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    I'll have to take the back plate off and shine a torch in.
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    This Tele body is late 80s so some of the wear is real but not most of it. Would benefit most from a thin coat of satin to give a uniform sheen and hide the swirl marks. Korean ply, but it's got some mojo. Through hole ferrules added by me. Redrilled to take vintage bridge. Worth £15 for the gorgeous mint green scratchplate alone 🙂 Would rather not post, but could do so at cost or drop off most places between Swansea and the Severn Bridge.
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    When switched on, but not a big noise. For some reason it is really well-matched with my Fender performer. With the gain around 3 o'clock I can get clean sounds right along the neck by being gentle or dig in for crunchy distortion. I always think the mark of good distortion is that it doesn't rapidly fade away after the lowest octave or so.
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    That is an truly awesome performance.
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    Did that thread start?
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    It shrinks further...
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    You aren't playing often enough 🙂
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    Funny thing after the last gig. In one song the guitarist left a big gap for me to drop a 'solo' into 😵. I dropped in several bars of sub-standard slap. Afterwards his dad (who does the sound) said 'In all along the watchtower your bass started making some really odd noises' 😱
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    Turned up mixer 30 miles away ... had to fetch my brother's from 10miles awsy. No soundcheck. Stonking gig. Lots of dancing. Much silliness and rocksyar posing. Lots of random improv, musical chaos. Didn't get to the end of setlist but went way over time by stretching songs that had folks dancing. Promoter over the moon and promising to book us more, another guy with three venues (in my home town, yay) took our details too.
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    This popped up in my feed, don't think I have posted this before, from 2019 - the days before the plague and the war!
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    My mate had a very red P-bass with a white scratchplate when I was at Uni 81-84 and afterwards. From memory it wasn't as deep a red as that but would have been similar age or a year or three older.
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    I can vouch for Luthier's Warehouse bodies.
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    I made a Harley Benton kit as a lockdown project. It actually came out well, fitted withdecent strings, it sounded great. I ended up upgrading bits until only the neck and some screws were original. Then I got hold of a squier neck and built a second bass from the bits. The only weak points were the very soft body timber and the pickguard being very far from standard P-bass. Best bits were the excellent neck and, surprisingly, the pickup.
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    This, my basses have a 10:1 value ratio. The correlation between quality and value is weak. Between what I paid and quality is no existent, my most valuable bass was the on I paid the second smsllwst amount for, thd build quality is excellent but I have better sounding cheaper basses.
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    The question on which this thread is predicated is disturbingly like "when did you stop beating your wife?"
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    Apparently the delicious double bass on shipbuilding is by Mark Bedders.
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    Found some fun things. Wild World, until I realised the tab was the guitar line not the rather pedestrian bass. Cars. Then the original Robert Wyatt shipbuilding 😻
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    This one does an excellent job of 'Cars', despite its light construction. <edit> 30" does that count as short or medium?
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    That's proper lush, that is.
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    possible

    Stub Mandrel replied to a topic in Bass Guitars

    Accurate tab for The Riverhead by Fairport Convention 🙂
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    f it's just for appearance, Stagg sell braided cables that are actually reasonable quality for not many £££. I have a couple for when I want a vintage vibe.
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    bump,
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