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  1. tauzero
    I'm a child of the space age - Sputnik was launched a month and a half before I was born. Even more limited with YOB basses - first split-coil Precision but who on earth wants some crappy passive 4-string?
  2. tauzero
    The dots are where they are on a standard Megatar, with dots on the second, 5th, and 7th frets. There should be some form of damping between the fret closest to the nut (which would be a zero fret) and the next one. And it's definitely real otherwise it wouldn't have been in the Gardiner and Houlgate auction. Strangely, looking for an example of a Megatar that shows the damping, there's at least one other fan fret one in the wild, definitely a different one to the one in the auction: https://reverb.com/item/57475214-mobius-megatar-megatar-1997-black-brown which shows the damping.
  3. tauzero
    I used a capo on a 5-string for Whole Lotta Rosie as we were doing it a semitone down and it's a nightmare to play if you don't use the open A. Then the singer decided he could cope with standard tuning so I never did a gig with the capo, but I would quite happily have done so.
  4. tauzero
    Probably - the thickest string is on the left rather than in the middle. But the hand on the bass side (assuming it isn't played with both hands on the treble side) has to cope with frets that are fanned in the wrong direction for the anatomy of the hand.
  5. tauzero
    He popped back in in June. It would be nice to know whether anything has happened.
  6. tauzero
    A Mobius Megatar 12-string with fan frets: https://auctions.gardinerhoulgate.co.uk/catalogue/lot/e53d7924c06085ff4c734b0b1af356dc/63b778f7668dabe928d3800924a99077/the-guitar-auction-four-day-sale-lot-42/ As it happens, I own (but can't play) a Megatar with the more rational parallel frets. How on earth are you supposed to play one with fan frets? And how would you string it as AFAIK all Megatar/Chapman Stick tunings have the bottom string in the middle of the fretboard? An idea whose time will never come. Unsurprisingly, it got left on the shelf at the auction.
  7. tauzero
    I forgot to mention - I sit down to play, and the studio has bucket-type seats with bent wire legs. I leant back a bit to pick something up (all four legs still on the floor) and the chair collapsed. I'm a bit on the heavy side but at 100kg I'm not that enormous. There was a second identical chair in the room and that bore my weight for the rest of the evening.
  8. tauzero
    π, although I'm comfortable with the square root of 2. π is just such an awkward number.
  9. tauzero
    The one after that: "Why You Shouldn't Buy a Boutique Bass!"
  10. tauzero
    Here are ten reasons why it's the end for boutique basses. Number six will shock you.
  11. tauzero
    Rehearsal last night with the latest band that I've been recruited to. We're doing a one hour set at a beer festival tonight and we have a fairly sketchy grasp of the songs, so that should be fun. It's a very odd set list, which sadly includes All Right Now but there's a lot of unusual and unknown (at least by me) songs that should ensure that no follow-on bookings ever happen.
  12. tauzero
    I'm another potential, no inconvenient gigs at the moment.
  13. tauzero
    And? ?
  14. tauzero
    You'd better not look in "Basses for sale" then.
  15. tauzero
    Another option would be to plead guilty and ask for 9000 other offences to be taken into consideration, as then he couldn't subsequently be tried for those. It's always possible that the police are keeping everything else up their sleeves to see what becomes of this case. Or alternatively they've lost all the paperwork for all the fraud cases that have been reported to them.
  16. tauzero
    Completely forgot to put a bit of paper in the photos. Oh well. Belatedly:
  17. tauzero
    A genuine rarity. A bass for the 5-string player who likes the sound of 8-strings but would like that bit of extra range. I'm thinning the herd and this one doesn't get used. I'd hang on to it if I wasn't being ruthless. Bolt-on construction, quite a chunky neck (as you'd expect), active with volume, blend, treble, and bass. The bridge allows individual intonation adjustment for each string, rather than pairs of strings as some lower-quality instruments do. Action is low. I put new strings on it when I got it and it's been used very little since then. Some small marks on the body and slight dents on the back of the neck, nothing significant though. Mahogany body and neck with oil finish, rosewood fingerboard. It's in Tamworth, close to J10 M42 - I'd prefer not to ship it, but I will travel a bit for a meet up. As this is a herd-thinning exercise, I'm not looking for swaps. Probably.
  18. tauzero
    "ect" instead of "etc". Whatever happened to basic literacy. Oh yes, and confusing "ie" and "eg" - I assumed that somebody knew what they meant in a spec once and that led to some wasted time.
  19. tauzero
    Different online dictionaries have differing opinions on that - dictionary.com and thefreedictionary.com say it also means absorb, as does Merriam-Webster <spit>, the Cambridge dictionary and Collins both just give putting liquid in your mouth and swallowing it as the meaning. So fretboards can drink oil in the USA but not in the UK (or EU).
  20. tauzero
    Basses or kids?
  21. tauzero
    It does seem about due (I do hate trying to read the stupid American date format). Ten months since the last one, ten months between the previous one and the last one, and earlier ones were more frequent than that.
  22. tauzero
    Seeing as the routing is quite neat, what about your previous idea of a clear scratchplate like on your Ray35 so the grain isn't covered up by a massive expanse of black plastic?
  23. tauzero
    Back to the Cavern in Tamworth - Pitchers has now gone by the wayside. As I've just bought another bass, I've decided to thin the herd, and one of the candidates for thinning is the Esh Poseidon V which I never take out because it's valuable. However, I regularly take out the valuable Seis, and the valuable new bass will also get taken out, so I dragged it out and put in a new battery. Aside from the fact it's got tapewounds on it (they're black so they look cool but I really don't like the feel), it's lovely, so it gets to stay. The girls still don't have a bassist, so I stood in, but one potential player came along last night to watch rather than to play so they may be sorted out now.
  24. tauzero
    Dammit, he makes headlesses too! Retro me Satane!
  25. tauzero
    What!
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