Beedster

This might actually turn out well, almost like I planned it

Nice piece of mahogany 👍

It is, I love them, really good at the bridge. On fretless, and like Mo Foster (at least according to an interview I read), I don't use the neck Jazz PUP, to my ear it just muddies things a little too much, so the body came up on eBay and I jumped. I knew I'd seen a similar bass with extended board and single PUP but I may have imagined the latter, either way I think I'm looking for the same out of this as Mr Foster did from his FL Jazz, I love the simplicity, to add to it I'm probably going to run the PUP straight to the jack socket. Have to say iIt has something of a Wishbass look about it in the flesh, I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not

I was moving an acoutsic panel, bass was on the floor on its side and, well, you can guess the rest...... Nice idea but wrong end of the instrument.... Tony, that is genius, made my afternoon, and I think I may look at doing that. I'm wondering if I could use the soundhole insert from an acoustic guitar, as otherwise it could be quite vulnerable to further breaks. What did you use?

Reason for my original enquiry, latest bitsa project to land….

RIP Mani, not many bassists make the front pages when they pass, says something about just how much you influenced music and culture 🙏

My gut feel is that the acoustic tone of such a small body will not sound much like that of an upright, even less so when amplified. You could spend a lot of time and money chasing shadows

What can be done?

BC Road Trip 👍

Nice to hear, I’ll get up there soon 👍

That's him, many thanks @Misdee, some follow-up incoming in a few days......

Think he was English, think he was 1970's.........?

RD Artist?

This thread has made me very happy 🙏

My band certainly would 👍

Yep, and sometimes something that shouldn’t work in theory results in something magical in practice 👍

I have a professional interest in athletes and drug use. I was reading about Victor Conte who was one of the big players in the US steroid scene who died a few days back, and came across this. I wonder how many other quite successful bassists have found notoriety elsewhere.....?

Shit happens, send them back, get a replacement set, sorted 👍

Many thanks Andy, especially appreciate the advice re impedance 🙏 Any plans to bring out a Subway combo?

I’ve owned both, and no it isn’t

Lovely, somewhere between Dusty Hill and Dusty Springfield! Good taste in components also 👍

My lasting memory of my 1516 was our singer's "Dude, your cab broke my car....", that and it going walkabout (geddit) in the back of a courier van only to be located in rural Suffolk 3-months later