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Stub Mandrel

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  1. Stub Mandrel
    Do they put sesame seeds in baby oil?! It's just that they use sesame oil to make tiger bread stripey 🙂 I think you need to revisit the 7th fret, as a minimum 🙂
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    I hope so! I ordered one a few weeks ago but it won't come until end November/early december (fingers crossed!)
  3. Stub Mandrel
    Kid Creole and the Coconuts?
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    I thought it might be tiger wood. Did you use sesame oil?
  5. Stub Mandrel
    John Mayall's Blues Breakers feat. Eric Clapton.
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    I found some bass parts. I think they must be off a Bongo.
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    Tried an Epiphone EB0 yesterday. Good sound and looked good for a £218 bass, but felt 'toy like' in a way that the Jaguar doesn't.
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    "Have you ever heard a guitarist say he changed the tubes on his amplifier annd it made it sound worse?" Spot on.
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    Short clip of our gig last night 🙂 Turn up da bass!
  11. Stub Mandrel
    Strategically placed polyfilla?
  12. Stub Mandrel
    My brother received a mystery envelope yesterday. Rang me up, I told him to open it - three Phil Campbell tickets! I must have ordered them whilst at his house in 2019, dog-sitting for a week, foolishly expecting them to arrive a few days later!
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    There is one question I have never been able to get an answer to. Why are all the best 'tonewoods' rare, exotically figured and expensive?* *Yes I know I'm currently finishing a replacement body made of ash with a quilted maple front, but that's because it looks nice, not because I expect it to sound better...
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    Why? Because it's impossible to hear objectively when you know what you are supposed to hear. I read a review of a whisky that said it had a 'burnt rubber' nose. It wasn't until after several tastings that I realised that it didn't.
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    I know this is highly subjective, but I saw two of these in the flesh today. Vox Starstream, seems to take all its style cues from a Musicman Bongo, but manages to look even stranger. It's the stumpy little legs that make it look comical instead of just ill-conceived.
  16. Stub Mandrel
    I don’t think that’s what you meant because a bad bass player can definitely make a great bass sound like a noisy toad, I should know… 😩 Trapped by my own double negative
  17. Stub Mandrel
    It's Northwest Guitars 'denim blue'.
  18. Stub Mandrel
    That gig went well... nearly a riot when we finished, and with a song i've never heard before, let alone played. Thang god gor 12 bar blues! end of the night the landlord came up and said 'are you booked for new years eve?'
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    A good bassist can make a pigs ear of a bass sound decent. The reverse is not true.
  20. Stub Mandrel
    Rather dark, but beginning to build up a decent finish. 4 or 5 more coats, then I'll let it harden and buff it.
  21. Stub Mandrel
    Cecilia is the patron saint of musicians, and by extension, bass players.
  22. Stub Mandrel
    I have all her albums.
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    You must have the patience of a saint - probably St. Cecilia.
  24. Stub Mandrel
    Of course it should be. The singist was almost at the point of taking scissors to it and rearranging it all, as I recall (it's hazy) the detail was "take out one of these choruses, repeat the second verse, then put the missing chorus back in and repeat it a couple of times"! I pointed out that if it's too short, we just have to play it out like Quo with an endless ending...
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    Is it too much to expect a rational reason for this?
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