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Stingray Sunday here a decent 6 hours in the music room today - luxury

At least we're not using cubits, though they did manage to build the pyramids with them.

Pop it on the bathroom scales when you're passing. I'd like to see if my theory is correct!

Welcome AFB.

I've never known pubs to be so busy in January - another one rammed tonight. They were not very dancy, well there wasn't really the space, so it was a bit of a proggy night instead. We even had a little blast of Genesis - I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe), and I found my lawnmower patch in time 😂 The tools of the trade - Sub5 Stingish bass, GT-6B, Rumble v3 500. Black DMs. Some lovely compliments too. It's always nice when people acknowledge the bass. We have a couple of weekends off now.

For anyone thinking of buying one from Music Store, now’s a good time as they have an 8% promo code until the 8th: GB-8MSA FI4 VIP plus the CV cable for £291.82 delivered (£280.60 without the cable).

I started playing bass maybe 40+ years ago with a Fender precision after years of guitar playing but stopped playing anything seriously for the last two decades. I kept all my kit and the bass I have from then is an Aria pro2. I decided to get a short scale bass because my fingers aren't what they used to be at my age. I decided I'd get a Harley Benton bass as I have a few HB guitars, reviews were good and most of all it is cheap which means a lot to me at my time of life. I recently got an HB "Beatles" bass and it is superb so I decided to get a solid short scale bass from HB and hence I got the Harley Benton PB-Shorty BK Standard Series. I want to fit new flat wound strings even though I have only had it for a few days. Trouble is I don't want to pay £20+ even though I love D'addarios and would like the XL Chromes Flat Wound 45-100 Regular Light but they are almost the cost of the bass.😄 So the question is can someone recommend some for a lot less than £20?

I detect the hand of the master luthier, and one of his fat finger specials.

Are the pots on a shielded surface? If so, the bodies are already grounded through the shielding, assuming that there is either one pot body connected to ground or the jack socket ground connects to the shielding. If you then connect the pots together, you could create ground loops, explained in more detail here: https://www.fralinpickups.com/2018/11/12/understanding-guitar-grounding/

Thanks all.

Many thanks to both @Silky999 & @Kiwi for all their hard work on this - it's the culmination of about a year of developing ideas which started off with my reserving one of Kiwi's first batch of Jazz necks, and originally planning to put it on Silky999's Nitro Prototype Daphne Blue Jazz, and then I happened to spot his Walnut Jazz body thread. What followed was a long haul wait for the neck to be developed and shipped, followed by lots of shopping for parts. I decided not to cheap out, so we've got Fender Pure Vintage 66 Pickups, Gotoh Lollipop Tuners and a high mass Gotoh Bridge, amongst lots of other nice bits. The last stage will be to decide whether to put a John East J-Tone preamp plate into it. Thanks again both of you for all your amazing hard work! @HeadlessBassist

Sometime in February, can’t remember the actual date, The Classic Rock Show.

Final update – walnut body / graphite neck Jazz bass Thought I’d close this thread off as the bass is now finished and heading home to @HeadlessBassist Solid walnut body, finished simply to let the wood speak for itself, paired with a full graphite neck for stability and consistency. Classic Jazz layout, clean hardware fit, and set up to play properly straight out of the case. This one’s been a good reminder that while graphite necks are brilliant, they come with their own rules. No compression, no forgiveness, and no tolerance for “that’ll probably be fine”. Everything from drilling to mounting hardware needs thinking through properly. Do that, and the reward is a neck that just doesn’t move and quietly gets on with the job. There were a few moments along the way where it tried to turn into a learning experience, but it all came back together in the end. Structurally solid, cosmetically clean, and exactly what the customer was after. The tuners are on upside down but @HeadlessBassist decided that returning them to swap for the correct orientation was a faff so we made it work! Just the bridge pickup screws to swap for black ones when they arrive tomorrow. Why the strings don’t run between the pickup poles when i used a template to route is annoying but it doesn’t affect the sound and the bass sounds phenomenal especially with the tone rolled off. Very clear and quite a lot of mids and highs. Thanks to those who followed along and chipped in — always appreciated. On to the next build.

Barock Project at Trading Boundaries. Great Italian prog band and hugely underrated(IMO). Only UK gig again as Michael at TB brings them over. Almost missed them last time as we were gigging until the second night was announced. Going with #2 son and his g/f plus others

A wee twist in the turntable hunt… Mrs saw the Technics SL 1200GR2 today & loves it. So that may be sitting in my living room in the not too distant. 😎

Success! Congrats on this. Very satisfying, innit, to have done it yourself and to have succeeded? You're also better than me: my Roland still stands unrepaired. all the best, bert

Hi guys, after waaay over a decade of visiting Basschat on and off (mainly the for sale section) I finally decided to make a profile. Started playing in 1998 mainly 60’s covers and the original stuff from the band I was in back then in my late teens. Went on to join a 7 piece functions band playing covers of Jamiroquai, Chilli Peppers, Stevie Wonder, Doobie Brothers etc for a while but ended up breaking some bones and unable to pick up the bass for a fair amount of time. Got big into mountain biking and broke even more bones so bass has been an on and off affair for me for the last 20+ yrs. My first real influences were Zender, Flea and Commerford. Very casual player, I’ve had my trusty Warwick Fortress Masterman for around 15yrs and I’ve had my 5 string Tacoma Thunderchief for over 10yrs.

Apart from spinal tap

I took the Kurzweil apart and managed to clean the contact pads, and the keyboard now works again. Thanks to @BassTractor who encouraged me to have a go! I needed to take out the G and A keys to get at the A flat key, but once they were removed, the rubber contact pads were exposed, and a liberal squirt of contact cleaner got underneath the rubber contact pad and removed the dirt. I didn't even need to remove the rubber contact pads to access and clean the contact points underneath. Rubber contact pads are shown here As far as I can make out, the velocity of the note is worked out by timing the difference between the first and second signal from the first and second contact points. I am guessing that one of the contact points was dirty and so the system only registered one signal, which it assumed was infinitely fast (and so, the maximum loudness). The video here gave the details of what screws I needed to remove to get into the casing, and what to clean once I was in.

I would say the first three hours of my weekday, every day, is exactly the same and can be done on autopilot. I suggest most people are the same.