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My Markbass combo has top mounted controls, but I don't find it bothersome - mostly because it's stacked on top of a New York 121, so the controls are elevated to easily used territory - high enough so I don't have to bend down but not so high that I can't see the controls. But my rig is sitting flat on the deck, so I'm clearly from an irrelevant, bygone era

How big is this hall?

Funny story about that. That came about because back when I originally put this bass together, I was test fitting the tuners, got distracted then lifted the bass up. All the tuners came flying out of the holes and one of them dinged the back of the body near the cavity. So I turned the ding into a lifting hole. When life gives you lemons and all that...

Getting away from the doom and gloom of the neck pocket, I decided to do something productive instead of destructive. The old control cavity had not enjoyed life in the shed, it had warped and was rotting at one of the screw holes. So I made a new one - or at least a template out of hardwood ply if I decide to make one out of another material... Still to do screw holes etc, but I'm pretty pleased with the shape, it fits better than the old one did!

Well, that does answer the question. I still think it's stupid though.

Would it, though?

The chances of any gear list I write now being the same in November are about nil All I will say is that when it comes to travelling hundreds of miles to attend a bass bash, my motto is "go big, or go home"...

Easily solved...

Change of plan. Who TF glues in a bolt on neck? Decided to detach the neck, mostly in a fit of pique. I'm knackered. 2 hours of... persuasion using a Japanese saw, a chisel, a Stanley knife, a blow torch (to heat up the Japanese saw once I sawed as deep as I could) and raw brute force and ignorance. What a fscking mess Gonna have to clean that neck pocket out with the router, then probably build it back with veneer. Also, I think the neck's had it - it's too springy - the string change pitch if it leans on something under its own weight. This does not bode well for future tuning stability. On the plus side, I managed not to damage the top wood of the body

8th/9th Nov works for me

Get your stock one cloned. Either Brian Pillans (earlpilanz on eBay - https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/earlpilanz) or TinyTone - https://tinytone.co.uk/ will do this for you - you remove the pickguard from the bass, send the pickguard to them, they copy it in whatever material you want then send both of them back to you.

Still working the neck into shape, it's getting there. I wired a single pickup straight to the jack last night, so it made an electrical sound for the first time in many years! But what will delight some readers is that the extended stay outside has broken the Neutrik locking jack in the best way possible - it doesn't lock any more. Button still depresses and returns, but the jack is not held in place.

September 5th at Krakatoa...

@Ian Somerville bought a G&L Tribute SB-2 from me. Great guy to deal with, good comms, prompt payment, kept in touch throughout. Smoothest of the smooth transactions. Deal with confidence.

Let's pimp my originals band - The Inevitable Teaspoons We're a five piece band based in NE Scotland (Aberdeen city and shire). We have no guitarist - we're not anti-guitar, that's just how it ended up. Instrumentation is drums, bass, keys, trombone, sax. We formed when some of us quit another band but still wanted to play with most of the rest of the old band. Frankly I don't know what pithy 1 or 2 word genre name can be applied to us. Not trying to be obtuse, but I genuinely die a little inside when I get asked "what kind of music do you play?" Umm, spoony music? Sorta ska, but played kinda straight like rock? I dunno. We gig very infrequently because we're shy and lazy. We usually play the places in Aberdeen which do originals bands - Cafe Drummond and Krakatoa, but have gigged further afield before - I think we've played in Perth a couple of times. Right now we're doing some DIY recording in our rehearsal room, hoping to put an album together this year. We have one EP and one album already released. Here's a very old video.

Gave it a proper razz in a band context last night - it's gud. Plenty poke, and the tone control being half way thing still applies - up at 10 it's a bit too much, and to be honest it's not quite the right frequencies to be cutting through, but that might have been because I was going through an ancient Behringer 4x10 with a knackered tweeter. Also, new knobs arrived, because it's worth it. Not worried a jot that they're gold tops, it's a wonky bass, innit?

Let the chips fall where they may. Also avoid Oct 11-12th - that's the SW bash...

We use Emubands, same reason as CD Baby - one off fee per release.

Yes. Can only lay my hands on a picture of the guitar counterpart but it was the same idea.

I did. I wasn't sure if that was for the whole thread or just the post. I'll keep an eye on that in future. Surprised it's taken me this long to notice it if it's a known foible.

Cheers, I'll keep that in my back pocket, if organic* progress halts. *minimum effort

Not my choice, it was already mounted on the body when I bought it. Easily sorted though...

Yes, awesome, thanks. I tried twice to edit the post, delete the pics, but it wasn't having it!

I made a post and after I submitted it, pictures from the previous post were appended to the end (from the picture of the manky cloth onwards). I can't delete them - I edit the post, delete them from the post then submit and they just keep coming back. https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/514065-it-came-from-the-black-lagoon/#findComment-5507716 Some wee forum bug perhaps? Can someone please tidy them off the post for me, I can't seem to do it!