SpondonBassed

There is something very satisfying about how you've embedded that carving. I find a similar advantage with my two paddle basses. If you use an inline jack plug the location of the socket (at the lower edge of the paddle) puts the plug in the way of your thigh sometimes. A recipe for instant crackling, if not the sort you'd get in a bag of scratchings. If however, you use a right angled jack, the body of the jack swivels nicely behind the paddle's body and the cable runs neatly up to the strap from behind. Tidy.

Your diligence has paid off. That cab looks solid.

We blew-in nearly twenty years ago. We'll never be considered Old Spondonians. You know of it?

That great if you are Sir Patrick Moore and you want to play your xylophone like a keytar.

We've ALL heard that one before. Welcome to the forum John.

I know. Right?

It's already been done.

Aw. I've already posted the photo for that on the DoI thread.

Yes. Because that won't brush off when it's dried up.

I hope the tour goes well for her. I have been known to tap an odd toe or three (because they're webbed) to her tunes on the radio. I don't however feel inclined to buy any of her material on the strength of what I've heard so far. Hearing that she uses a gob-iron on nearly every live tune is a deal breaker. Pass.

Alarmist Marmoset!

What was it then @Teebs?

If you shine one around your own gaff it might make you feel like a Jackoff Pillock.

A well rounded musician should have no problem at all with those.

Angular.

Welcome Bob (again).

Tell 'em you'll spend your wedge elsewhere from now on.

Welcome Chrissy.

That would make an interesting thread.

Congrats! You shouldn't have too much bother finding strings for it with it being a four. I had a bit of difficulty with my XT25 when I wanted a simple set of DBE wirewounds. Ordering from a major outlet in Derby took longer than it took Newtone to make some for me. When the shop rang to say the strings were in, I had already bedded in a light intermediate set from our local string maker. I'd consider modding my four string Hohner with the detuner bridge. I like the build quality and tone of the much older Hohner B2A. They're both good fun.

Having lived in and loved Dublin for many years of my early life I'd say leave the control plate off. Even if I hadn't got that connection I think it would be a shame to spoil the balance of the graphic. No control plate needed. It would detract from the effect of the graphic.

Welcome GFM.

Piano strings have an additional feature that used to be commonly available in sets of bass strings. They have no windings over the saddle. This means that it is just the core wire of each string is fixed at the saddle thus leaving the strings a little more free to vibrate. With these you can get close to piano tone with careful adjustment of technique and eq. Combined with multi-scale, you could get even closer to piano tone. Piano wound or Superwound bass strings, as they are sometimes called are not so commonly available now.