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Do love a Sherwood Green, this is supposed to be a 61.

I really feel all you Puny Humans should bow down to the best headstock ever. Your meagre efforts make me smile with pity Behold.......

Probably got as far as I can go at this stage. Other than applying the finish to the neck maple (which will darken and amber it a touch) and fitting the trussrod cover, this is now pretty much just waiting for the hardware. Just for @SpondonBassed : The Osmo has come up nicely. Just one more slurry and wipe with 400 grit and then two more very thin applications wiped on with kitchen roll has given just the level of sheen I was after: The pickup rings will be properly lined up when the final install is ready to be done but this sort of gives the vibe: It's not over until, etc, etc, but I'm really pleased with how this has turned out

For me, this one has a nice vibe🙂

I forgot about this site! David Neely (Hollywood) did this refinish, for me. Lake Placid Blue fretless Yamaha BB5000 (1987 Taiwan). I have two white MIJ BB5000s.

TESTERS REQUIRED for a Virtual Bass Bash The sort of thing I have discussed with @jebroad and @ped would be like an interactive seminar. Ideally we would get a couple of people to present something, either a product demo, or a technique, or a workshop tour from their mobile (that would be cool), or just "show us your bass", and then there is an open forum for people to ask questions. I think this could be quite fun, and we could run them while in lockdown. The technology will work, what we need is a bunch of folks willing to see how easy they found it to use. Ahead of a proper VBash, I'd like at least a dozen willing volunteers to try it and see what they think of using MS Teams. Lots of options are available, and everyone has their favourite, but I had to pick one that I know will scale and is free, so this was it 🙂. If it doesn't suit, then we can change, but we need to actually run one first to see what the pros and cons are. I have the team set up, and have tested it small scale. The proposed date for this test, or two dates if we have enough interest are Friday 3rd April - in the evening Saturday 4th April - late afternoon or evening If you're interested then please PM me with an email address I can use to invite you into the team. Also let me know what device you would intend to join on. I'll then invite you to the team, and post a list of participants here, without the emails obviously. (If you want to maintain anonymity or separation of concerns then just set up a new email address for this. I set up [email protected] just to provide separation from my main email account) Cheers all, Rich

Can you suggest a more affordable alternative? Chamois? Parchment? A page of the Dead Sea Scrolls?

Compact and shiny compact and very shiny Compact and matt finish Compact and Old Smoothie!

Drop a teeny drop of water off a pin or nail tip into the dint. Get a piece of cloth and wet it in a small area. Put the dampened area over the dint. Apply the tip of a hot iron to where the dint is. Don't hold it there more than a few seconds - you don't want to scorch the wood. Repeat a few times. The wood that's been crushed will expand to try to return the its original form and, with luck, completely refill the dint back to its original level

Officially the happiest song of all time.

I'm am retired. For all of my working life I was an Occupational Psychologist specialising in the assessment of intelligence, personality, aptitudes, motivation, values, in HR settings such as recruitment, development, mergers, succession planning. I've assessed people for a huge range of jobs including Astronaut, Assistant Chief Constable, mortuary assistant, canning line operative, warehouse packer, sales, and umpteen managerial positions. I worked for various consultancies, and then myself. I retired aged 50 and, for a few years, was heavily involved in developing and trialling race yachts, as a semi-pro racing crew. Fully retired from everything now. Loads of time to play bass to my usual mediocre level, and write bad poetry.

Fancied a bit of anger!

The Daddy of the Ray's my 77.

I'm an unashamed fan of great pop music. This one always puts a spring in my step.

One of my hundreds of happy songs and posted here because I was listening to the album earlier tonight.

Love the shape of a thunderbird headstock with its gorgeous trim.... And I've heard them get some stick on here, but I'm also a fan of the g&l headstock......

The old (larger) Smith headstock is one of my faves, I love it.

Got some new patches up; here's a taste:

Holdsworth himself said that he was ok with 20%of those that listened liking his music. Me - I've loved his music since Soft Machine and Gong. Main problem with Jaco was the pale imitations he inspired.

Well that escalated quickly. Good job I didn't mention the dirty knife

Just joined this forum and wanted to say 'hello' to everyone! I'm a late starter at this game - always wanted to learn bass but never got around to it until now! At the moment I have a short scale Harley Benton (sometimes you think you might like to learn something then discover it's not for you - didn't want to spend too much to begin with), but I like the Sire Version 2 Marcus Miller P7 with its precision body and thinner jazz style neck. I am learning with a pick at the moment, but think now after a few lessons that I'd like to learn to play without the pick too.

I’ve decided that I’m going to do another neck thru build with a slightly different body shape I’m thinking of doing an Ice Tree Veneered top on it left natural It’s probably going to be Sapele neck and wings again possibly stained black I haven’t decided as yet I’m thinking black hardware would look best and maybe an ebony fretboard???🤔

I was about to say treat yourself to the lovely example for sale on here..... But you're the one selling it 🤦‍♂️

Not as a PJ set afaik. But put together the CS 62 P pickup with the CS 60s Jazz bridge pickup and you have an awesome combo. 😀

Another vote for the water and soldering iron method. I’ve done this a few times, always works for me.

A few weeks ago I bid on and won this handsome Farida Jazz bass off ebay for a princely sum of £128. I have played on one in the past and thought what a nice bass it was but being more of a Pbass player I've never really looked out for one. But I spotted this for collection reasonably local so had a punt on it and being the only bidder, won! After putting much needed new strings on and setting it up is plays fantastic. The neck is so comfortable, the finish is excellent as so is the whole build quality. Now I know exactly nothing about these basses. Where they're built, body woods etc. and how good the pickups/electronics are (although it sounds pretty good to me). I did replace the BBOT for the Gotoh bridge just because I had one knocking around. The only 'downside' is that I can't get the action as low as I'd like. As the base plate of the new bridge is thicker it's resulted in the action being slightly higher. The E string saddle is as low as it'll go. But aside from that it's still very playable and if it bothered me that much I'd simply put the old bridge back on. So if anybody else has one and replaced pickups/electronics or made any other mods I'd be interested to hear what you've done. Overall I'm pretty chuffed with my purchase.

The LB100 is another Leo gem, shame they aren't recognised as such by the masses. I've not tried any of the Tribute range of basses but do own a couple of Tribute guitars and they are very good.

We just watched Beverly Hills Cop. During one scene, my wife (being an ex pro dancer) jumped up and started dancing to the below track (without breaking her leg or any furniture). My two boys just sat there with their mouths open, then burst out laughing, in unison, loudly. It did make me laugh out loud as well....Happy times. 👍

Here's a few from the collection: Buttercream Blueflower and a cheeky Telecaster one:

Mr Blue Sky - ELO

Normally when you try and compare two basses people say 'yes but different woods, different finish, different fingerboard etc make more difference than the pickups' So here's a way to show how the 60's and 70's spacings sound very different ON THE SAME BASS! Sadowsky have a pickup with switchable 60s and 70s spacing. Watch this vid. The text is wrong, but the first sample is 70s, the second is 60s and finally a parallel mode. As you can hear, the positions sound quite different!

Have to agree. He does seem too far up himself, but Piers Morgan is way ahead in the punchability stakes. If we must lamp an Irish muso, there's aye Bonio. I'm fully expecting his charity single Ventilation to start polluting tinterwebz any day now.

Wait until you get to Day 4. You may need to rethink the comment about flashy fills 😂

I don't think we can expect the mods to deliver stuff, but worth asking 😝

Tune....

And following on from that, here's an interesting earlier (1967) version of Dawn Penn's 1994 hit!

I just thought I’d share this version of Poor man style , and at 5.11 it’s barrington Levy ,which he released around 1982, he’s always been top of my list for vocals, such a cool tune and a really nice Bassline to play.

Shiny and compact and 3+1

This often gets cited in "worst headstock", but to me it's perfectly functional, minimalist, and sculptural

I don't own one any more but always thought Stingrays look great with the 3+1. Nice proportions.