Geek99

Beginners don’t have that confidence If they get it wrong it sounds dreadful and many or even most will give up. Make it easy for them to sound good. Using a tuner is a good crutch and it’s not an imprisonable offence Even if you sound rubbish to a practised ear just doing your exercises to a simple drum beat is a good confidence boost. Metronomes are valuable but sap the soul and confidence of a beginner. I think sometimes we forget here what it’s like to have zero confidence, knowledge, experience and guided input and adopt a very 1930s attitude to learning. Make it fun and confidence-boosting and more people will stick at it

Why a five string squier?

I just use the ampeg sound and headphones

I use a zoom for practice and it’s fabulous if I go to a gig or OM night I just plug it into the PA

Doesn’t look like a number 2...

I've used one, albeit a jazz bass body and it was a total swine to grain-fill. I finished it out of dogged determination but if i'd had any sense I'd have burned it. See my Olympic White jazz with a difference build diary thread. As an aside, the back jazz pup rout was wrong, having the size of a bridge pup, but the lug placement of a neck pup. The jury is out on the neck rout as I've not yet found time to fix the neck issue

I am old and I like them too

Maybe they could have scanned it with straight pages though.

So ... here’s one I knocked up in ten minutes using Lego painted black and a few cotton wall balls. Sarcasm aside ... fabulous

You forgot “accept no substitute” and “keep it simple”

wear sunglasses?

Any ? 😛 not a bad I ever got into

You sound like Jeremy f ucking Corbyn

Ok forget the flowers, it’s a lost cause

thanks - I've seen imperfections now and I feel a whole lot better. You should get her a bunch of flowers. Today

Can you stop doing all this so f ucking perfectly? I want to see pics where the chisel slipped, where you misread 3mm as 30mm and drilled a huge hole through the finger board making the truss rod embed itself in the wall, probably quivering slightly through its suddenly unleashed energy like a bad cartoon arrow grrr

Three a Vintage stingray clone bass doc 70s style p bass relic in 3tsb Olympic white stack knob jazz (home made) and a paragon acoustic that is my daughters

Hi - I’m in Orlando Oct 3rd 2020 if you fancy a beer ?

Or you could just kill them, and then spit on them afterwards. They won’t do it again

I have some lovely celluloid tort if you want it.

I bought Leigh Gordon’s jazz bass - it had relief that would make Jameson smile and it needed a really good clean

Relic ?

Thought it was the London bass guitar show ...?