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That sounds pretty good actually.

Union Gap. Pacemakers.

My guitarist and drummer voted to leave.

Oops. Sorry.

20th Century Blues Robin Trower Why is it that civilized humanity Can make the world so wrong? In this hurly-burly of insanity Our dreams cannot last long. We've reached a deadline, A press headline, Every sorrow. Blues value is news value Tomorrow. Blues Twentieth century blues Are getting me down. Blues Escape those weary Twentieth century blues. Why, If there's a God in the sky, Why shouldn't He grin High Above this dreary Twentieth century din? In this strange illusion, Chaos and confusion, People seem to lose their way. What is there to strive for, Love or keep alive for, Say, 'Hey, hey!' Call it a day? Blues Nothing to win or to lose,…

I am of that era and I hated A Whiter Shade of Bucket then and I still hate it today. I do however love Conquistador.

I make things out of acrylic every day and know how strong it can be used correctly but I wouldn't hang my bass from one of those without expecting it break at any time.

I don't because you can guarantee that once you've set everything up for an F/X loop the next amp you buy won't have one. It's a bit like home stereo, when you change the amp all the inputs and speaker outputs will be different connectors.

Nothing wrong with that.

After suffering them since the 60s I can't stand any of them anymore!

Most excellent. Thanks.

Thanks. I searched for a couple of hours this afternoon and only found the ‘continued’ thread.

I've been trying to find the Basschat 12” cabinet diary posts but without success. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I was thinking of building one or two while we can't go out and play.

I'd try to get a used Roland kit if possible.

Haven't watched it but thought it might be interesting. Questioned them paying as high as £100 for a live band? I might question the pubs as to why they are charging so much for a pint.

I've got NewTone 50 - 110 on mine.

I saw a lefty in green at Anderton's and bought it. Not a bad bass at all, me thinks. Changed the strings for Newtone and it sounds and plays a lot better. I've not been able to play it loud yet, and probably not in the foreseeable future, and the string spacing is taking some getting used to, but I'm liking it a lot!

Wow! Drummer using Pro Tools, our drummer can't even use, or own a smart phone and doesn't do emails, only snail mail. He occasionally answers the land line though.

Love the song and the video. Excellent!

There's no such thing!

The simple answer is no, it won't follow the radius of the neck. All the fret slot cutting videos I've seen show a cut straight across the fretboard whether it's radiused or not and it would seem from the replies above that the jury is out on this one. All the fret cutting jigs that I've seen, that are available to buy, only cut a flat slot.

Sorry for the tardy reply but I've been a bit busy. In my enthusiasm to post I'd assumed that what was in my head would have been easily understood by all, however, what is is in my head is quite often not understood by even me so my apologies for not explaining properly. To answer your questions, A couple of reasons really. The laser only cuts a slot 0.1mm wide so although the slots would be perfectly spaced they'd still need opening up with a saw, also, although the laser in a precision machine in operation, setting the work pieces in place isn't, so a great deal of trial and error is involved getting things square. This isn't a problem normally but if I wanted to cut fret slots square to a fret board, I'd only know if I'd got it right after it's finished cutting. Secondly, The varying density of the wood being cut effects the cut which means that it is not uniformly consistent over the whole piece of wood, so a hard bit of wood in the middle of a fretboard would result in a slot being less deep than the others and could even end up burnt. I have used the laser to cut a fretboard for the long term P bass that I'm making and here's a photo of the results. When I say P bass, I don't mean precision I mean Pallet, as in made from pallets. If I eventually finish it I'll post its construction. To answer the other questions, here's a photo that hopefully illustrates the principle behind my thinking. That's not actually a fretboard, it's just a bit of wood that I had laying around.

When I've made basses before, to cut the fret slots, I've used squares and various blocks of wood to try and get the slots square and vertical. This worked OK but was time consuming. Now I have the urge to make a couple more I got to thinking, is there a better way? I could perhaps buy a mitre jig but they are a tad expensive or perhaps I could make or buy a tiny table saw with a 1mm blade and then use a slotted rule for fret positions. That could take quite a while to design and build. So what to do? Having a laser cutter / engraver the obvious solution for me was to make one from 6mm thick acrylic. I calculated the fret spacing for a 30" scale and then designed the fret slot cutting jig this was transferred to the laser cut and cut out. The individual pieces were then glued together. Once the glue had dried, a quick pass through the band saw saw the jig nearly finished. The edges were sanded and polished to make it a little more professional looking and the finished jig looks like this. Just a quick buff needed to get rid of the excess glue marks. The jig sits over the fretboard blank. The fret cutting saw just fits in the slots and the acrylic being 6mm thick should hold the saw square. I'll let you know how well it works after I've tried it.

I use mine vertically on an amp stand. Sounds great.

If you want roundwounds get in touch with Newtone strings. They'll make you exactly what you want and they won't break the bank either.