EssentialTension

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1318198014' post='1399204'] I'd be interested if I had some spare cash. [/quote] [quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1318281988' post='1400142'] No worries, Dave, though I suspect there's a general chicken-counting thing going on just now ... I haven't won the auction yet. All the same, if I do win it then I suppose this bass might eventually become part of the extended Basschat family. [/quote] I refer you to my earlier post.

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1318276588' post='1400054'] Erm yes thanks lads, that's the same link as BigRedX put up. I meant Tommy Denander made it up. [/quote] Ah, I misunderstood, and yes very possibly. I'm a Precision with ordinary frets kind of guy myself.

[quote name='LawrenceH' timestamp='1318276038' post='1400039'] Ugh, why on earth would you want to do that? [/quote] ... because he's brilliant and out of tune.

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1318275849' post='1400038'] True temprament. He made that up didn't he? I've heard of Equal and Mean Tone but True? [/quote] [url="http://www.truetemperament.com/site/index.php"]http://www.truetemperament.com/site/index.php[/url]

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1318270972' post='1399958'] Hmmm ... good call. The reason I moved the Lightwave on was that it was "too transparent" and did too good a job of advertising my mistakes. Luckily enough, I'm now a much better bass player and I don't make any. I'm only buying this one so that I can trade it with Clarky anyway ... [/quote] Jack, if Clarky doesn't want it then let me know please.

Any chance of a link?

[quote name='Mykesbass' timestamp='1318268763' post='1399911'] Pitch Pipes - now they killed the vibe long ago! [/quote] ... and frets, they killed everything.

Not the original body I guess.

I'd be interested if I had some spare cash.

[quote name='Rick's Fine '52' timestamp='1318195745' post='1399174'] Normal. The scratchplates are made pre-drilled, I've never seen a gold anodized guard appear un-drilled. All the replacement ones you see advertised all come pre-drilled, maybe becuase they are metal, dunno, never really thought about it. I've never seen an un-drilled gold guard though. Have you? [/quote] Well, on a 57 RI I don't recall but the gold guards on the old American Deluxes are not drilled. I realise that's a different guard/different shape.

[quote name='Rick's Fine '52' timestamp='1318194234' post='1399149'] Domestic JV's, certainly after May '82 didnt have thumbrests or chrome covers fitted. Export JV's had these features until May '82, when Fender USA put a stop to it, and switched the large fender/small squire decals round, at the same time. [/quote] Ok, but this one has the pickguard holes for tugbar and pickup cover but the body is not drilled beneath the pickguard. What do you make of that?

I think the Westone Thunder 1A was a twenty fret 34" scale bass.

It's not drilled for the tugbar and for the pickup and bridge ashtrays. Should it be?

Yes we can.

[quote name='merello' timestamp='1318176324' post='1398849'] Hurry up! [/quote] He's too busy playing it nicely.

[quote name='Hutton' timestamp='1318175955' post='1398836'] Many apologies everyone. I didn't realise that this issue has been 'done to death'. Perhaps a moderator would delete or close the thread. [/quote] This has, like most things, been much discussed but why not do it again?

Part of me (i.e my back) prefers lighter rather than heavier but I also have a feeling that a nice solid (i.e. heavier) piece of wood might sound better. Below 10lbs and I'm happy.

I bet that poster is going for a lot more than a pound these days.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1318155110' post='1398533'] You're killing the bloody vibe now. [/quote] Sorry!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZt7VySrAEE

Electric guitars - have they killed the vibe? Actually learning to play - has it killed the vibe? Vans that don't break down - have they killed the vibe?

[quote name='Panamonte' timestamp='1318117131' post='1398353'] It's in the diary (let me know where it is nearer the time ) [/quote] Will do. BTW, and fortunately, we do have fretted instruments as well.

[quote name='Panamonte' timestamp='1318116156' post='1398347'] Sounds great - when's your next gig? (As one Brightonian to another). [/quote] Not until March 2nd 2012. We need to do something about that.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1318100414' post='1398153'] ... And is this at least part of the reason why some bands can now sound a little anodyne, clinical, bland, boring, unexciting, uninspiring, uninteresting and/or mind-bogglingly dull? ... [/quote] I don't think so, I think they probably sound 'a little anodyne, clinical, bland, boring, unexciting, uninspiring, uninteresting and/or mind-bogglingly dull' because they are those things. However, there seem to me to be plenty of bands today who aren't anodyne clinical etc. Anyway, something you find mind-bogglingly dull I might well praise rather highly and vice versa.