Rich

Nah. This is a lot of knobs.

22". Roughly 11/16 scale

I've had this OLP 'Ray for some time. Bought it cheap off fleabay because well, why not? The neck has never been ideal, too clubby for my Jazz pencil-neck preferences plus a couple of problematic frets meant that getting a low enough action for my liking was difficult. So when this fretless neck came up for sale here last year I snapped it up, and have finally got my derrière in gear to fit it. It's actually a Jaydee Supernatural neck (hence the 'JayRay' name ) with a nice slim profile and a gorgeous mostly-unlined ebony board (tiny 3mm fretlines on the fretboard edge, the ideal solution IMO). I've fitted it and strung it, and will give it a couple of days to settle before I tackle a proper setup. Further plans are to move the pickup 3mm closer to the neck (thus allowing the proper MM pickguard to sit flush to the neck), fit a battery box and then build a preamp -- I'm thinking of making one based on the Alembic FET F2-B 3-band, otherwise I'll make a 'Ray or Sabre 2-band clone. I might try to source a better bridge too, the factory one is a pretty crap BBOT really. Dead pleased with it so far though, that unlined ebony board is sooooooo classy. I'll update this thread as the remaining jobs get done. Thanks to @greenolive for this gorgeous neck!

How's the endorsement deal going, Ped?

Spiffing, I will try to get along for that if I can.

You need something like this (the little white one, obvs)... bought as a giggle many moons ago from a long-gone member of this parish. It's tuned to A (above E) because I've never had the time or patience to find the right gauges for it.

Sounds brilliant mate, I have GOT to catch you at some point soon. You were good before, more than good, but it sounds like the keys man has really added something. I bet Adrian's loving it

The old timers amongst you will recall the tale of OldGit and his Hohner B2A that was entrusted to RM's "care". When it arrived, the neck was bent. Not just bowed, but bent. The only conclusion that could be reached was that a truck had driven over it. IIRC, it wasn't until he started badgering RM's chief executive directly that he got any form of compensation.

Au contraire. Stock/Aitken/Waterman murdered rock and roll. Simon Cowell mutilated the corpse.

Ped's request seems to have fallen on some deaf ears. I think we get the jist of what's happened/happening.

Absolutely priceless. Thank you, that was the best laugh I've had in weeks.

Who is best at slap, Mark King or Richard Dawkins? The readers of Bass Hello! magazine need to know.

+1 with thebassist and visog above. Back in the day, I subscribed to Bassist and also picked up BP whenever I saw it (usually at the WH Smiths at Paddington!). BP used to be a great read, it was worth getting just to have a laugh at Anthony Jackson's occasionally incredibly pompous drivel (truly great player but massive bass snob IMO), and they even made honest reviews of things back then. Last time I picked BP up, it was thinner than an election pamphlet and was 80% adverts. BGM has its moments -- more good than bad I think -- but as has been said, everything can be found on line these days. Nowadays the only paper mag I buy with any regularity is Private Eye. Not much bass content there.

No. No no no no no NO. Absolutely unacceptable. He might have had a really nice car. Although that's unlikely for a keyboard player, admittedly.

Outstanding comeback

Just wait till he finds out that colour has a U and that there's no such thing as aloominum. People have gone on shooting sprees for less provocation than that.

^ this. String spacing is all down to personal preference. I have stumpy little fingers but I'm far more comfortable on my beaten up old Ibanez BTB sixer (string spacing 20mm) than on any of the narrower ones I've tried.

Tunisian prog-metal and Icelandic nu-folk for me. There's great music everywhere. 'Rock n roll' is just a lazy bullsht category title anyway. If In Doubt, File Under Rock. I saw The Selecter described as a 'rock band' once. QED.

That pic is FABULOUS. I don't suppose you have a hi-res version you can share?

Other sub-7lbs basses are available 😎 http://shukerguitars.co.uk/4-string-series-2-superleggera/

I had squarnch of lamb for dinner last night. Very tasty, but needed more nutmeg.

Nothing new. Tony Goggle did this 20 years ago with his signature bass.

I've posted this before but I think it bears sharing again... Many years ago when I lived in Swindon, my blues-rock trio (Hendrix, Gary Moore, ZZ Top etc) had a booking at the Plessey Social Club... when we walked through the door, we lowered the average age in the room by about 40 years. As we set up, I could feel the glares from the light-&-bitter brigade burning holes in the back of my head. We had backline and a vocal PA only, nothing DI'd or miked up -- Steve the drummer was first to get set up, he sat down and picked up a stick and hit his snare drum ONCE... and I heard a croaky old voice from out in the shadows say, "ooh, it's a bit loud..." Predictably the first set was horrendous, every song met with almost total silence apart from a few “turn it down”s from some of the coffin-dodgers and one or two claps. One of them even walked right up to me mid-song, stuck his fingers in his ears and bellowed “It's TOO LOUD”. End of the first set couldn’t have come soon enough for me. When it did, the club MC asked if he could borrow one of our mics to do the bingo. Ye gods. Eventually we couldn’t put the second set off any longer and trudged to the stage. I was just putting my bass on when a woman approached me. I thought, if she tells me to turn it down I’m just going to pack up and sod off home. But she said cheerfully, “OK lads, all the old farts have buggered off, they only come for the bingo... you can turn it back up now”. So we did Needless to say, the second set was a lot better and we never set foot in there again