Stub Mandrel

I did exactly that in the 1980s... I saw the remains of it a while ago, I'll see if I can find it.

Hold on, Trump hasn't appointed the new Pope yet!

The AVII series are, spec wise, off-the-shelf custom shop models. You just lose the 'bespoke' elements or relicing. But it shows top grade nitro lacquer, clay dots, period correct reverse tuners with huge backplates, slab fingerboards and other details can be delivered for about half the CS cost.

Decades ago I added thrust washers to my Hohner B2 🙂 Still get a bit of 'stiction'. Thrust bearings would be ideal.

At least you didn't say the duke of york... 🤣

Some video from yesterday's gig... you can see I was having a lot of fun from about 1/3 of the way through! AQP05IXz-P74jtaQNnMx7cmbBMTK8Je-gpmm6FLmot0YeGxQhH9b9ChaicpHN82BWZfoy8w8tOWJ9LEqck62juxmlcuJfDDjdFLuu_nLJJm_SKkyOA.mp4

Apparently there's a US band called the Junkyard Doges...

2x10 and 1x15 are both much bigger cone areas than 2x8. Expect a lot more oomph from the combo.

Yes... mind you we had about 60 people in a room that takes 250... even a hundred in it feels empty as there's a big dance floor in front of the tables. At least with the fog I could pretend it was rammed.

We agonised for ages and eventually went for a local landmark, Bendricks Rock. Not long after we got a presence, my brother tells me his next door neighbour (the 20-ish son) has called his new band... Bendricks. They are originals, we are covers and the names are different. But we come up first on google

The sensitivity of the cab has more influence on volume than the power of the amp.

Makes us feel like rock stars!

Great gig at the Earl Haig with Bluesfire. Numbers a bit down but somewhere north of sixty, not bad for a £3 cover charge on a really foul day (westher warning - wind and yellow rain 🤣). The big room with a proper stage and lights, but the lighting and smoke meant we could hardly see the audience (they could see us). We had a good time, played Spoonful - it was in a film I watched on Friday night, under the influence of jack Daniels and hobgoblin, I suggested it. we hadn't ever played it before, but we managed to nail all the stops and it was nearer to Cream than Howlin' Wolf. Some dancing (we aren't dancy) and at the end one woman assured us we were the best blues band she's ever seen 😎 Plenty of compliments for Al's guitar playing. Nice to see a friend who's a pro level musician there... and he was telling my SO how important it is I buy a real Bongo not a Sterling one 🤣 Used the Sire P10 for the first set and AVII Precision for the second. Took a while to get a good sound with the sire. The P... just plug it in. Video screenshot 280 views already!

Artwork error... I did change it.

Yesn there's a thread somewhere. The charge pump circuit its a touch noisy if it's placed before overdrive and compression but I use it last. Might build a bigger one with space for larger smoothing capacitors!

I thought surgical appliances were tier 2?

I'm not sure any bass is explicitly nerdy. Maybe fan-fretted 7-stringers... I can't see anything nerdy about a Jazz, aside from the name. Things like mathcore and some prog appeal to nerds. Then there are people like Buckethead.

Headbanging keeps a healthy blood flow to the follicles.

Low action lets you change your sound more easily. you can go from a rounded tone to Entwistle clank.

Yes but not very different and you can usually eq out the differences

I like it, sounds a bit retro. More punchy than my tube screamer clone. No nasty noises on battery or run ftom my psu.

I haven't ssid how I've found it. It's got two slide switches that give three rich, distictive fuzz sounds and one relatively weedy fuzz. The use of ring modulation gives an 'octave fuzz' feel. The twin effect and clean levels workk like blend but better. The sensitivity control works. You can use it to get a Hysteria type clean doubled with fuzz effect, or crank things to get a big clanky distortion effect.

I ordered mi e from Andertons on 16 December and it came in mid January.

Yes but they rarely eliminate the signal at any frequency, so you can boost it with eq. Even mudbuckers owe most of their sound to their position and the large length of string they work over.

@Si600 started this off by asking for Stranglers resources!