BassTool

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Used them ages ago, can't remember what for but deffo used them with no probs

Makes a change from giant snails I suppose, but, as @SpondonBassed said earlier in another thread, March is waaaay too early to be calling him for best thread deviation of 2019 😆 Come back @Andyjr1515 - now it's your thread that needs putting back on track 😄 SB's too good at this malarkey 🤣

Hmmmm, the still to do list. I've got one of them on the BlazerRay with one item outstanding - that battery box cover is still not done yet, sellotape holding the battery in place whilst I play it... It's not a good look.. 😆

I reckon you make that look like a piece of cake, lovely job that

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😂 nicely put....👍👍

Nice sentiment, thanks very much @SpondonBassed 😉 My wife said last week - 'so what's happening with that, are you selling it now it's finished? You've got loads now...' Honestly man, women... 😆

Certainly is, I can't put it down ☺️ it plays and sounds better than I ever imagined...😎

I was going through some old pics on my phone and found these I'd sent to the previous owner, didn't realise I had them with the original bass intact....

You never mentioned that before...... 🤣

New strap locks arrived today, so still got to fit them and still got battery cover to re-make.

Time to rescue my own thread...... as requested by @Pea Turgh From this... ....to this..

And SpondonBassed wins the award for most diverse thread deviation 2019... 🤣

Great idea, but they'd all have to be individual rollers for each string surely? On both six string guitars and four/five string bass... if they do them for bass of course - IMO I think they've messed up using one roller for a pair of strings in pics above ... 👍 The nut is a crucial, but so often overlooked, part of an instrument

But you'd be forgetting to incorporate a nod to the donor bass remember the Man and Ray both come from the original bass 😎

Oh. And an open string between those two lumps of brass does sustain for hours.... 🤣

Back in the day when I subscribed to the magazine 'The International Musician' (showing my age now) 😆 there was a free Di Marzio booklet issued with one of the editions. Almost every bit of stuff they were making as add ons was crafted from brass. The nut in particular was hailed for its inherent transfer properties back into the bass, as well as sustain - something I've never quite got as I've always tried to control the length of the notes I play anyway. But as @SpondonBassed says, it's a great metal to work with, and I put a brass nut on my fretless years ago. It's dead easy to refurb as I've demonstrated, and I love the look of it too The chance to upgrade the pretty crappy plastic one on the Blazer was too good an opportunity to pass up.

When I saw you were following the thread mate it ramped up the pressure to get it as good as possible! 😆 (For the uninformed my mate young Gaz is an aficionado of the MM Stingray, he's owned a few and is a very fine player of them too!) We'll have to catch up as I really have no idea what a genuine Stingray sounds like 😖 Be good to compare with the real thing to see if I'm in the ballpark - but bottom line is, the BlazerRay sounds very good to my untrained ears.. 😂 Thanks Gaz!