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Everything posted by Owen
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I have just clocked that I missed the 39" Shuker Sorry you could not make it.
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Great bass player, but a Columbus copy in the style of for £1k?
Owen replied to prowla's topic in eBay - Weird and Wonderful
That is real dedication. I often say that we are in the golden age of luthiery. This is becuase it is virtually impossible to buy a new bass that cannot be persuaded to play nicely with a good setup. My first bass was a Columbus. It was absolutely dire. -
Nonononono. No 'plate on it. That would spoil the fabulous juxtaposition.
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We truly live in the golden age of luthiery. A CNC machine is the same in premium production facilities and in my shed. Pickup are wires and magnets - nothing else. Plenty of UK winders who will do what is needed if you want an upgrade without using the usual supects to deliver THE TOOOOOOOOOOOOONE. A decent set up will render 99.9% of instruments available today totally ready to gig. I am as guilty as anyone on here (and guiltier than most) about obsessing about top end kit - but last weekend's Bassbash let me learn (yet again) that what is out there is lovely, but not necessarily any better than what I own and will certainly not make me a better player or get me better gigs. A case in point is my son's experience last weekend. He was working sound for a name band to rehearse before they left for the US this coming Friday. The bassist rolled in with a Squier P bass he bought for £35. At a guess it had been set up well. He played and it made a bass noise.
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G&L skimp on shielding full stop. This is not reserved for their Tribute models. Strange for a company who have been doing what they have been doing for so long and BANG ON about quality product. You can buy a L-1000 pickup and whack it into an LB-100 with a made up L-1000 wiring loom - job's a good'un.
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You can do all sorts of things with them.
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It is so weird with white pickup covers. I used to think they were the beyond tasteless. Now I cannot get enough of them in bright coloured basses.
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A buffing pad on a drill makes them really shiny! And wears the varnish off if you are too enthusiastic. This is something else I do not want to discuss.
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For the next one, could there be a section where people could put items for sale?
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The day I discovered winding machine heads with an adapter on a drill was a great day. I even unscrew one end of the machines to wind on by hand. But I also hate it.
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I did not get the bass. I got the basses. It was a good day.
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Andyjr1515 is nothing if not thorough
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I am afraid they do. There is a rash of re-imagining Vivaldi's Four Seasons around at the moment. For the record I have not listened to the cover at the top of the thread but I was listening to the Live and Dangerous album last night. A band is only as good as it's drummer. Brian Downey is a total master - he has sublime feel.
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I tell a lie. I have snapped a B string as well. But that was due to shockingly poor tuning peg technique and it getting wedged inside the peg box.
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Respect is due. I have only managed to snap one DB string in 40 years. And that was because I was tuning it an octave higher than I should have. I do not want to talk about it.
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Thanks to @Andyjr1515 for explaining setups in a way which made sense to me. I have watched myriad videos but never grasped it. This says more about me than about the videos.
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Sitting in an airbnb which I THOUGHT was a stop on the way but I suspect that my 45 minute trek across country means I did not plan it well.
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I had forgotten how deeply tedious road travel is in the UK.
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And I am as guilty as anyone.
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We project what we want onto whatever we are lusting after at the time. Twas ever thus.
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I would be very interested to hear some bass through this.
