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I have recently been given an artist endorsement deal. I'm actually chuffed to bits about this, even though I'm 50 years old and have been gigging for over 30 years. It's made me all excited!!11 points
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Yes, not surprising with 50+ year old instruments, but they vary so much with how they've been treated. I went shopping for an EB2 with my son in Nashville a couple of years ago. The first one I found was just dead wood. The second leapt to life in my arms and wouldn't let me put her down. Same model, same year (1966), same condition to look at. Chalk and cheese. Sorry, can't resist;4 points
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SOLD Thanks3 points -
My wife just showed me this meme about babies with teeth that she saw on Facebook and I thought the baby in the picture looked kind of familiar.3 points
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I've been lucky to play headliner stages at Summerfest, the world's largest music festival for the past 7 years. Blue3 points
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A few less strings & some cheat lines and it might! Reminds me quite a lot of the "One Bass To Rule Them All" design idea I knocked up about 10 years back: Having since owned a twin-neck in real life, I'd scale down the body a lot to reduce weight. Done right it could be quite manageable...3 points
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Yes, it will be announced at NAMM. The unit is expected to ship in May for the US and Europe. If you keep in eye on our Facebook page that's where most updated information is.3 points
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Probably a bit of both I'm going to draw it full size over the next couple of days but I'm pretty sure the bottom of the neck pocket will end up at the level of the back wood. If so, the only thing I have to fillet is the top wood, starting from a rectangular 'neck pocket' shaped hole. If so, a bullnose router bit or similar isn't a bad idea to rough it out @Si600 , and remembering the apprentice school engineer blue fitting techniques- but using blackboard chalk instesd of blue and scrapers to fine finish it all off, @SpondonBassed .... So I might have to retitle to: "Andyjr1515, Si600 & Spondonbassed meet their Nemesis?"3 points
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Is that not just it's gravitational pull?3 points
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I'd ditch the four as it can't do anything the five can, logically if you need fretted and fretless and five strings then a fretted and fretless five string would be the best solution.3 points
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Following on from the end of last year's tour - this Saturday sees the biggest gig of my playing career. Not bad for an old duffer! We'll be on the Introducing Stage at the Great British Rock & Blues Festival in Skegness. Anywhere between 600 and 1,000 proper die-hard music fans there for the likes of 9 Below Zero, FM, Saxon and many others. Good fun this original music lark!2 points
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I've never done one of these before, but I'm just so delighted with this bass that I want to shout from the rooftops! It's incredibly versatile, with a really sensibly voiced preamp. The humbucker has a tonne of poke and there's no drastic volume difference when the preamp's bypassed. It's comfortable, with a lovely neck, excellent finishing and quality parts. If I had to find one quibble it would be the tuners - just not quite as solid-feeling as everything else...but that's pedantry. I know the marmite reputation of green basses, but green happens to be my favourite colour and I just love the styling of this instrument - just unconventional enough IMO. The icing on the cake was a fantastic deal from Sandy at The Great British Bass Lounge, who was a pleasure to deal with from start to finish. This one will be with me for a while. Cheers, Tobie2 points
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Interesting interview from bassist Klaus Voormann, who played on John Lennons' Imagine album. Comes across as a really nice bloke. https://www.rockcellarmagazine.com/2019/01/11/john-lennon-imagine-interview-voorman-keltner-molland/?fbclid=IwAR3d5WAvLWfq1SDBEzwMezeMROPQHg9dglUfsaG8drFoJBVJNsgftvMTEDw2 points
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The only thing putting me off a D-bird was the fact it didn’t come in a 5 string... This is terrible news.2 points
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... or use a shorter scale bass..? T'will sound just fine.2 points
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How about colour grain filling the oak? There is a book by a guy called George Frank who developed techniques for that back in Art Deco days, it's worth trying to get a library to track down a copy. He also uses techniques like charring/wire brushing and grain filling too. One I remember was wire brushed, black stained then limed and let to fully dry then light sanded before a red filler was applied which gave a background of black with red filled white grain, spectacular! Edit, this is the book https://www.amazon.co.uk/Adventures-Wood-Finishing-Fine-woodworking/dp/091880406X2 points
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Yes, no room left in the car2 points
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I'm confused...you don't need to stretch, you need to pivot off your thumb...or am I missing something??? 😕😕2 points
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I hope you managed to fit in a cup of tea between finishing the SwiftLite 2 and starting this one Andy 😲 Here we go again....😎 Following2 points
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Ha - I had similar! Went into Sam Ash, struck up on a conversation... played some bass that appeared to really float his boat... and low and behold, talk about the gigs I was doing and onto endorsement talk. To be honest though, I didn't really dig the setup as much as the rig I was using so it would have been a complete enwhoresement... which is dead against my ethics. EDIT: Larry was (and I am sure still is) a top bloke to talk to. He seemed generally interested in me, what I was up to and the like... I'm sure I've got the obligatory pic with him somewhere on my computer. (With the Jack Bruce Warwick that had just been played at some Cream reunion or something... funnily, the one he let me play to test out the rigs...)2 points
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Mount the body at an angle on the table and use the horizontal arbour (sic) with a fly cutter to cut the curve...2 points
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I have every confidence in you Andy. I would imagine you'd work the final shape of the cradle much as they used to with white metal bearings; by hand with a scraper to take off the witness marks left from rubbing the mating surfaces together with Engineer's Blue. Just don't use any Engineer's Blue in this process as it is a bugger to clean off of metal, let alone timber! Joking aside, I'd think that you'd have to have a little movement in the joint to allow you to identify the high spots. Rubbing the pieces together with no highlighting agent should work okay if you can see the shiny spots where contact is made. Interesting problem.2 points
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With the other team I usually play with it's art galleries, second-hand bookshops, vegan cafes, and early nights. With these guys I suspect it will be endless motorway miles, sushi, early morning radio interviews, and trying to cultivate inner peace because there certainly won't be any outer. Different strokes! We've got a week away in February that will be the main stress test run but we've already done a few mini tours and a bunch of festivals so I'm not expecting any nasty surprises. I'm just going to pick up a cheap laptop and a kindle so I can try and catch up on a bunch of reading.2 points
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I think my biggest to date was playing at the Suwalki Blues Festival in Poland in summer 2016. We played to about 1,500-2,000 people in a park in the middle of the town. I was depping on bass for a blues guitarist called Aynsley Lister. A cool weekend away!2 points
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Ah...but if it all fails, I have to buy @fleabag a new neck....2 points
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At the moment I'm not planning modding the neck. If I was, then yes, I think something on those lines My thought at the moment is to shape the body a little bit like @eude 's erstwhile Shuker and carve a cradle for the neck to slot into. Do I have proven skills to be able to do that? No - not yet Could this end badly? Please refer to the title2 points
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Things come full circle a lot quicker thanks to the internet. There's still not a lot of bolt-on single cut basses out there, compared the the more usual set-neck or neck-through anyway, and I believe that Shuker was the first Jon had made, and certainly one of the earliest ones here in the UK, so it's probably engrained into the search engines now. Eude2 points
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Well hello there! That bass used to be mine, and that's my photo! Small world @Andyjr1515! It's a Shuker Single Cut 6er, my first foray into the world of custom basses. I sold it, about 8 years ago I think to another member on here who doesn't seem to be around any more. It was a lovely lovely bass, but I hadn't quite figured out what I needed in a custom bass at that point, and things like nut width aren't exactly easy to change. Anyway, that would be a fine way to put together a bolt-on single cut, but I can appreciate how tricksy it will be to have the body follow the taper of the neck beyond the fender block. You could however try something like this super sexy ACG >> Just use the neck bolt pattern as it is, and then the rest of the single cut shape beyond that point is purely visual, rather than part of the joint itself? Just throwing it in there If anyone can figure this out it's you thought mate! Eude2 points
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“Make do” with an NE2. 😂😂😂2 points
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Start with 1, 4 string fretted most useful and stick with it until you are so good you need a better bass! 😎 By then you might know what you NEED/ It's all you need 😄2 points
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nee naw, nee naw.... THIS IS THE THREAD POLICE. PUT YOUR HANDS UP!!!! YOU ARE BOTH ARRESTED UNDER SUSPICION OF THREAD HIJACKING!!!2 points
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So this is the neck @fleabag is sending me: And this (again, can't credit anyone because it's just a stock picture) kind of shape: But with a few tweaks, some aesthetic and some to fit front and back onto this piece of lovely English Walnut: ...cut down by @scrumpymike 's late great mate, Merv, and also used on Mike's Rascal conversion: And this is as far as I've got design-wise: Who said precise technical drawing was dead?2 points
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To my utter amazement it's not metaphorically, no. We're doing 18 EU and UK dates as baby support for Pink this summer; UK dates are two nights in Glasgow, Cardiff, Liverpool, and two nights at Wembley. I'm as baffled as everyone else to be honest but pretty sure our agent is getting a pay-rise this year.2 points
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Hi All, I'm selling this particularly outstanding bass to fund a second bass rig (already provisionally got one lined up from another BCer!) This is a stunningly well built Aries Senes VS 6 string bass, it was built in 2006 in Croatia by Alan of Aries Basses for a session bass player and displayed at the 2006 Frankfurt NAMM show as an example of the master build quality the Aries offer. The action is superbly low, circa 2mm at the 12th fret, I do a lot of tapping and this bass responds beautifully to that. The bass has Quad-coil Neodymium pickups as well as very usable Piezo pickups, there is a dedicated knob to blend the magnetic pickups with the Piezo ones as well as a separate neck/bridge blend, the master volume switch has now been fitted with a push/pull switch that activates the side LEDs (only when a jack is plugged in). It has a series and split coil toggle switch with a standard 3 band active EQ. The palette of tones available with this bass is second to none. The tuners are Hipshot Ultralite with ABM piezo enabled individual bridge saddles, it has locking strap mounts and because of the single cut design the balance is excellent, the 'handle' shape of the single cut design reduces weight in comparison to other single cut bass shapes. The body is highly carved, and the bass is made from a whopping 17 laminates! I believe these are Maple, Wenge, Padauk, Mahogany, Gabbon Ebony (maybe one other too!) This is truly a one off bass, nothing like it out there. The build quality is simply amazing, the tones available are as varied as can be, it is nothing short of a masterpiece of a bass. To have built again today would be well in excess of £4000. the bass is in overall excellent condition, it has a few minor marks on the base by the bottom strap pin as well as one of the knobs having a chip at the bottom which isn't very noticeable, the bass did also once have neck LEDs but currently only the side LEDs are active via a push/pull on the volume knob. I can ship the bass anywhere in the UK or Europe (maybe further afield if needed) but would rather it be collected from me in Basildon, Essex! UK/EU shipping will be circa £50 insured. I may be able to deliver/meet somewhere reasonable in/around the M25. I will provide a hard case for the bass. Scale is 35", but is very comfortable and the string spacing is 18mm at the bridge an 8.5mm at the nut and the weight it 5kg. If you have any questions, please ask! Russ.1 point -
It's always those damn images hosts isn't it! Also, clicking on the images opens it up in normal scale! Lully bass though...1 point
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Video? oh goodness! It has gone hasn’t it! let me sort that. i actually have a great follow up to record too! Thank you both. I've tried it in the practice room with everything turned up to 11. it really works and you don't feel cut off from the room. Rehearsals next.1 point
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I have seen tons from this brand on Instagram, I hope some one starts selling these, as I want to buy some. Hell I am half tempted to set up a website myself and act as a UK distributer. Charlie if you have a connection with them and they would be into something like this send me a PM.1 point
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Stunning bass this...I had it in a trade deal for a month on this forum.Alas previous owner wanted to trade back,as he found a fault not seen by me,on my bass (honest mistake)..This bass plays and sounds like an absolute dream.The fingerboard is real work of beauty.. GLWTS..Cannot believe it is still here😀1 point -
I'm going to take it along to a studio next month where there are a couple of esteemed bass players I know can audition it; I'll feedback on their views too in due course. Regardless though.. I'm chuffed to bits.1 point
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With weird 1:1 panto-graph arrangement to follow the existing neck profile and repeat it in reverse on the body?1 point
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Or alternatively a decent mild dirt pedal? E.g. TC Mojomojo at the budget end (which I guess would fit very nicely with the value for money theme that the Bugera is bringing to the party), but seems to be liked by many and doesn't lose low end, or something like the Grizzly Bear if you're after a broader tonal sweep and something a little more sophisticated (but new, the Grizzly costs as much as the amp! )1 point
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I'm betting the tube version is a killer. Ran my MOSFET through a barefaced 110 and an ampeg 410 at rehearsal and it sounded awesome. Huge bottom sharp and crisp tops good selection of mid-range options to suit the room. Only criticism I could find is it's a little bit clean for my tastes. Which is why I suspect the tube preamp might make all the difference.1 point
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Cool. Yeah Aynsley and Steve are both good lads, who (mostly) also share my enjoyment of daft jokes (or are too polite to tell me they don't) ! Hope the weekend goes well.1 point
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Nice! I'm an Aynsley fan. I've been to a few of his guitar weekends and worked with his usual bass player, @Steve Amadeo, who is a lovely guy and a very good teacher as well as a fine bass player. In fact I'm off tomorrow for another one 🙂1 point
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Indeed. I tend to read, sleep, and spend too much time loitering in venues/bars drinking with bandmates watching the clock go really slow. Sometimes I wish I had put a bicycle in the minibus, at least I could escape and explore... not that we ever go to places worth exploring much. Coventry? Nah... Years ago I had a DVD of a concert of a metal band... I can't remember who they were, I think Firewind, but not sure. Among the extras, there was a little documentary about what the band does while on tour. It was very interesting as it was so not 'rockandroll'... One of the guitarists had a stack of movies burnt on DVD and he'd spend time by himself watching movies and on skype with his wife and young child... The singer would go into town to walk around and explore and if possible find a cinema to watch whatever (there was an anecdote where he forgot the time difference compared to the previous night and he was happily in the cinema, mobile phone off, while the band was getting ready to go on... and they actually started playing without him after a long delay, a long instrumental intro before the singer finally arrived in a hurry)... Booooring. The things we do for those 2h onstage, eh? The first 'rock star' that I ever met properly was the guitarist in Ten, during the UK leg of a European tour. I was in a group with a few others who knew him, and after the concert at a venue in Glasgow he joined us and had a few beers together. I loved all the stories, and it all sounded like such an exciting life... Until at one point he mentions that no, they are not even staying in a hotel... "did you see that bus? That's my room for the next couple of weeks". He could have rented a car and drive home in 3 and a half hours to spend the night with his family and it sounded very tempting... Touring... how boring. I'd still do it though. But, my mini-tours of 3-4 days have always felt exhausting.1 point
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One of these should cover it😂1 point
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I'm gonna change the title of this thread to "thread criminals retreat".... ...And start another thread.1 point
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Doesn’t Nathan East use one of these a lot in the studio? I’m on a BB spree at the moment, but these intrigue me.1 point
