Stub Mandrel

Following. That's a great looking, tasteful instrument and no doubt it sounds and plays as well as it looks. An excellent tribute.

More.

Live Aid on bbc2, about 2 hours timeshift. I watched it on my b&w tv and recorded the best bits off the radio on my ghetto blaster.

275? Rearrange these words into a well-known phrase or saying: Off ... bite... hand.

And a district of Penarth, I'm about 6' from Dingle Road right now!

I still have a sticker from when owning a Trace Elliot was a dream, not a nightmare 😁

Ah Pino on now. Tone very different from the usual '80s scoop. Very throaty.

Just recognised Marcus Miller by his bass (Brian Ferry).

It wont let me rewind to it I thnk Spandau Ballet had a ray too. Sadé was amazing.

I guess it would work on a porous finish? "Try in an inconspicuous area first" as they say!

I'm out at last. Mri was clear but still unsteady and probably will take a weekor two to recover. Had to bow out of three gigs with three bands this weekend but they have all been great about it. Gutted as was really looking forward to it

Meooowww!

Ah!

Hi, I have but it's fitted to my B2. I assume you mean the round 'cap' with a hole that fits in the hole in the body. I think it makes a standard jack not a barrel jack but I may have changed the jack on mine. From memory you might be able to use a telecaster one?

My plan to join the "decomposition" competition would have seen me do some 6 string, but my plans for this month are out the window. Everytime I see guitarchat I wonder if the reason it doesn't fly reflects a difference between bassists and guitarists?

More to his sound than just the bass. Octaver certainly and a bit of chorus. It may evoke an era, primarily the association with Wherever I... but I don't think that sound dates. Mind youn Pino can sound like that on a fretted bass.

Ouch! At least it was a (relatively) cheap, consumable part that failed

I have two and think they sound very similar!

Good thought, I suppose after 41 years of this I'm starting to get somewhere...

I put in a lot of effort to learn the basic part for this. I wince when I see how much better he does it, I still have a good way to go.

It was just an observation that a G&G case can be a significant element of the total cost (10% of the standard model) and also that all that glisters is not gold.

My Precision came with a leather finished period correct c&g case. While very nice, it's very heavy and unless on a totally flat surface it twists and you can't close the locks. Rrp now £409(!)

If it was Sherwood Green relic I would have no hope!

I don't know. While cars, helicopters and venetian weddings are often used as displays of ostentatious wealth, I've never seen anyone doing 'look at me I've got a £20k bass'. Dropping £1900 on my AVII felt very extravagant, but the fact I probably would only get one opportunity to do so was part of my motivation. Alongside knowing a genuine early 60s P is out of my reach. I still feel a bit embarrassed to reveal what it is when asked by someone aware of what it would have cost. Of course 99% of people just see a nice instrument.