ziggydolphinboy

love them tooo, beutiful, and everytime you play them the love and connection you have with youre mum (even though she is in a far away place) will shine through and create beutiful music. exellent choices kindest regards. hope youre loss eases as these basses inspire you . ziggy.

Chuck heres some picys of the spector for you .

my usa 5 thinking of selling /trying to sell/ very confused!!!! not sure what to do???

[quote name='chuck_stones' post='1219182' date='May 3 2011, 09:02 PM']Yeah, it runs right the way up from top to tail. A rather beautiful addition which reminds me of some of the Ritter basses I've seen, like the last one on [url="http://www.ritter-instruments.com/available.php"]this[/url] page [/quote] had this bass for a while absolutely loved it (it made me buy my usa 5 string spector) the tone on this bass imho is better than my usa spectoR!! would buy it back again had to trade it to get my sei 4 , but this is the closest youll get to a. a usa spector and b. a doug wimboush model for under a grand , this is a very early chech spector and was advised that the through body wings and the neck etc are a bit speciel, i upgraded to gold knobs!!! enjoy!!!!

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='1210904' date='Apr 25 2011, 02:28 PM']Wow. That's gotta sound fierce. [/quote] yeah its a bit of a beast but the electrics seem to be a bit niosy which i gotto sort out!!! the dip swicth pops on the midrange when you change it over and there is alot of niose but it will be wicked when i get it sorted

hi guvnor, its from bulgaria ,its made by a guy called zvento, its a copy of al elrick jazz , its got nortstrands and an agy 3band with a vtc pot too!! and its got mid switch and passive active, its lovely but there are a couple of issues with the bass just small ones. im sorry i havent got bak to u regarding head but i got another deal im working on too so just looking at dough situation! the way the neck is in the pocket i rekon it will be hard to get it shimmed up. i goto go to the gallery soon anyways so ill take it in glad you are well mate youre Wal is stunning. ziggy.

[quote name='Delberthot' post='1210638' date='Apr 25 2011, 09:18 AM']If its buzzing at the bottom end then that would indicate not enough relief in the neck. The way I've always done it (which may or may not be correct) is that if I'm getting buzzing in the lower frets then I need to add more relief and if the higher frets are buzzing then I need to straighten the neck more. If it buzzes the full length of the neck then I just need to raise the action. If the bridge saddles bottom out, ie you can't lower them anymore but the action is still too high for you then that would be the time to shim the neck. i don't have any pics but I usually cut out a section of my worktop edging so that it fits in from the body end and just comes past the neck screws nearest the body and then cut out enough to let the screws miss it if that makes sense. The super step strings won't make a difference to the action of the bass other than you have to raise the bridge saddles to compensate for the lack of mass as the strings pass over the saddles. I think they're more for sound difference rather than helping you acheive lower action[/quote] yeah thank you guvnor , i just realised as well that shimmimng the neck may not work beacause of the shape of the neck /pocket, the top nut is weird = it has a nut and a zero fret, so i guess the nut is just a string guide and the zero fret is a zero fret , so im now thinking that the zero fret could mayb need relpacing or the string guide/nut changed and do away with the zero fret, ill take it to the boys down the gallery as i wanna give the bass a chance rather than moving it on!!!! cheers again ive added pics of relief at pickups and the side veiw of the nut . enjoy.

oh well two hrs later still alot of buzzing at the first few frets till about the 8th fret, can only eliminate it by raising the action then the strings seem tight!!!! it may need a new nut/zero fret as the neck is definately not gonna change enough by the truss rod alone!!!! trip to the gallery me thinks!! ill leave the neck to settle for a few days night all. zigs

cheers guys ill mayb need to do it regards ziggy

Hi guys and gals and those that can go either way!!!! I got a beutiful bass with hipshot brigde , and a nut but also has a zero fret,its a cracking bass for the dough i paid but, im happy with the action near the nut but when it gets near to the pickups its queit high, i have set the truss rod with a little relief and the hipshot brigde saddles are queit low. Im gonna put some new super step strings on the bass and hope this is enough to lower the strings near the pickups. but it may still be a tad high so im thinking about shimming the neck its a bolt on neck. So how do i shim the neck ? do you use plastic spacers(1mm would prob do it) or wood or metal , is it more a luthiers job? kindest regards ziggy.

well ive had some experiences over three weekends that actually at one piont last weekend nearly brought me to tears!!!!! heres the deal 11 piece band playing , towerof power, incognito, brand new heavies, all sorts of funk stuff,soul ballands,jamaraqoi ,steveie wonder .... 5 star hotels all around the world everything paid for! get the picture ..... we all come from all over the country and reherse in cornwall, so the whole weekend is tied up. 1st rehersal girl singer (main singers wife) and guitarist (who ive known for years) havent learnt a bean... to it being a tad embarrasing,,, i didnt care as all my parts were nailed 2nd rehersal, girl singer , guitarist had forgot what they learnt in first rehersals and also didnt learn anything new. i nailed all my parts and was constantly being asked by the band (except for the horns who can read ,i cant) what i had written down as i had made notes throughout the two rehersals. 3rd rehersal. 5 days before we are due to go down to cornwall the guitarist wants to pull out (1st major gig in june to 500people!) so as im kind i went to his house told him his good (he is a blinding player) and he had 3 days to learn the tunes. drove down with him... 1st,2,3,4,5,tune was dreadfully embarrassing, and then the day and his playing got worse to the piont where i had to keep asking to play my part with vocals and drums only to prove that my playing and notes were right(guitarst conveneintly put his amp directly next to mine), as the day drew on i got even more pissed with him when he was reading my notes playing my root notes and i had to piont were we were in the tune with my right hand while still trying to finger the notes with my left hand!!!!!!!! then he asked if before the next rehersal i could pop round his so he can write my hand written notes out!! sunday was even worse and i at one piont wanted to cry when he was complimented for 1 solo that he got right!!!!!! so im absolutely gutted and am very cross but above all that dissapionted that he himself/girl singer hasnt put thier hands up and admitted that he hasnt listedne to the tunes ( all the middle 8s and brigdes of the tunes he didnt even know, and kept telling me how to play the tune) whereas i saidas there are 3 tunes out of 26 that i admitted i needed to work on . gutted everyone really am. ... guitarists eh!!

[quote name='Daquifsta' post='1199823' date='Apr 14 2011, 07:45 PM']Just a little update. I decided I didn't like either of those body shapes, so went back to pen and paper and had another crack at it. Anyway, this new idea is the result. [attachment=77521:thumb3.JPG] Controls are in quite daft positions just now, but it's easy to fiddle about with a design while it's still in the computer. All comments and suggestions gratefully accepted :-)[/quote] like it alot except for the top horn but thats just my opinion dude looks cool maybe make the top horn not so busy more elegent ( maybe a bit longer) or what about making the top horn into a singlecut ? regards ziggy.

wow dude cool, i foolishly worked out roughly how much my costum made sei woud cost and i think i stopped at about 3300 !!! and i got two great ides that i know would fire Martin up but they would cost even more to do! ill start saving!!!! sei bases are wicked, z