Owen

One of my students has a CP and it is lush beyond. I keep having to stop myself from buying one, and my keyboard skills are legendary. But not in a good way.

All the sharps!

I must admit, it is where I get most pleasure in BC.

Hubba hubba!

Ah! I have just found the actual ordering page. Ummmm...... i think I might have to go in anyway. I have been looking for this exact service for about 6 years.

He does replacement machine head "ears" in wood. I am going to be all over those like a bad rash.

I saw Cory Henry and The Funk Apostles with two drummers. I knew there would be two drummera and thought "why?". But then the gig happened. It was absolutely immense. The funk was served up in huge slabs. It was the bomb.

Back in the days when I desgined amps (in my head) I always fancied something like this. A 10" combo with a MASSIVE power amp in it so that I had something small to carry around and rehearse with but it would plug into a larger cab and drive it hard for air-shifting duties.

While I was doing a degree in Dead German Composers last century I found a couple of broken Double Basses left to die in a hot dry room. Snapped headstock on one and neck + 1/4 of the back clean off on the other. All the joints were dry and opening. I asked the Prof about buying them and he told me to get them valued. I drove down to one of the name Luthiers in London who told me the snapped neck one was beyond economic repair and the other needed £3K of work and would then be worth £3k - so it was worthless. The Dept gave me both and a local Luthier did the nicer one up for £300 + giving him the one with a snapped off neck. I have since spent more on it putting a 5 string neck on. I have raging bass guitar GAS but have never wanted another DB. Polishing it with a pad on a drill using Autosol Chrome polish brought the shine up lovely The year before that (still a student) I did a job that payed £400 by cheque. It arrived and I asked my friend what I would do with that? He told me to go and buy his old bass which the guy he had flogged it to was not using. This bloke opened the flight case and there was a knackered old Jazz which (to my eyes at the time) looked just like Jaco's. I bought it on the spot for £400 and used it happily for years and then had it out on loan to various students once I moved to 5 strings. It turned out to be a dot/bound/lollipop 66 J all original. I still have it and if I could graft a B onto it would want for no other.

I think we deserve a name.

I am (now) aware that keeping it all matt and suede like is not an option, but the colour without the shinyness makes me want to take sandpaper to a bass NOW!

All good. Geoff, to take it to the next level you could put the string winding attachment on an electric drill. It gets it all done in a jiffy!

Thanks.

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Satin, satin, satin! Good choice on the matching headstock.

I get and understand the ebony maple combo. But the Purpleheart brings THE FUNK!

VERY yes! That blue is lush. I am afraid I am going to add to the chorus asking for a matching headstock.

Sorry I'm late guys.

Shmoooooth.

For me, round cores are more squishy or rubbery. I like them.

I was hoping you might volunteer, Yes, it was the Squeezer. Fun sounds but an interface which was utterly closed to me.

The business would actually be someone who says "I will sell you patches which will make the MC6 or MC8 function like you want it to function". I am still traumatised by my time with that synth pedal from Australia that I have (probably deliberately) forgotten it's name.

I have often fancied a thinner bass body. Are Ken Smiths thin or is that just an optical illusion?

Shame about the weight. There is an elegnace in it's simplicity.