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  2. Hi, is this still available? If so, could you do £300 delivered (UK)? Regards Andy
  3. Another positive experience buying with G4M. Went online Friday lunchtime and ordered one of their hard bass cases for £59.99 and as I was in no hurry for delivery, left it at their default economy delivery for £2.99 (great postage price for a case!). The estimated delivery was the following Wednesday. Well……it arrived safe and sound at 2pm on Saturday, a mere 25 hours after placing the order! Really happy with the case, communication and speed of delivery.
  4. This is my favourite photo of him!
  5. Mr Sapko also seems to have a bee in his bonnet studded cap about Mohini Dey promoting AI tools at the moment.
  6. I just stopped by GuitarGuitar in Glasgow and they had 2. Picked it up to compare it to the 4003s they had and the dimensions are they same. As is the weight... Didn't play it as I didn't want to waste the guys time but it's just a weird way of executing a short scale.
  7. I use cutouts from aluminium food trays - you can do folds to make a (stepped) slope and build up a shallow wedge to the desired height.
  8. Ski-jumps are a much bigger problem on hollow-bodies, because the fingerboard extension has much less support under the upper frets (where the neck isn't). As string tension pulls on the headstock, the guitar wants to fold in half right around the neck-body joint, causing the upper end of the fingerboard to effectively bend upwards. On your 1950s Martin, you'll need to take significant steps to remedy this. On solid-bodies with bolt-on necks, the problem is either the neck has bent in the same way as above, or the frets/board were dressed with the truss rod incorrectly set (ie with the neck not straight). In the latter case, you can either dress some fallaway into the upper frets or do a full fret dress with the neck straight (make sure the FINGERBOARD is straight, not the fret tops, get that notched straightedge out). If you have to shim a neck, you need to understand how much ramp or fallaway your frets have, when the neck is set with the correct relief. Depending on the truss rod location and neck shaping/stiffness, sometimes the truss rod doesn't have any effect (or much less effect) across the upper frets, so you get a flat spot at the heel followed by a curve through the main portion of the neck (as opposed to a nice uniform curve from nut right down to the second octave). In the right circumstances, when you lower your relief and action down to where they should be, the strings can contact the upper frets as they vibrate - you'll need to shim the neck forwards to lift the strings above the upper frets and give them room to swing. On that 50s Martin above, you'll likely need to reset ("shim") the neck backwards to account for the folding, then add some fallaway to the upper frets to account for the fingerboard going out of shape - so the same effective presentation requires opposite solutions.
  9. Pee-Funk (Wants to get funked up) - Parliament
  10. These are appearing all over the place now : Bass DIrect, Wunjo, Guitar Village. It will be interesting to see what the take-up is like on them.
  11. It has but thanks for reminding me - worth a rewatch!
  12. Lovely words. Someone said that everything he did was to serve the music not the ego, which was insightful.
  13. Can someone post a photo of the "ski jump" and demonstrate conclusively that it has been caused by a non-angled shim?
  14. Today
  15. My personal bass hero. I didn't come to 6 strings bass in the late 90's thanks to him, but Alain Caron, so from the fretless side, but discovered a bit later that Anthony Jackson was the bass player on so many records I liked, so I also started to play a bit of fretted bass and had to have a single cut AJ6 model. I really love his bass approach with Michel Camilo and the trio he formed with Michel Petrucciani and Steve Gadd was simply amazing. I've been listening to Trio in Tokyo in repeat mode since I read this very sad news. I'll switch to the filmed Live in Marciac concert with Hiromi and Simon Phillips tonight, another fantastic musical masterpiece. His bass lines are so inventive, complex without being complicated and dedicated to music that is really extraordinary to have this level of musical knowledge always serving the music and never his ego. A true genius has gone forever. Rest in peace, Anthony.
  16. Great bass, great price!
  17. This is a very good quality plate, made by Fatboy Guitars Ltd. in Newport England, probably about 20 years ago. I have had it in a drawer for years and never even removed the plastic film so it is in new unmarked condition. The colour is a very pale mint green to my eyes which is not captured in the photos. Price includes UK postage.
  18. Imgur is blocked to any UK IP address due to various reasons mostly do to with unwillingness to comply with UK data protection legislation. If you really need to see any images hosted with Imgur you'll need a VPN set to a non-UK location.
  19. Yeah, that's a problem I'm having. Imgur is only linking rather than embedding. Some folks see it, others just get a link which is 50/50 as to whether it functions. I should look at alternative hosting sites really, and maybe, shock horror, pay for a service. I've nicked @Dad3353's link for it from his BC upload allocation.
  20. To the OP: Even if you could get the image to display for you no-one in the UK will be able to see it without accessing Basschat using a VPN set to a country other than the UK.
  21. Can't get the link to open @Si600 Dave
  22. Yeah I was in a band where the guitarist trailed a power brick right the way across the stage for his multi fx. Just looked flimsy. When done right though (iec to board, board low voltage wired in neatly) I prefer it to batteries.
  23. Celestion hired me to design compact lightweight enclosures for their TSQ 1845 and 2145 drivers. They're now posted on the Celestion site as free PDFs with youtube videos. https://celestion.com/blog/build-this-18-inch-bass-reflex-enclosure-featuring-the-tsq1845/ https://celestion.com/blog/build-this-21-inch-bass-reflex-enclosure-featuring-the-tsq2145/
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  24. My speciality is tap dancing whilst soloing.
  25. Yellow - Coldplay
  26. Of course most necks will be fine with a shim made of whatever. But a poorly placed shim and overtightened neck screws can contribute to ski-jump. Those full pocket shims don't have to be expensive. I've bought a few sets of 3 pieces for around £4 a set.
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