Stub Mandrel

I must have been imagining it 🙄, although the less tentative 'contains peanuts' is more common. Strictly a nut is any fruit capsule that doesn't split open to release the contained seeds, so a peanut is a nut and a conker isn't.

If you want really portable for hotels etc, consider:

The premise behind the California legislation is that if a substance is particularly harmful, then its presence should be highlighted to the purchaser. How do you do this and have manageable exceptions. Some electrical goods have accessible solder a child could chew, others don't. Do you have complex, expensive rules and tests like those for insulating live components, or just stick a cheap label on everything? It's like 'may contain peanuts' on a bag of peanuts. Do you have a law that says everything that may contain peanuts must be labelled unless it's obvious it contains peanuts? How do you define which products 'obviously' contain peanuts? Yes it generates mirth when warnings seem tautological or over-exaggerated, but in truth this is simply a pragmatic approach that avoids excess expense and litigation.

Caustic soda? Paint stripper? Personally I's rather sand it down. I have a cheap neck heading for me and that's what I will do.

I hate the dunlops on one of my basses - so much overhang! Schallers - why not buy cheap clones. If you are unhappy with the locks, just use the strap buttons to replace 'official' schaller ones. They are all interchangeable.

It's about £110 cheaper than the 60th Anniversary Roadworn Jazz which is £1,199, which is virtually the same spec except it doesn't have '62 pickups -as far as I can tell. I'm happy with mine over an American Performer Jazz. I tried MIA and MIM jazz basses before choosing. The 'Flea' signature doesn't offend me but was far from a reason to buy. I can't see why the original bass appeals to Flea for his music, but it does demonstrate that the musician matters more than the instrument when it comes to the sound. I agree, signature basses are usually unusual or even unique specs. My brother bought an Epiphone 'Gold Glory' which is a signature (Jared Kushmer or some other guy...) because it was outstanding for the price and pretty unique (a Les Paul with a single P90 and that's his favourite configuration).

Fender Performer, but with a transparent blue flame maple top, slightly meatier neck and '62 Jazz pickups.

I love my Orange Crush 25. Totally converted me to Orange, I now have a Bass Terror for gigging.

With of Without You @TimR was right...

Don't be up tight, I dropped a smiley to show it was in jest. I could have quoted you in the 'Basschat Famous Quotes Thread' if I wanted to be cruel. I do wonder what @supernaut decided to do, he's usually around.

Doncha love the interweb 🙂

I think that's all covered by the double stops which aren't too bad once you get your head around the inconsistencies.

The line was just doubled, so it's the same whatever you play it on.

Don't give the Glaswegian's ideas... a six pack of Tennant's, chips and a battered P for supper!

I'm visualising a cab with a single 10" or 12" speaker and an angled section on top with a 5" speaker beaming the mid-range at the player's head.

I love lestning something like this because its full of ideas i could never come up with.

Apparently Harrison wrote it, Paul played it on a jazz, then Harrison doubled it on a Fender VI and a ricky 12-string. Or not.

Just managed my first full play through of WMGGW A couple of minor glitches, but should be OK now 🙂

I've done two gigs. In both cases there was a PA with 15" bass bins it was a bit academic. It's a powerful PA (3kW) but not run ridiculously loud, I have the Orange Bass terror at about 8:30 volume with gain about 3:00 and tine controls pretty much at noon, so not working hard at all for plenty of volume. On the second gig I had to turn down as I was too loud for the PA. Then on the second set we played half the first song with everything but the vocal on mute. No-one noticed the difference - I was subconsciously digging in to make up for the reduced volume and then the PA came in and the roof nearly came off! Second gig had a mate who does pro audio in the audience and he said our sound was cracking, the landlord booked us for New year and we got another booking but i'm not sure all of that was down to the cab... Two issues - one of the feet has come loose and I've cracked one of the corner pieces. It slid off a chair, then tipped over so one corner hit the skirting board pretty hard. I suspect most speakers would have been unscathed, but it was quite a whack. The problem is that the cores of the carbon panels don't give the screws a lot to bite into, one of them was pulled loose and that allowed the corner to flex and split. The cab itself was fine. I plan to fit bigger, self-adhesive feet anyway (I don't like the little ones). As for the corner, I might ask for a replacement, but as I have a 3D printer my most likely plan is to print slightly bigger, thicker corners in TPU (a flexible polymer) which will be much more shock absorbing. My feedback for GR Bass will be to fit much more robust corners and consider some sort of inserts or reinforcement where screws are fitted.

After an inordinate wait I finally have the wee beastie. It got delivered my old address (I watched it all unfold in real time on the tracking!) A month kater when I travelled up I missed my neighbour, so eventually he posted it to me. It's no bad for around £40, 10 watts and significantly bigger than a Blackstar Fly. Lovely retro look to the cream version, and the Joyo logo lights up. Sound is good for a 5" speaker not driven hard, loud enough gor home practice, playing with unamplified acoustics and maybe busking in a quiet area. The tone control is a bit puny, seems to work a bit like the Fender tbx and sounds best near 12 o'clock. Gain works well, needs to be fairly high to get ddcent volume, but I usually like a decent amount of gain, its main use might be to tame active basses. The drive channel is decent. Sound and volume don't match up to my more substantial 25w Orange Crush but that's not the point. Included an external mains psu - a big plus over the Fly, and a quality european to 13A adapter. Certainly a lot for the money - typical Joyo.

Thanks, UG is my first point of call as it usually gives several versions, easy ones to learn the structure then more advanced ones to flesh it out. That version is close to UG's official tab. There's a good tutorial here that has some differences but is really well-structured for learning. Getting there!

Last night the guitarist started jamming 'While my Catarrh Gently Seeps' and I foolish thought it would be really simple.