Jean-Luc Pickguard

I think the correct title is "Essential Saturday Afternoon Music Shop Bass Techniques for w@nk3rs"

Don't try to force the skin to dry out - the hard bit could dry out & fall off or just split open painfully & bleed everywhere. Much better to moisturise whenever your hands feel dry.

+1 to what ChrisB said - I use a limiter, turn the amp up and play (TI flats mostly) with a very light touch.

I had a couple of these in the late 70s, but they weren't leather and I can't remember whether it had a buckle like that. Are you sure it wasn't cobbled together by someone? ie the fabric bit of a Fender Monogram sewn onto a plain leather one?

I find the suede levys leather straps much more comfy, but for anything heavier than a mustang I'd get something wider. The Fender neoprene strap is supremely comfy, but not as vintage-looking.

If our harmonica player suggested that I'd dip his harps in piss.

Its a bit Frank Zappaish in a way

I wonder whether they actually made a dozen & Marcus got to pick the best two for himself leaving ten rejects?

For the drive home after a gig or rehearsal, [url="http://www.easystar.com/releases/show/2"]dub side of the moon[/url] by dub star all-stars

Also Simone Felice's solo acoustic album – [url="http://simonefelice.com/?p=754"]Live From A Lonely Place[/url]

[quote name='thunderbird13' post='988862' date='Oct 15 2010, 09:24 AM']Apply for it using a different email , or get someone else to do it and see what happens.[/quote]
sneaky, but that's what I'd do & if they're being two-faced give them the runaround.

Then find another band & forget all about them - they're not worth fretting about if they're being Rsoles

My MIJ mustang or maybe one just like it in daphne blue or the modern equivalent - california blue

I've never seen a sunburst that's been done with a brush before

I bet the seller knows perfectly well what it is & put the decal on it himself. He's trying it on.

You want to avoid the bass player from obviously 5 believers especially when he's armed with an ashbory, LMII & Schroeder 1212L.

I've made loads of these. The most recent one was housed in a colmans mustard lid (yellow english mustard IIRC) for Pete o5b's open-backed banjo. I think I also used double sided carpet tape & a disc cut from a mousmat. It worked a treat first time he tried it at a gig - straight into his geetar amp for a couple of songs.
There's a recording here:
[url="http://www.o5b.co.uk/petes-banjo/"]http://www.o5b.co.uk/petes-banjo/[/url]

Any live band that enjoys playing covers has got to a million times better than the rubbish I had to endure last Saturday at Chessington World of Adventures at a Nintendo event.

A blummin'g great tent with a few thousand punters, Massive video screens on each side of the stage, lightshow, lasers, smoke & pyrotechnics. On come a pair of 19 year-old twins with comedy hair, one of whom can do cartwheels, somersaults & the splits. They 'do' a set consisting of Rock DJ, Ice Ice Baby, Jump Around, All the Small Things, Ghostbusters, Teenage Kicks etc. The songs were all delivered karaoke style with no live musicians no spontaneity and no feel or groove. However it wasn't even proper karaoke - I don't think they were actually singing anything - it looked & sounded like they were miming badly to an autotuned studio track.

Its best to treat it like a separate instrument - not as weeny bass guitar that can't do everything a bass guitar can. It isn't one and canmake sounds you can't get from any other instrument. Just as you play double bass differently to how you'd play a Precision bass, you would also play an ashbory differently. There is some immediate familiarity but most people who have a ten minute go on one and ignorantly dismiss it as unplayable or a gimmick probably do so as they think it is impossible to play with good intonation. What they don't realise is that unlike a lined fretless bass guitar you don't stop the string right on or just behind the fretline, but between the lines, more like on a fretted bass. Like reading music the more you practice, the better you get.

I've got two, but probably only need one, so I'm thinking of keeping the blue one & selling the black one.

An Ashbory is Good for jam nights as no one asks to borrow it.

People who have never seen one often make 'fisher-price bass' jokes - until they hear it.

John East!

It's human nature to fear anything we can't understand, so I'd say "Kill it with fire"

I think you may have missed the Guidelines for SELLERS:

5. You must state a price for your item. Anything without a price clearly stated will be subject to removal.

[quote name='stevie' post='985609' date='Oct 12 2010, 12:28 PM']I've had good experience with UPS (via Interparcel)...[/quote]
+1 Everything I've sent via them has arrived in one piece

It isn't black enough - it needs really bright BLACK LEDS which suck all the light out of the room

Jeebuz - Perhaps the website is meant as a metaphor for the basses - looks OK on the surface, as long as you don't look any deeper than the surface.

Welcome screen, table based layout & framed redirect - what is it 1996? Does flea not want people with visual disabilities to visit his website? Does he not care about SEO?
trojan dropper - (I'm running noscript, so I didn't see this for myself, so I'll take the others' word for it) This is unforgivable - they should take the site down until it's restored from a clean backup and tested

is the nut glued in? I bought a pack of 'fake ivory' plastic chopsticks and used a microsaw & files to make a nut when I built my fretless precision. There's enough material in the thickest part of each chopstick to make two nuts and I had a big pack for pennies so I had plenty of practice before I made the real one. Once made I put three tiny dabs of superglue on the underside and stuck it in place - the idea being that it will hold but a solid strike from the edge should break the bond cleanly if it does ever need to come out for replacement. Its never popped out in the six or so years since I made it.

You cousin does sound a bit daft. If it did make a difference, it probably wouldn't be a lot & you'll look look like a guitarist from an 80s mullet-rock band.

The Pennfab ebay a/c seems to be run by the same peeps as stagebox.com website who don't seem to list any Penn stuff at all which seems a bit strange.

I've just found [url="http://www.proaudiostash.co.uk"]http://www.proaudiostash.co.uk[/url], so I can give them a shout as well - they seem to have at least the corners & handles, but only list a few different connector dishes - looks like I need a D023K to take neutrik 'D-series' speakon & jack connectors

[quote name='The Bass Doc' post='983662' date='Oct 10 2010, 07:19 PM']I think it's possible to buy direct from Penn - they've got a depot just down the road from me in Washington Tyne and Wear.

A mate of mine has definitely bought from them by arranging to pop in after phoning ahead with an order.[/quote]

Thanks that's good to know - that sounds like the phone number I've found on the Penn website. Hopefully they're set up for mail-order without P&P costing more than the goods for a small order.