Jean-Luc Pickguard

[i]...Damn! Keith has moved one of my twiddlers again and is refusing to tell me which one [/i]

[quote name='acidbass' post='1044561' date='Dec 2 2010, 01:10 AM']Both very cool vids! Great to see footage of the legendary 'claw'![/quote] Claw? Surely it was the Hook, or did his nails need clipping?

I've just sold my White Epi T-bird to get a Pro instead, but I've ordered the 5 String natural oil one, so the trans black 4 string wouldn't have interested me.

If there isn't a metal plate & screws holding the neck on, it means that the whole instrument is made from one single piece of wood.

[quote name='MoonBassAlpha' post='1041654' date='Nov 29 2010, 09:17 PM']What, like this? [attachment=65355:axe_bass.jpg][/quote] That's what I call an axe

Before I got back into playing bass many years ago, I had drifted into naff DJing & Karaoking. (Its a long story & not my fault, so don't judge me ) Once I turned up to do a Karaoke show & due to lack of space, total darkness & rain outside I had to wait for a band to finish & clear the stage area before I could start unloading my boxes & start setting up. It was very embarrassing to discover I'd left the case containing all the karaoke CD-Gs at home - a 40min round trip away. Oh well my heart wasn't in it anyway.

Hacking at something with a chisel and hammer makes it a rare custom instument.

[quote name='pantherairsoft' post='1039500' date='Nov 28 2010, 01:17 AM']I had a Deep Impact. Bought it for £50. Used it for a year. Thought it was poo next to my mates Boss Syb-3... Sold it for £80 and recall feeling chuffed for making profit from something I thought was a bit Cack. Oh how foolish was I....[/quote] Ha! Mine cost £50 secondhand from Andertons & I'm sure I got £80 when I flogged it via gumtree. I don't think I even kept it for a year - I could never get a sound from it I'd actually use & my bandmates always rolled their eyes when I plugged it in. I don't miss it, but I do kick myself every time I see one sell in eBay. I also had an original coloursound tonebender. No idea what happened to it - I think I gave it away.

I'm sure warmoth will make one with unlined maple board. It'll be heavy and expensive though

Blummin' 'eck! it went for £455.66! How?

I hold my SOS tuner over the 12th fret, i.e. the node of the first harmonic. It doesn't work anywhere else.

The problem I had with the hard case wasn't that it wouldn't fit the five string, but that it was too big for my car. When I first got the bass I took it in the case to one rehearsal & one gig, but it didn't fit in the back across the seats, so I had to fold the seats down. It was handy when we hired a van for a gig at London Zoo, but after that it went into the loft and stayed there - the Ritter padded gigbag was much better.

My previous rig was the old versions of the MAG 300 head with MAG 210 & 115 deep cabs. It all sounded great together and plenty of volume. I'd still be using it now if I hadn't upgraded to lightweight single cab alternative. The current versions look much better with tolex rather than carpet & the new grilles on the cabs. I used to take out just the head & 210 for smaller gigs/rehearsals

I've ordered one! Used the dosh from the sale of my alpine white epi t-bird which I sold with the hardcase & D-tuner, so I raised more than enough. I kept the Ritter thunderbird gigbag, so it was inevitable I suppose. When the missus finds out I'm going to be in so much trouble, but I'm not frightened of her! [size=1]...well maybe a little [/size]

They're alright

I have 7 similar, but non-grabbing ones in the living room. No, I'm not sure of how I got away with that either.

Now that I've sold a few basses including my beautiful, but far too heavy metal looking Alpine White Epiphone Thunderbird, I have some funds which are very likely to go on an Epiphone Thunderbird Pro-V in the natural oil finish.

My slap happy weedwackers have arrived and I've put them on the bass, which was a much more fiddly affair than I expected. I haven't tried it amplified yet, but I love the blurry sound. I can achieve a nice bit of rockabilly slap, which I was never able to do with the spirocore weichs. I'll see how they go. I doubt I'll be going back to the spiros, but may upgrade to a set of Lamberts in the future. I wonder what the going rate for a used, but hardly played, set of spiro weich is

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='1035997' date='Nov 25 2010, 10:21 AM']Buy it, put it on the wall, say someone famous smashed it up in the 70's[/quote] & then had a half-arsed attempt at patching it together

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='1035903' date='Nov 25 2010, 09:06 AM']Aha! [/quote] No, they're from Norway. In Curb your Enthusiasm there was an episode called "The Ida Funkhauser Roadside Memorial" which centered on Larry stealing some flowers from the memorial of his friend Marty Funkhauser's mother.

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Vintage-Gibson-1971-Guitar-spares-repair_W0QQitemZ300495375006QQ"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Vintage-Gibson-1971-...Z300495375006QQ[/url] I'm not sure I can see where there's £82 worth of spares on this piece of junk

I've always thought the cascading dot pattern on my NS-Design CR5M is innovative The two magic tone shaping controls - the VPL & the other one on Mark Bass Amps are fantastic. Even if I can never remember what they're called, just how they sound when I twiddle them.

I went in a lidl once. Do all the branches have that weird smell?

[quote name='Johnston' post='1033893' date='Nov 23 2010, 02:01 PM']Are we just old fuddy duddies set in our ways ???[/quote] I am - I like my instruments to be all-old style like my mustang. Unless they are all-new like my NS-Design CR5M