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and I don't think I could get a Fender P with a jazz neck and light weight like I have with the Celinder P Classic.

And the Stingray is just fun to play.

And the Shuker is handy too.

I couldn't let the Alembic go either. I'd never get it back.

and the Pentabuzz.

I kind of agree with Bilbo, as an owner of 8 instruments I really don't use them all. I'd be quite happy with just the Spector 5.

[quote name='4 Strings' post='1187491' date='Apr 4 2011, 10:32 AM']Just a spanner in the spokes about old valve amps. I don't know about new Matamps but old valve amps, in my experience, do not have the frequency spread that we're used to with modern amps.[/quote] I have a couple of Burmans that handle a 5 string without struggling. I suspect anything with a partridge transformer would be the same.

[quote name='markovilla' post='1187489' date='Apr 4 2011, 09:29 AM']Paying 14 quid to fill my Mustang Plenty of Guinness/Jack Daniels[/quote] Dubai is the only place I've ever worked where a tank of gas costs the same as two glasses of wine.

Hey Mark I did a stint in Dubai, most people can't wait to escape the place from what I hear now. What on earth is keeping you there?

Yep he played a Roland GR88 for a long time. Pretty much an Ibanez Musician by any other measure - made by the same company with the same wood.

Hey there Mr Blue...

[quote name='gjones' post='1176553' date='Mar 25 2011, 10:04 PM']Does it have rotosound trubass strings on it as well. I always heard they were Herbie's string of choice.[/quote] Herbie got a load of strings when he first bought the bass. He very rarely changes the strings and so has been gradually using up his stash over the last 40 years. He doesn't actively seek out Trubass strings, they're just what he has to hand.

The OP has asked for this topic to be closed as he's resolved the situation with the Bass Centre.

[quote name='MB1' post='1175039' date='Mar 24 2011, 07:31 PM']MB1. Isnt a Hair cover a Snood???? Sorry! I'll get me coat![/quote] I got your goat.

He's a member here, you could drop him a PM and let him know in person.

[quote name='zoonyboy' post='1173677' date='Mar 23 2011, 07:01 PM']It has a reasonably low action, I don't think it would go ultra low. The neck has a preset amount of relief, which is not adjustable, but makes for a great playing experience without rattle or dead spots. The frets are larger than an early Stingray and the fingerboard is of a larger radius, so it doesn't play exactly like a Stingray, also it isn't through the body stringing. It does sound amazing though![/quote] The through body strung ones are extremely rare. I had one that was made especially for Cliff Williams from AC/DC where they basically stuck a graphite neck onto a 79 body. I've owned another Cutlass I and a Cutlass II and all the basses I've ever played have had bowed necks including the ones I've owned. But I live in hope of finding one with a straight neck one day...

Whats the action like on the cutlass? Can it be set low?

[quote name='Count Bassy' post='1171752' date='Mar 22 2011, 08:54 AM']I don't see anything there that couldn't be done with a three axis machine and a ball end cutter, provided you had the right post processor to go from the CAD model to the NC data. You'd still want to hand sand to take out the machining marks however.[/quote] Its definitely possible but how to register the body for machining the underside once the top is done? Spector tend to leave a chunk of the neck unmachined at the bridge end of the bass and deal with it by hand during general sanding. The risk of getting it wrong even by a few mm is quite high.

[quote name='apa' post='1171672' date='Mar 22 2011, 07:48 AM']I got as far as pressing the button on a 3D modelled body for a Ray project. Only thing stopping me was the guy who was programming the Tooling path.[/quote] The free software offered by emachine works out the tooling path for you.

Wow, super handy link! Thanks! Gibson have got things down to a fine art where they'll do a body by hand and scan it into their milling machines and it turns out pretty much perfect. That would be my preferred route as well but a 3d scanner is a fairly expensive and specialised piece of kit and prices for scanning services were pretty steep last time I looked. Industrial design schools will have one though so it may be possible to wangle something if you have contacts.

had a brief flirtation with an CR5 upright and chucked it in because I struggled.

I've done some research into this. If you have relatively modest expectations, its possible to whack something together in Google Sketch Up and export it to a 3 axis machine. If you feel like doing something with compound curves (warwick/spector bodies), things get a lot more complicated and require a 5 axis machine. If you need small hardware jobs done, its also worth looking at this: [url="http://www.emachineshop.com/"]http://www.emachineshop.com/[/url] Materials tolerances are hard to judge by computer, neck pocket fits still need to be done by hand...unless you have the neck dimensions measured to fractions of a millimetre or dont have high expectations about the fit.

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='1167889' date='Mar 19 2011, 02:19 AM']I suppose it depends on the application. If you're doing something where you're up front a lot and soloing then it's worth having a bass with a recognisable character.[/quote] That wasn't what I meant. [quote name='thisnameistaken' post='1167889' date='Mar 19 2011, 02:19 AM']I think for most people a bass that plays well with a solid core sound that works well in a band mix is enough, and you can get that for under two hundred quid. You just can. There's no argument.[/quote] I'd argue against that. I went for something that cost 650 quid instead and it does the job better than any other bass I've played.