Happy Jack

[URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Just%20Stuff/Sundry/Brasso_zpsw1m2rdan.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Just%20Stuff/Sundry/Brasso_zpsw1m2rdan.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Then you can tell people, "It's good for metal".

That thumbrest idea is really very neat.

Gnat's Chuff - a unit of technical measurement applicable to nut files. Distortion - how a guitarist views his own talent. Injection of energy - acceleration by the drummer Dynamics - accidental omission of a solo, leading to a sharp reduction in volume for an instrumental verse Green Room - Gents toilet unredecorated since 1897, where all the copper and brass is buried in verdigris

I've got a 4" titanium pin in my left ankle. Does that help at all?

In truth, £400 strikes me as high. You can buy a perfectly acceptable starter DB for that price, and you'll know that you can either rely on it or get a full refund. A seriously battered bass with known issues, work needing doing, and in need of new strings? £250 tops, and that's only because it comes with inherent mojo.

[quote name='Kiwi' timestamp='1453542136' post='2960368'] Going to be a bit of a walk for me this year. [/quote] Have you considered starting with a single step?

As a newcomer to this thread and with far too little spare time to read 550 posts on what is apparently a one-off design for a small bass speaker cab, can anyone offer a brief digest, ideally less than 3000 words?

When riding my bike, the LAST thing I want is a slapper ...

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Success has many fathers ...

Thanks Dave. Following the same advice that I gather Clarky gave you, I've now ordered a cello gigbag for it.

Review now posted: http://basschat.co.uk/topic/276552-nbd-a-new-approach-to-fretless/page__pid__2972559#entry2972559

As a player it's quite hard to describe, it really is a one-off of a bass. It looks and plays like what it is ... a halfway house between a good fretless and a reasonable DB. It can be played with the fingertips across the strings, but it sounds far better (IMHO) played like a DB with the side of the finger parallel to the strings. The action is very high, but that allows you to dig in far more and really make it sing. Played side-on like an electric bass, the curvature of the fingerboard does take a bit of getting used to, especially with the high action. I find it easy to play the E and A strings as I wish, less so the D, and I fluff quite a few notes on the G string. As you'd expect, this is improving rapidly with practice. Arguably the biggest challenge is the CTP-3 preamp, which I have found to be less than intuitive. Not bad, just puzzling at times. The instructions comprise a single-sided sheet of A4 paper and could probably have been expanded. [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Basses%20CURRENT/Takamine%20TB10%202015%20CURRENT/EPSON002_zpsev4ka49y.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Basses%20CURRENT/Takamine%20TB10%202015%20CURRENT/EPSON002_zpsev4ka49y.jpg[/IMG][/URL] That said, it is a very powerful and flexible preamp unit and I love the onboard Cooltube 12AU7 valve. Once I've learned how to use it properly I suspect that the TB10 will turn out to be several different basses.

Despite my comments on another thread about seeing this as a lap bass, it's so large in the lap that I still feel more secure having it on a strap too. My plan to use the lock mechanism for the end pin as the tail strap button got nowhere - the arrangement is less than [i]simpatico[/i] [url="http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Basses%20CURRENT/Takamine%20TB10%202015%20CURRENT/Takamine%20-%20bottom%201_zpsatcrepnh.jpg.html"][/url] So I rooted around in my toolbox and found a set of hollow punches for leather which I bought on eBay for less than a fiver some years ago [url="http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Basses%20CURRENT/Takamine%20TB10%202015%20CURRENT/Punches_zpsqthdl8zu.jpg.html"][/url] Then it was just a question of finding which of them was the best fit for the endpin socket. Sorted.

The first two mods I had done to it were the side dots [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Basses%20CURRENT/Takamine%20TB10%202015%20CURRENT/Takamine%20-%20side%20dots_zpsxirxak5k.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Basses%20CURRENT/Takamine%20TB10%202015%20CURRENT/Takamine%20-%20side%20dots_zpsxirxak5k.jpg[/IMG][/URL] and the strap button [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Basses%20CURRENT/Takamine%20TB10%202015%20CURRENT/Takamine%20-%20strap%20button_zpsioyrrszg.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Basses%20CURRENT/Takamine%20TB10%202015%20CURRENT/Takamine%20-%20strap%20button_zpsioyrrszg.jpg[/IMG][/URL] The side dots are as big as they look. The neck of a bass is the same distance from my eyes as a book when I'm reading it, and I need reading glasses. On stage and under lights (i.e. playing the Dog & Duck) I need dots that I can actually SEE. The strap button is deliberately offset around the neck so as to provide a more secure purchase for the strap and also to improve the 'hang' of the bass.

So ... a month has passed, how are we doing? Well I was right about buyer's blues. None at all. My only regret was in not trying to find a gigbag large enough to take it. [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Basses%20CURRENT/Takamine%20TB10%202015%20CURRENT/Takamine%20body%201_zps396atvrz.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Basses%20CURRENT/Takamine%20TB10%202015%20CURRENT/Takamine%20body%201_zps396atvrz.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Lovely thing, isn't it? [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Basses%20CURRENT/Takamine%20TB10%202015%20CURRENT/Takamine%20in%20Its%20Case%201_zpside6qdcq.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Basses%20CURRENT/Takamine%20TB10%202015%20CURRENT/Takamine%20in%20Its%20Case%201_zpside6qdcq.jpg[/IMG][/URL] The case is particularly outrageous.

That's a Czech single cylinder 2-stroke, right?

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1454422465' post='2969581'] I put all my D class amps in one of those foam filled aluminium camera type cases, from Maplins. [/quote] How do you fit them all in?

I can only assume that the nut was done by Stevie Wonder.

[quote name='Bottle' timestamp='1454070705' post='2966049'] Don't think there's anything else on the calendar so I'll tentatively say 'Yes' [/quote] I'm only coming if you bring along some ridiculous piece of cheap tat that makes my expensive boutique kit sound pathetic in comparison.

[i][color=#101010]"We're looking for a VERY experienced bass player, no older than 29yo[/color][color=#0000ff][b] (I wanted a girl but we're open to everyone)[/b][/color][color=#101010]."[/color][/i] Too much information ...

I wonder how it would hang on a strap ...

[quote name='hiram.k.hackenbacker' timestamp='1454280399' post='2968268'] Are the strings spacings at the nut the same on all of them? The wider space between the A and D would annoy the hell out of me. [/quote] Usually the string spacing is even. That example may simply be unusual, or possibly it's just an optical illusion. I'm more interested in the spacing at the bridge anyway.

All the vintage Hofners that I've owned have had either Pyramids or Thomastiks fitted, but having played mainly Precisions fitted with LaBella FLs for several years, I now wish I'd tried using the LaBella Beatle Bass strings at least once!