Stub Mandrel

When tuning a bass always tune UP not DOWN to a note. If tuning a bass with string retainers, gently press down on the D and G strings between nut and retainer after each adjustment and before checking it.

Might join when I get my new workshop started out as I do have some amp/effect building pretensions 🙂

Pah, we demand handover AT the Bass Bash!

You need some very posh equipment to machine wind a toroidal transformer, and hand winding is difficult enough to make it pricey.

Without wishing to be rude or hyper critical, why do people expect a natural product to be 100% consistent? If you want blemish free, get a carbon fibre instrument...

He's got lots of other items including a Stagg guitar at £100. He's seen the one listed in the US at $2,999 and is taking a punt. Original price was 345 euros.

I'd [probably get drummed out - my Fi is not very Hi 🙂 My view is its far more accurate than guessing. Great for checking R and C values etc.

Those little beasties are tremendously useful I used mine to match transistors when repairing my Trace Elliot. Fitted it in a 3D printed case, here are stls if they are useful to anyone. Box Bottom.stlBox Top.stl

I don't see the likes of Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga struggling to fill stadia. So why has rock, which is still popular, not got mass appeal any more?

Some won't have heard this... Bend your strings at 90 degrees before cutting to length to remove the risk of the windings unravelling.

Having been in the alternative positions of (a) playing a song twice and (b) playing a song that we jammed once or twice a couple of weeks ago I'd say ideally a band knows what it's encore will be and is prepared not to play it if they don't go down well... even if that scenario is wildly unlikely.

Phil Cambell and the Bastard Sons - if they find a new vocalist? Thunder? Black Star Riders? Or am I being naive?

Is it me or...?

Nylon, which absorbs permanent marker really well and it doesn't come off. Would be a poor application for teflon.

All of us have a few quick tips and wrinkles for looking after/customising/repairing our gear. These might be ways of locking straps to the best way to fit new strings. Share yours here. My first one doesn't even need a description!

Don't Airbourne has at least one ex-AC/DC musician on board? They don't so much ape AC/DC as do what they would have done if they hadn't shamelessly followed the money.

Best wishes, Blue, hope it all goes well.

Not many, several.

Do thumbs count?

No longer either of those I'm afraid! It's very decorated and I use lots of fingers now 🙂 I am tempted to strip it back and wrap it in Carbon Fibre viny - but it's a bit fo an awkward shape.

Back in the day I twice took it and my Fender Performer along to a recording studio. Both times sound engineer thought it was active beacuse of the huge output and insisted I used the Hohner over the performer. My first band in 1987, through a borrowed amp and my 15" speaker cab. Ignore fretless, I soon switch to thw B2:

Yep, truss rod. Mine probably has the lowest action of all my basses.

I think at least five for six folks have missed this bit! I suspect gear lists are not essential other than for whetting appetites, but the organisers will need an idea of numbers and going through 20 pages counting up the 'I'll come' posts and deducting the 'I'm not coming now' ones, after carefully checking to see if there are any a duplicates or cancels which weren't actually booked could be something of a Herculean task 🙂

First delinquent pulls out length of chain... Second delinquent whips out a flicknife... Third delinquent struggles to get his iPhone to recognise his fingerprint...

Latest attendance/gear list. Feel free to update if necessary. 1. @Frank Blank‘s No Longer Acoustic Corner - Rob Allen Mouse, ACG Harlot SC, ACG Recurve SS, Ibanez SRC6, QSC K12.2, Helix Stomp, HX Edit, bike-park. 2. @Rich - Shuker custom 5, Tanglewood acoustic 4 - both basses strung with nickel Elixirs. Korg Pandora (if I can find the feckin thing) and headphones. 3. @wrinkleygit - Jabba’s Semi Hollow Fretless, ‘72 Gibson EB0, SWR Working Mans 10 combo & 1x10 ext cab & a set of h’phones. Both basses strung with Labella flats 4. @scrumpymike - Setting aside a bunch of FS stuff to give SW Bashers first shot and minimise packing and shipping work/costs. Unless cash flow dictates earlier sale, this will include: a couple of BF cabs (either SC Gen 3s or Two10s, to be decided); BF One10; Maruszczyk Elwood 30" scale; Spector Bantam if still unsold (already posted FS); Eden WT550 if still unsold (already posted FS); Ampeg PF800. 'Keepers' also on display will be: the other pair of BF cabs; my no. 1 gig bass 'Rascal Mervyn-Lyte; 'Rascal Lyte Mkll - provided I can decide what it's going to be in time for AndyJr to build it; my no 1 gig amp (Subway 800+); my old no 1 gig amp (Genzler Magellan 800). All of which will hopefully bring forward the day when Mrs Scrumpy can finally join her old man in retirement 😁 5. @Pea Turgh - My Frankenstein Jazzguarman(!) strung with D’Addario XL Chrome flats. My black bitsa (same strings). Probably my Peterson combo which I’ll flit between selling and not selling (still). 6. @stevie - Ibanex SR1200-VNF, Ashdown RM500, BCbass 112, plus some other bass cab developments (probably) 7. @yorks5stringer - Gretsch Electromatic, Markbass CMD101 Micro Marcus Miller 8. @Andyjr1515 - Not yet sure what I will be bringing except my athletic physique and chiselled good looks (and if you believe that.... ) 9. @stewblack - Trace Elliot Rig of Death. Ric inspired 'tributes' various amps and basses for sale unless they shift here first. A hernia (probably). 10. @basstone - For Sale refurbished Marshall DBS200 combo fitted with beyma 12" speaker. BC v3 cab with G&K MB500 amp. '78 Fender fretless jazz bass with rotosound nylon coated strings. Probably plus one other bass TBD 11. @Woodinblack - Ibanez 5 string (not decided which), Chapman stick railboard, Chapman NS/Stick, Probably TC450, BC 112 Speaker. 12. @Chienmortbb - BC112 speaker, Bugera Mosfet amp, Fender Aerodyne and/or Greg Bennett semi acoustic bass ( might sell if the offers are right). I may even bring my homebrew 500 watt amp designed in conjunction with @Passinwind if finished. 13. @Cuzzie - tbc 14. @MoJoKe - whatever demo gear is left over from the month before (Manchester Bass Show), so will definitely have my Casa rig, probably the new Vintage D2 head (which I am thinking of selling the Casa to buy... it’s that good!), and I'll try and bring Markbass instruments and some packs of the new Markbass strings to give away 15. @olipaulo - Basses: Fender Elite Jazz, Status Empathy 5 and PRS SE Kestrel. Combos: Markbass CMD 151P, SWR LA15, GK MB112-ii and GK MB212-ii (the last three are for sale so they may be missing from the bash). Helix LT & IEMs 16. @sbrag - tbc 17. @Triumph_Rock - tbc 18. @Richard Jinman - tbc 19. @Stub Mandrel - Fender Performer, Deathburger (sublime to the ridiculous) maybe another bass and an amp.