Mr. Foxen

[quote name='Wil' post='1111311' date='Feb 1 2011, 05:28 PM']Interesting! It'll have to be seriously good to compete with my 410L mind, this thing is the absolute balls.[/quote] I'm putting it up against the GS412, it probably won't win, but I want more high mids going on. It is more of a convenience cab plan/satisfying curiosity.

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/bass-guitar-/230580847495?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item35afb08387"]Fairly sure is crap, dunno about jap.[/url] Looks cool, but Italian popped into my mind, has one been up before?

[quote name='Wil' post='1111301' date='Feb 1 2011, 05:23 PM']I had a 1212L once which was around 25kg, and yeah, it was fairly easy to shift with head and bass at the same time, even up stairs. For me, that is, not everyone can carry the same amount comfortably of course. Would I have liked it to be half the weight again? Er, yes! Who wants to carry weight if you don't have to?[/quote] If all goes to plan, there'll be a BFM cab at RS to have a go with soon.

I think the problem is Rippers sound quite bad. The good ripper sound is the sound of a driven Ampeg. More coloured the amp the more it covers it up.

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=120884"]Already discussed (made fun of).[/url]

It's just flash, like when you got cheap versions of Airfix models, a bit of router work will sort that right out.

I reckon filing off the corners of the ball ends will be easier.

I'd play one because it has a bunch of features I like, but I'm pretty far off Billy Sheehan in about every way. They are the sort of features that don't come together on any other basses.

Didn't think sealed maple necks shrunk. I've fed very dry rosewood boards with loads of oil and sorted sharp fret ends.

[quote name='KevB' post='1109158' date='Jan 31 2011, 10:31 AM']They still look like something someone's been knocking together in a garage on Sunday afternoons.[/quote] I think that is a bunch of the point, since it is based on exactly that.

It's just electrical tape, it had been weirdly refinished. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=101055&st=0"]full story here.[/url] Edit: I just reread what I orignally wrote about them, and I didn't even say it was an issue, just a bargaining point, I'd be fully expecting the owner to not have noticed it happening.

My reinforced bridges ain't for sale yet, but the other problem is the scratchplates breaking, and I still have some of the steel ones to go.

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Tech-21-Sansamp-PSA-1-/170597452244?pt=UK_MusicalInstr_Amplifiers_RL&hash=item27b86689d4"]£250 BIN.[/url] totally recall someone asking after one but can't find the thread, so thought I'd give a heads up.

[quote name='bumnote' post='1107253' date='Jan 29 2011, 02:54 PM']Thanks Phil, I will give that a go Ive previously used that stuff you use on the plastic trims on cars but its full of silicone, and mikes everything really slippery[/quote] Use WD40 like furniture polish, not furniture polish.

[quote name='Johnston' post='1107036' date='Jan 29 2011, 10:36 AM']I used Put my full weight on a scarf joint and it never budged and considering my poor skiils it must be good gear.[/quote] This is what luthiers reccomend to me. I think it doesn't have the tendency to creep over time.

[quote name='theosd' post='1106795' date='Jan 28 2011, 10:29 PM']White or blue, white or blue, WHITE OR BLUE!?!?!?!? (help?)[/quote] At that price, both. You can flip one at a profit when they sell out and people are clamouring for them. If I wans't about to move, and had more liquid cash, I'd be doing this.

Gonna be making new ridge saddles once some workshop time frees up. If someone has an old set they could send me, would make life easier/faster, I'm basing them from a Jap bridge, so might need a fettling to fit a genuine bridge.

[quote name='s1ater' post='1106355' date='Jan 28 2011, 04:13 PM']I went in there today to buy that one... You got there first ended up with the gold les paul copy in the window instead [/quote] Let me know if you realise you shouldn't have done that.

Got temptation for the gold top. Hassling a mate to get one. Anyone know of any cream humbcker sized p90s, aside from the kents, pair of those would cost more than the guitar.

It should make no odds, because the box should vibrate or anything that will interact with the floor, and it remains acoustically the same save for a few inches height, as in still radiating into half space due to the floor. Plus, no reason it needs to be sat on the casters while you are playing, put them on the side.

[quote name='simon1964' post='1105315' date='Jan 27 2011, 05:43 PM']Agree with your comments on the bridge, but I'm not sure what you mean by the neck collapsing into the pocket. Rics are through neck, so I don't follow?[/quote] As said, it is the neck pickup route, the thin body and the placing of the route don't give much strength there. I though that the neck pickup move in the 70s was due to this, giving some more wood about there, but now I've opened a current one, the route is in the same place, and just the scratchplate hole is moved. I don't know why.