Stub Mandrel

I like my side dots (at fret positions) on fretless, I need them to be sure I'm in the right ballpark.

It's the 150 kV forcefield in between them that really helps keep the drunks at bay 😉

It's a lot of fun. I reckon it will be very giggable with the bass (uneffected) fairly high and a bit of the flat out fuzz just adding character.

Consider: https://www.thomann.co.uk/tc_electronic_bam200.htm Or https://www.thomann.co.uk/warwick_gnome.htm As a head, then pick up a cheap, heavy cab locally. Plenty of people gig with either of those heads and you can upgrade your cab with gig money when it starts "roling in" 😁

Went to see the Rogues last night supporting Cardinal Black. (I'm in a blues band with Rogues guitarist Alex) 😎. The lads were brilliant and I was well impressed by Cardinal Black and their very innovative guitarist Chris Buck. The Rogues Cardinal Black Chris Buck.

Gokko board? I lurve mine.

It's a cab 😁

I think my brother (a guitarist) has sucked in a lot of our gas for us... he's planning multiple acquisitions...

Not really. Loyalty points often expire if not used. As long as no cash other than p&p changes hands I would say it's ok. Like winning a competition. I got this yesterday but paid for it in December so still in!

It's arrived! And it sounds bloody brilliant. Quite a wide range of sounds with the two slide switches. One very 'present', one dark and doomy, one almost an octave distortion effect and one that is a bit meh. The dual volume instead of blend is unusual but works well.

Well done Si!

You need an SM58 for your vocalist 😉

My grandfather taught my dad how to recone Goodmans speakers in the 1960s, using pieces of photographic negative as spacers around the voice coil.

My point was not that it is an expectation, but that one early failure isn't going to tell you anything useful. It could be a glitch on the coil winder, a little short of adhesive, a slight misalignment... but if others aren't failing then it's unlikely to point to the need for a change in supplier or manufacturing technique.

If gear fails well out of warranty (7 years) there's really nothing to learn whatever the failure mode. That's into the lifetime where random failures due to small manufacturing defects become possible. No matter what is said about the level and nature of usage, it has to be taken with a large pinch of salt as some people will be scrupulously honest and others may of thrashed it every night but not want to admit it. The have no way of being sure what the speaker has endured. If BF get virtually no failures and they are all beyond warranty, then there is little reason to change. If it was a 7-sigma, safety critical aircraft component it would be different.

Would anyone like to trial the small white dots?

You don't realise how you use them until you can't see them. I do a lot of big skips up and fown the neck. My AVII has clay side dots on the boundary between a brown rosewood fingerboard and an amber finished maple neck. Under stage lights they disappear. I bought dots online but they were ugly huge things. Ms. S. kindly cut several sets of 3/32 dots out of high adhesive vinyl for me using her Silhouette machine. They have lasted a few gigs without peeling so look like a good solution. No impact on value as I can get them off with IPA. No point in saying which is before and which is after!

On Saturday, after one of my more egregious cock-ups I discovered that I'd reacted by sticking my tongue 👅 out for rather too long...

I can't see how through body stringing affects tension to any significant degree. The change in break angle could lead to a need to reduce saddle height, and perhaps a slight change in intonation. Any change in tuning tension would be a fraction of a percent. I will change my P9 but only 'because it's there'.

No-one has mentioned Wishbasses or that eBay guy who tortures basses.

I tought it was a semantic discussion onthevtopic of 'what is a luthier' 😬

What did you think this thread would be about? 🤣

Yes I meant equivalent.

Continental Europe has different standards for defining an engineer (as I mentioned above). The UK and USA don't have the same restriction (a European engineer would be a chartered engineer in the UK). (Incidentally my grandfather was an associate member of both the Institution of British Engineers and the Institution of British Radio Engineers. When he was elected to the latter he was training aircrew at Cranwell).