Owen

[quote name='scojack' timestamp='1428171100' post='2738808'] Thanks Cloud. ..'ere why don't you give it a go? [/quote] Yep, it looks so easy.

[quote name='Owencf' timestamp='1423679331' post='2687893'] i patched my blisters up with a dab of superglue once its broken to hold the skin together a bitty longer to allow the meat under to toughen a little. [/quote] Superglue before the event. As soon as you get to the stage of thinking "hmmm...I might blister up here" then put a layer of glue on. It holds everything together. I have not blistered for years and in no way keep my right hand match fit because my gigging is MUCH more infrequent these days.

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1427739348' post='2733719'] Thanks Owen. What do you think of the acoustic sound of the classical? Both in terms of loudness and sound quality. [/quote] Acoustically it is similar to a standard electric being played acoustically. Not very beefy. But it is an exceptionally nice instrument. Did I actually need it? No.

My thin bodied Electro classical thing has arrived. Struggling to find anything wrong with it. Just for reference, my 5 string acoustic bass had a body the size of a small planet and the neck was placed in a way which meant the nut was pretty far away.

I cannot think of any other way to say this and I am aware that it could be misconstrued, but you know what I mean. Your body shape is very graceful.

Here is my Uberhorn 5. I bought it on here in a fit of GAS. It came with a bridge pickup and an ACG filter pre. I knew that I loved the instrument but I also could not get on with the electrics. I sold it and had sellers remorse about 12 months later. I tracked it down through the internet and bought it back. I sent it back to Jon to have the neck pickup routed and got a pair of pickups made my Aaron Armstrong. They both house 1 J pickup and half a P pickup so, in the words of Hannah Montana, I have the best of both worlds. The controls are Vol/Tone/Dummy/Dummy with a 5 way selector in the middle giving various options of combinations. The pickups are close enough together to make the halving of the P pickup a non issue. I have brought the pickups up to be almost touching the strings which gives me the ramp thing. I had some Luminlay markers put into the side of the neck. I am not convinced that light side dots + maple was my best idea ever. [URL=http://s8.photobucket.com/user/peredur/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20150328_144321_zpsmy4oy6tl.jpg.html][IMG]http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a49/peredur/Mobile%20Uploads/20150328_144321_zpsmy4oy6tl.jpg[/IMG][/URL] The first time I saw an Uberhorn I knew I would eventually own one because the aesthetic is just so well balanced. It has also introduced me to the 33" scale which I am loving. I had always been Mr 35" but this has proved that there are always alternatives. While I am at it here is a Shuker body which I picked up on here and then had Firecreek make up a neck, huge pickup cover and do general routing screwing together stuff. I fell in love with a rosewood neck in some Alpher pictures so that is what I had made. The fingerboard is part of the orginal rosewood plank and is extended because the hole was there but there was no point fretting it up there due to access so it acts as a nice ramp. [URL=http://s8.photobucket.com/user/peredur/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20150226_212609_zpsn3bx59j2.jpg.html][IMG]http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a49/peredur/Mobile%20Uploads/20150226_212609_zpsn3bx59j2.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

I took the tele as well. It is my left handed friend's birthday today. I added it to the batch so as to avoid postage costs

It is official, I have to stop following this thread. I bought a PJ5 and the nylon strung. One of the cheaper nylons arrived a couple of days ago. Shockingly sharp fret ends (but I have a file) and astoundingly white.

It is just as well that I cannot think of a use for this. I am fighting pretty hard to not bid.

And then I got an email saying that they have run out of stock

I got it. Just what I needed. The guy I bought the acoustic for loves playing bass but the acoustic is the size of a small country. I have flogged that and the Jazz will be fine and dandy for him. Thanks again.

Thanks for the heads up.

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1426631389' post='2720234'] Standard Jazz Bass Deko [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_jb_20_sb_standard_seri_deko.htm"]Harley Benton JB-20 SB Standard Seri Deko [/url] Also, classical guitar and some sort of SG copy. EDIT: SG gone. JB still there. £27 and change. Classical guitar is now £13.82. The Euro must still be heading south. [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_cg200ce_bk_deko.htm"]http://www.thomann.d...0ce_bk_deko.htm[/url] [/quote] JB gone now

Lots of amps will do it. The HUGELY important bit is that her pickup is correctly buffered. Even if the instrument has a vol control that does not necessarily mean that it has a proper buffering pre-amp. It will sound like drek without one. It is all in the pre-amp.

[quote name='cameltoe' timestamp='1426536699' post='2719098' Playing P basses has become more and more of a struggle in the last couple of years, coupled with a bit of pain if I'm honest. This led to me having the neck of my Roadworn P bass slightly slimmed to standard P width (1.625"), which helped a bit, but the neck still felt wide [u][b]up around the 5th fret and onwards.[/b][/u] [/quote] That's where the problem is. Stop it. You are playing bass.

I have always used washers on my strap buttons, but sometimes my straps are too thick so they work the anchoring screws loose. Sometimes I like to play without a strap when I am sitting down, and taking it off when it is all screwed down with washers is impossible. I have recently found these http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/231353319272?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT and they are great. Just saying.

I had not noticed the sub as well. A combination of both would be quite the thing.

Ahhhhhhh, another scojack build thread. I love these

http://barefacedbass.com/product-range/FR800.htm Very interesting. Marketed as PA cabs, but I would imagine that one of these + a nice preamp and you are good to go.

[quote name='JohnPaulJones' timestamp='1426210151' post='2715788'] He sold me a Shuker for an unbelievably good price a few moons ago...and I will one day get it back off him! [/quote] Then I chased it around the internet until I got it back. If you think you are ever getting it back ...............