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@Dad3353, that looks fantastic. 🙂👍 Let me have a quick measure tomorrow. I reckon 50mm will be about right, but I'll pop a G string on tomorrow (pack it in 😯) and check clearance, as the face plate I've made is slightly smaller than the headstock perimeter and thicker than the standard veneer. Also just plain white will be great, but thanks for the offer to paint. 😊

I Want It All - Queen

The 12 after the name in his email address is ringing big alarm bells, bells probably housed in a stone tower built by a Mason.

A very little mentioned string which I really like is the Fender 9120 nylon tapewound. They feel and sound quite different from a regularlar tapewound, very roundwound in feel and very bright.

And if you tell that to the young people today, they won't believe you! I was going to mention, but everyone beat me to it, that until all this Covid lark, we got a new drummer. He has a rehearsal space with an old Peavey combo with BW15 which I used, and instantly thought cor that sounds good. I used to have a Peavey combo with BW15 which I used for years. Maybe a lot of us like the black widow as it's like coming home, seeing as it seems a great deal of used one before we all went and bought 'better' amps. I used to take the front seat of my Mini out and sit the Peavey on the floor, with loads of other gear on the back seat, my bass would sit on top of the amp in a hard case with the back end resting on the rear shelf. I came round a corner in the lanes, met another car and had to brake pretty sharpish. As I skidded towards the other car, the hardcase shot forwards and pushed the screen out, slid down the bonnet and onto the road. I got out and put the screen and bass in the back of the mini, reversed into a space to let the bewildered driver through and carried on to the gig sans screen. Ahh to be a young d!ckhead again. 🙂

'kin 'ell it's Fred Titmus. 😄 What a band.

Maybe a lucky escape then. 👍

I was assuming the threaded inserts in the body had had coach bolts or similar screwed into them, or a plastic plug or something. That's why I didn't want to go to high as there's a lot of unknowns with it.

14:25 to Bair-ming-gham? It just hasn't got the same ring.

It probably was a bargain, but it's in a bit of a state. I like them like this though as there's no need to feel too guilty replacing the parts with better ones as they're missing in the first place. I thought stripped and oiled or waxed natural, a Babicz three point bridge, try and find that tuber, maybe a replacement scratchplate if it won't polish up and a damn good clean, then it would be lovely.

I put the £156 bid in a couple of seconds before it ended. Didn't really want to pay that much but it was only on £107 at the time. £120-130 would've been nice to make it around £150 with postage. Got outbid but was almost relieved. 🙂

Whilst I totally agree with this, it just goes to show what a 'set in our ways' bunch we really are, that a design that was most popular nearly four decades ago is considered too modern.

Flyers Me To The Moon - Frank Sinatra Edit - I don't know why it's come out as 'flyers', but I can't change it now or it'll create a ripple in time/space continuum causing who knows what mayhem further into the thread.

I do understand all that, and to a degree it's understandable, but it does give them a get out jail free card for, at best accidents, at worst theft. I'm a panel beater in a large accident repair centre. We can't increase our hourly rate when we work on an expensive car. Whether I'm working on a brand new Aston Martin or a ten year old Dacia, the hourly rate is the same (there are variables but that's down to who you're insured with, not us), but the financial risk of rectifying mistakes is massively different. Also due to the far greater complexity of more expensive cars over budget brands/models, the risk of mistakes is also increased (in general). You don't take your car to a bodyshop and ask for their hourly rate, to be told it's a sliding scale from £35p/h on vehicles valued below £1000, to £500p/h for vehicles valued over £100,000. So would it be reasonable to ask for the customer to take out an insurance policy to cover any extra cost due to any mistakes made? The kind of thing I'm talking about is, for instance, say I was doing a front end repair on a car and while removing the headlights I dropped one (like a courier parcel). Some headlights are £200, some are over £2000. Plus the dearer one will more likely need to be programmed if a replacement is fitted, at more cost to ourselves. Sorry for the borderline rant, but I just feel it encourages the couriers to care even less about your parcels. I'd like to add that all my regular delivery folks are brilliant though, it tends to be in the sorting depots where this stuff happens. I'm guessing low paid, night shift workers who just don't want to be there.

Why does this feel less like bring attention to an interesting thread, and more like rounding up recruits for the commune? 😄

Down On The Farm - UK Subs

So, are you getting some then? I couldn't quite tell if you liked it or not. 😄

I would say that the Tech21 Sansamp bass driver was the pedal to get classic Ampeg tones from. With that in mind maybe a Behringer BDI 21 might be worth a try as it's kind of a clone of the Sansamp, but waaay cheaper.

It still bugs me that you should have to take out insurance at all. I'm sure we all do jobs where if we f**k up, we (or the company) have to put it right. What other service do you pay for where they ask if you'd like to pay for an insurance policy in case they completely balls it up?

I agree. The odd thing is, I don't really like pearloid at all. I think it's a bit tacky. I never had pearloid on any bass up until last year, even removing the factory fitted pearloid plates and making plain ones. I'd always said the only bass that pearloid suits is a Hofner, then bought a Club, removed the pearloid plate and made a plain one. I don't like red or pearloid, so then put a bitsa together last year, painted it red and made a cream pearloid plate for it. Now look where I am. I actually like that this is a bit tacky, kind of kitsch. It's a funny old place, my head. 😁

I suppose it just saves swapping basses for a couple of songs. Personally I prefer fretless when it's not as noticeable that's it's fretless, if that makes any sense. Although I love Pino's fretless, a lot of his early 80s stuff (Numan, Young) was very 'mwah heavy'. Music For Chameleons is epic but it's almost a cliché of fretless playing. I quite like when you can barely tell it's fretless but for the subtle little slides here and there. Such as.

I know what you mean, it's got that Eko kind of vibe. But it's definitely a Hofner thing. Hofner weren't being shy with some of their solid bodies at this time, all sorts of patterned vinyl coverings and pearl or sparkle plates. Even these fret inlays must have been pretty radical at the time, white pearl/tort/white pearl stripes. It's OK not to like it though. 🙂👍

I hope so. It seems odd to release a picture that makes it look like a bitsa bass where the wrong pieces have been made to fit the best they can.

I'm guessing smaller body but standard hardware.

I don't get it, 🤔 Have they got tort issues?