Richard R

Unless you keep a bass in the downstairs loo....

I'm amazed. I thought the amended rules covered all scenarios, but here's a new one. It's like a fractal specification, however close you look there is another level of complexity. Best to be on the safe side, don't actually plug it into your signal chain.

Welcome aboard! As you're in Lichfield, then if you are free on 9th May do try to get to the Midlands Bass Bash: Doveridge Village Hall, Sand Lane, Doveridge, Ashbourne DE6 5JQ And bring your Framus 🙂

I'm in 😄 1. @Frank Blank’s (mostly) Acoustic Corner - Godin A4, fretless Rob Allen Mouse, ACG Harlot SC, Ibanez SRC6. QSC K12.2, Helix Stomp. 2. @jebroad Dingwall, Squire silver jazz, schecter fiver, ashdown 8x10, whatever heads I can dig out 3. @Len_derby . Swift Lite bass. A couple of raffle prizes 4. @Andyjr1515 No idea what I'll be bringing bass-wise, but I'll definitely be bringing me (and maybe @Len_derby and maybe @SpondonBassed ?) 5. y. @Teebs Hinnocent 7. @Stub Mandrel's (Naughty Jama Corner) - Fender Flea bass, Fender performer plus surprise guest bass(es), Trace Elliot GP11 Mk. 11 1110 Combo, Joyo XVI - 8. @Richard R's (cheap bit on the side as all the corners are taken) - Brawley Artemis KB14 with steel strings,, EBS Session 60, possibly a bitsa to get some advice on, scales to weigh basses with, cake, something for the raffle,

Laughed until my sides hurt, then watched it all the way through again!

I worked with a Carl for the past few years until his untimely death early last year. A solid bloke, knew his stuff, usually cheerful and invariably very helpful.

Ooohhh, in that case so will I 🙂 Like others I opted for Hackett this year, mainly because friends wanted to see his show. But The Lamb live would be great!

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?