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that's quite good actually

And to compensate him for the fact that ply isn't interestingly figured, suggest some lightly routed patterns he can show off with on the sides and front? All sorts of wild possibilities spring to mind!

Correct, it's part of a tuned system and the dimensions have to be calculated

Please report back.

are the inserts glued or pressed in, or both?

A request off one of the forums, the complete bass part for the tune 'Cheiro De Amor' from the 1980 Maria Bethania album, 'Mel'. I am told the bass player is Luizão Maia but I have not been able to confirm this myself. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/cheiro-de-amor-maria-bethania/

I am assuming that the 8" port is not suitable for the 12" cab? My offer to print me still stands but I have no idea of the diameter and length.

Finger joints are great if you have the machinery. They more than double the glued area and they help hold the cab together and square, just like the reinforced butt joints used in the 'easy build' method. Many commercial cabs use finger joints which are a lot quicker to fabricate than a reinforced joint. You will be changing the volume by removing the battens from my design so you would be best to calculate the volume of the wood you are missing and reduce the cab size by an equvalent volume. "If you have a hammer everything looks like a nail" For a keen woodworker wood is all, and plywood the devil's invention. He's probably envisaging using something with a lovely grain and making a feature of the beautiful finger joints. He's possibly seeing your cab as a furniture making project. I suspect that if you asked him about the Young's modulus, density and internal damping properties of the wood he won't know. Engineered woods are the best material for speaker cabs, tough, stable, easy to finish and the best combination of physical properties. It's kind of your friend to help and it is possible to build a solid wood cab. Some exotic hi fi goes this route and you could end up with something beautiful. I'm not saying dont do it but there are potential issues to think about and if you want the most practical cab then insist on using ply, MDF or high density Chipboard, probably in that order unless you are completely on board with the beauty of wood. As a woodworker I know the allure of a lovely bit of timber but it needs a bit of thought and planning. If this is going to be used for gigging then ply is best if it is going to sit at home then the right wood is going to look stunning. I really wouldn't use pine. I've struggled to get decent knot free dry timber from any of the builders merchants and only by being prepared to go in and personally select timbers. I've not found ayone at Jewsons, Travis Perkins and the like who know anything about timber and frequently it is poorly stored, left out in the rain before stacking and mauled by builders who don't know redwood frome white wood. I make doors and windows and sourcing genuinely joinery grade timber needs a great timber merchant. Your friend may have those skills of course but I think I'd go hardwood for something like this, but what a waste, I'd be looking at that timber and thinking it would make a great body for bass.

Wanted to dip my toe into the world of five string, was really interested in getting a V7 but unfortunately the weight was a deal breaker me... However, found this V6 on the bay at a fair price & snapped it up. Apart from the textured finish which I'm not a great fan of (but slowly growing on me) everything is great with it IMHO - especially considering the price. Plus, it only weighs about 3.4kg 🙂

Not getting something doesn't automatically qualify it as nonsense in my opinion.

Maybe not just to fans of jazz. Guitar Guitar in Camden sometimes blare out metal in the store and erm...I'll leave it there 😂

To me, yes. To those who get it no. Im sure a lot of the metal I enjoy is just meaningless noise to jazz fans.

I did it on a Harley Benton tele I owned. I felt like it made it more resonant. No scientific measurements were made though! Easy enough to do with a hand drill. Just make sure you go deep enough for the threaded insert and then use a countersink bit to just bring the edge down a little before putting the insert in.

This just popped up in my feed and I thought it looked interesting. Adjustable from 15mm to 19mm. Should make some more basses useable for spacing sensitive types. https://www.fullcontacthardware.com/babicz-fch-aj-4-5-adjustable-spacing-bass-bridge

So, am I right in thinking that to play @Stub Mandrel's harmonica you need to learn by ear where to put your mouth (if you see what I mean!) and on the one @goingdownslow was searching for you have defined places to make it simpler? The same concept as fretless and fretted?

Cab used last night at rehearsal and it’s very nice. Definitely capable as a single cab use and lovely full punchy tone with clarity. The Pure model is definitely a great cab and 17kg !!

Some updates... The switch on Dec 24 to the 'moon boot' / boot splint has made life much easier. A month on from the break and I can get around the house much more easily without using crutches. I've started to leave the boot off first thing in the morning and in the evening (recommended by the consultant). I still use crutches when out and about. This is partly as warning signs to stop people barging into me (people can be utterly oblivious). Second subject was a misbehaving tenor sax. The saxes haven't had much playing since the house move. I got the tenor out last week to go to a new sort of jazz group. It's didn't go well. I had trouble getting the mouthpiece on the neck, which gave tuning issues. The reed wouldn't 'wet', which causes squeaking. I thought it was out of regulation as well as there were all sort of weird harmonics coming out.... The problem seemed to be that the neck cork had become very dry and 'ruffled' when the mpc was put on which broke the cork. I think that was also an issue with the reeds - they'd just got very dry and needed much more wetting than usual. Nearest woodwind/brass tech is 40 miles away near Maryport, so it was a day out to get the neck re-corked. Last night I managed to get to choir in Keswick. It was too risky to go with the ice last week. Messiah this term. I've not done it as a main choir concert piece for quite a few years (probably about 15) but I have sung it many times since then in various workshops and 'come and sing' events. I've probably sung it about 100 times over the last thirty-odd years.

Cherry Wine - Hozier

If it is a bass that you have to regularly adjust the truss rod (assume neck heel Fender type), then yes. I have neck inserts on a bass where that was the driver. Fairly easy job for a competent DIYer. As @PaulThePlug said, I didn’t notice any difference in sustain or tone though.

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Some of the older Blade basses can be on the heavy side, if that is a consideration. The newer ones less so.

No punk expert here but wasn't it rebelling against certain kinds of establishment "nonsense",like jazz did/does in certain strains.

Unfortunately it's a little wider than the SR5 neck (which is 69.3mm)