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My wife has got a mustang bass (as well as her P Bass) and I put a set of cut down 45-105 long scale strings on it, but it still feels sloppy. I presume this is because of the shorter scale (I can't play my Les Paul with 9-42 because it feels sloppy, but s strat is fine) Do I need to go heavier than 45-105? advice welcome, but I may start another thread

Cricket is up and down so far. Played 4 , won 2 convincigly and been hammered once (all out 35, lost by 10 wkts) then recently lost by 20 runs . How's yours? I'm sure you'll get back what you paid for it. Bring on the union jack!!

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Hi there Old Horse Murphy, how you getting on with my old 500/1? It's very strange not seeing it on display in my lounge

[quote name='Donnyboy' timestamp='1338971753' post='1681689'] Nice one - will it be shared? Must be unusual for 2 bass players to be married I would've thought. I think teachers are most often married to teachers. Enjoy the bass, you'll need matching plastic hat and jacket! [/quote] No it'll go on the wall, we're not really into short scale basses, they feel too sloppy. I had a hofner CT500/1 until very recently. I sold it to finance my Steinberger XL2. Sold it to another basschatter. I've already got a replica of the Shea Stadium jacket, actually, the whole suit, which I bought when we got married and I'm sure there will be plenty of plastic hats in the bin!! Looking forward to getting it, always loved the violin shape (probably because I grew up playing fiddle from the age of 6)

if you google the union jack thing, Hofner have made a few custom shop ones with the flag. anyway my wife told me to order the Union Jack bass last night as it might be collectable, so I ordered it this morning It's fantastic being a bass player that's married to another bass player

I was using a PF500 until it went wrong and now I've gone back to my hartke ha3500. I'm shocked how good the hartke still is. (it's heavy etc) but a great sound. Lucky to have it as a spare. Lookng forward to getting the ampeg back. Hopefully it won't go wrong again

[u]I [/u]heard an interview with AL on radio 2 a while back. He said all the lawyers kept on at him to sue etc etc and he really lost his way with it. Rick loved Alan's mum (they used to all be mates) and Al lost his mum, and I think that's when they started talking again. (a bit like Weller and Foxton). I commend quo for all that they have done, (I loved margharita time and all that pop stuff, it was just pop music) and I wish them all well for the future. Quo are an enigma for me. Everyone (well the idiots in the pub) takes the piss out of them for their lack of ability etc, but I have NEVER seen a pub band cover a quo song well/properly. No one seems to understand the importance of Rick's rythmn guitar or open tunings. Look forward to the tour and new album (last quo album I bought was in about 1988. Ain't complaining!)

That SG is great, it appears thge painted player chaps are quite talented

keep em coming

Here's a couple of shots of my bitsa telecaster that I put together about 6 years ago. As you may know, I'm in a Police Tribute band, so I decided to get my Tele, 'Andy Summers', by the chaps at the painted player, [url="http://www.thepaintedplayer.co.uk"]www.thepaintedplayer.co.uk[/url] They added the brass bridge (including the crack), mounted the pickup direct to the wood, phase reversal switch and on board pre amp. anyway enjoy,

I bought on line, but it was shipped from Barnet. I've just spoken to Barnet and explained to them and he said he would phone the on line part and try and get them to swap for a new one, after all, he said, we've got 11 in stock. Still, I'm not holding out much hope. It's not like I want my money back because I don't like it, far from it. I think it's a great sounding amp for my purposes. I'll keep you posted on what happens

a quick and crap update, Tried it in the studio, running two mark bass cabs into 4 ohms, same problem after about 5 minutes. Digital village won't swap it because it's outside of their 30 day plan. could take 2-4 weeks to fix. That is crap customer support/service. what I have learned is that I won't be using digital village again!!

[quote name='RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE' timestamp='1337425304' post='1659679'] Niiice bassss! I would love one of these myself, especially white. One tip; if you play gigs , try to leave this at home and buy a battered homer or something,) nice bass bump [/quote] LEAVE IT AT HOME!!!!! you must be joking. I play my gear out, everytime. That's what it's for o:)

[quote name='BarnacleBob' timestamp='1337422326' post='1659629'] Not with the steiny I hope, although it is the right shape BB [/quote] Hell yeah, 32 not out!!!

my bass came from hendrix in Italy, the receipt is still in the case. My brother lives in Italy and says Hendrix are very good. The serial number puts it to november 1984. Very much transitional as far I can make out. Plays great, but I haven't plugged it in yet, maybe tomorrow as I'm just off to play cricket

Found this on the net for sale at Bass Direct. I've always wanted a 'berger for my Police Tribute band (think Gateshead gig in '82) It was quite a lot of money BUT, OMG, it's almost immaculate. Almost too good to gig, (b*gger that, I'm going to use it anyway) Still, here's few shots for you. It's november '84 and still has the plug in leg rest. It's quite a difficult thing to photograph seeing as there's no fancy wood, it's black!!

[sup]Evil Undead,[/sup] [sup]as someone already put, try and specify, 'no stupid offers, I'm not desperate etc, ' seems to work for me,[/sup] [sup]hasn't stopped someone offering me 250 for my old PA that was up for 600, (which I got), he actually phoned me up and offered me 250. I laughed and asked, are you really taking the p*ss.[/sup] [sup]He opologised and went away!![/sup] [sup]Selling gear is a pain, I've sold 7 guitars in the past 6 weeks, in order to finance my new QSC PA and also I'm on a Sting/Police thing at the moment. (trying to collect/ make/ aquire the guitars used by The Police / Sting for my tribute band) and as such keep buying things for it, including A 1984 Steinberger XL2, A Bravewood '55 P Bass replica, Stagg EUB, 1983 Squire '62 P bass and I've even Andy Summerised by Telecaster custom, (please don't tell my Andy Summers, it's a surprise for our next gig).[/sup] [sup]I've dealt with silly offers, but I stuck with it and have got everything I wanted, (in fact some of the guitars I sold fetched far more than I expected)[/sup]

Ok i know a bit about this. I worked in the industry for 20 years. There is always nickel underneath shiney chrome. A plating company should be able to strip the chrome and leave the nickel showing. I have done this hundreds of times. You can either leave it in a bath of hydro chloric acid or we used to use a cleaning solution and pass current and when fizzed or stopped it was done. Can't quite remember as it was over 10 years ago. Now, if its aluminium it Will have been coated with a special chemical to stop the aluminium dissolving in the other chemicals, then its plated as normal. My advice to you. Do not use Ashford chroming, nice guys but they put the actual plating out, but use butterworths in ramsgate in Kent. My company still uses them and i have a guitar bridge over there being plated. It probably won't be cheap, it never is. Hope I've helped. Martin

As usual just apologise and mumble about your own headache because the bass was so loud. Or tell him to f off

For me it has to be who was most prominent when i started playing sting Bruce foxton John Taylor pino Nick beggs. But as i got more into rock Steve Harris Andy Fraser Neil Murray Phil lynott suzi quattro all the people i listen to at the time. I still like sting and his more modern approach with his thumb billy shehan for widdling My wife because she plays like me Mark king, bootsey, Chris squire all because they are un unmistakable

Its tough out there now. I used to think nothing of 100 mile round trip but that's about 14 quid of fuel. Lucky i don't have to rely on my gig money as i did 12 years ago