LukeFRC

Awesome looking basses - odd posing of straps

I’ve seen a bundle of things easily two or three or four times what they would go for here, Japanese stuff 2-3 times what it would cost total to import from ishibashi …. And I saw one item which was probably priced about right. so do a bit of looking around …

I was going to ask what brought about that sale - hope you're ok

a couple of three way switches would be fairly cheap... if you don't want to drill holes in the front of your bass it would be possible to get 3 way slidey type switches and install them inset on the back cavity cover. I did this on an old Yamaha SG I had to add coil taps. Not an ideal situation but lets you try it without any holes on (the front) of your bass.

It’s oft repeated on US based forums that anything imported must be bad and low quality… I find it a odd view point to think that a country can’t build a simple solidbody guitar and then broadcast that view via a advanced technological device made in that country…

I always thought break angle at thr witness point, then mass/stiffness of the anchor point was more critical than surface area contact …

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All you need now is a slot polepiece L1000 - just for comparison obviously!

Did they do bound and blocks necks on precisions out of the factory?

was it you or someone else who had worked out these were the same as the Chinese Tokai or something?

There’s one of them in red some fella is selling online - I keep having to pretend I didn’t see it

till they die on you, or till you sell the bass?

man @Owen sees that and it will all get expensive

is it good for (heavy) metal?

Glad I found this thread, thats tomorrows work soundtracked... also slightly OT, I love the national but seeing them live is a weird experience... starts off as a slick stadium band, ends up with Matt as a drunken mess in the audience in a way that would have been amazing in a venue a 10th of the size, bit odd.

Aww I'm going to miss seeing the bitsas - but not the sense of regret when someone else gets them before me!

that's a good idea generally - It stops the impulse and somehow writing it down helps think it through properly too.

I played a wedding once, the church bit not the party but. there was a hastily put together trying quartet - decent cello player, very very good violin player playing viola, rusty violin player who played by knowing where to fret and a ok violin player who played by ear. Bride enters to adagio for strings or something - sounds great. Bride gets to front of church … song keeps going for ages! anyway wedding, church type song happen with our band… bride and groom go to leave to what was supposed to be (randomly) a non vocal version of verve’s bittersweet symphony- odd choice but had sounded amazing in rehearsal. string instruments- a church that’s got a lot hotter since the opening… everything’s out of tune… one violin player puts her fingers in the right places even though she’s no longer in tune, the other guy corrects to play the notes I tune and the viola player forgets she’s playing the viola and starts reading the violin line. nightmare. It didn’t sound much better when bass drums and guitars launched in. Marriage didn’t last either

Cimar "1905" model Jazz bass from 1975. Ash body, maple neck. Bought for £40 about ten years ago. Done up and sold to a mate who was after a bass... only when it went did I realise how fun it was to play. Mate realised it too. It was odd, I had loads of basses that were "better" but there was something about that instrument that was just really enjoyable to play.

Hey - some performance art is ok