kodiakblair

Aye, me too 👍

OK, can't see how removing a 0.6mm veneer will ruin a £120 bass but you never know.

Mate of mine in Kenya has one of these. To save any QC hassles he gets the goodies sent to me, I give them the once then off they go to the shipping agent in London. Afraid I never payed the slightest attention to the inlays. Oh, you can swap the nut,replace the tuners, try another piezo element or change the preamp. In other words, you can mod it easily enough.

Probably not. Kirsty might have went with "maggot" but punters didn't. Bands playing covers is a bit like karaoke, music for an audience sing-a-long. If audience grew up hearing the original singer sing a certain line, that's what they'll sing.

If ever I needed concrete evidence I'm "down with the kids", it's this thread. Just this minute finished looking for one 😃

@Dan Dare I'm well aware of the reasons why shops carry certain stock. My post was to highlight how pointless a planned long weekend of visiting Central Scotland music shops would be. A group of us were through in Glasgow for a mate's 40th, 4 guitar players and 2 bass players. Every music shop we could think of was visited ,inc the cash convertor/Tron Pawn type places. Nobody had even the slightest interest in the wares for sale.

You couldn't fill a short weekend talking rubbish in Edinburgh or Glasgow music shops. Lucky if they host a dozen shops between them. Of those dozen, 90% stock nothing more exciting than entry level Cort, Squier or Ibanez. Hell Fire, you can't even buy a set of La Bella strings from a shop up here.

Not as cheap as you'd think. 20 year back CF was $150 per lb, by 2008 it was down to $10 per lb. Next few years it's expected to hover around $5 to $7. What does a neck weigh, 2 lbs ? These Klos folks use an awful lot of CF with their products, to them it'll be no different than buying in timber. Another thing to remember is those are pre-order prices. If the products take off, prices will jump. Those RedSub fanned frets went from £280 to £370 over just 8 months.

Is there a need to cut corners ? The Apollo Pro is £1500 without VAT or import duty. Fishman pickups are £200 inc the EQ /battery clip etc. Tusq nut is £10. Ash blank £60. Bridge is a copy of the Gotoh 404BO , £90. Tusq tuners, another £80. Premium gigbag , £20. I make that £460 but those are retail prices inc VAT. A US company could knock off say 30% off for buying wholesale, probably more than 30% since VAT here is 20%. Leaves roughly £1200 for the CF neck and scratchplate. CF neck from Status is £500 inc VAT. Since this business is already up and running all tooling/machining and suppliers are already in place. I wouldn't expect their costs to be higher than Rob's. The idea was partly funded by Kickstarter to the tune of $60k, decent amount to iron out any hiccups .

It's a common misunderstanding, helped along by Scott Groves calling the G-bass a "poor man's Modulus". Modulus provided the necks for the B-Quad basses but not the G-basses, when asked Geoff Gould confirmed it was nothing to do with them. The Bell & Carlson connection was provided by retired Peavey head mechanical engineer and sadly missed good friend Ronnie Goss. Have a Happy Heavenly Birthday tomorrow Ronnie.

Decent enough basses. A very valid point. Peavey were quite late to the CF party (1997) and they took a novel approach. Under size necks were sent to a gun stock company , Bell & Carlson, for a carbon wrap. There was some problems getting a nice weave pattern, problem solved by a solid black finish 🙂 Peavey GV was a 5 string, essentially a CF neck Cirrus 5'er.

This week a bundle of goodies arrived from Ross. Same as before, completely painless transaction.

Is there space for sustain ?

A more substantial bridge should stop string vibrations from escaping into the body. It's never an exact science, I've a bass with nothing but a strip of Corian acting as a bridge. There's very string vibration felt on that bass.

If you mean sustain, I'd say No 😃 The old Peavey T-40, of which I've owned several, has a huge bridge. Hefty base plate, chunky saddles and it weighs almost 2lbs. Now when folk talk about the T-40, they mention the weight (12lbs on average). They mention the tone circuit. They'll say "first CNC build bass guitar", partly true they were built using early CNC but they were not the first. Trouble finding a TR tool is a common topic. 18th fret ski jump due to poor TR design sometimes gets an airing. Nobody every utters the sustain word despite T-40s being strung through body, another thing some folks claim adds sustain 😀

The exact same size. For PBXN/JBXN all that happens is the ceramic magnets on PBX/JBX get swapped for Neodymium. Valentine's have the dimensions on the product pages. https://valentineguitars.co.uk/products/ols/categories/alan-entwistle-pickup-design

@Iron1 Just measured the height of a JBXN I had laying in the drawer. 25mm top of pole piece to bottom of magnet. If I can unearth the PBXN I'll post the size for it too 👍 Mind I mention Duncan QPs and Entwistles. Screenshot of a short clip recorded in Audacity. Identical basses, same strings, same pickup heights and same recording settings Duncans first.

@Iron1 No idea how they would fare against EMG selects but they wipe the floor with Duncan QPs. Entwistle Neos use a pretty standard wire count so its quite even Tone, output comes from the super strong magnets. QPs use a high wire count to boost the output, the high count affects the Tone.

@Iron1 28mm rings a bell for the split-p. The magnets arent the problem, only 6mm x 6mm. It's the pole pieces are long screws. Dab of white paint on the bottom of pole pieces, drop in the pickup cavity. Still sink holes for the poles. White paint gives the position of the holes.

Aye,the fellae collects loads of stuff. Along side cival War cannons he has a Ferrari rotting ways in his garden.

@OllyW I've a hazy memory that the TB Tutmarc owner also has the first P-bass to roll off the production line.

Old news to me. My pal ,Rick Wilson (Moonshine Guitars), did the restoration work on the Tutmarc hanging in Seattle's Pop Museum.