SpondonBassed

Do you not think you could break even, cash-wise, or make a little on it? Labour excluded of course. It is a lovely thing just going by the photos. It certainly sounds like a zinger.

It would be worth making enquiries of Newtone Strings. They made a set of DBEs for me before. Otherwise... it's the clamp!

Very nice. Good sound too. Have you considered trying superwound (piano) strings? I have some lightish ones on my B2A. Incredible sustain and harmonics.

So much electrickery, so much craft. I do like someone who makes a tidy job of the bits that never get seen yet are the essence of the whole.

Swede, pepper & butter* go very well together. *Other spreads are available but they're never quite as good.

Who me? Why? Who have I insulted now? HI ham hinnocent hofficer, honest.

Because it's tasty and healthy. Your opinion may differ but you did ask.

Glad you're such a nerd. Don't you realise that this sort of information is like gold dust to most of us pluckers and plonkers? May the road rise to meet you, may the wind be always at your back.

My heritage is half Celtic. Have you ever had tatties and neeps? Have you ever seen a man with a bald heid? That is all.

Oh you know me so well. Fender seems not to like them. Maybe they detract attention from the Land of the Giants' headstock logo too much...? @neepheid Neepster? If I bought this could you change the neck for a nice Ibby SR series neck for me? If not... knock the price down enough for me to buy one and I can take care of it m'self. Joking aside, I bought a selection of metallic powders to see if mixing them with resin & hardener would work as a metallic looking filler to do an inlay on one of Jack's uke builds. It didn't bling as I'd hoped but it looked eye catching anyway when flatted and buffed. I've still got some somewhere if you want to have a play before you decide how you want to fill the water damage. PM me and I can pop some in the post for you.

Knobs. Eh? Heeheehee. I don't often find myself admiring a knob but those look good.

That's why I called you. Don't tell yourself short. Your posts on speaker design are both fascinating and helpful.

Best wishes for you and your family. Don't sweat it. BC is here for you. Let us know when you land and and you've got a few minutes to spare. Visit the DoI if you need some informal distraction of the nuttier kind. It got a lot of us through lockdown.

Lovely job. Respectful to the original. Didn't Nick Lowe refer to one of these after getting a massive shock on stage? Probably an urban legend, unless someone else knows better. These are the lines I'm referring to from So it Goes.

Paging @Phil Starr. You seem to have a good understanding of cones and horns and the boxes they are mounted in... Andrew (above) is search for his holy grail. Failing that... he'll settle for a good reproduction of Andy Fraser's tone

Welcome Andrew.

So... which is brightest pound for pound, if you get my meaning? I will read your references later.

Which has the better output though?

Very interesting. Although they are radio luminescent and not radioactive in the eeeeeeeek sense. That has set me thinking. I might be able to use one of those with fibre optics Then I'd just have the one battery dependent device on board but still have side dots or fret lines if it's a fretless neck. Thanks for the link. Here's another one https://www.fruugo.co.uk/tritium-gas-tube-luminous-emergency-light-outdoor-edc/p-234280022-500955548?language=en&ac=tradedoubler&utm_source=organic_shopping&utm_medium=organic

Welcome Dan, If you like shorties, you could do a LOT worse than check fellow member @Jabba_the_gut's Build Diaries. Here's one he did earlier - He has made a few very interesting instruments if you browse through the Diaries' sub-forum.

Sounds like you have earned some leverage with a mardy landlord because the landlady clearly knows a good thing when she sees/hears it. Fill your boots and bump your fee. It is well worth it to them if you are keeping trade alive for an extra two hours.

PM incoming...

Do you know who's voice it is? At the time - the seventies - we had a surge of new and exciting scifi on TV and in the cinema. The clip I referenced above reminded me very much of the cantina scene from Star Wars' first release. I don't know quite why. I mean... they sound nothing like each other to me now. Somehow your album evoked that vibe and my imagination did the rest. The cover art also gave off a strong vibe. I had been choosing scifi paperbacks because they tended to have evocative artwork like on the sleeve of V2035. I picked the album out of the rack because I thought it had an image of an overhead UAP (UFO for us older folk) landing at speed. The LP's content did not disappoint even though I had heard nothing like it before. It wasn't until I'd played it for the nth time that I realised the cover image was an artistic view of a phonograph tone arm touching down on an LP as seen from the LP's POV. It certainly sold your work for you in my case.

Gear heads anodise a lot of bolt on goodies for their 'bikes and cars. As colour finishes go, anodising stands out without making ally parts look less metallic and more plastic-y.

I'm bumping this thread because I'm a fan of this album. It turned on lots of my, previously unused, musical taste buds as a teen. It certainly had influenced me when I chose bass as an instrument a couple of years later. As mentioned above, I bought the original release on vinyl. During a house move I recorded a lot of my vinyl onto good quality four track cassette. The tape is now quite audibly degraded. I was delighted to see that the band had re-released their album on CD. I had quite a little adventure getting a hold of a legitimate copy, heeheehee. There's a bit of speech on there that felt a kinda scifi to my young ears but it was backwards. On the vinyl version you could reverse spin it to understand the opening to track 2 - At the Gates. It's not something that you'd normally be able to do on a disc player however. I thought I'd just drop this here for laughs. Visitor2035SmallStep.mp3