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  1. Woodinblack
    New posts should always be on the last page of a thread, but thread numbering is literally just the order they turn up, but the two are not really related, so I am not sure I understand the question!
  2. Woodinblack
    That is rather a nice looking bass
  3. Woodinblack
    Of course it is mass produced - maybe not in big quanitities, but there is a pattern and loads are produced the same way. Your LX euro 5 is the same as the next guys one, maybe a different colour, but same things in the same place. Same as Rics, even though not many are made, the concept is the same, you make a series of bodies / necks / electronics, then go down a line putting them together. If a luthier makes an individual instrument, they start with a chunk of wood, shape it, get other bits, put it together, work on it, then finish it off - there aren't a load of people doing separate stages.
  4. Woodinblack
    Ours too - luckily there are enough bands to knock the Oasis songs out, so we don't all have to!
  5. Woodinblack
    How many songs can you play at a time with fingers then?? I am pretty much a one song at a time sort of player.
  6. Woodinblack
    Wouldn't have a problem with that one - its the one by Eric 'who let all these brown people in here - theres someone wearing a mask' Clapton. hmm.. like the Gig scene in The Wall, but way less interesting.
  7. Woodinblack
    I have a ban on that for the group that I am in anyway, so it doesnt' really feature. THere are some songs on the set list that I don't actually like as songs, but don't mind playing that much. And I guess some that I don't mind as songs because I enjoyed playing them.
  8. Woodinblack
    Knocking on heavens door or Cocaine. Both terminially dull songs to play (and listen to) that I have managed to remove from set lists. I wouldn't really call sweet home particularly dull, there is quite a lot you can do on it.
  9. Woodinblack
    Maybe have a lesson with someone to see if they can identify what the issue is?
  10. Woodinblack
    Sounds like a much better idea if what you want is a battery powered combo. The sparks are a more an integrated practice thing with quite a software back end to them.
  11. Woodinblack
    Ebony isn't a CITES listed wood as far as the US is concerned, so you can get an export licence, which should give you an automatic import, but to be sure, best to email [email protected] to see if it is ok with them
  12. Woodinblack
    What synth do you need?
  13. Woodinblack
    There seem to be a few around like this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/283412942973 but no, shouldn't be too much of an issue.
  14. Woodinblack
    I have a spark, it is great and I use it a lot. I almost bought a spark mini two days ago as it was on a weekend offer of £159 and I like the battery thing but once you got to checkout it was £196 and that was more than I wanted to pay, I figured wouldn't be great for bass anyway with those speakers. The spark isn't really, it is just good enough, but in headphones obviously fine
  15. Woodinblack
    I made a joke forgetting you don't get jokes, then you got all upset about it. my fault that I forgot you didn't get jokes, sorry, move on, nothing to see here
  16. Woodinblack
    No, my point is you can do the nut on a net that has never been on a body, get it close enough for most and I don't believe that fender redo the nut once an instrument has been made. I did, and still happy to say it is perfectly possible, with the caveat that you could have a nut that was up to a mm too high, but I would imagine most fenders in the world have that.
  17. Woodinblack
    I didn't see the image no, as it is a quote of the post that had the image, not the image itself. However, I also don't understand why they can't be cut to almost the correct depth, or at least so close on that most people woudn't be able to tell the difference. The angular difference between the first fret and the nut is very tiny compared to the angular difference between having your strings flat to the neck and having your strings at 10mm that even if you set the net to the depth needed if the strings were dead flat to the neck you would be closer than most nuts probably are in the wild. Or you are going to tell me that a standard fender has its nut adjusted in the factory before it is sold routinely?
  18. Woodinblack
    Why? Is the position of the strings a mystery before the neck is mounted? Pretty sure I could take a wild stab at where they are supposed to go even without bolting it to a body (although seeing some fenders, maybe I am wrong).
  19. Woodinblack
    and I guess more significantly it would mean that a fretless would cause less wear on the fretboard if you were using coated strings. Probably easier to tell.
  20. Woodinblack
    I had a reel to reel for recording, that was good, and a home organ that sounded like a home organ, until you put the headphone output through an overdirve pedal, then it sounded great. My first amplifier was a cassette player with a microphone input, it didn't sound very good then it got shot with an air pistol, then it sounded great, really overdriven and good. Some time later I decided that as shooting it with an air pistol made it sound great, shooting it again would probably make it sound ever greater. Sadly, that wasn't the case, it didn't sound of anything after that.
  21. Woodinblack
    It seems that it has to cause less fret wear to have a plastic (or whatver they are coated with) contact on metal than metal on metal as some of the presure of the fretting has to be absorbed by the coating so the overall pressure on the fret must be lower.
  22. Woodinblack
    I was talking custom shop, yes there are luthiers at fender, many of them go on to make their own companies like Suhr etc. I don't know if they have a day to day in the custom shop but they certainly exist.
  23. Woodinblack
    Thats not unreasonable though - if you are buying a custom shop bass for 3-5k made by fender employing actual luthiers in the states, you wouldn't expect the components to be more than £500 of the actual build, as otherwise the finances don't make sense.
  24. Woodinblack
    Aren't the pink LEDs (the old ones) actually just red LEDs in clear plastic (as opposed to a red LED in red plastic? So would be listed as Red LED in (water) clear lens?
  25. Woodinblack
    These two notes
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