Stub Mandrel

Don't underestimate how fast and accurate a good handsaw is, just a disposable hardpoint will do. Also, a batten clamped in place will guide a cheaper rotary saw or even a router accurately.

My understanding is it would be 87mm total lenght of the tube so from the front of the flange.

This is clearly pre-refin, the dark tone in a b&w is right for a deep red. Great to have such a record and his wife seems pleased it's gone to someone who cares.

Oooh! I have one of those combos itxs imaginatively called a 1110 (gp11 + 10" speakers). Mine sounded a bit rough and needed the matched transistors in the front end of the power amp replacing. It's also got the 'wrong' psu from new, so I was able to add an extra pair of NOS mosfets to unleash unimagined power levels... I'll add more to the story. It had Eminence Beta 10s (maybe not the best choice) fitted and one was reverse polarity so swapping its leads around greatly helped. It weighs about 96lbs so I added 50mm castors, which lasted a couple of months. So I fitted heavy duty 75mm ones. Bought it from a lad in the midlands. He had a mate there who had helped him move it. They offered to carry it to my estate, and where aghast when the old fart picked it up and put it in on his own. Sometimes it's not strength it's just knowing how to lift safely, but 'it made I larf'.

Do You think it was orinally Dakota red?

Hope it all turns out for the best.

No gigs all month after a busy period At least I get to see plenty of gigs, Cardinal Black last night.

I have a simple dowel jig from Screwfix. Never thought of using it for a cab!

That's my default setting. The master goes from nothing, to weak and distorted, to loud in about 1/10 of a division. I've gigged with the master at 9 o'clock...

Well you can measure 0.01 inch by eye, just, with the right ruler. 0.001mm is a few wavelengths of lightn about 1/50 as much. Quoting to a thousandth of a mm suggests they got the NPL to measure the scale length 😁

I see what you mean, but it has a valve front end, and to get the 'orange tone' one has to drive the preamp quite hard. I have plenty of other options for a quiet clean sound, itcwould be nice to experiment with my tone and different basses at home. When I wanted to experiment with my stage sound (also my pedalboard) I hired a rehearsal space for two hours (which was quite cheap as you get 1 peron daytime rate) and was able to do so at realistic settings.

Ah! So just record onto a quality soundcard ...

Soo much purple sparkle bass it forced me to win one! 🤣

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I've never had any problems with sheet cut to size at B&Q. First half dozen or so cuts are free rest about 50p each?

I got an SM57 off Temu for £8.50 🤣 just to see what you get. Arrived yesterday. Looks right, but no Shure branding. Clearly less well made than a real one, but does appear to have rubber suspension (a bit firmer than the real one). Awful clip, decent bag. A xlr to unbalanced jack lead that looks like it's 1970s. The connector was wired unbalanced, so corrected that and it works. I have a big collection of cheap & mid price microphones. I'm thinking of a way to test them, and bexdure which are worth keeping. Possibly a cheap spectrum analyser and put them in front of a white noise source as a rough and ready approach. Would be fun to do a Microphone Shootout.

This is true. It's impossible to get low volumes with my Terror 500W and 103db sensitivity GRBASS cab. You can't set the master below 'too loud for home noodling'.

The SLP is 2 x EL34 rated about 50W total. The AC30 is 4 x EL84 rated between 48 and 68W total. Neither is anywhere near 100W. 😁

I am tempted. A 12:00 start means leaving at 9....

Lol! We did try and warn you 😂😂😂

Guitarist magazine did a shootout. I struggled to find the original but found a summary of the results: Marshall 100 watt 1959 SLP full stack (reissue, 60's spec) Vox AC30 (current, it looked like the fawn colored handwired version) Fender Hot Rod Deluxe with factory standard appointments The readings were from low to high for the three contenders, 119.5 db, 124.1 db and 124.6 db.

The AC 30 is rated 30W at just before onset of clipping. The comparable Marshall 100W amps, rated flat out, are not quite as loud. There's a well-known video out there that proves it.

Let him do three but tell him everyone else needs a turn before he can go again.

No-one has ever told me to play a precision. I wanted one for decades, as I learned the basics on one. I finally got a precision and the penny dropped that my fretless that I've had since the late 80s is one.