Woodinblack

Apart from the last one which just meant you didn't do what you set out to do what you wanted to do, I am talking of fret dressing, not refretting a whole neck. Certainly if you want to make the job so complicated you can't possibly do it, there are ways. Clearly I have, i was taught by one as I said right at the top of the thread. I am not sure what job you were discussing, but no, you don't need a bench jig to dress frets or change your string tension. And you end up with a perfectly playable instrument. Well, obviously if you do it a lot you can do it a lot faster, but that still doesn't make it hugely hard if you are going to take your time and be careful. Yep - A gibson dark fire, it was distinctly average. So much so I had to look up to see if a plek machine did what I thought it did. Turns out it did and put in the 'don't pay extra for something that has Plek as a selling point'! And yes, I ended up the first time I did it with a harley benton with amazingly low action. In fact the best frets on any instrument I had. But it still weighed a ton, wish I had taken one of the expensive ones! Well, I have done it many times, and I have no real skill. As I said it takes me a lot longer than half an hour because I have to be careful and check and recheck that I am going to do it well and obviously like pretty well everything in life if you don't take care you can mess it up badly but my success in doing it with my combined lack of skill tells me it really isn't that hard.

We did some spice girls, but it never went down well. We do a fair amount of cheese

Though not enough to still have it?

I couldn't build my own house or car, not that I would want to, they are far outside my abilities or project size. 🙄 Yeh, or you could do what I do, take an afternoon when you are not doing anything else, a file that costs £5, a straight edge which you can get anywhere, a rocker plate that you can get for 3 or 4 quid, a coloured sharpie, a fivers worth of sandpaper and frog tape and do the job as well as most people that you are going to pay for will do it for a lot less money and a lot more reward. If you can put a shelf up mostly straight, or bake a cake from a recipe you are at the right skill level to do this.

Not just then, now too. I view them like bands really - after a while when the original people go and the band is all new people, they want to make new things, but people just want to hear the original stuff, while saying 'why don't they make new stuff any more'. And once it becomes more corporate business, they know that any time their machines aren't churning out new reissues of a Jazz or a P, that machine isn't being as profitable as it could be. Its a shame they can't have a true 'custom shop', unlike one where they just make the same things in other colours for a lot of money, a place they can come up with new designs which are allowed to 'fail' (ie, not make huge runs).

I played one in Mansons in Exeter. The neck was lovely. In fact, the whole bass was good to play as long as you didn't accidental catch a glance at it I think it is an acquired taste which I didn't acquire and judging by the rarity, nor did a lot of other people, so I am not surprised they didn't reissue it.

I wish I had. A few of us in the south west did a course with the guy in the video after he was at one of our bass bashes, it was a one day bass neck dressing thing. I took my harley benton because 'was I going to learn on my gigging bass?'. At the end of the day, my harley benton had the best frets and action of any bass I owned The whole course was £80 and since then I have done most of my bass work myself (and guitar).

Ah, ok, I don't have that

Depends if you plug it in high or low.

I always assumed that the knobs were there for decoration.

It is easy enough to do (and fairly rewarding) with some basic tools. It is worth learning if you are interested

We have a different set list for every gig. It is usually thrown together at the last minute by the singer and occasionally guitarist, and then completely ignored by the end of the gig.

It would be hard to persuade that many people that it was worth a whole quid.

Both are better than a marginal musician that's a jerk. And thats not that uncommon.

Is funky in the context used ironically or something? Like 'accident with a band saw' sort of ironic?

I am not bothered either way by brightside. There are some songs we do I dislike but have come to accept as the public love them (inc sex on fire - no idea why people like that), but oasis is just one bit too far for me, so it isn't going to happen on my watch!

We have a 'good god no' veto, and then a 'absolutely no Oasis under any circumstances' veto. Every so often try to push against that but its not moving anywhere!

We all chip in suggestions and if noone really hates it strongly enough, we try it, and if it works it stays in. As we all have very different ideas of what works, we come up with a very odd collection.

Not sure of the relevance - the L2000 is nothing like a thunderbird. I have an L2500 and yes its a big neck (although not as clumsy feeling as a precision) but it is more a precision style. A thunderbird neck (like a proper one) is very small - I have an epiphone classic and its neck is much closer to my old ibanez sr 4 string. So we were talking about it being chunky 'for a thunderbird'

You have to what now??

I had a look too. They certainly do a good job of hiding them!

Generally what I feel, but that is how things are - except the one where they insist on 3 hours, that is outdoors in a beer garden so people can move away to chat.

Nope, just a covers band in pubs. we have now (after much whinging) managed to get down to doing sub 3 hours, so 3 hours with a 15 minute break or something, but the guitarist and singer are convinced people want 3 hour gigs (actually only one venue wants that). Normally do 9 - 12 (but often go over that).

Because they have different motivations to you. And if you got to the galleries you will find only a small number of pictures compared to the millions of original pictures that have been painted, to which again you could say 'Paint me something actually original and good'.

Dream of two 45 minute sets! Its nice when we do sub 3 hour gigs, it has got more common for us recently