KingBollock

What did you cut the blank out of the bone with? I have a coping saw with a selection of blades, what kind of blade would you recommend? Is it possible to dye bone? I'm tempted to try this but I'd want a black one. Though if it's not possible to dye it properly I suppose left natural it would match the binding on my Bass, so it wouldn't matter too much. Nice job, you've inspired me. EDIT: Actually, having had another look at your work bench and seeing the rotary tool set I remembered that I have a rotary tool but I'd still like an idea of what might be the best cutting blade to use. I have tons of those brittle ones, that I could never figure out what they were for, and I have steel serrated blades and diamond coated blades.

[quote name='mcnach' post='1334422' date='Aug 10 2011, 12:08 AM'] eh?[/quote] He's got a problem with his neck that means he can't do physical work anymore. So he's on disability benefits. But he's not above running scams on the internet and ripping people off. But he has a bad habit of falling for stupid scams and getting ripped off himself, especially scareware stuff, he falls for it everytime, no matter what advice you give him. And I used to think that man was so clever when I was growing up.

[quote name='mcnach' post='1332926' date='Aug 8 2011, 10:05 PM']Don't tell him I said that... unless you can also tell me where he works, so that i can protect extra carefully anything I send that may pass through his location [/quote] Don't worry, he hasn't worked anywhere for about 20 years. Unless you count various, dodgy internet scams (including getting himself scammed, many times).

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='1332638' date='Aug 8 2011, 06:54 PM']The Sound City in the original post is the one I'm referring to. 'Rare' is part of the very limited description. I know they aren't rare because I have 9 of them sat about my house. Might be able to sort out a new rebuilt Klipp for you going forward.[/quote] Ah, sorry, I got a bit lost when I assumed you were commenting on my post. I remember seeing a photo of your Sound City Amps and the Klipp in there (I'm assuming (again!) it was your photo, I saw it just after I joined here), it caused a bit of a nostalgia trip. Unfortunately there's no room in my life for one now, happy with what I have now and it's all rack mount stuff. I do regret having chucked it but it was over 20 years ago now, I'm just about over it!

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='1332627' date='Aug 8 2011, 06:46 PM']They are great if you don't break them.[/quote] 'Ang on a minute, you've lost me. Are you talking about the Laney Klipp or the Carlsboro Stingray? I didn't break the Stingray and it's that that I meant wasn't rare enough, I assumed you meant the Stingray when you said they weren't really rare because it said they were rare on that Ebay page. I didn't break it, I just hated it. It was the Laney that I broke and I loved that.

[quote name='mcnach' post='1332505' date='Aug 8 2011, 05:21 PM']charming [/quote] Ha! I've never seen that word in connection with my Dad before! I'd tell him you said it but I haven't spoken to him in a long time.

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='1332516' date='Aug 8 2011, 05:31 PM']Also, really not very rare.[/quote] Not as rare as they should be. Unless you count landfill sites...

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='1332369' date='Aug 8 2011, 03:52 PM']Don't still have it somewhere do you? Those caps are easy to replace, an I have a big bag of them I just ordered. I don't know if impedance fun can blow the filter caps, usually it is valves an resistors that go other than the tranny itself. They did use pretty cheap caps I think, a ton of smaller ones instead of big cans.[/quote] I wish I did. I threw it out about 22 years ago, I was only 13 or 14. I can't remember how many caps were in it but there was a line of them, they were about the size of C cell batteries, from what I remember.

I wonder if the question you can actually see on the page was deliberately posed like that? Q: Hi, is this a usa bass or mexi[b]con[/b]?

[quote name='witterth' post='1332342' date='Aug 8 2011, 03:37 PM']"I never thought to get it repaired. I just chucked it and ended up buying the most soulless Carlsboro Bass amp I've ever heard. I hated that thing." was it a carlsboro "stingray" amp ? I had one of those and REALLY hated it. once I could afford to, I didnt even bother trying to sell it, gave it away instead (shudder) hateful thing[/quote] I wasn't sure what it was called, I sold it on a very long time ago, so I went looking and found this: [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CARLSBRO-STINGRAY-BASS-AMP-V-RARE-VINTAGE-80S-/150629833084"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CARLSBRO-STINGRA...S-/150629833084[/url] It's the same one as that and that says Stingray. Horrible, horrible thing.

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='1332314' date='Aug 8 2011, 03:17 PM']If you have a valve amp on with no speaker attached, all sorts of bad things can happen, as the equilibrium of the circuit is reliant on the output transformer having a load on it (completing the circuit of its secondary winding). Having a speaker and the impedance selector is wrong but not fatal, having no load at all can really mess things up, like the amp goes into oscillation and totally cooks itself.[/quote] Could this kind of thing cause all the capacitors inside to lose their innards? I had a Laney Klipp when I was a kid and I used to wire all sorts of different speakers to it, in all kinds of configurations, without knowing anything about impedance or valves, in fact I still know bugger all about valves... I just know that one day I saw the magic blue smoke coming out and when I opened it up (I used to open everything electronic up when I could) all the capacitors had popped open. I never thought to get it repaired. I just chucked it and ended up buying the most soulless Carlsboro Bass amp I've ever heard. I hated that thing.

I love pretty lights but can't justify buying those LED fret markers, as much as I would like to. The dots on one of my basses are really tiny and very difficult to see. I will get around to drilling out bigger holes and filling them with really bright UV reactive paint at some point. I think every stage needs a UV light and I have one in my practice room.

I started off with a book that had the tabs for some walking blues lines. My Dad decided my brothers and I were going to go to a teacher but he was a tight arse and only paid for one lesson a week and both my brother's and I had to learn in the same lesson. The best compliment I ever got for my playing was the teacher saying that my timing was really good. Unfortunately this ended up with me spending the entire lesson playing walking bass lines I had learned at home from a book while he taught my brothers to play stuff along with me. He also always used a guitar, never a bass. Though he was a bass player, infact I own a vinyl album that he played the very first bass I owned on. After that I got a Guns & Roses tab book but could never play it along with the record because it was in a different tuning and no-one had ever told me about alternative tunings. I do regret never having had a proper teacher though.

My Dad used to work for Federal Express loading lorries. He used to joke about wondering where Fragile (pronounced Frageely) was and seeing how far they could chuck those ones into the lorry.

[quote name='bigjohn' post='1328545' date='Aug 5 2011, 12:01 PM'] [/quote] Ha! Never seen that before. I just remember my Dad telling the Hammer version when I was a kid, about 30 years ago.

[quote name='dmccombe7' post='1326923' date='Aug 4 2011, 01:37 PM'] Does that mean you have a completely different lead from when you started or did you just renew the lead ends ? This made me laugh a bit but not sure if you were joking or not ? Hope so. If not - sorry !! Dave [/quote] It was indeed a joke! I have an aversion to smilies so sometimes it's not always so clear. That's why I included the reference to the Hammer, it's a very old joke based on the same idea. I'm not sure how old my current leads are. I use a couple of coily leads that I've had for something like 10 years I think. They work fine but I am intending to make some new ones with better components soon.

I've got a lead I've had for about 23 years. Changed the plugs a few times and the cable a couple of times, but other than that it's till going strong... I've got a hammer with a similar story...

Another one here for Lemmy.

I have a Cort T-35 and I adore it. I bought it as new for £229, the previous owner bought it new and only had it for 4 months, it still has the cellophane on the control cover and machine heads. I've never played an active Bass before so I have nothing to compare the electronics to, but they're not noisy at all and seem quite versatile for a 2 band EQ. The neck is wide and flat, which took some getting used to but was worth it. My next Bass will be a Cort Curbow 4 string, as soon as I can convince my wife that my life depends on it. I have a Cort headless Flying V Guitar that I've had for 17 years, which is a fun little thing and seems to take any tuning I throw at it, down to C, without having to mess with it. So, I've become somewhat of a Cort fan.

It never hurts to ask. As long as you don't ask something stupid... I think the best strategy is to put a bit on top of the price you really want. That way, if you drop down to the price you actually want, the buyer feels good because he thinks he's got a bargain, and you feel good because you got the price you wanted. If a price has been agreed then I think it's rude to try haggling again just because you feel that you'd have a better chance of taking advantage of someone in person. If you want to haggle in person wait until you meet before you start, don't agree a price and then go back on it. I do feel that low-balling is a strategy aimed at taking advantage of gullible people or those that aren't all there. And that ain't nice.

[quote name='silddx' post='1311274' date='Jul 21 2011, 10:35 AM']Sadly (in a way) I NEED the city. I adore the country so i get some of that when I go fishing. Which village are you in then? I lived in the middle of Llanfihangel-ar-Arth and Llandysul in a traditional Welsh stone cottage overlooking the Teifi valley with an iron age hill fort on the other side where me and my mates from Cov would go camping and injest the local mushrooms. Happy days! I used to work as an illustrator in [b]Carmarthen Museum in Abergwili[/b] , that was one of the nicest jobs I've ever had![/quote] My Mother-in-Law volunteers there. Has done for years.

[quote name='Mugz.wood' post='1316541' date='Jul 26 2011, 05:47 AM']nuts i grew up in chapel dewi like a mile away from Llanfihangel-ar-Arth and my dads a landscape artist who studied some illustration coarse in Carmarthen, i still sample the local mushrooms did they grow in the park in llandysul back then? welcome king bollock, and good luck with ur search for people to make music with im sure u will ive had no trouble and i live even more in the sticks than u in a village called drefach but then im not realy into Thrash/Death/Black/Blackened Death music[/quote] Thanks. At this point I think I'd play just about anything. Really rocking the late 70's, early 80's UFO, Whitesnake, Deep Purple kind of stuff lately. And I'd consider other genres too, especially Country, but Blues and 60's/70's Hippy type stuff too.

When I was slim (all too long ago) I seemed to be eternally looking for the longest strap I could find. Not any more though. When I sit I have my legs spread quite far apart so that the Bass hangs relatively low, rather than on my lap. But, as I'm rather on the larger side with a massive gut, I have to have the Bass higher when standing else my stomach pushes the top forwards and the Bass almost faces the floor.

[quote name='leschirons' post='1316207' date='Jul 25 2011, 08:36 PM']Welcome aboard, that's some pretty long list of gear for a self confessed living room bassist. It's good here, loads of nice people and loads of info.[/quote] It's not in the living room, I'd never get away with that. It's all in a spare bedroom. I mentioned the living room and the garage because if I was to play with others at my house, that's where it would have to be. What with my computer desk, workbench and all my music gear, there is probably enough room for one other person in here, if they promise not to move about too much.

[quote name='Hobbayne' post='1313931' date='Jul 23 2011, 04:39 PM']Was you out when they called? - Did they chuck it over yer back garden fence in the pouring rain? - Must have only happened to me then!! [/quote] This happened to my wife. Well, not my wife, to about £300 worth of fancy soap. They didn't hide my wife behind the bins in a storm only to be found in one huge lump a week later.