed I was baffled by a weird swooshing noise that seemed to be in sync with my footsteps... turned out it was air passing my ears as I moved. The sound of my front door key entering the lock was almost deafening.
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I remember that! Traffic was so loud that I yelped in pain and had to walk around with my fingers in my ears.

Excellent videos - thanks for the links. I find this stuff fascinating.

Regarding earwax...I had to have my ears syringed after I managed to lose almost all hearing. I had felt that there was too much wax in there and had tried to clean up myself. In the shower, I put my finger in there and scooped out lots of wax. I was, unknown to me, also pushing it further and further in. Within a week, I was almost stone deaf.

We tried putting in some special ear drops and then showering it using water but with no joy. I had to go to the doctor. By the time I was there, I was so deaf that underground trains entered stations in near silence. Needless to say, I had to be collected from the waiting room as I couldn't hear my name being called.

The doctor pulled out lumps and lumps of wax. The first one was brilliant - there was even a squeaking noise and a rush of cool air and I could suddenly hear again. "I can hear!" I said in excitement before the doc sharply told me to keep still.

I asked for a look at the wax (as you do) and, all in all, the lump from just one ear was the size of my little finger; a mixture of red, brown, yellow and green with flecks of black.

I left the surgery amazed. My ears had adjusted and now everything was painfully loud and remained so for a couple of days.

Excellent stuff!

Remember to take a pinch of salt with you when reading about woods and neck types. Dig enough and you will find someone talking about a dark sounding maple body or a heavy piece of swamp ash etc.

I have a neck-through bass made of mahogany and wenge with mahogany wings with a maple cap. I think this would be a great combination for a neck-through. It is a top of the line Ibanez from the mid 90s. I have another Ibanez with a bolt-on neck which, whilst being mostly the same, feels very different. I prefer the neck-through.

A 28" radius sounds uncomfortably flat to me. I believe that Ibanez do 12".

But to be honest, I think you should be talking to the builder about woods and construction styles.

Ooh...looks lush!

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Might need to edit it once I've actually done some more research, but for now I'm going with

[i]'To what extent have technological developments (and not genre developments) changed the sound of the electric bass in popular music since 1960?' [/i]
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...is something I would like to read.

Drop me a line if you need professional (i.e. amateur but with registered company) proofreading, depending on time constraints. MA in English, qualified to teach at Uni level and all that.

Is that a bridge pickup in the neck?

Very nice indeed!

Sweet!

Classy! Well done!

Oh my! Fantastic!

Lucky you!

I have a music room too. I like to have floor space and put as much as possible on the walls. Shelves, guitar hangers etc.

Phwoar!!!!

To stir things up a bit...

I can see how someone can feel insulted by a very low offer. It suggests that the seller doesn't know the value of the item and is a mug.

I have not had a very low offer on anything I have sold online, so I don't know whether I myself would feel this way. I had a stupidly low offer via phone once, but I said no and ended the conversation without feeling insulted.

Thanks boss!

Great pics - thanks. What type of filler is the brown gunky stuff? I'm having a hard time locating some rosewood-esque filler and am about to do this too.

Edit - never mind. It's in your other thread. PVC mixed with sawdust from the 'board. I was going to do the same and have a load of sawdust saved.

Very nice indeed - well done!

Someone posted a video of Franklin trying out his signature bass in the fretless bass in rock thread. Since then, I can't get it out of my head! I might try a five string version myself.

Fantastic!

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[url="http://www.davehallamps.co.uk/page29.html"]http://www.davehalla....uk/page29.html[/url]

brilliant valve pre/overdrive with a line in and headphone out too. It's my main DI and practice tool.
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I have one of these, but the headphone out is far too noisy on mine to be of any use. I occasionally use the DI from it to a small mixer and then the headphone out on that for quiet practice. But I mostly use a Line6 Pod. They come in all sorts of shapes and sizes and the marketplace here often has a couple up for sale. I used to have a Toneport (required a computer) which was great, but I find that the Pod XT Pro (rackmount) is better. It can be connected to a computer for easy patch editing but can be used by itself. It's a fantastic piece of kit.

Excellent! Great build info, great photos, idea, detail...excellent in every way. Congratulations!

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So why did you ring him then if it was a grand more?
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He was down the road!

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So he was right then? Agreed his is still a dick but you can see my point
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Well, both yes and no. The local market was flooded with similar cars (mileage, condition, age etc) all priced and selling at a grand less than he wanted. Furthermore, I have no real idea that he sold it at his asking price.

I fully understand market value and all that - don't worry!

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Some people are too eager to be offended. A polite 'no thanks' is all that's needed.
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Word. I offered a little over market price for a car that was advertised about a grand too expensive. The seller freaked out, accused me of insulting him, betraying him (?) and then emailed me later to tell me that he had sold the car at his asking price and without some of the extras he had offered me.

Then, to make it all the more amusing, he contacted me a couple of weeks later to offer me another car he had bought on the cheap. And he wanted too much.

[i][u][b]So do we all like the sound of a single payment for a one off advert and the option of a single yearly payment?[/b][/u][/i]

Of course - I suggested it yesterday morning in the other thread!