Stub Mandrel

Just about any combination of the musicians on Stephen Still's first solo album?

Angus Young?

You want sacrilege? Squirt expanding polyurethane foam in the f-holes 😈

I found this neck in a skip 🙂 The eBay body blank belonged in one... it was almost as soft as balsa!

For something a bit different for sort of psychadelic jazz/folk: Dave Pegg or Jack Bruce Simon House or Jerry Goodman Cozy Powell or Billy Cobham Jorma Kaukonen or Leslie West

Check this out, found it on a 'what are you listening to thread'. Jump to 1:50 if need be!

I got snapped at the Midlands Bash. As you can see I am either of enormous size or that's a 24" scale bass...

Here's the K-2T - just bit of plywood with pickups screwed on the front! His MDF guitar is 40 years late!

Having a gig in the diary does focus the mind! This came up in conversation at the Bass chat; there are bands that never get past rehearsal. In contrast for the 'weekend warrior' event I'm doing we have to perform 5-8 songs. We have 9 and have dropped a few - and only done four rehearsals. We are all old enough and ugly enough to know you learn songs at home and use rehearsal to practice playing them together!

This is just to pile on the guilt about the Westone Thunder so I end up paying £2K for it... 😆

An ancient (30+ years) pair of 12" Mackenzies in a box made to similar dimensions to the 12x12 cab I already had. I think they are intended for guitar use and happy in an open back cab so probably pretty robust. I have tried to get Thiele Small parameters for them but they have no identifying model details. If I can find a nice cardboard tube of suitable diameter I will experiment with different port sizes. Actuially looking at the chart on my earlier thread they might be the 12-100 TC - they have big voice coils and twin cones.

After having them explained, I've just had one of my speakers wired up to a signal generator. Distressed to see the sound dropping like a stone below 69Hz. I removed a handle to create a port in the side... and it got slightly worse 😞

Start of the 90s we used to practice in a room in an old mansion that a band who lived there had converted into a practice room. There was an unloved and funny-shaped bass in the corner, gummed up with tobbaco smoke and dust. We agreed £80 as it was bass no-one wanted. It's now my treasured Fender Performer :-) Then last October, found the match for my Hohner B2, a Jack Custom V. Then the guy said tehre's a case too - a hard case and inside it a jack lead and Dunlop QR strap... all for £130, and it had a fresh battery in it!

Representing the Campaign for Real Sideburns... Why has Ritchie got bird poo all over his jacket? And that Rainbow must have given him ideas...

No, I mean a really Really REALLY weedy sound.

Amazing that a layer of varnish weighs 2lbs!

I found this thread:

The weak point with reviews by companies that sell things is that if they are in a position to review they have to sell them too... I sometimes review things (not instruments!) and my rule is if it doesn't make the grade I let them know why and don't write the review - why promote something not up to scratch?, In one case I didn't want to undermine a product that I know many people swear by but just wouldn't work well with me equipment, despite much help and advice from their techie).

The original fades and I think what he plays at the end is completely improvised! We've agreed I'll just do the little trill then go round again. Three times for some unknown reason... I've really enjoyed learning it.

😮 Sorry!

😆 As we noticed when it went through my little Orange Crush - like breaking glass until I turned the treble down! I couldn't believe it when you told me to pull the foamy bits off!

PROBABLY red to white will work, but if it hums when you move it near electrics, try reversing one pickup. The other way is to hold them side by side with the polepieces aimed at the SAME string. One way round there will be barely any bass, the correct way round is when the bass sounds good and solid. Unfortunately, different manufacturers use different colours for the same coils and I've even found with a guitar humbucker the only certain test is whether or not it sounds duff. Also (as I found) on a PJ guitar if it sounds weak and pathetic with both pickups maxed, you need to swap the wires on the J pickup.

We've decided to do Song of a Baker. I've found at least four different versions. I don't think Kenny Jones and Ronnie Lane worried about counting bars...

A really enjoyable event. Great to meet so many people of like mind! Thanks to Jamie for organising it. Also - seeing lots of handmade basses, including tiny ones by Jabba's and by Manton. These are incredibly BIG, rich sounding and very playable - more like playing a mandolin with sensible tuning! They don't want you to go dum-de-dum! the only thing I noticed was they are prone to high-frequency clanking when hammering on. Lots of custom short scale basses (I suppose we need to call them 'medium scale' now) - perhaps the era of 34" bases dominating is coming to an end? A very colourful and well finished display of Chowny basses - some interesting 'remixing' of styles to create some interesting new looks. The two I played felt and sounded very nice (once I figured out the D string was tuned to D# and it wasn't just me being crap...) I also won the Chowny Elephant Strap in the raffle - that can replace a plain black one 🙂 Some very nice sounding amps and cabs, but a bit difficult to really assess any with so much going on and so many different basses. Tried out Jamie's bass - my first time with fan-frets. I couldn't cope with it being in drop-D but once I tuned it up it wasn't TOO difficult to get my head around it. Seemed a bit of a stretch on the E-string though. Nice to compare a Steinberger and a Hohner B2A side by side. When got my B2 back in the 80s the word was they were nicer to play than 'bergers and I finally saw it proved. Forgot to take many photos - I had a 'proper' camera too! Thanks for all the positive comments on my performer, although I can only take credit for being lucky enough to own it! Alan's Andy's (mostly) lightweight guitars and basses: And how's this for an EUB?

He had to get a freebie MarkBass bag to take his winnings home in!