Stub Mandrel

The black bell shaped object is a jig that should help you with making a neat job of sanding the sides of the cavity. It's not always obvious but the sanding drums fit over the rubber cylinder, loosen screw, slide on sanding drum and tighten the screw to expand the rubber and grip the drum. Easy to split to crease the drum if you don't know this.

Trace usually have something written by the speaker o/p. explaining what impedance speaker you can connect and how.

It's a Gadzooki!

My Firefox is set up so that Facebook content is only available when it's in a fenced off container to stop it sucking up all my personal data.

You got to admire his guts...

String wrapped...

Probably, if it's an 8 ohm cab.

Cool cat, another P-bass with a 50s style headstock 🙂

How many do you need, Ped? I can do you great deal...

If an amp has no fans, you have to ask 'why is it so unpopular?' 🤣

And how does this rate as a pop song...

Something good to discover in 2020, although it did make me a bit misty eyed. Nice to see DM drumming, but feel a bit sorry for Gerry on tambourine.

Interesting, but it's clear Trace changed things lots. That diagram is marked SMX Power Board and is dated '97. I think my amp is older than that as it has a GP11 preamp.

If it's designed properly to be cooled passively, it should not matter. I'm assuming it's the same 300W unit in my TE amp of similar date, which has an always-on (but actually rather quiet) fan. <edit> Yep, the SMX series have a 12V fan

Beware the snowballs of Satan.... Why do they remind me of this:

Birthin', bondin' and buryin'

Well I just listened to a YT documentary on Spem* Alium by Thomas Tallis, including a performance at the end. Left me wanting to experience it live. At ~450 years old it isn't new music but is is to me... *That's spem @Skinnyman

Klaus Wunderlich and his Amazing Organ. My dad was into Klaus when I was a kid. Now I know what I was missing (and I can see from the video that Klaus was about as enthusiastic as I am...)

I have little pocket book of guitar chords by Ulf Goran Ahslund (anyone remember him?) The best bit is on each of far too many chords it gives their (impossible) fingerings and inversions for guitar accompanied by a little dude with a 'smiley' face that reflects the character of the chord e.g. happy, melancholy, apprehensive, totally confused...

And the root of 50% of anti-ukelele prejudice...

Don't worry, I find this all confusing. There seem to be four things that all use similar nomenclature: Intervals - the absolute distances between notes. Scale degrees - defining notes by their relationship to the root of a scale. Chord notes - similar to the above but using inversions so the 'major third' of a chord can be a 'minor sixth' below the root. Chord relationships - I, II, III, IV etc. named for how their root note relates to the root of the scale that is the key of the piece. Blaaargh....

^^ This 🙂

I'm serious, some things dissolve better in alcohol, a polar solvent, others better in white spirit which has a totally non-polar. Acetone has a different polarity to alcohol so it can work were neither of the others do. Stronger solvents fall into the same classes but are more likely to damage the substrate. Those three will cope with most everyday challenges.

Appreciated but if you need a 300W amp and have to use it for practice, then you can probably accept a bit of fan noise as a consequence of that. But if I was short of cash I'd get a cheap practice amp from Crack Convertors or if short of space a Blackstar Fly Bass.

Then it goes from major third to minor. How strange the change...