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Thank you, saves me finding the exact analogy. These aircraft undoubtedly came accidentally unglued with terminal consequences but this was wartime and it was a wonderful artefact of a great designer and company too... Doesn't / didn't Tolex come unglued even from an otherwise wondrous Barefaced cabinet. I guess they didn't use tuffcab because it WILL make cab heavier .??

You dont posess a tent as you can afford vip glamping ? ok yes and a Precision could possibly work 2 or 3 times which should suffice. My p5 sire, roasted neck would break easier in these circumstances wouldn't it ?? Ideally thru neck modulus style? Or status carbon this would work efficiently several times as might be needed

I'd be rather more perturbed about a current Boeing operated by a shifty airline at present (leaving out generally crappy airtravel experiences as a given sort of a hazard)

Thread will ideally move to off topic or at a stretch other musical items...see amended title New seditionary question. A stage invader at your big chance gig has perhaps malign intent. Do you a) hit him with something close to hand or b) emulate Sid Vicious in great rocknroll swindle. If B , bolt on neck, through or set neck or carbon fibre thru neck. Or someone else's instrument???

A drummer friends dad was an artist / academic in North london. I accidentally knocked an African ironwood mask off a staircase wall and it hit the ground floor quarry tiles. I thought in terms of bass guitar disasteromundo... picked it up to pass it to him and go 'oh fk it's ironwood so it landed just on that quarry tile over there' ha ha

What if you have two ( longterm trustworthy ) musician friends who live in Japan. 1 a good English speaking more jazz than rock guitarist who posts clips of elegant playing on utoob etc. Find me such and such an instrument please, my good friend Hiroomi. Me want badly a Greco or similar Rickenbacker style semi acoustic bass copy ideally left handed and pretty but right handed and marred and cheaper would be fine 🙂 mates rates on delivery etc. Cheapish basses are safer monetarily but what would you be tempted to chance your arm on...

So you could attack it with a ball peen hammer a few times and it would still "work" I'd prefer that to happen to my bamboo derived gr bass cab. Buying one is a bad idea typed ten to the power of ten times. As I reckon engineered bamboo would make an excellent baffle for starters. Nice chatting to you btw.

Not now the product regulation is so voluminous but who knows in 15yrs time , allegedly safe product that will do unexpected s*it . Not referring to GR Bass specifically. I would love a dubster too so no barefaced prejudice here BTW

By which I mean Bamboo had been used elegantly for a specific purpose for an extreme machine that was not being used as designed. See Y'all later

The rowing boats i waffled about up thread were a very well made hot moulded semi monocoque... marketed as nature's natural composite. Sure there are still Carl Douglas boats being made, see adverts on Google. Bamboo- I rode a Bamboo road bike the day before the London Brighton Cycle ride 10 plus years ago. This was designed for a time trialler sooo uncomfortable. The relatively unfit owner suffered badly and then scared the bejesus out of himself on the final / nearly terminal descent towards the sea. If you are brave you can get a lot of speed..... So Bamboo is a wonderful natural resource, how is it utilised by GR Bass ? I.e. what is the adhesive used to make engineered Bamboo laminate (for want of a better word) easy to finish prettily even a nice Veneer like ye olde boats. Nice talking to ya

I feel cuddly warm and virtuous...

Good remembering name of cheapo tonewood - Agathis

Sounded great on "Fangs for the memory" tho

This is why I was asking. Thank you for the response. Mods please close comments but leave this up if possible. Thanks Merton and binky and burns bass. @Burns-bass I promise I wasn't trolling, the guy seemed a nut and was on an fb group where people had a reasonably sensible debate about the Olympics and letts wades in....

I know there was a long thread about this gentleman but I can't find it ..... Had followed him on FB a while ago so he's popped up occasionally making intemperate statements and used a reform party logo as an avatar till recently. These are statements of fact and I'm not judging... had a polite chat on fb about why woke wasn't going to destroy the western world . Does the gentleman who was owed cash or a bass have either. Avoided even mentioning Basschat Mods , this can be placed in off topic if u prefer.

I saw a dude make a mistake with a carbon pole while I was in a Lincolnshire rowing event. He was walking up a side branch some way away and there was a woomph noise. He'd bumped a high voltage line and was history...

Insert Courier joke here.. I purchased an excellent folding aluminium parcel truck from Screwfix 35 quid or so a while ago. Highly recommended I know starting this thread was venturesome and cheeky... enjoyed it though. Like the estimable @la bam I'm a fan of Laney n series cabs. A friend is using an n115 for geetar they are great cabs tho Mr Fitzmaurice says the specs for the lavoce 10" speakers are iffy. . I don't use n410 much as too loud ha ha

For sure, especially since they are made here using a diligent and adept workforce. I've enjoyed reading ALL of the responses. Sorry if I've digressed/rambled. Tech and production engineering is always fascinating

Thanks for replies. I like to think that I'm not trolling gr bass or the enthusiastic users of their gear. It looks lovely but .... Next , does tonewood have to be expensive and if its not pretty but IS cheap is it still tonewood. Answers on a postcard via Ped at Basschat HQ . You also have a chance to purchase a guild x500 semi acoustic advertised on here for a respectful offer compared to B.i.N price folks or I've wasted 20quid upgrading my membership

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Irrelevant with all due respect cos the statement does not refer to my question, other than indirectly.

So if you want to gig a GR you'll need a high grade flight case made utilising similar material which means how light is your GR plus a REALLY expensive flight case. And you'll realise GR should/could be finished with fancy faced and finished ply wood or Tuffcab ....I'm sort of kidding btw

There was a dude called Carl Douglas no not that one who built laminated moulded "ply" racing sculling boats and would do a final finish of any fancy wood you chose. If you decided to pay for a finish you'd potentially slaughter when you'd run your boat aground 2 days post delivery. Still probably easier than doing a structural repair of a carbon boat. Not as expensive as a high end acoustic but only certain artists ought to be encouraged to chuck their prized heirloom into a river

A friend of my father's had two concrete sewer pipes with a rudimentary dispersal arrangement on top and a pair of wharfedale Gilbert Briggs (8" i think) that my dad persuaded him to use after telling him the enclosures would still sound like shit. Now we have audiophile people who think your turntable has to look like a gasometer designed by HR freakin Geiger.