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Single cut bodies make me wretch. But Violin basses ARGHH I want to stamp up and down on them.

I had to replace the stock plastic nut on my old Westfield P bass, due to its having slots far too wide for a normal string because I adjusted it to try the Rotosound Tru Bass plastic coated strings (after seeing Jah wobble and having a chat with Nige 'Mr Rotosound' Clutterbuck, one day) So after some consideration I thought instead of going straight for the bone nut option, that I was planning. That I would like to try something different first. Such as a metal nut, maybe copper, brass or ally. The Ally nut has been cut to size and is on the bass now, awaiting me finding a dremmel to borrow off someone to cut the slots (anyone in Chester have a Dremmel to lend for a day ?) So my Q is, has anyone else ever tried a metal nut, and if so what was the outcome ?

[quote name='tazza1' timestamp='1348303679' post='1812018'] I haven't been to Torquay for a few years but used to visit two or three weekends & summer holidays each year (used to stay in Warren Road - why is it infamous?). I love the place - used to go to see the bands on Friday nights in the Cider Press - is that still open? Anyway enjoy BC, there are some really helpful people on here. [/quote] Well Warren Road is very much a road of two halves. the posh half and the benefit hotel half. (I, being awkward lived approx in the middle) I must say I found it quite 'cosmopolitan' and easy to make friends there. Mostly enjoyed it and would still be there if it were not for the landlord getting all of a sudden money mad.

I went to see The Stray Cats, many moons ago, and double bass player Lee Rocker did the whole [i]standing on the bass whilst playing it [/i]thing, etc etc.

If only i had the money. I'd buy this thread in a trice.

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1348175373' post='1810569'] He is the source of great wisdom in all things Luthiering....http://basschat.co.uk/topic/184791-hes-now-into-decal-design/ [/quote] Oh. HIM!

[quote name='hollywoodrox' timestamp='1348184967' post='1810710'] Hi there, paul here from Torquay, [/quote] I used to live on Torquay's [i]infamous[/i] Warren Road Loved it. Only moved back up north as the damn landlord wanted me to move from a 3 room flat into a bedsit (yeah right!) I also own a zoom B2.1u. Good for allsorts arent they ? [quote name='BottomE' timestamp='1348225165' post='1811040'] Hi Welcome I hope your bass is waterproof. Never seen so much rain as when i went to Devon. Beautiful county though. Weather changes so damn fast. B [/quote] Your telling me. I was once standing in warm sunshine in torquay when we saw a car that had just come off Dartmoor with snow all over it!!

I can honestly say I have no idea what the big guy was talking about when he said this hearing it LOUD was better than hearing it soft ? ? Just seemed like chin stroking seminar nonsense to me. Where everybody nods their heads and pretends to understand while they have no idea whats going on. In these situations I always put my hand up and say "sorry but I don't understand" and find out most other people didn't either. So here goes [center][size=5]Sorry but I don't understand[/size][/center]

I wouldn't pay 300 for it. Rather have a nice new Squier. P bass. Late 70s Fenders aint exactly scintillating in their originality and quality of construction.

Just got it. Will let you know my Kerrang verdict in a few days

Who is Mark D Phillips ??

How about a PJ ?

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1348125760' post='1809520'] I can make up and hum a bassline to myself but I can't just play it straight away, I have to work it out on the fretboard first and then learn it. I could never do that 'two soloists' thing where a guitarist plays a line and then the other copies it (unless it was completely rehearsed) because I'm just not quick enough to play what I can hear - there's always a learn/rehearse stage for me. That doesn't mean that I can't jam, but I am then limited to a few chops and I generally get frustrated that I don't have more. More work needed I guess! [/quote] Indeed. I find it impossible to get near the copy what you hear straight away, thing (Which is what I have always wanted to do, and remember mentioning to my old bass teacher, when he asked me at the first lesson what I actually wanted to learn. Quite a tall order I suppose) This seems to me to be much more difficult than [i]playing what one imagines[/i]. Although I couldn't tell you why it seems that way. Unless its because I don't imagine complex stuff as I know I cant play it ?? But since about 6 months ago I have found that, when trying to copy something I have just heard, my fingers sometimes travel to the correct intervals without me thinking about it. (Although sometimes in the wrong key) I recall clearly the [i]Father Ted [/i]theme tune was the first time this happened. After just watching it on TV I clearly remember being very happy that evening, as I knew that I had finally the first step from learner to the next level. Its only since I have been doing this that I have realized the[i] real [/i]importance of learning scales and modes.

I can usually play it, unless its very complex, or some super slap that I cant do. But that's stuff I[i] imagine [/i]in my head. Stuff already written seems more difficult. . I have been trying for a week to get the bassline to [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ok2-ic5iPA"]Nervous system by Killing Joke[/url]. Its not exactly difficult in that its not at all complex. I have found 3 different ways of playing it, but none of them are[i] quite [/i]right. It will drive me mad until I either get it right or I find something that I want to play more. (I have even tried every setting on my Zoom B2.1u to see if that helps )

t seems strange that I only see 2 bass magazines on the shelves, yet I see [b]five[/b] drum magazines ? I know we often have two or even more guitards in a band and all sorts of people are amateur guitar players, who might pick up one of the [b]dozen [/b]guitar mags. But surely every band has only one drummer and bass player, often shared between bands. So how come so few bass mags and so many drum ones ?

this is the email of the organizer: [email="[email protected]"][email protected][/email] I have emailed him myself.

[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][size=5][u][sup]I think the list is now:[/sup][/u][/size] [size=5][sup]badass Rich discreet Geek99[/sup][/size] [size=5][sup]Bill Posters[/sup][/size][/font]

[quote name='Mr H' timestamp='1348010200' post='1808218'] Forgive me for resurrecting a thread I started, but here's a quick hardest-working-bass update: It died two nights later. [/quote] Tell us more ?? . PS: I have been looking at their youtube stuff. Brilliant bass based band. Hope to see them live one day.

[quote name='JellyKnees' timestamp='1347709261' post='1804193'] Hello and welcome from sunny Birkenhead! I do wonder why people refer to it as 'The' Wirral though? Short for 'the wirral peninsular' perhaps? But I digress, this is a very useful site for all things bass, and occasionally things that aren't...have fun [/quote] Wiki says on the Origin of the name 'The Wirral' [quote] The name Wirral occurs in the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_Chronicle"]Anglo-Saxon Chronicle[/url] as [i]Wirheal[/i], literally "[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog_myrtle"]myrtle[/url]-corner", from the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English_language"]Old English[/url] [i]wir[/i], a myrtle tree, and [i]heal[/i], an angle, corner or slope. It is supposed that the land was once overgrown with [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrica_gale"]bog myrtle[/url], a plant no longer found in the area but plentiful around [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formby"]Formby[/url], to which Wirral would once have provided a similar [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat"]habitat[/url].[sup][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirral_Peninsula#cite_note-1"][2][/url][/sup] The name was given to the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_of_Wirral"]Hundred of Wirral[/url] around the 8th century. In the [i][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesday_Book"]Domesday Book[/url][/i] and shortly afterwards, the name of the hundred changed to the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundreds_of_Cheshire"]Hundred of Wilaveston[/url], which later became [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willaston,_Cheshire_West"]Willaston[/url].[sup][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirral_Peninsula#cite_note-2"][3][/url][/sup] [b] [[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wirral_Peninsula&action=edit&section=2"]edit[/url]] History[/b] [b] [[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wirral_Peninsula&action=edit&section=3"]edit[/url]] Prehistoric settlement[/b] The earliest evidence of human occupation of Wirral dates from the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesolithic"]Mesolithic[/url] period, around 7000 BC. Excavations at [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greasby"]Greasby[/url] have uncovered flint tools, signs of stake holes and a hearth used by a hunter-gatherer community, and other evidence from about the same period has been found at [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irby,_Merseyside"]Irby[/url], [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoylake"]Hoylake[/url] and [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Brighton,_Merseyside"]New Brighton[/url]. Later [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic"]Neolithic[/url] stone axes and pottery have been found in [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxton,_Merseyside"]Oxton[/url], [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neston"]Neston[/url], and [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meols"]Meols[/url]. At Meols and New Brighton there is evidence of continuing occupation through to the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Age"]Bronze Age[/url], around 1000 BC, and funerary urns of the period have been found at [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Kirby"]West Kirby[/url] and [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbre"]Hilbre[/url].[sup][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirral_Peninsula#cite_note-roberts-3"][4][/url][/sup] Before the time of the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire"]Romans[/url], Wirral was inhabited by a [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celts#Britain_and_Ireland"]Celtic[/url] tribe, the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornovii_(Midlands)"]Cornovii[/url]. Artefacts discovered in Meols suggest it was an important port from at least 500 BC. Traders came from [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaul"]Gaul[/url] and the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean"]Mediterranean[/url] seeking minerals from North Wales and Cheshire.[sup][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirral_Peninsula#cite_note-museum-4"][5][/url][/sup] There are also remains of a small [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Age"]Iron Age[/url] fort at [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burton,_Ledsham_and_Willaston"]Burton[/url], which takes its name ([i]burh[/i]-[i]tún[/i]) from it.[sup][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirral_Peninsula#cite_note-roberts-3"][4][/url][/sup] [b] [[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wirral_Peninsula&action=edit&section=4"]edit[/url]] The Romans and Britons[/b] Around 70 AD, Romans occupied [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Chester"]Chester[/url]. Evidence of their occupation in Wirral has been found, including the remains of a road near [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mollington,_Cheshire"]Mollington[/url], [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ledsham,_Cheshire"]Ledsham[/url] and [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willaston,_Cheshire_West"]Willaston[/url]. This road may have continued to the port at Meols, which may have been used as a base for attacking the north Wales coast. [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storeton"]Storeton[/url] Quarry may also have been used by Romans for sculpture, and remains of possible Roman roads have also been found at [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greasby"]Greasby[/url] and at [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidston"]Bidston[/url]. By the end of the Roman period, pirates were a menace to traders in the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Sea"]Irish Sea[/url], and soldiers may have been garrisoned at Meols to combat this threat.[sup][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirral_Peninsula#cite_note-museum-4"][5][/url][/sup] The Romans left in about 410, but later coins and other material found at Meols show that it continued to operate as a trading port. There is evidence of [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Christianity"]Celtic Christianity[/url] from the 5th or 6th centuries in the originally circular shape of churchyards at [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromborough"]Bromborough[/url], [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodchurch"]Woodchurch[/url] and elsewhere, and also in the dedication of the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Hilary%27s_Church,_Wallasey"]parish church[/url] at [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallasey"]Wallasey[/url] to a 4th century bishop, [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_of_Poitiers"]Hilary of Poitiers[/url]. The Celtic names of [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liscard"]Liscard[/url] and [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landican"]Landican[/url] (from [i]llan[/i]-[i]Tegan[/i]) both suggest an [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britons_(historic)"]ancient British[/url] origin. The name of Wallasey, meaning "Welsh (or foreigners') island", is evidence of British settlement.[sup][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirral_Peninsula#cite_note-roberts-3"][4][/url][/sup] The Welsh name, both ancient and modern, for the Wirral is [i][url="http://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cilgwri"]Cilgwri[/url][/i].[sup][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirral_Peninsula#cite_note-5"][6][/url][/sup] In [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_mythology"]Welsh mythology[/url], the Ouzel (or [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Blackbird"]Blackbird[/url]) of Cilgwri was one of the most ancient creatures in the world.[sup][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirral_Peninsula#cite_note-6"][7][/url][/sup] [b] [[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wirral_Peninsula&action=edit&section=5"]edit[/url]] English and Norse[/b] [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary%27s_Church,_Eastham.jpg"][/url] [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary%27s_Church,_Eastham.jpg"][/url][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary%27s_Church,_Eastham"]St. Mary's Church[/url], [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastham,_Merseyside"]Eastham[/url] The [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxons"]Anglo-Saxons[/url] under [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86thelfrith_of_Northumbria"]Æthelfrith[/url], king of [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northumbria"]Northumbria[/url], [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chester"]laid waste to Chester[/url] around 616. Æthelfrith withdrew, leaving the area west and south of the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Mersey"]Mersey[/url] to become part of [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercia"]Mercia[/url], and Anglo-Saxon settlers took over Wirral except the northern tip. Many of Wirral's villages, such as Willaston, [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastham,_Merseyside"]Eastham[/url] and [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Sutton"]Sutton[/url], were established and named at this time. Towards the end of the ninth century, the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norsemen"]Norsemen[/url] or [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikings"]Vikings[/url] began raiding the area. They settled along the Dee side of the peninsula, and along the sea coast, giving their villages names such as [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Kirby"]Kirby[/url], [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankby"]Frankby[/url] and Meols. They introduced their own local government system with a parliament at [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thingwall"]Thingwall[/url]. Ancient Irish annals record the population of Wirral by Norsemen led by Ingimund, having been expelled from Ireland around 902 and getting agreement from Aethelflaed or "[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethelfleda"]Ethelfleda[/url]", Queen of the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercian"]Mercian[/url] English to settle there peacefully. The boundary of the Norse colony is believed to have passed south of Neston and [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raby,_Merseyside"]Raby[/url], and along [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dibbinsdale"]Dibbinsdale[/url].[sup][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirral_Peninsula#cite_note-roberts-3"][4][/url][/sup] Evidence of the Norse presence in Wirral can still be seen from place name evidence - such as the common '-by' (meaning "village" in Scandinavian languages) - [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffix"]suffixes[/url] and names such as [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tranmere,_Merseyside"]Tranmere[/url], which comes from [i]trani melr[/i] ("[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Crane"]cranebird[/url] sandbank"). The finding of two hogback tombstones corroborates this.[sup][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirral_Peninsula#cite_note-vikingwirral-7"][8][/url][/sup] Recent [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-DNA"]Y-DNA[/url] research has also revealed the genetic trail left by Vikings in the Wirral, specifically relatively high rates of the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_R1a"]Haplogroup R1a[/url], associated in Britain with Norse (Slavic Vikings) ancestry.[sup][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirral_Peninsula#cite_note-8"][9][/url][/sup] [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromborough"]Bromborough[/url] on Wirral is also one of the possible sites of an epic battle in 937, the Battle of [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunanburh"]Brunanburh[/url], which confirmed England as an [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxons"]Anglo-Saxon[/url] kingdom. This is the first battle where England united to fight the combined forces of the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norsemen"]Norsemen[/url] and the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_people"]Scots[/url], and [b][size=5]thus historians consider it the birthplace of England[/size].[/b] The battle site covered a large area of Wirral. [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egil%27s_Saga"]Egil's Saga[/url], a story which tells of the battle, may have referred to Wirral as Wen Heath, [i]Vínheíþr[/i] in [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_language"]Icelandic[/url].[sup][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirral_Peninsula#cite_note-vikingwirral-7"][8][/url][/sup][sup][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirral_Peninsula#cite_note-9"][10[/url][/sup] [/quote]

[quote name='Mick Kahn't' timestamp='1347657085' post='1803813'] [size=5][sub]My Precision had a thumb rest on I know that - seems you rest it on the pick up nowadays. Styles? Well, anything really - I'm not looking to play one style but a variety as I learn. 25+ years is a long time to catch up on as I'm finding out.[/sub][/size] [/quote] You can rest it wherever you want. I screwed an old ebony piano key on my jazz bass, then you can decide if you want it as a thumb rest or a tug bar (above or below, whichever you prefer) My own went below as it is a Squier Classic vibe jazz See pic underneath V

Ah ya bunch a wimps! I've eat me dinner off worse than that.

[size=5]Here is my[size=6] Farida FJB20. [size=5]These days it has the pick guard off, and I am planning to ramp the pups and see how that feels and plays.[/size][/size][/size] [size=5][quote name='crowman60' timestamp='1347582453' post='1802849'] this is my bitsa [/quote][/size] [size=5]Hi Crowman60. I like the matching white headstock on that. Are those black machine heads too? Cant quite tell from the picture.?[/size]

[quote name='mart' timestamp='1347473915' post='1801396'] If the amp was built by HOWARD Dumble, and that vid is of ALEXANDER Dumble, then it probably isn't the same person. [/quote] I think his christened name was Alexander but he was called Howard, According to the Wiki thats what it seems anyway [quote].[b]Dumble[/b] musical instrument amplifiers are custom manufactured in very limited numbers by Alexander "Howard" Dumble of [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles"]Los Angeles[/url], [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California"]California[/url]. Dumble began making [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_amplifier"]amplifiers[/url] in the late 1960s in [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz,_California"]Santa Cruz[/url].[/quote] (my guess on that video is that it was recorded approx 1987 any advance of that ? )

I'd have it off you in a trice. IF i had the loot and IF you were selling. Dont think i'd sell it myself though

That blurb doesnt actually make sense. Did he buy the one he was shown or not, after he'd been 'bought' to the warehouse ? Why would he "like to talk to him" ? Is he dead, missing ? moved to Antarctica? taken a vow of silence ? found on Wiki [quote]Amps made by Mr. Dumble reportedly sell new for more than $20,000. Given the small output from Dumble, used Dumble amps often sell for more than $30,000 [/quote] NB: Wiki page [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumble_Amplifiers"] Howard Dumble[/url] Have to admit never heard of the guy till today. Interesting wiki page, especially the bit about him hiding his circuitry in opaque epoxy. Sneeky!