Waddo Soqable

I just wipe my hands on me trousers 😁 Somewhere I've got an old Harp lager bar towel, bet that's an "antique" now too...

Has anyone ever asked if he's a nutter and they're utter rubbish? Just wondering..

Killing Moon, E&tBM

Nice 👍.. I listened to a couple of your other tracks too, I like your stuff a lot, I'll give the whole album a spin in one go later.

I've never in decades had an active bass die on a gig or rehearsal. Easy enough to keep a fresh 9v battery in your pocket / kit too.

We need to see photos 😁

Teenage kicks, undertones

Yes I'll jack one up a bit with washers as a test, making metal shims afterwards is no prob, like I say I'm happy with bashing metal

Reptile. The Church

They should do, it'd just equate to shallower grooves, and you could for example fine adjust subsequently with more shims like a lot of things do in engineering. Just a bit of a pain now having to laboriously level the grooves first, hence my temptation to hack out one platform as I could do that with a powerfile! That said it prob looks better with individual slots.

Try beer goggles.. 😁 I reckon it's a proper fugly looking thing

I'm very tempted to have a go at making a Trussart type metal body tbh

Nah, go "bass? What bass? I cancelled it mate"

You could call it "Honest Paul's Plank" (Guv') 😁

Anywaaay.. I've massively over cooked the depth of the recesses for the bridge units.. I screwed them in etc etc, put the strings on, and find they now slap about on the fretboard even when raising the saddles The saddles themselves don't have that much movement upwards before you run out of thread on the l'il Allen screws either, I could just about get a couple of the strings twanging but no good at all really. ( I quite like a low rattly Entwistle action but this is ridiculous! ) So, after a coffee and a couple of Tunnocks choc wafers, I conclude the next step would be to make 4 shaped flat shims or spacers to sit under the units and raise them up a bit (or a lot) These I shall make from Metal, I like metal it's a material I'm happy working with, unlike wood which I dislike dealing with (although it does burn well) I could perhaps bung a few washers under one of the units just to trial how much I need to raise them, and thus how thick my shims need to be. If it fights me further with this I'll prob do the '' chop out a single square recess" plan b thing, with this I could the use a single sheet of metal, drilled appropriately, instead of 4 strips. I'll see what metal I've got lying around and take a view... The pic doesn't really show the above issue too well, but even with saddles right up it's really no use unfortunately edit... I also notice, confirmed by measurement, that the slots are deeper at the front rounded end by quite a bit, therefore making the units tip forward slightly, I'll prob have to level them before doing shims, I'm tempted to just chop the lot out now a'la plan B..

I found a pukka fez at a place we were playing once, naturally I wore it for the gig ( I "forgot" to give it back too.. )

You need to be playing the theme from Roobarb and Custard... 👍

If you're going to tweak the tuner with a tool of some kind, I'd put something like a bit of thin plastic or even card over the surfaces of the key to avoid scratching the black finish with the tool (I'd close up an adjustable spanner on the key and try bending it carefully ) Lovely bass BTW..

You can always modulate, if it's been going on a bit...

We used to have a few pre planned skits to do... if, for instance, drummer busted a snare skin, myself and Gtr would launch into a little comic jazzy number... or if there was a Git catastrophe, busted string etc, myself and drums would do a "max wall dance contest" theme or something... Oddly it was never necessary to have a contingency for bass dropping out.. Basses don't go wrong (do they?.. ) 😁

All the time!

Body reminds me of the old Ned Callan basses

I've never been fired either, but I have fired a few singers.. oh, and drummers 😁

Ah.. You'll have to be the interpreter then 👍

Seriously, sounds great... Could open up lots of possibilities to play places that otherwise wouldn't put on bands at all, and certainly not loud amplified stuff..