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Andy Tolman on his GB Spitfire. Love his playing... top bloke too!

[quote name='silddx' post='1188337' date='Apr 4 2011, 09:09 PM']Well, well, bloody well. I am missing my Warwick Corvette $$. I'm thinking of selling this to get a recent SH one with the very shallow Jazz style neck. This 'un now has a J-Retro 01, it sounds gorgeous, it looks gorgeous, but I miss 24 frets and the Warwick ergonomics. I'm such a flake. After all the things I said about it, how amazing it is, how it speaks to me, how utterly wonderful the neck is (all true aswell) I'm missing the Warwick vibe. Never thought I would. How sad am I? f***ing sad.[/quote]

[quote name='Annoying Twit' post='1184344' date='Apr 1 2011, 10:20 AM']This was just reported in a legal form I frequent..... A new European act on product description has created a formal Europe-wide definition of a "bass guitar" for marketing purposes. The new definition states that to be a "bass guitar", the instrument must have four strings tuned EADG, be fretted, be typically worn supported by a strap, and several other defined characteristics. Instruments not meeting the specification may be sold, but may not be described as "bass guitars". After a previous, similar, act where the naming of "Soya Milk" and other vegetable "milks" as "milk" was banned, soya milk manufacturers renamed their product as "soya alternative to milk". Several bass guitar manufacturers, including Yamaha, have announced that they will be similarly marketing their non-conforming instruments as "5 string alternative to a bass guitar" or "fretless alternative to a bass guitar". Lawyers have given opinion that the restriction on naming extends to CD liner notes and other descriptive material. And hence track listings must not reference a "bass guitar" unless the bass in question is a four string fretted bass in standard EADG tuning. The consequences of the actions are far reaching, and it is not yet known whether instrumentalists such as Pino Palladino who specialise in playing fretless basses will still be able to describe themselves as a "bass guitarist". Lawyers have given their opinion that this is not clear, and the legality of such instrumentalists continuing to call themselves bass guitarists will not be settled until someone is sued for describing himself as a bass guitarist, and a legal precedent is created.[/quote] Lame effort.

Been looking on YouTube for some time for this one. Got it... This is a Rumour featuring with Angie Stone. If you look carefully, you spot Bernie hiding in the curtains off to the side of the stage...

Very cool!

Very cool!

[quote name='Shockwave' post='1180752' date='Mar 29 2011, 01:33 PM']You can find out earlier in the thread! All was explained. I would love green LEDS but i assume the fingerboard would have to come off of the bass to get them fitted, which would damage the paintwork? A note on the paint, its VERY hard to get an even coat on it, if even one bit is missing or uneven, or darker, you cant just strip the finish back around that patch, because it leaves a dark patch. Even when you respray over the darker patch it still a different shade to the rest of the body! The last coat had to be done in one go, with no mistakes, no running. I was thinking of just putting some bright green plastic inlays in, instead.[/quote] If you go to Martin Sims, he retrofits them - and this is done by making a thin insertion down the length of the neck. The wiring is done through that slot. Once wired, this is filled and blown over with polyester leaving the work "invisible". Given what you've said about this paint (I'm guessing it's not polyester from what you've said) you'll have to spray a complete coat if you weren't happy with line.

Nice. That's going to be quite a looker when finished! Green LEDs anybody?

[quote name='griffonite' post='1179734' date='Mar 28 2011, 04:53 PM']Very interesting chaps. I knew I was probably wrong. So you think this is a shoddy repair job? Personally I wouldn't care about appearences as long as the neck was structurally sound but I can't understand why it would be left visible if it were possible to conceal the damage? Financial considerations apart, I suppose. Thanks for the replies. Any info' or opinions are useful.[/quote] I think the deal is is that if somebody is in the market for buying a Smith, they won't be looking at one with damage, especially with a repair job like that. It may be worth spending a bit to get a better repair job done... although I don't quite know who you are going to sell it to with damage like that... unless it really is invisible and looks as good as new. I think the key thing would be to get the crack repaired so it's not visible and get the polyester reblown over the repair. If needs be, it may need some seriously blowing in in the polyester department to get it spot on.

[quote name='Big_Stu' post='1179714' date='Mar 28 2011, 04:33 PM']One of the easist ways is to get another piece of the same wood, sometimes if you're lucky you can take it from the actual wood of the guitar (for eg. make a p/u cavity slightly larger under the plate). Get a saw with the finest teeth you can find & saw that bit of wood to pieces. Then mix the resulting sawdust with PVA glue until it's stodgy sawdust then fill the hole with it. (Having first fixed the actual break with the same glue leaving it a little short of the surface so that you've got a crack to put your filler into). The glue dries clear & if it's off the same piece it can't fail to match, if you chose your bit well it should be preddy damn close.[/quote] Exactly. Use the same technique for building up a nut rather than replacing it - file down another nut, collect the "dust", mix it up and it's ready to fill the nut.

[quote name='griffonite' post='1179622' date='Mar 28 2011, 03:30 PM']Would it influence your opinion of the bass if you knew it was owned by a top class musician[/quote] Nup. [quote]and the repair was done by Martin Petersen of Sei basses and that the bass had been in the repaired condition for twelve years?[/quote] Nup. That is not exactly the nicest looking of repairs. If it is one of Martin's repairs, he has obviously improved somewhat over the last twelve years!! (Having said that, it's not really fair to comment because the repair may have been done as budget functional repair - as opposed to a labour intensive "invisible" repair. [quote]I' m no luthier but I can't see how you could hide repairs on the neck like this unless there was some kind of finish on the wood that would hide cracks but I'm probably wrong about that.[/quote] Hmm.... I've seen seem amazing repairs where something like this becomes invisible.

The last thing the OP wants is an attenuator. If the OP wants to drive more speakers (but at the cost of output), he'll still be louder if he attached another 4 Ohm cab with a special diy series cable (to give 8 Ohm - I'm sure OBBM would make one up for you). I've detailed it in this post - [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=45810"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=45810[/url]

[quote name='obbm' post='1179601' date='Mar 28 2011, 03:16 PM']Without knowing a bit more detail (requested) I supect that he wants to be louder, in which case the amp will be running at a high output and would probably melt one of those things as they have quite a low power rating.[/quote] Agreed - Ted may build custom spec stuff as he has done for me. As I said earlier though, all this stuff is generally for valve amps and I don't think tranny amps like things like dummy loads/attenuators and the like...

Not quite sure why you would want to do that... but... if I think what I think you are thinking, you want to change impedence of your cabs as seen by the amp? Then I guess something like Ted Weber's Z matcher would get you there? Although Ted's stuff is generally designed for valve amps so I don't know if you want to be doing this sort of thing with tranny amps. [url="https://taweber.powweb.com/store/zmatch.htm"]https://taweber.powweb.com/store/zmatch.htm[/url] I think what you want to do is as follows - [codebox] Z Match (head setting @ 8 ohm / cab setting at 4 ohm) -- 4 ohm speaker Output (4 ohms) --< Z Match (head setting @ 8 ohm / cab setting at 4 ohm) -- 4 ohm speaker [/codebox] Probably easier and wiser to buy 8 ohm cabs to be honest.

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='1173855' date='Mar 23 2011, 08:48 PM']Just received my BGM (early because I subscribe). 65 basses you should try...didn't include Roscoe or Tobias. Gutted. [/quote] Shocked! Controversial things these lists...

Look what's tuned up... An early pre Goodfellow, serial number 01. Built in Bernie's shed and one that Bernie considers as one of his early prototypes.

[quote name='Johnston' post='1171098' date='Mar 21 2011, 06:59 PM']Yeah but you need a screwdriver the Hofner is screwless technology and every one can find a make shift tapping stick in any scenario. See it's better no tool box required [/quote] Bloomin' Germans think of everything.

Don't ask me. I know fck all about Hofners it would seem

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='1171074' date='Mar 21 2011, 06:50 PM']You wouldn't learn much anyway. He was playing a Rickenbacker by then ...[/quote] Ha ha. Perhaps my Macca reference was a bad example

[quote name='Johnston' post='1171055' date='Mar 21 2011, 06:43 PM']IIRC and if it's the same as my clone the bridge is actually a floating bridge. It just sits on top of the body and you can move it about by hand even with tension on the strings you can tap it about. Take the strings off and it falls off. The wee strips can be moved about, I've seen some where they have them lined up and the whole bridge skewed. Just as an aside the intonation on mine is perfect across all four at the 12th just set the E and G and the rest fell into place.. Crude but works.[/quote] Ah yeah, OK, that would work... bit of a ballache though, I still like my adjustable individual saddles. Talking of Hofners, I contemplated ordering one last year but have yet to think of a reason to justify one. You don't need a reason to justify anything though right?

I'm happy to stand corrected; I thought that all Hofners were like the latter! The violin bass is both crude yet quite an elegant solution... Now to find a isolated bass recording of Penny Lane to see how far the intonation is out up the neck*... *if I could give a ....

What a fun bass!

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