steve

I'd say have a go and take your time, I did it to an old westone thunder II - and subsequently sold it on ebay for about £70 IIRC. As mentioned above, you need to fill in the fret gaps, I used strips of veneer from an antiques restoration supplier. They fitted the gaps perfectly. I used a soldering iron to warm the frets and melt the glue a bit and then gently lift them out with a set of pliers

[quote name='Machines' post='11663' date='Jun 4 2007, 07:54 AM']A natural finish on the Bongo does help a bit in masking it's shape, I like.[/quote] IMHO that particular natural finish spoils the lines - now if it had some kind of burl top on it, I'd be selling my kids to get my hands on it!

There's also Ged Green in Stockport

bongo

+1for the dunlop power brick

I've used [url="http://www.hotroxuk.com/store/erol.html"]hotrox[/url] before, a good experience in every way

Dave, Oxblood, Acidbass - thanks for those replies, all very interesting and thought provoking, marky, sorry if I hijacked your thread

[quote name='DHA' post='8537' date='May 29 2007, 11:42 AM']Hi, I work with Barry at Torres UK and can recommend their kits, in fact the Super Boxers are my design. They are guitar amps but I would be happy to help Torres with the re-design required for bass. Dave[/quote] Hi Dave, what are the differences between a valve guitar head and valve bass head? I've often wondered whether they're interchangeable

[quote name='pete.young' post='7793' date='May 27 2007, 08:24 PM']You need to have a chat with that nice Mr. Torres![/quote] the link is [url="http://www.torresamps.com/index.htm"]here[/url], I've been looking at this site a lot myself lately. I want to build backup for my pignose to the same spec but I've other jobs pending

excellent, thanks

blimey, now yer asking, I'm 42, married with 2 kids, full time self employed, my other obsession besides bass is martial arts. i've played bass for about 15 yrs, after playing guitar for about the same lenght of time before hitting a musical brick wall. I play a EBMM bongo4HH which is by far and away the most satisfying bass I've played, along with an early Roscoe LG3000, which is pretty close, and a Cort fretless BFL4. I'm playing into a Pignose B100V all valve combo which sounds lush, when the valves don't crash and burn influences are very difficult to nail down because there are so many, but I'm listening to Muse and Led Zepp currently, and my long term fave is Red Snapper playing in a covers/originals band, we're in the process of recruiting a drummer before we start gigs again doing a mix of new/old rock covers and some of our own. that about covers it I think

EBMM Bongo 4HH, lovely on another note, Nate, you're myTube vid is cool, nice groove mate

how about here? [url="http://www.auto-connect.co.uk/acatalog/heavy-duty-6.3mm-jack-right-angle-mono-3684.html"]plugs :-)[/url]

hello, here's me new name (formally phatbassdood, but time for a change) so errr hi