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Extremely rare and highly valuable, much sought after. PMd with offer.

I did not realise they came that large A More Paul?

A 63' what?

Can't fault my 2014 SG bass for build quality (there is the other perennial issue, neck dive, which could and should have be designed out by now) and bought used the price was excellent. Bought used it was also about the right price for a new one when I compare it to what is available from China / India / Korea / Indonesia / Japan? (choose country and price as applicable). In the age of CNC precision manufacturing, providing you can obtain quality wood then IMO there is no 'magic sauce' anymore. It is just down to good design, manufacture and quality control. Other than specialist luthier build, guitars have entered the world of white goods, they are commodities.

Sort of arrived at the halfway house to this by accident. Took the Fearful 15/6/1 concept to Shermann Audio (PA builders) and had them build a FRFR 15/6/1 lightweight bass cab. It is about the size of a Peavey TNT bass combo. It also makes a good PA cab whilst retaining the 'traditional' cab appearance. Without going to IEMs the biggest issue I find at present is drum volume, and that is with a sensible drummer. I am gradually persuading the band that quieter on stage is better.

Excellent communication, machine heads arrived rapidly and very well packed. Many thanks.

I have also had that same thought, 9mm ply box. I then think by the time I have done the woodwork I might just get a Peavey minmax 500 head for my diy combo. I still use Peavey Tour 700s. In my A/B with the Marshall VBA400 I also owned, the Tour 700s suited me better.

+1 on the same combo 1981 to 2004 ish. Am thinking what would one be like with a suitable neo speaker and ports.

These days I cheat on LCR measurements since meters are cheap as chips. However no need to give students the easy way out, I have the 'beater' guitar in the lab and think I will be making more use of it.

Agree. Mass or weight, often misunderstood. A 9 Kg bass is the mass not the weight. Yes I am pedantic on this one, it is my day job :). Mentioning pendulums made me think about simple harmonic motion. We could suspend the bass using a spring (of known spring constant) and measure the oscillation period. Apply the maths and we get the mass. What a great thread, what would the other bass forum make of this thread

I am going to use this one as a practical for my Physics students, set as an open ended challenge - here is some kit, find the mass of the object. It is a nice application of moder kit (tuner) and classical theory.

You might very well think that; I couldn't possibly comment. It is not our policy to confirm or deny such aspects.

It will not have been the cheapest option when all the puddings and spoons are shared out On the plus side all diners have sufficient puddings.and I have started using the spoons in their natural habitat again

There is another (more drastic) solution, which involves changing another aspect of the situation. I performed this manoeuvre last year and can conform it solved all angle and nut rattle issues

Conversely, too steep an angle and you get slippage which leads to poor performance.

Then we get to the 80s, an era of excess and pointy spoons.

Mahogany spoons are also considered desirable, puddingistas state that they give a softer more focused flavour. The sought after 1950s flame maple cap spoon might be the way forward. Great care must be taken not to drop your mahogany spoon, headstock breakages are not unknown (little known fact,the bowl is called the head). On a different matter we must now evaluate the construction of the pudding metalwork. Do pre decimal coinage threppeny bits (brass) coins sustain the flavour longer than later cupro nickel coins ?

To ensure an accurate answer we need to know the binding energy of the bass and the constituent parts. The energy release from splitting the bass, E = MC2 will cause a mass defect.

The sauce needs to be thin and use vintage Brandy, this allows the pudding to breathe better resulting in a fuller tone. Modern thicker sauces inhibit the pudding's response.

This is eminently do-able, however the proposed method does require some slight modifications. You will need a tuner to measure the frequency of the guitar string, know the string diameter (in SI units) and either measure the mass of the length of string or calculate the mass per unit length based on the density. Use the appropriate equation and out will come the answer.

Good thought on the later addition of ferrules.

The gap at between the control plate and scratch-plate could be signs of a Friday afternoon job. The uneven string ferrule spacing concerns me more. I can't readily find when cnc started on Fender production. However it is a mass produced guitar and we can consider three scenarios. The ferrule holes could be CNCd when the body is shaped. Should be perfect. If the ferrule holes are not CNCd then I would be very surprised if they were not drilled using custom machinery, all four holes and steps at once in a jig. If we are drilling the holes by hand I would be highly surprised if the holes were not located using some form of template at the least. I may be completely wrong. I would want unscrew the neck and have a look at the pocket, I would also want to look under the scratchplate / control plate.

Apologies if misunderstood. I share your concerns over the potential ramifications, what constitutes reasonable adjustments is a minefield.