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[quote name='Diablo' timestamp='1399052723' post='2440547'] It only works properly if you are in a rocking chair, drinking moonshine, and have less teeth than banjo strings. [/quote] And a pet Alligator on a length of string. One day... One day...

It looks as though there used to be a tweeter fitted which, along with the port, would explain why the brace doesn't go all the way up.

I've just remembered. The only Fender instrument I own is a Banjo. So now where do I stand?? Am I now UltraHipster or UltraUncool? Anyway, I'm off down the river to see if I can find a fat man to bugger.

He could probably double the asking price if he took and angle grinder and a blow torch to it...

But I like looking at stuff I can't afford (which is everything...) and I wouldn't want to have to sign in anonymously for fear of being shamed! Perhaps the different sections could require different passwords, made up of either your annual income or your monthly mortgage payments?

Planning on putting together my own board this year and I want to make some simple, but useful, pedals of my own. A looper, amp switch pedal and an effect order switcher. The order switcher is nice and simple. I am sure that if you didn't want to make one for yourself then there would be a company that would make one for you. I found this diagram for it. Thought I'd mention it in case anyone might find it useful. The hardest part might be finding a 4PDT footswitch, but if you're not bothered about the indicator LEDs then you can get away with a 3PDT switch. Which would mean you wouldn't have to power it, too.

[quote name='HowieBass' timestamp='1398958516' post='2439458'] Ummmm, before I did my art degree course I did a degree in astronomy at UCL (way back in the 70s) and at the end of the second year we each made a small metal cannon... a turned steel barrel, brass carriage, steel wheels... had to learn how to use a lathe, make some pieces accurate to a few thousanths of an inch, even made our own threaded brass bolts - in the years prior to my course they even bored out the barrels, put black powder in and fired them! [/quote] That's something I would love to make, a tiny, ball bearing firing cannon, ever since I saw one on mythbusters, in the same episode that they make one from gaffa tape.

I can't remember what it's called, but you can also get modelling clay that sets, without a kiln, like wood and can be carved like wood once it is set. And there's Sugru, which is similar to Polymorph but sets like rubber. http://sugru.com/about That's really popular on the crafting channels that my wife likes to [s]drool over[/s] watch.

[quote name='surfguy13' timestamp='1398957173' post='2439439'] What an absolutely brilliant product! I really wish I'd known about this for loads of jobs. I reckon it would be relatively easy to make a mould into which this stuff could be pressed. The best bit is that it can be re-heated if you need to tweak it. I think I'll get some anyway! Another excellent idea.......we have Cambridge just up the road and there's nothing but colleges! One of our neighbours is a teacher at a secondary school and [i]I think [/i]he teaches metalwork, or engineering or something like that so maybe he could get a class to do a project?! Why not, it's worth an ask. Thanks again...... [/quote] I only discovered Polymorph for myself recently. My mind instantly flooded with ideas for it, however my main project that I am concentrating on will require metal work. Speaking of, I wish, wish, wish we had had a metal work course at secondary school. We had woodwork, and an electronics class that consisted entirely of playing with technic Lego. I went on to do electronics at a local college. I keep thinking to myself that if I ever had the opportunity to do a college course again I would do metal work. I can make stuff with it but it is all very amateurish, lacking elegance, would love to learn how to do it properly.

[quote name='HowieBass' timestamp='1398955765' post='2439412'] OUCH! Time to get creative then - before I looked for a company to make a cover for you I'd been wondering about vacuum forming - I did an arts degree course at Salford University and we had access to a vacuum forming table... the device heats a sheet of plastic up and then you can mould it over a suitable former on a vacuum table (which could be a shaped block of wood made to the size you need a bridge cover to be). You might think about getting in touch with your local FE colleges or universities and ask if they can help (maybe make it a project for one of their students even LOL). Or even seek out a local car repair shop and see if a panel beater can fashion a metal ashtray for you? [/quote] We had one of those in school, I loved it. I would love to own one myself, my whole house would be made of plastic!

There's a product called Polymorph. It is a plastic that comes as beans and you heat it up in water, then model it to whatever shape you want then leave it to cool and set. Maybe you could use that if you can't find something suitable to cut up as an alternative? http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/250g-polymorph-n14at

I haven't liked fender since before.. Erm, before... Oh crap, I'm rubbish at this hipster stuff.

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1398944953' post='2439246'] Which is why I suggest moving your pick hand nearer the neck (even just a few cm). My playing is similar to when I use a keyboard. Keep the wrist up. The forearm leaning on the body can give you ample stability. [/quote] But palm muting on the bridge is a perfectly valid technique. So why limit yourself when it is possible to either buy a bridge or alter one to be comfortable. I am a pick player and move around between the bridge and neck a lot, I wouldn't like to have the option of resting on the bridge taken away.

You could try your local hardware store first, cluttered, dusty and slightly musty smelling places are my favourite. Just take an example of what you're after with you, if they don't have it then they might know somewhere local that will. The best search results I get when searching for saddle screws come when I search for grub screws.

Can anyone explain to me why the idea of starting fresh with a genuine feedback thread is being ignored? It seems like an obvious plan to me, a way to move forward and for people to be able to leave and read the feedback they have been demanding.

Surely a feedback thread in the feedback forum with feedback from people with actual experiences would be a far more appropriate way of going about it? That thread was in the wrong place and while individual posts might not have been petty, the cumulative effect started coming across more and more that way. It was looking like a witch hunt with random people coming by to put the boot in. From what I could see they aren't actually taking orders and won't be until they in a better position to do so, which I would assume would be indicated to us by people in a feedback thread telling us that they have received their basses and like them. So claiming that people might be putting in orders in the near future before the company is ready to fulfil those orders, is a poor excuse. Edit: There's no way this post took ten minutes to type! But the last two posts weren't there when I started, and now I look like I just parroting them.

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1398894954' post='2438880'] I'm sorry but I can only agree. I hate it when threads get locked. [/quote] Normally me too, especially when there's a good debate/argument going on. But a public execution leaves a nasty taste in my mouth.

Then maybe the best place for it would be the feedback forum where customers can leave their feedback? Rather than a general forum where anyone that feels like it will but the boot in.

To be honest I was feeling sorry for them. They're trying to reboot a business that has been through some tough times. The old fashioned, no nonsense, nip it in the bud approach of the new bloke was a bit unfortunate, but I imagine he feels somewhat under attack and trying to protect the business. An approach that obviously doesn't work too well on Internet forums. They have tried to explain. All anyone can do now is see how they do from here in. Like icastle said, there's no point continuing to tear them apart publicly. Closing the thread was the best thing, I believe. Though I am not, nor ever likely (not a custom build kind of guy) to be a customer.

Sometimes it feels as though you just can't do anything right.

I only ever depped for bands twice and both times I was offered the bass position. I stopped doing it after that because I liked the players I was depping for and it annoyed me. The first band offered me the position against the drummer's will, who got really angry, he absolutely hated me, not my playing, me. He hated even more that their bass player kept coming to me for lessons. Mind you, I kept doing stuff that he hated, like joining a local band that he idolised. Blimey he was a twat. And I sound like a braggart, but I am tired and it's funny (to me).

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1398873485' post='2438537'] I can live with the rust, I would just prefer not to! I don't mind a bit of mojo on the bass body (the wooden bits!) but I hate to see tarnished and rusty metal. I'll get it sorted somehow! However, I have very little technical or engineering knowledge, so things like identifying threads and getting machine screws (whatever they are!) is a bit beyond me I'm afraid! I'm fairly handy with a screwdriver - but that's about my limit! [/quote] I don't have specs of all bridge saddles, but all of mine, which are all different, take M3 threads. So something like this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/AccuScrews-20mm-Point-Grub-Screws/dp/B00J92D65G/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&qid=1398878926&sr=8-12&keywords=M3+x+15mm+grub+screw Would probably do the job. Just search for something the correct length.

For the pickups, couldn't you make a spacer for the top? Perhaps even make one out a nice wood? Or even cut out of an old scratch plate?

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1398800724' post='2437783'] Very nice of you, thanks. I'm rubbish at soldering, although I've just seen the attached, which I'd like to have a stab at :-) The nice man at Vein Tap says he'll make one to my preferred layout for £22.45 posted, so I think I'll go with that. Thanks all [/quote] You could probably put it together using clips like these. If you could find some small enough. There aren't any electronic components involved, unless you want an LED indicator, just a switch and sockets with tabs.