Maude

I guess that's because speaker cabinets need to be as stiff as possible, ply is stiffer than normal wood. If thinner ply is used it's usually braced to add stiffness. It's a balance between stiffness and weight. For the same weight of wood, ply is normally stiffer.

Hopefully it's progressing, albeit slowly, through the legal system. Surely this can't just be allowed to fade away?

I'm completely happy with the D'Addario's to be honest but I might give them a try.

I wasn't aware there was a "hate for half rounds". So you tried one set of strings and wrote off an entire style of string? On the flip side to that I have D'Addario half rounds on all my gigging basses and love them, they do exactly what want from a string. Generalising, I like the high tension of flats but they're too dull, I like the tone of old rounds but they're too low in tension and if you fit a new set it's months before they sound how I like. Enter D'Addario half rounds, high tension and sound like an old round straight out of the packet, the tone control moves them between flats and rounds, perfection. 🙂

Totally agree @Lozz196. Musically it's his bass that drives the songs, I always feel that his bass is the songs and the guitar is the aggressive attitude. I feel privileged to be in a band that always features a handful of Jam songs in every set, add to that some Specials, Small Faces, Who, etc and it really is bass heaven, and the rest of the band realise the bass is driving things and want it loud and upfront. Oh I miss gigging.

Everything Starts With An E - E Zee Possee

Lady M already thinks I'm a "totally unique instrument", without rummaging in other people's skips. I like to think of myself as a hybrid half womble, half Stig of the Dump kind of recycler and like the idea though. 🙂👍

Don't tempt me with projects I'll never finish. 😁

Midnight Train To Georgia - Gladys Knight & the Pips

Now I'm Feeling Zombified - Alien Sex Fiend

If I had a hammer - Sam Cooke (and various others)

This bass is simply stunning. Visually everything just works perfectly, from the warmth of the colours to the modern hardware. The craftsmen ship is, from the diary, absolutely top notch and I can only imagine it'll sound superb. We all like different features but there is nothing on this bass I could imagine changing. Absolutely perfect. 🙂👍

Broken Stones - Paul Weller

But is it a maple/rosewood thing or a lacquered/unlacquered thing? I know that's kind of irrelevant as maple/lacquered, rosewood/unlacquered tend to go hand in hand. It it would be interesting to compared a lacquered rosewood to an unlacquered maple fretboard just to see if those perceptions swapped. Rick's have lacquered bubinga fretboards and maybe that adds to their sound.

I know, I'm an idiot. It ruined that gig for everyone. The audience were visibly shocked at the deterioration in sound quality.

During the first half of a gig once I noticed my top strap button had worked loose in the last song. I finished the song by holding the neck up with my left to take the weight for fear of the strap button pulling out, and sending bass tumbling groundwards. In the break I tried to tighten it but the screw wouldn't tighten properly so I went to the bar and purchased a box of matches, pushed one into the screw hole and broke it off flush. The strap button screw now did up nice and tight, great stuff, now I can enjoy the second half worry free. How wrong was I? All the way through that second set I could hear that the wood composition had changed in that bass. Like an idiot I had not asked for tone matches. What a fool I felt.

Ask - The Smiths

Blanket on the Ground - Billie Jo Spears

I've done similar when I got my Ashdown B Social amp. You plug in headphones and it doesn't cut the speakers automatically, well who knew? Everyone in the house and next door it turns out. 😄

There's something mildly disturbing about that, but in not sure what.

Yes 5050 appears to be the hollow body (or semi) version of the 4040. Note the 'f' hole. It's definitely very cool bass, but too ropey and too much missing for me. You could a replica neck made, refinish it and make the missing perspex parts, and it would be a very cool bass to keep, but wouldn't have any of the value of an original. Must stop now as I'm talking myself into it. 😁

That's pretty cool, and sounds surprisingly good when mixed together. Our drummer in the acoustic band made eight tuned pipes from 40mm waste pipe which you could hit/slap on the floor at 45 degrees to create a similar sound to the clip above. The band did covers of all sorts in our own style. We used the pipes to do the intro to Ed Sheeran's 'Shape Of You', each band member having one or two pipes each. It worked really well and was a real attention grabber (gimmick) but there just wasn't enough volume to gig it, and rigging microphones for all the pipes was too much trouble so we never actually used them. A relief we didn't have to play Sheeran but it would've been cool intro.

Marching On - The Alarm

Waiting For An Alibi - Thin Lizzy

This is no time to be thinking about swinging!