Rich

Ok, this project has taken something of a left turn... having a rummage in the ol' spares box, I came up with the old pickup from my OLP 'Ray. Hmmm... watch this space (Yes I know the MM needs to be about 1/2" further away from the bridge to be in the proper sweet-spot, but I really don't want to butcher that lovely pickguard if I can get away with it.)

My fretless Ray neck had the same in terms of side dots, i.e. where they would be for a fretted bass... I blacked them out with a sharpie pen and then put big white Letraset dots at the fretlines, which I painted over with a smear of car touch-up lacquer. You can just about make them out in this pic.

Yes, likewise... back in the day I had a Trace GP12SMX pre with a power amp whose name I can't remember and an SWR Triad cab. It was the most amazing sound but the cab alone was 95lbs... mind you, that Triad sounded great with anything, including the Eden WT400 I replaced the Trace with. Best sounding cab I've ever had by a country mile, but a total backbreaker. Twice the weight of my entire current rig.

We have a gig at the end of October... it's my son's wedding... as you can imagine, I'm really hoping that one goes ahead We have a few in the pipeline before then, but TBH I'm fully expecting almost all of them to be cancelled/postponed. As many others have said, I will gig when I feel it's safe to do so (venues permitting), not when the govt tells me I can. My health puts me mildly 'at-risk' so I'm taking no chances. God, I'm the opposite. It's like I've lost a limb or something. I cannot wait to get back out there, but only when it's safe.

Just checked the online store. Yowch... rather more than I was hoping/expecting, and the exchange rate does us no favours. Sadly I think I'm going to have to pass.

If my memory serves me correctly, back in the day didn't one of our number score what appeared to be a Marshall amp devoid of its vinyl at a boot sale for next to nothing, and said amp turned out to be an original 60s Super Bass head? Going back many many years here.

He does?? Oh boy, I might be in trouble. I'd love some nice ones for my Shuke.

Well... if you have a look at Volume 2 sub-section 2.12.43 paragraph xxvii of the Forum Rules, I think you'll find that you also receive the 10 lashes that you mistakenly attributed to Mr Wib. Oh dear. Someone is going to be a sore little binky.

Surely it's one and a half, counting the Wingbass?

I paid £330 for this in 1986.

I'd always assumed it was Gibbo. Ah well, you learn summat every day.

Just measured my Thunder 1A and the measurements are the same -- so your Spector 8 has what is basically a 4-string neck. Wow. I'd always assumed they'd be a bit wider than that.

By comparison, my Sire 5-string is 44 and 64.

Does anyone here have an actual factory-made 8-string? It'd be interesting to know the neck widths at the nut & 12th fret.

Good man. Yup, I've just moved it to Build Diaries, left a link in the original subforum.

@BreadBin, can you keep this thread running as a build diary plz? I'd love to see how this turns out, cos I've always fancied an 8-string toy and fleabay is chock full of cheap 5-strings...

74 is Bring Down the Birds

71 is What's Goin' On

Lady In Red. Schmaltzy bleuchh with a gorgeous John Giblin bassline.

Likewise.

In ar ironic twist, I've done this on my Sire MM V7 solid covers would be better, but I'm reluctant to buggger about with the pups just in case I make a horlicks of it.

I've had my V7 fiver for 5 years and it's a definite keeper.

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Those are the 1/2" licenced Ultralites.