LukeFRC

yeah it says on the heel. it sans hardware too. im tempted to take my body allong, see if it fits and then try and talk them down.

all gone. Ill post up here again when i have another few sets.

lol. PM an address.

3 pairs left

So I work in a wee coffee house in edinburgh.
The owner's dutch.
We sell Grolsch
But not that much.
I've saved a few of the red rubber seals
I have 4 pairs sat here on my desk.
Anyone want?

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=8102"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=8102[/url]

theres a photo there cos one or more of you guys will want to see a photo!

Right.
I have an old body from a vox standard bass. (Pbass style pickup rout) Its a lovely heavy lump of wood and it seems a waste to have it just sitting under the bed so tinking of starting a wee project.
I'm thinking of making a fretless as i dont have one and have never played one.
So first thing i need is a neck.
Oh and I have very little money so need to do this on the cheap.
either a fretless or a cheap fretted one that i can take the frets out of. (i'm reasonably handy with the ol' woodwork so should be safe!)

One of my local musicshops has an un-badged p bass style neck, a few dings, broken nut, dry patches on the rosewood, japanese '85. Feels really good. It says £50 is this reasonable how much are these things worth? I dont want to go spend more money than i need!

[quote name='BigBeefChief' post='144752' date='Feb 21 2008, 10:36 PM']Gary "Mani" Mounfield's Rickenbacker 4005[/quote]


yeah.
and it was 'i wanna be adored' whoever asked

I bought one of these over the summer from the states and have it on my 2tone sunburst Jap'57RI It looks ace.
Word of advice though not only is there less screw holes but they are in slightly different places than the Jap fender at least. Hardly any bother. And worth it for a) the colour and the fact a big bit of metal means your bass is likely to stay earthed better.

jamerson's funk machine would be cool...but really.....

only one bass would get me really excited.
play this and you'll know which one i mean

G ---------------------------------------------------------------
D ---------------------------------------------------------------
A -------- --5-5-5-5---- -----5-7-5--7---- ---7-7--9-7-7--9-7-7-----
E --3-3-3-3-- -------3-3-3-3----- -----0-0-0--------- -----------0--

For instance unclutter that panel.
The EA Iampseems to do the whole swept mid thing better, or the Markbass amps with the sweepable mid frequencies. What they have not is too complicated. You can tell this by the amount of labels they have felt the need to plaster on it!
If you have I and O on the power switch, and an on light you dont need 'Power on and off' printed beside it.
Make that imput meter look sexy
Make the wee buttons round.
Get rid of that stupid gimicy man
Make the ashdown name bigger than the LG name
really want to make it sexy make the corners curved or something make it look sexy.

grrr bad design. Wanna offer me a job ashdown?

i used a superfly once at a gig and the digital front end sucked- they have fixed this.
If its only £325 that is good, just a shame it looks so bad.

I think that the moment one of the big companies puts out a simple, cheap light weight amp like this that looks and sounds cool then they will clear up a large chunk of the market.
The sub £500 market for folk who don't a big heavy amp. are just starting/not playing all the time and just want an 'ok' tone.
(Markbass do not have the 'cool' factor or the distribution to do this, i mean selling to the kids with the squier/fenders and the converse on)
With Ashdown's market reach they could easily make this amp and do this but I am not sure they have the amp. The Eq is not as simple as it could be and it looks like a dogs dinner. They need to try going for a classic simple (yet recognisable) style that can sit behind punk bands, rock bands, ska bands, big bands, church bands, etc

Lol i would buy the case off you for £30! shame you are in bristol! good buy!

meh if it sounds good ild play it.

may be daft but couldn't bigger shops order exactly what you want? May be a wee wait but it costs them no more than just selling stock they have...?

hmm i went there once, to look for cab that their website said they had. Despite me able to see a pile of stuff made by the same manufacturer i was ignored and when i asked taken to something else and just left there. They had no interest in selling me anything and were rude.
Mike at the Bass merchant/iceni zoot however responded to speculative emails chatted to me for ages, was friendly, offered me a tour of the zoot bass workshop if i ever came down and was generrally ace- even after he had got my money. And sold me a great amp at a silly price.

One is still in business one isn't.

If I damaged my leg playing football I would rest it for a while, then gradually ease back onto exercise, gentle low shock stuck, then running and kicking and then go and play games. Rush back too early and you risk doing more damage.
Same with bass/wrists/hands i think.
To get a problem and then rush into heavy excersises like a powerball to try and solve it sounds daft to my ears. Like going on a heavy run with weights after the football leg problem.


Also maybe check your technique, i find that the length of the strap has a massive affect on the wrist pressure on both hands but esp left. I wear my bass fairly low mainly as i find that this is where i can get the least pressure on both my left and right hands. Maybe play around with your strap, and make sure your left hand position is good, thumbs over tops of necks wreak wrists.


EDIT: Which looking at your photo looks like you are doing!

(yes i know they mostly used jazzmasters before someone corrects me- but it looks closer to that than a Pbass!)

for all your "i wanna play guitars in sonic youth and look cool" moments which you band tries to repress- Fender Jaguar bass.

ive been tempted to build a dano inspired bass out of plywood.... it could sound amazing. at least it would be different than your normal fender/mm clones or exotic wood brigade

i think they did a few years back
[url="http://www.danguitars.com/Guitars.html"]http://www.danguitars.com/Guitars.html[/url]
yeah 98-01

[url="http://www.danelectro.com/bass_ls_aqua.html"]http://www.danelectro.com/bass_ls_aqua.html[/url]
look at this, am i the only one that thinks it looks amazing?

but the pound is stronger now than 8 years ago, it could have been more towards a tenner

what would be ideal is if i had a old VW i could swap for basses.... but i don't.

the ones with the US pups also have ash or alder bodies rather than basswood

can you have mistakes in original compositions?
theres an alarm clock that goes off in "Day in the life" which wasn't planned....