SpondonBassed

I didn't get to watch the download of this until this morning. It's a great start to hump day, thank you.

That sounds like a plan.

I'm interested in the Nordstrand vs Bartolini debate that is sometimes mentioned in the forum. Although one of my basses has Bartolinis, they are the mkIs. I have read that these are licenced by Bartolini but not as good as genuine ones. I suppose it's a bit like the Fender/Squier thing. I may upgrade to "real" Barts one day but the ones I have are satisfactory for this hobby bassist at the moment. Never the less, I am keeping one eye on the two brands for news as it seems folk tend to choose one or the other, Bart or Nordy, when doing upgrades at this level. May I ask, @Len_derby, what made your decision to go for Nordstrand and was that having taken Bartolini into account as one of the candidates?

Way back in my youth we'd sometimes see one of the aircraft painters stoned on MEK (Methyl Ethyl Keytone). The solvent was used liberally by the paint shop as a general purpose cleaner during the preparation of aircraft components before two-pack paints were applied. These cure fully in a couple of hours due to a hardener chemical. The chap concerned was a large Dublin man who could not be told about safety and more to the point; how to do his job. He was close to retirement. He'd have a rag that was saturated with the stuff hanging out of his overall pocket while doing the prep. This had the effect of giving him a vapour rich atmosphere to breath where ever he was. We reckoned he was displaying visible signs of brain damage like tremors, memory loss and mood swings. It was the eighties. Nuff said. Carry on.

Crack a whip why don't you? Heeheehee. There will be a link but we haven't finished assembling the bits to go on the other end of it yet. Have no fear however, Basschat elves are busy behind the scenes creating the pilot episode for your appraisal. We're aiming for the end of June when we hope to launch the very first one. It's early days. It's also encouraging to see the positive reaction to the project. Thank you.

Ouch. Having allergic rhinitis, I sympathise. When a sneeze spasm seizes attention from what you are doing it can be awkward at best. Are you sure the answer is to thin the neck even more? I know you are to glue on a strip but are you confident that the full strength of the neck would be restored?

I have the active version of the Hohner, the B2A and much like yourself I wanted a five string paddle bass. I got a price matching deal from the then Digital Village and bought a new Steiny Spirit XT25. It's passive. I have always felt that the Hohner was a bit better somehow. It feels solid and well finished. There is nothing wrong with the Steiny but it feels a little rougher. I really can't put my finger on it and I love both basses to bits. The Steiny now has Stainless flats on which made the B a little tighter. It's hard to get sets of five DBEs in flats. I was lucky to get a set of Picato DBEs from a member here. They're both fun.

Gotcha! But yes, it's nuttier than a squirrel eating Topic bars sat on a hundred weight bag of castellated nuts.

It's not a fold out and there isn't even a track list. Nicely minimalist for the times I suppose. I think you get a better offering with the deluxe version but I am a tight git as well as a miserable one.

I don't think the 2018 sleeve is quite the same somehow but it still won me over. I want to be the phantom sheet whistler when I grow up.

I can guess what that tin would frequently end up storing. Heeheehee Happy daze.

Welcome James. Let me just warn you; this won't be the first purchase you are likely to make as a result of the GAS. I hope you get great mileage from it.

Isn't Doncaster the home of the Bangin' Donk? Must ask Mark Radcliffe next time I see him.

That must have been because he was busy with his massive hit - Tower Bridge. (I still own that single)

Has Unwin the younger got the gift?

Is there not room for both analogue and digital? I find folk tend to get polarised towards one or the other when in fact you can have the best of both worlds with a bit of thought.

I've just bought the Vinyl LP of Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake on impulse. (For anyone in marketing, the sleeve made the sale.) I wasn't familiar with the album as a whole so when I got to Side Two it blew me away. Side one ends with the classic single Lazy Sunday. Turn the album over and Stanley Unwin takes you for a fanciful ride as he narrates the Small Faces version of an original fairy tale about a boy called Happiness Stan. The tale unfolds over the entire second side in six tracks with Stanley (mis)guiding you through the story in a way that you think you understand but; do you really? He starts the tale with the words: "Are you all sitty comfibold two-square on your botty? Then I'll begin..." Masterpiece!

In life you sometimes get a little grubby from hanging around places your parents warned you against. The trick is to survive it and, without throwing the baby out with the bathwater so to speak, rid yourself of the trappings of the music game that have nothing at all to do with playing your instrument. From what you say it appears that you have emerged from your bath smelling of roses and still playing. Well done, you've earned yourself an extended kip. Get your brakes sorted ASAP.

How do you prevent the fretboard from curling as you install the frets? Is it just the adhesive tape on the template?

Let me know when they recreate Lennon and Yoko's bed-in will you? Oh how I larfed reading that. Very happy to hear the upside. Well done.

Vantage - I have a fretless one from the eighties that I got to replace a month old fretless Squier Jazz. The Squier had a dead spot midway along the fingerboard. It has a P/J pup configuration and when I replaced the chewy roundwounds (as supplied with the new bass) with nylon wrapped flats it got even better.

That's getting close to something like this: Just saying.

Cheers Josie. It'll be a help to the podcast team down the line.

These should bring you up to date: Basschat Podcast Basschat Podcast Q&A I was thinking about an LED colour changer in the body that is piped out through the neck via fibre optics. Probably a bit ambitious.

It's not really a project yet but for a long time I've wanted to do a neck for myself with lit side dots. I'm not fond of the front facing ones. They are a bit vulgar and are of no use to me while playing. That said, a bit of flash harry can get you noticed when you are surrounded by equals. Along you came with the notion of a sandwich of timber and plastic... What I might do is make a body with a sandwich filling of translucent material. I'd light it from within so as it defines the body outline of the bass when the stage lighting goes down then just buy a neck with LED side dots. There are some wrinkles in my plan that I need to work out. Of course it could be another of my fanciful flights through my own imagination but you did ask. PS: On reading back I realised that you might be asking about the project I said I had just subscribed to. That's the Basschat podcast.