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  1. So now we have the veneer covering the largest area that it physically can (basically, veneer generally can't do compound curves so it covers the flat areas and just round the edges a couple of mm), it is then time to make it look a little less like veneer-just-stuck-on. Mick and I bounced a few ideas off each other and came with cutting away the veneer and blending it into the body a bit like this: So this morning, out came the sanding block The nice thing about having such a defined grain, is that - even though this is only 0.6mm thick - the grain STILL follows the curves at the edges, adding the illusion of depth and giving the illusion that it is a solid top skin rather than a veneer: Next job is the prepare the headstock for the same veneer
    7 points
  2. So, using some already glued offcut from the body: ...I gave the headstock a coating of PVA, let it dry, then ironed it on. And THIS is why I love this hobby!
    6 points
  3. And more shaping - the heel end this time. Takes a bit more time to do this as I'm blending the curves into an existing, finished body so I don't want to scratch the lacquer. Lots of sand a bit, check the fit. Sand a bit, check the fit etc. A little more to do but nearly there!
    5 points
  4. I was tidying up my summerhouse and gave my old Ashdown mag 300 and TE15 a blast , I had forgot how good this sounds, with the volume about 12oc and the bass button in it rattled the glasses on the bar, so deep 😀
    4 points
  5. More progress (and another side project) The original T800 body was largely made by routing out a solid body, a face will be added later to close the chamber. This is the next generation where the central layer of the body is made up of edge pieces that form the hollow chamber. Glueing/clamping: The next generation body above will probably end up as one of those things with six skinny strings. Meanwhile the T800 marches on.... Back of the now profiled neck showing original veneer on the back of the headstock and heel: Trial assembly. I've put it together so I can try out different pickup regimes before making the front.
    4 points
  6. My mini rig for smaller stages. Trace Elliot ELF 1x10 Cab, Boss TU-3 and an EWS Tri-logic ii going into a Markbass LM3. Compact, easy to transport and sounds lovely!
    4 points
  7. My Sadowsky Satin Deluxe Bora Blueburst
    4 points
  8. You get gunk on your telly....?
    3 points
  9. So I’ve helped out by designing logo and labels for the kit, fair to say Ive been Stevie back and forth a fair bit... what he isn’t letting on is how much time and energy he’s putting into designing the kit, crossover and working with CNC companies... and trying to work our every detail of parts and grills etc to try and make it as simple as possible for folk. Stevie - it really is appreciated!
    3 points
  10. The originals band I'm in, Gasfoodlodging, released a CD a couple of weeks back. It's just had a review by Ryan's Gig Guide, a Birmingham/Black Country monthly that has replaced Brum Beat. Modesty forbids me from quoting it but it can be found here: https://ryansgigguide.com/2019/June/8-9/ No bribes were involved in the production of this review, and the reviewer is not known to any member of the band.
    3 points
  11. As far as progress is concerned, it's been a case of two steps forward and one step back. The good news is that I've assembled a CNC cabinet and taken photos showing how to fit it out. It's relatively straightforward and I'll list all the parts you'll need. I'm working all of today and tomorrow, but will post the photos in a few days' time. Next week, I'll also finalise the port tuning, fine tune the crossover (the PCB is already laid out) and send the final changes to Richard so that he can produce a final technical drawing. The step back (and the reason why it's taking so long) is that my CNC person has proved to be less than reliable on a number of fronts. Which is a shame, because he was within a short driving distance. Without going into too much gory detail, I'm going to have to find another CNC company. That's another job for next week. On the positive side, we do have a CNC file that (hopefully) just needs a bit of tweaking to get us back in business again. I'm sorry it's not progressing as quickly as we'd all like - but we will get there in the end. The last thing I want is for everyone to receive a cabinet kit that cannot be assembled because the CNC company was sloppy - or because the design wasn't checked properly before putting it into production.
    3 points
  12. Only if you can 100% guarantee it’s not a belt sander job 😂
    3 points
  13. My early 80s 62RI in uber-rare surf green
    3 points
  14. Thinning down the herd, so selling the basses I don't use... Or trade for a 6 strings (fretless) bass of similar value... FODERA N.Y.C. Empire Bass 5 strings with pickups in 70's Fender Jazz Bass position. A 70's Fender Jazz Bass 5 strings on steroids !!! Asking price including shipping fully insured with tracking number to your place in these European countries (ask for other countries) : Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France (excluding French overseas departments and territories), Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Monaco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom : £2450 GBP !!! The specifications : 35" scale, yes 35 inches. 21 positions. 1.5 mm action under the G string up to 2 mm under the B string at 12th position. 19 mm strings spacing at the original Hipshot bridge. 10 mm strings spacing at the brass nut. 1 single action truss rod. Hipshot tuners. Three-pieces flamed maple bolt-on neck with rosewood fingerboard and headstock flamed maple veneer. Two-pieces swamp ash body with book matched quilted maple top. 2 Fodera/Seymour Duncan custom pickups in 70's Fender Jazz Bass position (39 centimetres away from the 12th fret for the bridge pickup center, which is the exact 70's Fender Jazz Bass bridge pickup position converted to a 35 inches scale) coupled to a 2 bands 90's Sadowsky preamp with volume (push-pull for active/passive), blend, stacked boost only bass/treble and tone. The original non reliable pseudo Pope preamp (known fact) has been changed by a previous owner for this much better sounding Sadowsky original preamp. Weight is 4.5 kilos. Delivered in Hiscox hard case with a new set of Dunlop Straplok gold flush mount. Fitted with new D'Addario NYXL 45130 strings (045 - 065 - 080 - 100 -130) and set up professionally. Light gloss finish. Assembled by Vinny Fodera and Joey Lauricella in 1997 (see neck pocket initials and date hand pencilled with NYC punched). Serial number is 09197-5 which means it's the 91st N.Y.C. made, it's been finished in 1997 and it's a 5 strings. Gold hardware. 70's Fender Jazz Bass 5 strings on steroids. Official price was around $4000 USD (around £3200 GBP) at the time in the USA (just add all import duties to figure out the real higher tag price)... And good luck to find one early bird today in this condition. All original (without butterfly, like all early models), except for the 90's Sadowsky preamp !!! Here is all the information you need to understand that these early N.Y.C. basses were assembled and finished in the USA (here, for this very N.Y.C., by the two guys behind Fodera basses) with necks and bodies handcrafted in Japan with original Fodera woods (in batches of 6 pieces, so this one is out of the 15th batch) : https://www.bassplayer.com/gear/fodera-nyc-5-and-nyc-4 The photos with and without flash to see the real condition, which shows only some little wear with the usual marks of time, like the mandatory buckle marks at the back :
    2 points
  15. Lovely thing this, but I'm moving to the US and haven't played it in ages so can't justify keeping it. Comes with hard case and strap. Some small belt marks on back, which are pictured. Selling for £250 – what I bought for on here a few years back. Would prefer pick-up from Tring, Hertfordshire, but happy to arrange a courier. I've been around here for a while (hi!) but I think the server move deleted my account. Here's my old feedback thread to show I'm a real person...
    2 points
  16. Back in 1978,I bought my first,and far from last,(not got there yet!) bass. It was a sunburst jazz copy sporting 'Maya Electric Bass' on the headstock. I've still got it, after a fashion, as its now got Schaller tuners, Di Marzio pickups, and(as far as I remember) a Fender bridge - not forgetting the Triumph Dolomite yellow paint job! forty years later, another bass became available -a fretless sunburst precision, again with 'Maya Electric Bass' on the head. I had to buy it- the necks are great, and the pickups not bad either. Needless to say, this one is staying stock. anyone else got one?
    2 points
  17. Only Muse song I ever played live was New Born. Seem to recall it was a bit of a tongue twister for the fingers. ({minor thread hi-jack} @HazBeen was it you I met in the Vic in Swindon to buy a Trace head years ago?)
    2 points
  18. I love a CAR guitar. Which makes it seriously uncool, of course You should get rid. I'll take it off your hands if you like. No, no, don't thank me...
    2 points
  19. Done just a little more on this. I've trimmed the body to the template so it is ready to have the neck pocket and control cavities cut. I've found a bridge that I think will look nice on this and follow on from the headless version; this bridge will require the body routing for it to mount correctly. That should be here in a couple of days so I can size it up and make a template for it.
    2 points
  20. What is this 'changing the strings' you speak of?
    2 points
  21. My vote would go for Honey if you wanted to have the back lighter than the top or a nice Meduim cherry........... 😀
    2 points
  22. You’re far too kind! It had its first flight, trouble free with me to the Mediterranean this week...! T
    2 points
  23. Oh my giddy aunt! You’d think after following a number of @Andyjr1515‘s builds and fixes that one would become inured to his level of talent, but this is not the case. Every project leaves me slack jawed in appreciation of his talents - and this one isn’t even finished! Well done, sir, well done 👏👏👏.
    2 points
  24. Or the GASinator.....😂
    2 points
  25. The more or less standard Jazzes, ESP 400 Series and Bacchus Standard 5. I've had the ESP for almost 30 years and it's the one which always feels like home. I recently installed a Noll TCM3 preamp which gives B,M,T cut and boost as well as a passive circuit with a tone control. It's a beast. The Bacchus arrived second hand about 15 years ago. It was a real eye-opener, amazing bass. The hybrids, J body but pickup deviations, Charvel JP and a homemade JPJ. The Charvel has a slim neck like a Soundgear but with a P width nut. It had a fretboard replacement before I got it, the 21-fretted rosewood board replaced with a fretless two-octave ebony board. I had it fretted and replaced the V,V,T Reflex active electronics. It now has Loureiro pickups and a Vol, Blend, Tone with a push-pull volume control which runs the pickups in series for Angry Bear mode. The JPJ is a Mightymite neck and one-piece ash body with EMG pickups and electronics. The neck J and P are routed to a three-way mini-switch and the output of that goes into a blend control with the bridge J so I can run any combination of the pickups with bass and treble cut and boost controls. The distant cousins, modified J shape and pickup deviants, Bacchus 24 and Grooveline. The 24 was the lightest bass I owned, a really nice and comfortable modern take on the Jazz. The Grooveline arrived last week and is even lighter. It's needs a bit of work, it has clearly had a hard life, but I really, really like it already. I'm confident it will be really amazing when the work is done on it.
    2 points
  26. Thanks Ped, I was just wondering whether my relatively short ownership of a 50-odd year old bass qaulifies
    2 points
  27. Bargains have been around £400 s/h for the CMD121
    2 points
  28. We have 3:00- 7:00 biker bar gig tomorrow. First time we've played live since St. Patrick's Day. I'll keep you posted on how it goes. Blue
    2 points
  29. Well your wife has the right idea and you are very lucky that way.Go for it!😉 Not particularly good pics but this is me with the Stagg I had and my Engelhardt Swingmaster ES9, not a very well regarded bass by some, but it looks great and sounds good for the music I play.
    2 points
  30. My 62RI , but not as old as yours 🙂
    2 points
  31. Some updates! Th700 for small clubs
    2 points
  32. And cut and carved That dark natural grain mark heading towards the back is useful because it distracts your eye to the actual join line which is here: I'm pleased how the grain lines seem to join up - at the back too: Again, that natural dark patch takes the eye away from the join.
    2 points
  33. Saturday was Bearded Theory. It's a big one and a load of my friends and family had got me over excited and pretty nervous about it. I woke up at 5AM and couldn't get back to sleep. I only had to go to the studio, pack up my drums, bring them home, and wait for the van to arrive at 11:30, but it seemed like such a big task. So after lying there for an hour I decided to forget trying to sleep and get my sh*t together. They picked me up at 11:30 and we got to the Woodland Stage an hour later. A couple of hours nervously hanging around and soaking in the atmosphere (and passively smoking some very pungent skunk!) and we were on. The adrenaline kicked in and all my fatigue was washed away by the hundreds (maybe more than 1000?) people singing our songs back at us and cheering us on. 45 minutes later, soaked with sweat, I couldn't stop grinning as I packed away my drums. Best gig for ages!!! A bit of a crap photo bit I don't have a lot of time between songs to have a drink of water, grab a photo, and count in the next one After that we had to hang around until we played a small tent at 10PM. I crashed pretty hard in between so went for a lie down in the van for an hour or two and that seemed to sort me out. The tent was absolutely packed with people. We were parked right next to a side door in the tent, but the staff wouldn't let us load through that door. We had to go right around, through a fence, and then fight our way through 200 people to the stage. They seemed really anal about the rules for a bunch of crusty types smoking massive joints. Maybe the hi-vis vests gave them a power trip? Or maybe there was a real safety concern. Anyway the gig was OK. Their bass drum was seriously lacking in volume, and although I could see a mic in it, I couldn't hear it, so to get the mix right I was kicking at full power. Unfortunately this meant the beater went right through the head during the penultimate song. Ooooops! Still, the reception was great Early Sunday morning I got a call - "Are you OK to play Nice 'n' Sleazy Festival in Morcambe tonight? It's good money". We'd already got a slot at Strummercamp in Oldham that afternoon so it'd be another 2 gig day, but I was still buzzing from Bearded Theory so I agreed, as did the others. Strummercamp was good but I don't think we impressed the crowd. There were a lot more in the main tent for the ska band (very good btw) on before us. I guess we weren't their cup of tea? Nice 'n' Sleazy was another belter though. Packed room, great reception, and some great banter with some well oiled punks.
    2 points
  34. It must be powerful, it's blown you right out of your shoes! 🤣
    2 points
  35. Newly arrived Zoom B1X-4 on the 'creative' home use board and can be easily 'whipped off' for rehearsals and gigs as a solo pedal. Drive pedals currently under review and I suspect one of them may be for the chop as I'm starting to manage to get some decent drive patches on the Zoom multi! That would then potentially free up space for a bitcrusher. The Zoom has already paid for itself several times over
    2 points
  36. New lower price £450 425 now. I don't know much about this bass, got it of ebay the other week really just to give it a spin. I put TI Jazz flats on it and it sounds good, a nice passive thumb to it now. I am not 100% convinced thought that it is what I want or need. The bass is in superb cosmetic condition for its age, no chips or dings/dongs. My bathroom scale says it's just below 4kg. With a thin strap it has a bit of neckdive, not much, but since I mostly play with a plec it is not ideal for me. I am not 100% convinced to sell it, but if anyone is dying to get their hands on one of these I paid £500 and look for a similar amount. I am based in SE London if anyone wants to take a closer look at this one. Cheers, Udo
    1 point
  37. No Stew that was me! How are you?? I also played in a full on Muse tribute for about 5 years. Hysteria started out as a clean channel and a big muff in the early days (ok) moved on to Big muff and Animato but missed the clean...then expanded to Animato, big muff blended (ls2) and a clean channel...Huge sound. Then we started playing to a click so I added a prerecorded synth bass to the bass mix..and that was as close as I have ever heard. Playing to a click really helped the groove...too easy to play too fast. Uprising..PIB and knights were always crowd favourites. Loved the challenge of replicating Chris' tones but it all got a bit silly towards the end..once the Misa Kitara came onto the scene I thought "enough now" lol....
    1 point
  38. Definitely a huge difference. A real eye opener for me. I've probably been a little sceptical of just how much difference a pup could really make but that was night and day. Of course we're bass players, so no one else would ever notice, but we know, right?
    1 point
  39. It's fine, guys. I didn't want to post anything until I had something worth posting about. There has been a bit of a deadly silence over the past weeks, I admit. Unfortunately, a lot of the stuff that remains to be done depends on having a finished box, and the delays and pink torpedo-ups made by my CNC supplier has made that impossible until now. Still, I'm hoping to pull all the threads together next week. Watch this space. I do appreciate everyone's patience.
    1 point
  40. A BG400 plus a C4 will definitely do the job as far as volume is concerned provided the rest of the band are not out and out hooligans (which, if you are a function band, they almost certainly aren't). As ez says, tonally, they are refined and clean. You may not be able to drive an additonal C8 with your BG400. I think PJB specify a minimum of 8 ohms for extension speakers (I could be wrong). I use between one and three C4s with an AG700 depending on the size of the job and love the quality of sound I get.
    1 point
  41. Superb, love it 🙂
    1 point
  42. Very true. We all go on about Norman Watt Roy's bass playing, and rightly so, but the entire band really were a cut above, extremely creative and Ian Dury's lyrics were just sublime, poetic and beautiful, yet slightly seedy with some market trader swagger.
    1 point
  43. And the donor has donated! And why that particular piece? It's a tip I learnt from somewhere (maybe even here) to not only look for a piece where the grain spacing is similar and in line, but also - if you are then going to carve it - where the cross section grain pattern is similar. Here is the piece I've chosen: See how the grain spacing is similar, but also similar annular ring direction and spacing so when the carve cuts across all of that, the basic grain pattern should at least look credible. It does appear, also, to be very similar colour and density of wood - useful to avoid any finish darkening or lightening the tip differentially to the rest of the body. Next job will test my skills - getting two totally flat surfaces at the joining faces!
    1 point
  44. I did some fretting in the garden today... Fretting in progress Frets in but untrimmed. (and for some reason this is underlined) All trimmed and cleaned up.
    1 point
  45. I'm a bit late to the party here, but i'm doing OK for 2019 (compared to previous years) Picked up a Yamaha RBX775 and an OLP MM22 on eBay within 2 weeks of each other for very good prices. The RBX was to 'replace' the one I've had since 2002 and effectively undo the custom defret, refin etc. OLP because I like 2 pickup Stingrays, but haven't the pocket for one. I then sold my Dingwall NG3, as quite frankly it's 'too good' for my needs as a bedroom bassist and part time band member. I now have money back in my pocket and reassigned to a wedding. I went through a bit of amp GAS a few weeks ago, then just picked up a Zoom B3N 2nd hand for £80, plenty to fix the cleanliness of my Trace Elliot Elf there. Sold a 7 string guitar too, don't miss it. The GAS demon is a bit lost, it wants to encourage me to buy stuff, but there is nothing out there I actually want, let alone need, let alone afford. My GAS solution as such, is have a few modestly priced instruments that are very different, the expensive ones give me anxiety and I grow to dislike them due to the inherent wasted capital.
    1 point
  46. I have both (Bass Soul Food + MojoMojo) on my board. I prefer the BSF because I think the Mojo is pretty dark and "Motown-sounding". The Mojo is nice in its own way, but if I should pick just one ....
    1 point
  47. I’d put a screw in it. Probably why I don’t build guitars though...
    1 point
  48. Managed to buy back my VJ that I sold two years ago.
    1 point
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