Rexel Matador

On 05/03/2021 at 15:48, odysseus said:

Whaaaat? No Fernanda Lira any more? 

I thought the same thing - had no idea they were now a four piece and was wondering whether they'd added a bassist or a singer. Turns out Fernanda and the drummer both left and were replaced with three entirely new members!

A band-member, as opposed to a band, but I feel like Frank Beard deserves an honourable mention.

It's very unlikely to be a solid colour - I much prefer stains, oils, etc to using any kind of paint

21 minutes ago, Pea Turgh said:

Love the body design.  Could the shape be shifted up the neck though?  Looks like the headstock might have a fatal attraction to the floor, and that would really fook the tuners.

It's only a rough sketch at this stage - I'll play around with it when I draw it out full scale - I could move the neck in a bit.

Well in an odd twist, having let this project gather dust for way too long, I ended up getting kicked out of the band (unrelated to the slow progress on the build), so the guitarist won't be getting his 10 string V after all. But I still have a 27" scale neck that I've started work on, so I'm going to make an altogether more civilised tele-ish baritone instead.

I did consider making a very short scale bass, but I already have... well, I won't say "too many basses" for fear of getting banned, but I have a few, and only one (barely) functioning guitar. And a baritone is at least leaning in the right direction, right?

+1 for the EMG Geezer butler - a great option. Does the bass have the kind of knobs with grub screws or the ones that just push on? If I recall, the EMG comes with solid shaft pots, so you might need to get screw-on knobs if you don't have them already.

The EMG website has all the PDF manuals with diagrams showing how long everything is

Nice to see Gibson paying attention to the little details and positioning the strap buttons for maximum neck-dive 🤣

4 hours ago, uk_lefty said:

Well... I've bought a jinwan neck today. Heard good reviews of them on BC. Now I need a body. There's an ebay seller in the UK who says he can make anything, I'm after a J body but rear routed and PJ pickup config. It might be a bit ambitious at this stage and I want to keep costs down in case of a mess up. I may have to reign myself in. Am I thinking right that on a J bass with the really big wide route out for the neck pickup I may be able to fit a P pickup in there? 

I admit I haven't actually tried it myself, but those I've seen look too narrow for a P pickup - though they may vary. I think it would also be closer to the neck than the regular P position.

You'll need knobs.

For finishing the Crimson Guitars stains and oils are nice. With a bit of effort you can get a very pretty finish without having to spray anything.

Sung by their current bass player, about their old one

This one's about Lemmy and includes the line "he's playing bass and melting your face"

And this one's about Fat Mike, as far as I can tell

41 minutes ago, Paul S said:

I did this to a neck some while ago, like yours it seemed to have come to the end of the adjustment but still had a forward bow.  It worked a treat.  I still have the bass, neck is still straight.

 

I've done this a couple of times too - I was scared to try it at first but it worked really well.

1 hour ago, Beedster said:

The trend for small prices for big boxes started well before COVID

True - I had a Hartke 810 up for sale for peanuts for ages way before the virus came along. Ended up building 210s with the speakers, and giving the empty cabinet away to a guy who said he was going to try and cut it up to build a cajon!

56 minutes ago, Machines said:

It's mostly the scale length over fret angle I think, i'm going from a 34" to 36.25". 

I suspect it also depends where the perpendicular fret is. I put mine at 7 as I thought it would make things feel a bit more familiar at the lower frets, compared to having it up at 12 - seems to have worked.

I just built a multiscale 4 string - 900mm to 850mm, with the perpendicular fret at the 7th a la Dingwall. I leave it in the rehearsal room, while all my other basses at home are standard frets, 34 inch scale or shorter. I've had no problems switching between the two - it's really not that much of an adjustment.

I used these in a build https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/113988807342 - well, actually I haven't finished it yet, so can't completely vouch for them, but they seem pretty solid.

I went for 6mm simply because I already had a router bit of that size. I might have used smaller ones otherwise.

Regarding length, I suppose it would be good to have them about the same as the truss rod, but probably not essential. There was a bass build on the Crimson Guitars YouTube channel a while back where he used four 4mm rods, two on each side. Perhaps you could do that and sort of stagger them so they run the whole length of the neck - the inner two starting at the nut end and the outer two ending at the heel end.

Everything About You by Ugly Kid Joe. My old band supported Whitfield Crane at some dive in Newcastle last year and I got to share this fact with him 😂

On 31/07/2020 at 14:11, Jonse said:

Hi Mark, I'd initially say yes to both, however, try just changing the strings first. It'll probably get you 90% of the way there and it'll be much cheaper. The player series basses with those Yosemite pickups are really good. 

 

I agree. The GZR is a perfectly good pickup and the super easy install is a bonus, but it certainly didn't blow me away when I tried it. I wouldn't consider it a necessary upgrade to a p-bass which already has a pretty decent pickup in it.

And here's a 200: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Rumble-200-Watt-V3-Bass-Amp-Combo-barley-used-in-excellent-condition/283883654794?hash=item4218c8ce8a:g:HM8AAOSwx0Few87V

I agree with the above. Fender Rumble amps are great. You can get them in pretty much any size, they sound great and weigh nothing.

Hi! Do you need a combo or just a head? What kind of power/size are you looking for? What sort of gigs is it going to need to handle?

Less than Jake. The guitarist and bassist share lead vocals but the drummer writes the lyrics.