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Help. Has anybody here built a Vong? I ask because I have one, pre-built by a guy in Germany, but it's arrived with a problem... the power input doesn't line up properly with the hole in the enclosure, so the jack only goes in part-way, making it unreliable. I don't really want to send this back, unfortunately, because of The Situation That Dare Not Speak Its Name. My soldering's fairly (very) crap - though I've done some basic guitar electronic fixes, I've never built a pedal. I've been looking at the Schalltechnik instructions and trying to work out whether I should try to realign the board, the pots and everything, or whether I'm better off taking the guts out and just filing the hole into an ugly oval. Pic with input/output mounting hardware removed to show how the power input doesn't line up but the jacks do... well, sort of. Any advice much appreciated...

Lee Sklar is another: "I do not use [a compressor]. In the studio I leave that up to the engineer but for myself I do not use one."

The electronics appear to have been robbed from a Rosetti Lucky 7, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais, influenced the European Symbolists and acted as a major precursor of the Aesthetic movement. Best I can do.

I chose to go with the S'manth method on a Telecaster with invisible clay side dots. Not as neat as the transfers but nice and cheap, redoable, and overall quite a bit better, I'd say. 👍

Ah, you're right, there's one on 21frets with dome knobs. http://www.21frets.com/squier_jv/jvprecisionbass.htm

It looks straight, and the router hump ticks another box. I can't answer for the tuner fitting as mine has Resolites now. I had a 57 JV P in the past that weighed at least 9.5lbs... Just a small point - no recollection of them having dome-topped knobs.

Nice job. Do you happen to know the nut width on your Roadster please @roger?

You probably mean outboard eq and know that bass and treble are boost only and mid is cut only, so "flat" is bass off, treble off, mid full on. Knobs straight up does sound good, I agree. Good amps, nice feel.

Nice! I think I know it from this old Timejumpers video. Always good to hear the late great John Hughey, this time on the C6 neck...

Personally I aspire more to the smooth, come-hither stylings of this fleet-footed charmer from 1969. Jump to 0.40 if you can't handle great music...

10cc. IFAIK they were basically the house band at their own Strawberry Studios from about 1969, working under loads of names and on assorted projects including two Neil Sedaka LPs before they emerged under their own name in '72.

Any connection I wonder... https://www.londonmandolinensemble.org.uk/blog/carmelo-catania-luthier-1908-1970

It's a bit odd really. Bass Gear mag reviewed the Mk 1 TB500, and very favourably, back in 2011. They bench tested the amp as part of the review and their analysis was that the TB was capable of 500w into 8 ohms. I wonder how that conclusion was reached. Perhaps someone with techy knowledge can throw some light. Here is the review: http://epublish.panaprint.com/publication/?i=76122&p=70

Bubba. I see you have a locked 20 page Talkbass thread devoted to this subject. https://www.talkbass.com/threads/i-have-an-old-bass-its-was-my-very-first-bass.1541590/ I hope you find your answer... whatever that is.

Reckon that there guitar is a Rozeo Ladybug.

A couple of nights ago on London's most floral stage... @Cat Burrito Transport troubles led me to take the house amp option... despite yer man's assurances it turned out to have a blown cone, so I ended up DI'd. Hey ho, still a pretty fun show though.

I like the ones from Designacable with black Permaplug sockets and plugs, and mega tufty cable. They do one, two and four-gang and the quality is fab. https://www.designacable.com/site/mains-power-cables.html/h07rn-f-uk-plug-to-4-gang-socket.html

Great pic of East London's best-decorated stage! Hey @Cat Burrito, I'm gonna be there December 8th, what was their backline like, or did you take your own?

I tried the flats. See posts 2 and 4 in this thread.

Isn't it just a sort of deceptively simple double-slide on the E string performed with one finger? First slide from open E to G, back down a fret, slide up to G#, jump back to D on the A string? Summat like that anyway... I may be a semitone out... but the sort of double-pump left-hand motion being the trick.

I looked into a bag for my 32" scale Squier P and ended up with a Gruvgear Gigblade Edge, the guitar model, not the bass one. The Edge is the basic, slimline version of their one-shoulder design, which I like a lot. The length measurements are on their website; the Squier just about fits with a few mm to spare. I got it half price from Kytary but would think twice at the full £100 as there isn't enough wear protection on the bottom edge IMO for serious schlepping on public transport.

If your local place baulks then the folks who can definitely 100% fix this are jpfamps.com. That's 'cos they do all the official Orange repairs on the side. Nothing about Terrors that they don't know. They've mended mine several times to the point where it's basically a UK-built OTB. Lovely fellas too.

By the way, if anyone misses the old metal Fast Fret tins, get a US friend to post you a can of Tibet Almond Stick. It's a light oil designed as a furniture scratch remover that's been around for about 100 years. The actual product feels and smells and works exactly the same as Fast Fret.... I imagine someone spotted an old timer guitar picker using this stuff as string lube back in the 70s, had a lightbulb moment and flogged the idea to GHS, who probably used the same manufacturer. I use the Almond Stick as a refiller for an ancient wooden-handled Fast Fret applicator and keep that in the Almond Stick tin 'cos I think it looks cool.

Fast Fret addict here. Some hate it but I can't gig flatwounds without it... worth a try, I recommend it. To lownote - I've heard this as well but I think if you just give the strings a swift swipe then wipe nearly all of it off straight away with the little cloth, you won't get any crud on fingerboard or frets. I've been using the stuff for yonks with no ill-effects. It might deaden strings a bit, I don't know. Flatwounds, eh?