Dave Vader

double snap, same colour living room, same amp head... Nice choices.

That is gorgeous, very jealous indeed. Just makes me want to hurry up on the maple boarded fretless P I'm currently frankensteining together in my garage. Pulled the frets and cleaned the slots so far... need it now...

If it had been proper classic Tokai, rather than the unfortunate thing is has become. The new korean/chinese made tokais bare no resemblance to the excellent guitars from my youth, although for some reason they do cost as much as the classics go for.

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='876634' date='Jun 24 2010, 05:17 PM'][url="http://shop.ebay.co.uk/musicgroundinc/m.html?_nkw=rockinbetter&_sacat=0&_odkw=&_osacat=0&bkBtn=&_trksid=p3911.m270.l1313"]COupla Rockinbetters at Musicground. One is lefty.[/url][/quote] Now when did Tokai sort out the pickup spacing on these? Thoot looks so much better than mine, which is probably why it's £200 more...

[quote name='Marvin' post='876253' date='Jun 24 2010, 11:45 AM']I'm too old - sobs uncontrollably into cup of tea Best of luck with your hunt, I had a quick listen to you stuff and liked it.[/quote] Me too, dagnammit...

I am the string buster man... Not as bad as I was, and the most recent time I remember was a rehearsal back in the super cold of december, busted an e and an a, month old set of flats, I was trying to see if I liked them, so only spare rounds, did not sound that great as a hybrid. Used to bust an E pretty much every time I picked up a bass and started pulling on the strings. Always have a spare, as I get too over-excited when things get loud and fast. Probably the ex-guitarist in me.

If you want the lovely old amber look, Manchesterguitartech.co.uk does a premixed tinted nitro lacquer. Spray over the frets, it peels off fairly easily, or get a proper fret crowning file to whip it off with, should be fairly simple. Trick with spraying is to do very thin coats very often, rule of 3s etc. go to reranch and have a read of their forums, much good advice.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='860205' date='Jun 7 2010, 07:00 PM']I keep this around for any such problems. "The sound man said I could borrow your amp" "Yes you can, I'll just go get it" [/quote] Ooohhh! I used to have one of them, for some reason I really liked it, for playing guitar through. Was going through a 60s Hiwatt 4x12 though.

Mate of mine back in Bideford has to lend his Bass amp to Norman Watt-Roy every time they support Wilco Johnson, I'll be honest, he's quite chuffed about it. I recognise the OP is in a totally different situation though. As the guy who blew up a million amps, I must point out I always payed for all the damage I did, which is why my own gear is always crap. And I only blew up guitar amps, and I think they were all Marshalls, which deserved it as well. Had some of my own gear blown up, and that didn't get paid for, along with the millions of leads and straps that got walked off with while I wasn't watching. Glad I do the cover scene now, no 5 band nights where everything gets broken and stolen. And the moneys better.

Has to be maple, as it looks like one of the many 70s fenders that got away in maple, and thus makes me cry.... a bit, not a lot obviously, big bass players don't cry, and one of them definitely wasn't a '79 strat that I saved for for months until it was gone the day I had the money (only £250, it was the 80s).... MAPLE!!!!!

[quote name='Conan' post='854470' date='Jun 2 2010, 09:07 AM']Are they wired separately to the speakers or is it one complete circuit? Would disconnecting the tweeters stop the speakers receiving current? Should they be bypassed? :wacko:[/quote] Depends on how your cabs are rigged, mine just had a series circuit, the tweeters were wired in from the tabs on the main speaker (only a 1x15) so I could do the job nicely with a set of wire-cutters. Your 4 x 10 could prove more problematic.

I pulled the tweeters from my old PA cabs to make them into credible bass cabs, and there has been no noticable problem from them as yet (after a good 2 years of gigging the hell out of them) except that they sound a heck of a lot better.

[quote name='Marvin' post='853698' date='Jun 1 2010, 03:48 PM']Dear Bass Agony Aunt. I have an uncontrollable urge to 'lamp' the other members of my band one, for comments such as 'you only play one note at a time' and 'you only play bass 'cause you were crap on guitar!' Is this propensity to violence normal? Please help before I do something they regret. Yours On the Edge [/quote] This is perfectly normal behaviour, remember that they are wrong, but like a 3 year old who is crying for no apparent reason, if you ignore them long enough, they will go away. Or even better, lock them in a cupboard until they appreciate you. Or you could go all Lemmy on your bass for a couple of gigs until they realise that it might be better if you just played the one note at a time, and weren't all good on guitar and stuff....

[quote name='Stylon Pilson' post='853621' date='Jun 1 2010, 02:46 PM']Ohhhh, KWIM means "Know What I Mean". Ironically, I didn't know what that meant. S.P.[/quote] Me neither, I thought it was something quite rude spelt badly..

If I hadn't just paid silly money to have one imported from the US, I'd be all over this, as it is, I'm a wee bit testy about it, and hoping it goes up higher than that £40 which seems to have vanished.

[quote name='Bilbo' post='849474' date='May 27 2010, 03:08 PM']Tone every time. When it comes down to it, getting around the neck is overated. Great in practice rooms and at bass clinics but, on the bandstand, I could probably still do 90% of my gigs if I lost two fingers of each hand [/quote] 2??? I reckon I could get through a lot if I lost 3, as long as I can wrap my thumb round the back....

I'm guessing the big holes were to bolt it to a pub wall at some point, these things happen a lot. Splits don't bother me, pour in a lot of glue, clamp it, job done. I had a townsended strat I did that too a couple of years ago, the guy who bought it off me is still very happy with it. Splits at the neck end I'd worry about more.

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120572086610&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT#ht_500wt_896"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...IT#ht_500wt_896[/url] Just bought this body from ebay (who sadly seem to have stopped me deep-linking to their images, or it may be a chrome thing) 2 dirty great drill holes all the way through it, but I was going for a player anyway. Once I've defretted the maple neck from my Dave bass (which has now got another fretless neck on it) I'm going for a maple P-bass using this thing. Might leave it natural like it is, and slap either a black or a tort guard on it, or make my dream midnight blue translucent and tort P-bass. So many choices....

I started on guitar back when I was 11 (after a few years of piano lessons that I quickly gave up as I didn't want to do anything musically, doh!) and I'm a better guitar player than most of the guitarists I have to work with now. I don't let on though, don't want to discourage them... I just like bass more, so I turned to the deep side about 3 or 4 years ago, after a lot of years whacking guitars and banjos and mandolins, guitars bore me now, especially if I get in a band that WANT the 9 minute solos, after 4 bars I've lost interest and I can't be arsed to work out where to go with it next.

Knowing when NOT to play, now that's important. Check verse of Highway to Hell if you don't know what I mean, would that chorus sound as good if the bass wasn't only just now appearing? No, it wouldn't.

[quote name='lateralus462' post='848415' date='May 26 2010, 12:54 PM']Someone made a tidy bit of profit on that one then!![/quote] You're not kidding, the worst of it is that I'd had the guitar advertised for £350 around town for months, and no-one was biting. 2 days after some bloke rang me about it cos he'd seen one just like the picture in soundpad for £500, and wondered if he could get mine cheaper... that was my guitar in soundpad... Still, I got it for £150 off a bloke who didn't know what he had, so good times really. Got the Hiwatt for a steal as well, profit all round. Good luck with the beast my friend, they are very cool guitars. Though they weigh a great deal more than they should.

Nice, I had a '76 SG1000 a few years back, but had to trade it in for an amp after my hiwatt exploded mid-gig. Bad deal, but I was in a hurry, swapped the Yamy and my Hiwatt 4x12 for an Ashdown Electric blue 150. Was the old british made ones, but was still only £350, and that Hiwatt was vintage as well.... doh!