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Well I’ve been after one for a while, spotted this for sale and after a few chats with @AndyTravis about what to look for and expect I bought it. Angry Ric he said. Absolutely spot on, man it’s killer and what a fat sound! Spot on for a bit Nirvana. Don’t expect to see it for sale, honest! It’s a keeper 😍 Look at it, round bottomed goodness 😂

I spent the day shouting TWO METRES!!!!!

Ha ha, that serves him right. I bid on a bass a few years back and every time I placed a bid, another few small bids went on until it exceeded mine and then stopped. This carried on for a few hours on an otherwise quiet Sunday afternoon during which I became increasingly confident that I was bidding against the seller. Of course, he put in a pretty big bid with about 3 minutes to go expecting me to go higher but I didn't, just sat there waiting for the inevitable 2nd Chance Offer. Amazingly, that landed about 4 minutes after the auction finished, and was at the price the seller had pushed it up to. He said the 'bidder' had emailed him immediately informing him that 'he had put in a bid by accident and didn't have any money'. So lucky me could have it at the sale price Mr No Money had bid it up to (allegedly). I said I would take it at the value of the bid I had on the bass when Mr No Money started bidding earlier that day, about £200 lower, at which point seller started to get really angry with me and said I shouldn't bid on things if I'm not prepared to buy them, and furthermore that I was morally obliged to buy it at the level of my final bid or what's the point in eBay? Made my evening, and I enjoyed the Sunday roast so much more as the result

It already sounds pretty darn decent. I'm now looking at either Nordstrand or Seymour Duncan (the Alnico version) but they do seem to be pretty similar. Anyway, here's a teaser:

Well, why so long then, we have been able to make trade deals for a year, we seem to have replaced 19 so far. Got quite a long way to go. I will take that wager. But if we do it is because we can accept less from it than the EU will. True. If our money can afford them, and we get that deal. Umm.. I am not a fisherman, how in any way of anything is that relevant? Fishing is a tiny industry in the UK and the fish that we fish we have to sell to other people as we don't eat it. What is the point putting up trade barriers to people we sell the fish to. Still, its a shame when we were in the EU, we didn't have anyone who was prepared to support british industry as MEPs.

Sylvia Bluejay posted a video of Nick Smith playing it (though briefly) at The Herts Bass Bash..... http://youtu.be/OvwumLSkXzU Starts at 4:30

Pleasant work-around-the-house listening!

Hard to argue that one!

Very smart buy👌. KiOgon loom. Don't change anything else.

Afraid I do like a relic!!! Knocking it out the park at the moment.

I am naive enough to believe that politics should be all about economics and facts. I am done with this mindset that this clown troupe masquerading as a government have the remotest chance of negotiating anything which would benefit the people they are meant to be serving. Where is the evidence that they have even half a clue?

I have a bb3000a as well.

Ha ha, very kind of you thanks. I did think about changing the title the other day, but didn’t want to tempt fate as it’s still not an operational instrument yet - oh, and I’m still just winging it really. You Tube has been very helpful 😎. Regarding the scratch plate, it’s going to be as close as I can get it to the Custom Shop Precision this build is based on - so Vintage White was what I ordered. The main differences between the two basses will be no block inlays, no neck binding and mine will work out at a fraction of the £7,749.00 price tag of it’s twin. The stacked knobs arrived just the other day 👍.

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IBTL No-one knows.... except yes of course prices will increase, plus the pound will be worth nothing. On the upside we can fly goods over on the Unicorns we're all getting! 🤪

I bought a bass body from eBay that I thought was one thing and turned out to be a bit different. Caveat emptor or whatever! It’s not a full scale neck pocket but exactly the size of the Warmoth short and medium scale necks. It’s a Jaguar body with a stingray pickup route as well as a p-bass which made me think of the island of Dr Moreau and his man beasts. Currently it’s got a black stain which I might take off, a bridge which is askew which I will remove and I’m hoping to build a preamp from @Passinwind I’m expecting to get a warmoth neck soon and start! Here is the body now with some wonky holes, a couple of snapped off screws in the mm pickup space and the misplaced bridge with knackered screws.

Didn't realise this was a thing. The moment I found out though the clock was ticking. UI was always going to fall for it. Here's my logic. My board is fukll, complete, cannot be improved upon I have everything I'll ever want. Yet still I keep buying pedals. I'm not very well off, all gig work has dried , however I do live an expense free life so pretty much anything I manage to earn I can spend. Within reason. Well, kind of. So how do I stop the haemorrhage of what money i do have on yet more effects? Commit to having one made for me, then I'll have no choice but to save every penny to pay for it. Neat right? Anyhoo, I've not sent a deposit yet but negotiations are underway with the good folk at Bad Penny FX to create a monster box of boosted, gatey fuzzy effects loopiness. This is the preliminary sketch I've asked for a send / return loop so I can add a parallel effect of my choosing and mix the two together but without the main effect affecting the other one. Or if not using a 2nd pedal then the circuit will just be a clean blend. As I say early days, the enclosure to be decided upon, but it will be British, hand made, and the only one out there. And all of this is just to save me money. genius I calls it.

I haven’t had much time to spare today, but the Fralin’s are now in, bridge is on, knobs are mounted onto control plate (they arrived separately) and scratch plate now has shielding tape on the back. When I tried to screw the scratch plate on, none of the screws wanted to go in at all. I put it down to a bit of paint getting in the holes, but then compared the new Fender scratch plate screws I’d bought with the old ones and found that the new ones were slightly bigger. They’re definitely right for this guard tho, so I’m not sure what the screws were that came with it. Dremel to the rescue once again - all holes widened 👍. The holes on the Ki0gon control plate are different to the ones in the VVT that had been on the body, so I asked David to fill the three holes when he painted it. Next job was re-drilling for the Ki0gon. I was just about to let rip with the Dremel when I noticed that the screws for the control plate were smaller than even the original scratch plate screws. Crisis averted. I sourced the correct drill bit from the garage, but it was too small for the chuck in the Dremel 🙄. Had to break out the big mains powered drill to do three three tiny holes. More than a bit nervous holding about that thing over the newly finished body; not for adding more scars to it, just worried about getting the holes in exactly the right position. All turned out fine though. Next job is connecting the pick-up’s and getting the neck on which is looking increasingly unlikely for tomorrow ☹️. All in good time I suppose.

Shipbuilding still makes me cry, after all these years..... early Elvis Costello lyrics are just so clever and poignant. It's just a rumor that was spread around town A telegram for a picture postcard Within weeks they'll be reopening the shipyard And notifying the next of kin Once again.

Whenever I see these basses I think of Adam & The Ants, their bassist Kevin Mooney used one on Top of The Pops and the 14/15 year old me was intrigued as everyone else was using Fenders or Rickenbackers.

In regards to the pickup cover, I thought it was a bit odd to put it on seeing as when the bass was played in the hot chocolate video they showed, it didn’t have one on. I would have kept it the same as how it looked then.

True. I seem to be very adept at spending others money... ask @bassfan and his sadowsky and miller 😂

I keep on getting the blame for stuff.

NOW we're talking! This one should balance much better! 😍

That's playing Prog with a lazy drummer for ya! 😉

I have done it several times. Be firm but gentle. Fret nippers/pliers are essential to grab into and under the fret. Normal pliers risk issues. Rub a soldering iron over the fret to heat it before pulling. But obv don't heat it red hot. eBay. You're looking for thin vineer offcuts from quality woodworkers. Yes. NB. Defretting is the easy part. You then have to rub down the fingerboard- to curvature. Not impossible but scarier. Then you have to drop the nut slots. Ditto. It's all doable. And good fun. And you won't f it up so long as you apply caution, attention and common sense.

Of course but without the heavy relic. Maybe just slight relic'ing. Dave

@Chopthebass I hope yours has got black hardware and not the trashy gold hardware that this one has - otherwise you're likely to come in for a fair bit of abuse from ancient Egyptian admiring types on this forum 😁 Check out P13 / 14 of the thread for some NE2 chat and I posted a short review of it on 13th March 2018 (P13). And congratulations!! Dunno what other basses you currently have, but the NE2 is an absolute corker!

Yep, fantastic underated UK made Valve amps. I had one, sold it then bought another as I missed it! Now one of my main amps. Super high end stuff, but people seem put off by the brand which is a bit crazy considering their pedigree. Quite a modern take on the standard big valve heads.

And Tom Araya calling the bingo in the church hall on a Wednesday evening "Monarch to the kingdom of the dead; number 42. That's monarch to the kingdom of the dead; number 42."

The image of Glen Benton sipping tea and eating scones with Kerry King works for me for some reason.

May have been mentioned a couple of times 😉

Gridlink - Amber Gray 11 tracks in 11:47. Not so fancy for a grindcore album. But when they manage to cram in about 30 minutes worth of material into that? Good lord! If you like it fast and heavy, please check it out! It will make all yer Slayers and Deicides look like village vicars...

Sorry if someone posted this, but it is online... https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000kxx5/the-repair-shop-fixing-britain-series-1-episode-9

@KiOgon. I have summoned him and like the genie of the lamp he will hopefully appear. Let me explain. Most cheap basses compromise on the electronics. Entwhistle pickups happen to be both cheap and very good, but not quite the same can be said of the wiring. KiOgon will replace your existing loom with the very best quality components in a replacement loom. I have one on my Revelation P bass.

This is a little corker

No, but that was the same before so it hasn't changed. US bass pedal? I don't think I have any US equipment. Well, I have a gibson guitar, and a fender bass (although that is japanese). Yep, there isn't much of any interest made in america. Which - we have a free trade deal (which could be possible), or we get cheaper bass kit? I mean, we already lost the second one, so that seems unlikely. A flea Jazz is £1099, it was £882 when it was introduced. It is $1225 in the states, and hasn't changed price. So you are thinking that after all the dust has settled and we have this magical deal, the fender flea is going to be less than £1099? This is my newly developed, fender flea index

Will there be a mechanism in place to stop them selling off their quotas to non-UK fishermen, like they did when we were in the EU? Sorry, little bit of politics creeping in there.

...whose costs will likely go up too, because they have to source several parts from outside the UK. Hardware, pickups, electronics, woods. Which will be reflected in their prices.

Were it not for the fingerboard anting to leave. Quirky little bass. I'd like a look at the inside of that pup.

Another fantastic transformation. What an amazing build thread. That is one gorgeous bass. Some sound clips would have been good unless of course i missed them along the thread. I did flash thru the pics rather than read every post. Nice Dave

I think it's the other way round, isn't it? So far, anyway. I've no idea how far it will fall, after the end of 2020. But that has no bearing on whether it will fall or not. Which said, my best guess is parity or a bit worse, maybe 90 cents to the pound, in about June; things should be more stable by then. All those currency traders are trading at that price now, and they will adjust their pricings as time goes on. As they do, all the time; because that is how they make their money. What they trade at now has no bearing on the price in January.

Great thread! So one of my lockdown projects was to build a pair of isobaric speakers... managed to pick up four Seas bass units for not much, and built these cabs as a slightly more aesthetic alternative to rectangles - the bass units are 8" and there is one hiding inside the cab, so it can't be any narrower. Paired them up with some fountek ribbon tweeters. A bit of crossover tweaking and hey presto... huge meaty bass and drums, breathy midrange and delicate tops. My 5th attempt at speaker design, so a huge surprise at how great they sound. Upset my brother when we compared them to his very pricey Wilson-Benesch's. A shame those bass units aren't made any more, otherwise I might be going into production 😂

@redstriperThe Bassline at 0.17 came to me today it’s from big ship- Freddy Mcgregor

I’ve had an entertaining afternoon shielding the pick-up and control cavities. I’ve never done it before and it’s quite satisfying, even if the shielding tape seems to have a mind of it’s own as soon as the backing has been removed. Loves sticking to itself 😬. Still have the wires to go in, but that will have to wait until tomorrow.

Thank you all so much for replying. I have just been very jammy and picked up a new Fender Rumble 100 for £250! I cannot wait to do some bass practice through a proper amp rather than through my 15w Stagg guitar amp!

Sounds like a Fender Rumble 100 would fit the bill, 22lbs.