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What about putting an aluminium neck on an Epiphone? Then you could have an Epidural.

[quote name='daz' post='1164720' date='Mar 16 2011, 06:09 PM']cant find any pictures of 3 star jumpers anywhere.[/quote] Weren't they tank tops rather than jumpers?

[quote name='cocco' post='1156945' date='Mar 10 2011, 05:30 PM']Just googled 1987 bass guitar and I got a Kubicki ex-factor and a Thumb NT. What a great year to have been born![/quote] Coincidentally, I own an 87 Thumb NT. However, being born in 1957, I had to wait for 30 years to get a really good bass. 1957 - the year that Fender redesigned the foul-looking Tele-based Precision to the most-copied-of-all-time P bass shape that everyone knows The year that Rickenbacker introduced the 4000 which I find unplayable Gibson had been producing the EB-1 for three years by this time and for some reason actually continued to do so for many more years.

[quote name='Clarky72' post='1164929' date='Mar 16 2011, 08:21 PM']Hahaha!!! A 5 string body with a 4 string neck! Genius....[/quote] That's the 4 + 1 - 1 neck.

[quote name='Conan' post='1164469' date='Mar 16 2011, 02:53 PM']I'm not sure I understand why this subject engenders such strong feelings. It's not as though there needs to be a "do you hate fretless/fingerstyle/pick playing/distortion/five string basses...?" poll is there?[/quote] Slap is quite obtrusive though, so it needs to be used wisely.

[quote name='cetera' post='1162880' date='Mar 15 2011, 11:11 AM']I hit 40 this year.... and the daughters will ALWAYS be more interesting than their Mums... [/quote] I'm not so sure, didn't Gary Glitter say something along those lines?

Mike bought a double bass pickup from me - quick payment, good communications.

[quote name='LukeFRC' post='1157311' date='Mar 10 2011, 09:54 PM']is the body on your one ply?[/quote] [quote name='Bassassin' post='1157491' date='Mar 11 2011, 12:02 AM']Sadly yes it was![/quote] Surely one ply is good, it's when it's more than one ply that it's bad...

[quote name='Annoying Twit' post='1148764' date='Mar 3 2011, 07:12 PM']Triumph bass. "MIJ Gibson" it says. Copy it is. Interesting looking beast though. [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RARE-1970s-Vintage-LES-PAUL-TRIUMPH-BASS-MIJ-Gibson-/200582728172?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2eb3a989ec"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RARE-1970s-Vintage-L...=item2eb3a989ec[/url][/quote] 10 kg? [size=6]10 kg?[/size] What's it made of, lead?

At least they're matching socks.

I may be completely wrong, of course, but didn't Fenders of that vintage (and, indeed, the following decade or so) have their trussrod adjustment at the heel end (which was a right royal pain in the bum)?

[quote name='dougie' post='1160231' date='Mar 13 2011, 10:05 AM']Nothing unusual,an Ibby 800le,coincidendly ame color,model as erm,i already own.....yet im f***ing bidding and winning,wife stares as per usual n asks"why?",best excuse i can conjur...."not many people own a pair of these hun".....[/quote] Quit while you're behind...

[quote name='Lfalex v1.1' post='1160761' date='Mar 13 2011, 05:37 PM']If you need thumbrests, you either; need to alter your technique to compensate haven't got enough pick-ups in your bass Don't have enough frets (and a long enough neck to penetrate well into the body)[/quote] or you need another string so you can have a 34" thumbrest.

I had a Bass Collection and sold it because it was too light - I'd had a Hayman, a P, and a Thumb, and so was used to substantial basses. Cricket bat instruments are also pretty light.

By having an unobfuscated email address, you leave yourself somewhat open to spam. Have a look at [url="http://www.fingerlakesbmw.org/main/flobfuscate.php"]this email obfuscator[/url] as one of the ways to change that. Going straight from the home page to the "About" page caused me a certain mental grinding of gears as the home page is in the first person, whereas the "About" page is in the third person. As the site is specifically dedicated to you, rather than that being a biog in the context of a band, I'd suggest at least considering having the "About" page in the first person.

[quote name='chris_b' post='1153530' date='Mar 8 2011, 10:44 AM']The rule should be to put SOLD alongside the post title and leave the detail for others to view.[/quote] Agreed.

[quote name='Evil Undead' post='1155840' date='Mar 9 2011, 08:57 PM']Just wondering but does anyone here have trouble switching between 4, 5 and 6 strings?[/quote] No. I could use the 5 in one covers band but use the 6 so as to try and keep some mental agility, so I play 4 in one band (fretless, plus an Ashbory and an NS WAV-4, so I go from 18" scale length to 41"), 5 in another, and 6 in the third. Not using the 7 at the moment.

[quote name='Evil Undead' post='1115189' date='Feb 4 2011, 01:02 PM']Can anyone recommend brands to try? Preferably 35 scale[/quote] From what you said about necks, try the Peavey Grind and Peavey Cirrus (possibly the Millennium too). Schecters are also worth a look at.

Just bought some CDs and DVDs off Chris. Great to do business with, good communications, got here quickly and well packed.

Thanks 51m0n, I'll do some experimenting with all the available resources.

I've got a compressor button on my AX3000B, and I've got one on my Superduperfly. Will pressing both buttons be twice as good as pressing one? Time to pester 51m0n in here rather than on the For Sale forum, I think. I'm considering using compression (after all, if I do and it makes no difference to what the guitard hears, then it's him). At my disposal are a Korg AX3000B, an Ashdown Superduperfly, and a dbx 266XL (which would be the least ideal solution in convenience terms). The Korg has a compressor with sensitivity and level controls, and a limiter (which seems more like a better-featured compressor) with ratio, attack, threshold and level controls. The Superduperfly has the ability to access compressor ratio through the front panel and threshold, attack and release times through the editor program via USB. I suspect that experts on using compressors will be familiar with the dbx 266XL. Could I use either the Korg or the Superduperfly to compress my dynamic range somewhat, and would they be a reasonable solution, or should I really be looking at using the dbx?