Happy Jack

[quote name='Wonky2' timestamp='1410821497' post='2553668'] My boy is 9 now, got him started on his 8th birthday..... At first he was just happy to be like dad, but quite soon into it he became interested off his own back.... Really meant a lot to me... [url="http://s296.photobucket.com/user/myzeneye/media/20e171d0-50b0-413b-bd40-65a22cbc6c93.jpg.html"][/url] [/quote] That's great ... when are you going to start him on the frets?

And you know who used to rehearse there?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gufBsF1W3xY

Yup. But when you have a £1000 bass "just sitting there" it feels ten times as bad as when you have a £100 bass "just sitting there".

Ah yes, wow and flutter, ye goode olde dayes. Next up for discussion ... the WEM Copycat.

A credit card.

How much does that thing weigh? And what's the opposite of neck-dive?

Hah! That's an excellent thought, and one I'll include next time I do this talk ... get your set-up right. Good call.

I'm sitting here with my 1995 SB320 on my lap. I was at work when I replied earlier and relying on memory. Bad idea. I thought that the main differences between it and yours were entirely to do with that battery cover/holder and the serial number. In fact, I've just realised that you seem to have an ebony board on there whereas mine is rosewood, and your bridge is completely different from mine. http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/library/Basses%20CURRENT/SGC%20Nanyo%20Bass%20Collection%20SB320 Yours having been bought new it can't have been modified, so I'm even more intrigued than before. Now would probably be a good time to remind everyone that, despite starting this topic (back in 2006 on a different forum ... eek!), I'm not actually an internationally-renowned expert on the subject, I'm just another enthusiast for the brand. Think I'll take a back seat and wait for someone else to contribute. Lovely looking bass, by the way. Do you recall how much you paid for it in 1986?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Legend-Bass-Guitar-With-Tracy-Elliott-Amplifier-/271599034090?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item3f3c905eea

Interesting. Maybe it's a trick of the light but the pickups appear to be mis-matched. Are they actually different? And what does it say on them? The back cover is unlike those I've seen before, that battery-holder may be a retro-fit (and quite a good one too), and the S/N is nothing like those originally used by SGC Nanyo in their first 10-year incarnation.

Not having spotted this topic, I just posted a link to the same auction. I reckon that's not a Hagstrom she's got, but a Czech-made Futurama ... the poor cousin of the Kent.

Damn! I did look to see if anyone had else had commented ... sorry.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Handmade-One-Off-Wood-leather-trim-Bass-Guitar/281425689503?_trksid=p2055119.c100022.m2048&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140122153843%26meid%3D890431baf4394a92a4b43abe7603c50e%26pid%3D100022%26prg%3D20140122153843%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D221542718071 As far as I can see, this is a cheap 60s Futurama that someone has buggered about with ...

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1410377110' post='2548819'] Knobs with grubscrews always work loose - screw them back on and put a little blob of clear nail varnish in the screw hole. [/quote] If I were you, I'd put the nail varnish in the holes [i][b]before [/b][/i]you screw them back on. No need to thank me ... More seriously, I wouldn't use nail varnish. What you want (IMHO) is http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/pipe-thread-sealants/0514509/?origin=PSF_435926|alt I was in Angel Music in Denmark Street last year when I was deciding whether to have a custom Matamp made for me, or buy a vintage Orange AD200. The AD200 they had in there was in an awkward place and I didn't want to risk my back by reaching for it, so I asked the assistant to pick it up. Which he did. At which point both screws/bolts ripped clean through the top and the 27Kg amplifier fell about two feet onto the floor. I decided not to buy it.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mixer-/171418950757?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item27e95d9c65

It's a disguised Rockbass - vendor says that in the description.

[quote name='Bikenbass' timestamp='1410422650' post='2549208'] I have terrible gas for a Rickenbacker, if someone could bring one along? I'll bring a Harley Benton jazz, surprisingly good for the money. [/quote] It's not much of a swop, is it?

The Bass Buddy is a wonderful tool but it's not really designed for live use IMHO. Anyway, it's probably overkill. The Sansamp RBI has two outputs, "Sansamp" and "Uneffected". The Uneffected output has a number of possible uses, including Tuner Out, but my point is that it is an uneffected, unboosted output. Take a lead from Uneffected to the MA400 while you run your 'main' lead from Sansamp to the FOH desk. You'll have lovely clean bass in your IEM.

[quote name='winterfire666' timestamp='1410357313' post='2548501'] music is an art form, a way to express yourself ... [/quote] Not at the school I went to. We played BOTH kinds of music, classical and rock. Classical was for nerds and very embarrassed teenagers who tried to keep quiet about playing the bassoon or the viola. Rock was for long-haired louts who spent a lot of time posing when there were girls nearby, while holding utterly crap guitars with names like 'Avon'. Express yourself? Not so much ...

My signature has four bands but that is a bit misleading ... the real number varies week to week between two and five. Right now The Junkyard Dogs and Karena K are both active, Dani Molino has gone to the States to "find himself" (I tried to tell him that I knew where he was, but he wouldn't listen), and King Ralph has gone dormant until next Spring. Meanwhile I have one new project just getting under way, and another one on the back burner. Life's too short to waste it.