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  1. NancyJohnson
    Sansamp BDDI, Gumtree Reading. £129 (not mine). P [url="http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/sansamp-bass-driver-bdi-vgc-inc-box-and-manual/97336639"]http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/sansamp-bass-driver-bdi-vgc-inc-box-and-manual/97336639[/url]
  2. NancyJohnson
    This is mine. I was enamored/enamoured with the finish on Wolfgang Van Halen's bass from the first comeback tour. I already had the neck and then started sourcing the rest of the bits. It did literally take about two hours to do the paint job (not allowing for overnight drying periods) and I sprayed it in my garden. I've run three or four pickups through it and at present there's a Wilkinson P-Bass style unit under the cover which is wired into the volume control on the guard. The MM at the bridge is dead. P
  3. NancyJohnson
    Don't know whether this qualifies as porn or a lucky purchase. Last night (at about 10.30pm), I was trawling the web looking for a project to paint up and spotted a Gumtree advert, 'Three guitars and an amp' for £50.00. It was local, still available etc. Did a little online detective work. Deal done. I'll give the guitars (an Encore and a Nevada Strat) and the amp (a small Park combo) to my nephew, but the bass is a keeper. The neck had a slight front bow, but tapping the neck I could hear the truss rod rattling. Neck off, adjust, repeat, lovely. Oh, did I mention it's got a set of Schaller machine heads? A ten minute set up and done. I need a couple of chrome knobs and that's sorted. It sounds the nuts to be honest. Very pleased. P
  4. NancyJohnson
    I was looking for some Slinkys and spotted a set for £9.00 with a Buy It Now option. On closer inspection the seller (new/zero feedback) only has one set on there for £9.00 (Baritone)...the price changes considerably for other sets...buyer beware! Never seen this before. It's like dangling a sign for free doughnuts only to find out that they only have one sort that you don't want, but we have these gold-plated ones over here. [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_trkparms=65%253A16%257C66%253A4%257C39%253A1&rt=nc&_nkw=ernie+ball+bass+strings&_dmpt=UK_Guitar_Accessories&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_sop=2&_sc=1"]http://www.ebay.co.u...14&_sop=2&_sc=1[/url] P
  5. NancyJohnson
    You know what that reminds me of? Those old starter basses from the 60/70s...Jedsons. That's pretty nasty. P [quote name='Johnston' timestamp='1330114433' post='1553088'] Got this in my email box tonight [url="http://www.fender.com/en-GB/products/blacktop/models.php/?prodNo=0148700&EDID=D4HFTZV-PRWQ2-3O24I2-Z6XLF-RBRV-v1"]http://www.fender.co...2-Z6XLF-RBRV-v1[/url] [/quote]
  6. NancyJohnson
    Travis Bean 2000 Series #222.
  7. NancyJohnson
    I should add that our guitarist has got a close approximation of the [i]Donny [/i]sound with this pitch shifter pedal he has, but that only leaves him free to do [i]that [/i]sound. P
  8. NancyJohnson
    I looked at that Korg machine a few minutes before I posted up here. It's a stupid price...£40 or something. I think where it hits the spot is that it's just tiny...paperback book size. Small enough for our singer to use it, although I'd probably need to put some dots on the 'keys'!! Cheers P
  9. NancyJohnson
    We're covering Crazy Horses...would like to try and get a cheap/small synth to handle Donny's part and some general droning elsewhere in the set. Realistically something about the size of one of those little 25 key USB/midi ones. Cheers P
  10. NancyJohnson
    Apologies for the tardy response. I bought a Gretsch Electromatic Baritone from an eBay seller around a year ago, black sparkle, cream binding, bolt on neck, Bigsby tremolo. £250 I think. It's currently tuned B-B although I have a set of Fender strings that came with it which I think I can put on and tune E-E. I quite like it...had this vision of me on one side of the stage thundering away and my guitarist on the other doing, well, what it is that he does, but this hasn't happened and it's been limited to home use. It does sound great; I put it through a Line 6 Spider IV 75w combo and tend to prefer playing on some of the more ethereal/haunting presets. It's got a nice tone, stays in tune, tremolo is nice. The only thing I don't like is the strap lock mechanism...the straps lock, but it's not easy to do a quick release. P
  11. NancyJohnson
    [quote name='seashell' timestamp='1329390883' post='1541624'] I went to school with Gary Numan. And my cousin went to school with Jimmy Pursey. [/quote] I went to school with a guy who played both guitar for Gary Numan and keyboards on Sham 69's [i]The Game[/i] album! P
  12. NancyJohnson
    Thank you for the get wells. I had a trigger thumb with ligament complication...the pulley at the base of the thumb was calloused and the ligament inflamed (if I'd got it looked at sooner rather than putting it down to a [i]man strain[/i] it wouldn't have been so bad). To compound this I also had two small lipomas removed as well in a separate procedure on the same day (one on each arm). P
  13. NancyJohnson
    Woke up one morning with pain in my thumb...stiff, achy, clicky. I just put it down to a strain. Wore a support for a while. No improvement. As time went on, I'd wake up in the morning (or the odd afternoon) with my thumb rigid and hooked around towards my palm, but it would loosen up, so I put off seeing a doctor. Playing was a bit of a nightmare as I couldn't bend my thumb backwards behind the neck, so more recently I've had to adapt how I play (more roots, heh). Saw a consultant last month (after much moaning from my wife) and had a forty minute surgery this afternoon. Lovely. I've just popped a couple of painkillers but it hurts like f2ck. I have a gig on 13th March as well. I haven't read a book this year so far...I have a huge pile to start going through! P
  14. NancyJohnson
    ..get it seen to otherwise this might be the result. No bass for me for a few weeks. P
  15. NancyJohnson
    I remember Boy George making some off the cuff remark about the word hideous. The pronounciation [i]hid-e-ous[/i] just meant plain old horrible. Then there was [i]hid-juss[/i] which alluded to something a whole lot worse that just plain horrible. This falls into the latter! It's only good for burnin'. P
  16. NancyJohnson
    I just did a little bit of jizz.
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    Will bought a neck off me...all good. Cheers mate. P
  18. NancyJohnson
    Gone.
  19. NancyJohnson
    For the record, serial number is S844229, which dates it 1977/78, Fullerton plant. Cheers Paul
  20. NancyJohnson
    A couple of months back I bought a replacement neck to go on my Badtz-Maru Bronco...the original neck of which met a grizzly end when I was enlarging the holes for new machines, On arrival from US dealer, I discover the neck has a slight front bow (a couple of mm over it's length), the truss rod is maxxed out and there's a couple cracked (glued/solid) around the heel. So not great. It's been with my tech for a couple of months, he's tweaked just about as much as he dares...the glued repairs are sound and the front bow is about as fixed as it's ever going to be unless you consider replacement of the truss rod. I was considering just having it as a vanity project and just hanging the Bronco on a wall, but I'd sooner see whether anyone would want the neck and machines as a project. I'm almost certain that someone would be able to do something with it. £75 shipped? P
  21. NancyJohnson
    Mr Chairleg! It's been over two months. How's this going? P
  22. NancyJohnson
    He throws in a truly irritating [i]Corbilmey, Mary Poppins[/i] accent once in a while as well.
  23. NancyJohnson
    You know, the one thing that niggles me about my Bongo (and I'm not sure whether this the same for everyone, but there has to be a reasonable degree of parity) is the sensitivity of the controls. I'm so used to playing my other basses flat out (OK, granted they're all passive), with everything ramped up to 100%. The output of the Bongo, even with everything flat and the volume at 100%, makes everything else I own seem like a whimper...add tone and I'm constantly rolling back the volume. P
  24. NancyJohnson
    My Bongo has knobs for master volume, pickup blend, then stack-knobbed control for mid/sweep, bass/treble cut/gain. P
  25. NancyJohnson
    I've had a soft spot for these for many years. Lovely looking bass. P
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