tauzero

Lyre.

Same here.

In 2015, Jeremy Hunt imposed a pay rise on them that was below what their pay review board recommended. From this arise (at least) three points: Junior doctors hate the Chancellor of the Exchequer The pay review board can be overridden Junior doctors have probably been treated the worst of any NHS staff in real terms pay cuts in the last 12 years A survey showed that 40% of them were looking to get out of the NHS. A third of them were going to try to work overseas, Australia being the favourite destination. One of my nephews is currently training to be a doctor. He intends to quit the UK - he wants to work in an English-speaking country as communicating in his first language will mean less risk of misunderstanding, so I expect he'll head off to Australia or New Zealand.

Somebody brought an HB 5-string Jazz along to a bass bash a while ago in Lie Cester (IIRC). Everyone who played it (myself included) was impressed by it. Ah, searching back 2015 Midlands Bass Bash, and @Annoying Twit who hasn't been seen here for six years. Correction, it was a PJ.

Really? I've handled carbon fibre and cf/glass fibre huggers for motorcycles (admittedly thin skins). The density of the cf/gf one was about the same as a soggy beer mat (ie if you made a beer mat out of it, it would be that weight). The CF one was about the same as a dry beer mat. Like I say, this was quite a thin skin, but the core would be a significant factor in the weight. The Basslab instruments come in at 2.9-3.2kg so they're definitely on the light side. The neck profiles seem a bit on the chunky side though.

We have one spindly folding lightweight one and one snow shovel. I only bother with the spindly lightweight one, the snow shovel (nominally Mrs Zero's) weighs a ton - admittedly it doesn't have the lightening holes drilled in the shovel section. I have also used it to put a tablet on, so it's not impossible to do that.

I'd be inclined to go with brass. A little heavier (I don't know if that's a better or worse thing tonally, my instincts say better but what do they know?) but it will take a higher torque on a bolt without stripping the thread, so it's a safer option if you might be a little heavy handed.

Set necks rather than bolt-on in this case.

The Ibanez EHB1265MS with Aguilar DCB pickups I bought earlier this year. Good to play and incredible clarity of sound.

Reviving this thread - I was going to do the spring removal mod on my Ibanez EHB as I hate the locking sockets. As I'm wireless 95% of the time, all they are is an annoyance. However, when I extracted the socket from the bass, I found that the locking mechanism wasn't secured by a screw but some sort of rivet - not Torx, not hex, not crosshead. So, given that drilling the rivet out is by no means guaranteed to be a solution as I don't know if the innards could then be re-secured, I went in search of the D-type plates. It turns out that blanking plate, or possibly XLR blanking plate, is the optimum thing to search for - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/324489814445 . So I just need a stereo jack socket (can't find one so that's another thing to order) and to drill a 10mm (I think) hole in the plate when it arrives.

Shame there isn't a photo of the entire instrument. I'm going to bail out, so it's good bye from me.

"The definition of insanity is reading TimR's posts and the definition of total insanity is arguing with him."

At the risk of repeating myself (because I'm repeating myself, it was actually about drugs: https://professorbuzzkill.com/einstein-insanity-qnq/

I notice that for some reason, TimR failed to apply himself to the first part of my post, to wit: "Nonono, the definition of insanity is reading TimR's posts and the definition of total insanity is arguing with him."

Reading a few pages on, it seems that Rickenbacker built accurate replicas of the 60s Ricks which included a weak neck joint as strings in the 60s were lower tension so that didn't matter (I'm paraphrasing John Hall here). So don't use higher tension strings (the gauges they mention as causing trouble seem like light gauges to me, and I normally use 40-60-80-100-130) or don't buy a Rickenbacker - buy a Chinese knock-off instead as they do a better neck joint.

Most effective when you add a small amount of imperfection into the tuning so they're not exactly an octave apart - not discordant, just beating quite slowly. This applies even more to mandolins and bouzoukis which are tuned in unison rather than octave pairs.

Once you get past 6 strings, most basses which aren't octave pairs have an odd number of strings. I say "most" because otherwise somebody is going to come back with an example of a bass with an even number of strings greater than 6, probably owned by Noam Chomsky.

It certainly was. There's a pair of Aguilar pickups and an OBP-2 preamp to go in it soon - I retire on Friday so there's no excuse for not doing it after that.

I'd like to change my previous answer from ABM to ETS.

ABM, I believe.

This merely adds weight to my contention that all basses should be offered with a headless option.

The tuners on my handmade (not by me) 6-string headless extend beyond the end of the body - it's not the end of the world.

DRUGS!!!! Oh sorry, it's not the Den of Iniquity thread.

Nonono, the definition of insanity is reading TimR's posts and the definition of total insanity is arguing with him. Once upon a time, someone said "the definition of insanity is repeating the same action, expecting a different outcome". This has been variously ascribed to Mark Twain, Albert Einstein, and probably Noam Chomsky. And as has been pointed out upthread, shuffling cards (or throwing dice, or tossing a coin) disprove it. It was actually about drugs: https://professorbuzzkill.com/einstein-insanity-qnq/

I've bought some basses after trying them, others I've bought online after making some effort to find out if they'll be OK for me - I don't get on with chunky necks, so that's the aspect I'm most concerned with. Bass Direct is in range for me, and I'll travel a couple of hundred miles for a bass or amp, so it's generally overseas sales that I don't get to check out at all. I've had a couple of Warwicks and an Esh Poseidon from abroad which were second-hand, and a number of Antoniotsais, and a couple of instruments from Thomann, so it's all seemed to work out OK so far.