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

What synth do you need?

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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Remembering that you can also get charged for VAT and import fees too when buying that. I was, others weren't.

Its his, made by mansons - there is a video of them spec'ing it, a few of them building it and him picking it up. He got it when he started with Steve Hacket

Well, not Dolly Parton! I mean I wouldn't do her stuff as I don't do country music, but she does a lot of good work outside music. I do too - always felt sorry for them, they lost their royalties and their incomes and I would imagine a good part of their future prospects, when you look at groups they says 'the bass player used to be with xxx' - not such a selling point.

Well, pickup height to string gauges are the obvious changes then

we veto'd that one a while back as the singer didn't feel comfortable with it.

that's terrible. Not that it was a wake, just playing that song anyway 😂

he was never tried, MJ was.

Is this just the string, ie. Does playing a G on the bottom two strings have the same volume difference?

I was tempted by the black one that was at thomman for £325 but that is no longer available. I looked at the white one but figured I needed to get rid of some before adding a new one, and when it comes down to it, buying another 4 string just means I will have something I don't play.

It is a pain to get anything from ibanez, i never knew why they had to be so poor. To find a part really you have to find an instrument it was used on, and then look up the catalogue for that instrument, then find someone selling that part number - doable, but a bit of a pain. Without knowing the btbs that much, I don't see it shoudl be that much of an issue if you have got the correct spacing and height, although are the bridge parts sunk into the body like some of the SRs? If not it should be a simple swap as I seem to recall the tops of the btbs are largely flat. If not, its only a bit of wood, what is the worst that can happen