Stub Mandrel

Thats fair enough. Its bands with endless excuses not to gig rather than being up front about it.

I've got Wilkinson nickels on a bass I made around an unfinished body and HB neck, I was impressed by the quality.

Perhaps if it was Bash Bas De Gymru, it would overcome objections from those in the north and marches? The question really is who is somewhere betwen Carmarthen and Bristol wo would be intersted in something happening in the middle? The Midlands BB, if it happens, is likely to be near Redditch so those in the marches have that. One thought is that an event in Cardiff could possibly happen in a club with a stage allowing us to have some informal jamming and maybe even a bar and a gig afterwards for those who want it.

What I can't grok are the bands that rehearse but don't gig. It's been frustrating with the 'perfectionist' cover band but second gig on Sunday and most of us raring to go - singer a bit apprehensive-he's the biggest worrier about getting things right and last night we had to tell him no tweaks! One run through the two sets and no changes! Blues band... about a gig a month at the moment, we've decided another four or five songs to swap in and will have rehearsed them 3 or 4 times before gigging them. Much hungrier to get out there. Love going to gigs. Now I've done a couple of open mike nights, discovered I love the buzz and meeting other musicians. By monday I will have done 1 gig, five rehearsals and seen one OM and five bands in nine days.

When I bought mine I was told "It's not for throwing in vans or taking on tour, but if you handle your own gear and take it in the car..." Which is fair enough, if you are moving loads of gear and have help, then a wooden cab make sense. This is the version for people like me who transport their own kit and take care of it.

So you've only had to hide it once? I have to hide it every week or two.

To me ostinato goes on forever, I mean something like a pattern that repeats for the verse, bridge or chorus. They say things like 'add another bar before the last verse'...

You do enjoy the last word. This is not life and death like the Covid thread...

The nominal UK voltage is 240 and the nominal European voltage is 220, but the tolerances are such that both can nominally be claimed to be 230. In practice UK can be as higher than 250 or more, and Europe lower than 210. This should have no impact on anything with a switch mode PSU, but unregulated transformer powered output stages may be noticeably less powerful in Europe as are kettles snd heaters. Certainly these differences should not affect functionality.

Having looked at this in sickening detail, digital calipers use two etched capacitative scales of different pitches that function in the same way as an etched vernier scale.

Only a temporary fix ....

I am not sure of the formal term for a short repeating section of music several bars long (I'd call it a section or a repeat) but two people in the band call this a 'bar' which winds me up. Plus transposing songs by a semitone.

It has become a PITA, because you can hide it but it just reappears after a while. After a certain amount of exposure the nag effect makes me less likely to have one of my occasional visits to 'the other place'.

While I pretty much agree with everything he says I do find that Trace Elliot preshape has its place, and not just for happy slappy.

Oi! Lemmy! No!

Can anyone explain how jazz bass body thickness depends on date?

Well mine gets weekly trips out. The damage was due to falling off a chair, which could damage most cabs... the light weight partly mitigates the potential for damage, but I'm still waiting for a replacement corner. My approach is gig it until it dies. Worst case, make a replacement cab with same dimensions out of ply and move the hardware over.

It is a bit fragile, mine has a damaged corner and one foot came loose.

MM5 is sold out, I've messaged them...

NSU. Opportunities for some fun improv.

Obvs shoegazers...

Burn the heretic 🔥 😉

Close, It's a nicely matured MIK Tokai.

Should have said, awesome craftsmanship as always.