Richard R

I think you were right to. 😁

Just went to post this, and was delighted someone else had seen it. Good news indeed 🙂 My bike is registered on the National Bike Register, and includes both visible and covert marking on the frame and components. I appreciate musical instruments are sold and traded more than bikes, but is anyone aware of an equivalent musical instrument register?

I'm not sure here who was brave and who was foolish! I presume you had some prior musical experience Mr Hale was aware of? Did he say " I'll shout out the chord changes, it's in 6/8, aaaand off-we-go..."?

Could you get your next-of-kin to do it, I don't believe in ghosts 😉 Really enjoying this so far, its going to look fantastic!!

I've just looked up panga panga. Sounds like it's really hard to work with. The bit about "splits easily which causes splinters which tend to go septic" is a bit scary! https://www.wood-database.com/panga-panga/ Or is this just excessive caution in the warning?

Rick Danko from The Band:

Boiling is a bad idea, depending on the string you'll increase the chances of rusting and decrease the life. as @Marky L says, soaking in meths is one of the best options, or other alcohol with no water in it. Andrew Pouska at StudyBass recommends making a cleaning tube so the strings can hang rather than coil (http://www.studybass.com/gear/bass-strings/bass-string-cleaning-tube/) , As a more frequent clean rather than removing and soaking the strings I've found these to be really effective, anhydrous IPA wipes : https://uk.farnell.com/techspray/1610-50pk/wipe-isopropyl-alcohol-ipa-pack/dp/2501334 (IPA = Isopropyl alcohol, not India Pale Ale 🙂 ). Wiping the strings as soon as they get greasy keeps them cleaner for longer, some guys do so after every rehearsal & gig, but I don't find that necessary. I put a sheet of plastic between the strings & fretboard just in case.

Interesting pickups, and I love your description of the sound 🙂 Will this be making an appearance at the Midlands Bass Bash on 9th May?

For use by "Instrumentalist, stringed - Amplified Low register, Hip"

You get used to it after a few decades 🙂

Gifts have got to be OK, surely? Though maybe not if you and the giver have a joint account. (Full disclosure: I wasn't in, but I would be out now having bought a cheap BDI21 V-Tone Bass to experiment with)

I am more concerned that the player decided that "Sweet Child O Mine " is by "Roses Guns N". Missing the appstrophes out and swapping the name round, either would drive me mad.

The global community that is BassChat! You don't happen to run an export business do you? (Hopefully not, otherwise life is going to get very complicated!) All I can say is that if my example is anything to go by, Brawley are really nice guitars to play. As I said, someone will get a really good deal.

First: Either Sky or Mike Oldfield, Birminham Odeon, early '80s. Last: Half Man Half Biscuit, Leamington Assembly. (Great venue, closed last year 😥) Best: That's really, really, hard. Jethro Tull Crest of Knave, Muse Drones? Not sure. Worst: Dire Straits end of the Brothers In Arms tour. They were just tired and had an off night. Close second, HMHB at the Assembly were let down by a sound man who should be shot as the vocals were unintelligible! For a band where the words are everything, that was criminal. Loudest: Yes, 90125 tour at the NEC. I was chest-level to the flown speakers. Seen the most: Tull, probably. Or Marillion. Most surprising: Joanne Shaw Taylor, Birmingham Town Hall. Rock On! Next: Nick Mason's Saucefull of Secrets. Wish: Any Pink Floyd, but particularly 1996. Had to go to in-laws wedding anniversary. I did try to explain that the in laws would have many more anniversaries, but Floyd might not tour again...

Thank you for the compliment. I used to be a physicist and engineer before I moved to the dark side of IT. I definitely want to build a bass or basses, and have quite a few ideas about what I want it to look like and sound like. I also have the two most important items designed - the headstock shape and the brand/logo to go on it. (I have some very, very, long conference calls in my job) 😄 However I absolutely want to learn to play properly first, and also to play different types of guitar so I understand what sounds like what.

Got it! Thank you 🙂. Clearly I don't actually look at my bass from the back often enough to recognize the profile. Too busy looking at the frets with a furrowed brow. I suppose you could make the tongue on the neck as long as you wanted, up to the point you were trying to bolt through the pickups. Or if the body hadn't been carved, extend that wood forwards into the neck? Or are those both obviously bad ideas?

Thank you. And please remember that when you joined BassChat you didn't sign up to a contract with an SLA you have to achieve for replies. There's absolutely no urgency and that there "real world" is more important than some bloke you met once in a church hall and who asks lots of questions.

Question from the slow kid at the back: why does that joint combine the best of a neck through and a bolt on? Apart from the biscuit it just looks like a bolt on to me. Can we have diagrams comparing the two please Sir? And which internal radius is being referrred to?

The website says they won't ship to the UK. I emailed them out if curiosity to see why not.

Get thee behind me @TheGreek! Thankfully the 5 string brother of my bass I saw for sale is in the US, otherwise I would have had to buy it.

I was going to, then decided to wait and see who broke cover first 🙂

Urge for Offall, whose tragic tale can be heard here:

https://www.guitarcenter.com/Used/In-Store-Used/Used-Brawley-ARTEMIS-Natural-Electric-Bass-Guitar.gc While on a rather long call at work, for which I was required only for some parts, I did my occasional hunt for Brawley Artemis 5 string guitars, and came across this. It's in Manchester, NH rather than Manchester UK otherwise I would have bought it immediately. My bass is the 4 string brother of this, bought a couple of years ago -I'm half-looking for a 5 string and would love a matching pair. But shipping and possible returns to the US make it rather too risky as an impulse buy. I can't do my guitar justice, but everyone who can play has really liked it and agrees that they are really nice basses. Well built, sound fantastic, 3 band Active eq, dual humbuckers, 35" scale. The opinion across the 'net is much the same, that they are hugely underrated - Hardly anyone knows about Brawley as they went out of business after only a couple of years. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brawley_Guitars, see also the references to the original Brawley web site, various reviews on Talkbass etc) So while I won't be buying this, if there is anyone on that side of the pond who wants to take a punt (only $350!) and buy this then I am pretty sure you won't be disappointed. And if it plays as well as mine I shall be a teeny bit jealous. @Mods - Not sure if this sort of post is OK or where it should go. I have no association with Guitar Center, but move/delete as appropriate..

🎶 I'm playing Graceland, Graceland, on my fretless P, I'm playing Graceland 🎶😊

I think I may have a suitable prize for that I can donate.