froover

[quote name='mewsie' post='193202' date='May 6 2008, 06:13 PM']i'm a girl! i'm a girl! x[/quote] Oioi waves hello i dont post here really, but a fair few of you know me from elsewhere oh and when im not playing Ashborys, i tend to play with a plectrum too nowadays cheers Lucy

[quote name='nig' post='106500' date='Dec 19 2007, 02:30 PM']Thanks Lucy, what gauge silicone rubber do I ask for ? Im just going to visit your link and take a peek, also its good to see it wasnt my paranoia about the break angle on the headstock, can you give me a little more info as to the floyd rose device youve put on the nut, many thanks for the help. regards, nigel.[/quote] not on the nut, behind it 4 5 6 7 mm i use cheers Lucy

[quote name='nig' post='104631' date='Dec 15 2007, 11:57 AM']Hi Froover, tell me more about those strings, as apart from 1 breaking I still use the origional strings on mine, also open string playing seems a bit duff as the rake angle thru the nut on mine is flat,so the string doesnt pull back to create a tight open/nut tone, does this make sense. regards, nig. ps. and looking at the rainbow origional the strings seem to pass thru a retainer.[/quote] hi Nig, nice too see a familiar face around here! the nut on the original design has the strings passing through circular holes they start *very* small and go up in size it was going to be a feature on the production ones but somehow it got lost if your careful with the way you string them you can have the string coming from the very bottom of the machinehead and that gives it more of a downward angle or you can do what i do now with mine - put one of the flyod rose style string trees on the headstock when i finally get around to my custom, it will have quite an angled back headstock to take care of the the problem they do sound much better with as much of an angle over the nut as possible what you need for the string material is "solid silicone cord" thats about 60 shore hardness rating you can get it from industrial plastics makers quite cheaply i get it from these guys - [url="http://www.polymax.co.uk/acatalog/Polymax_Silcone_Cord.html"]<a href="http://www.polymax.co.uk/acatalog/Polymax_Silcone_Cord.html" target="_blank">http://www.polymax.co.uk/acatalog/Polymax_Silcone_Cord.html[/url]</a> ive tried from several of the uk suppliers in different colours and shore ratings, but have settled on the red stuff from them as my personal favourite its got more of a whine and bite to it and it sounds nice and aggressive it sounds daffy but the colours really do sound different for about £30 you can get all the string material you will ever need in a lifetime the red stuff lasts and lasts too ive had it on for over a year now and as you know i play pretty hard not one single string breakage rumour has it that fender bought a huuuge amount of duff string material and wont get any new till its all used up but i think its just that the clear stuff isnt as strong and lasting as the coloured cheers Lucy

[quote name='7string' post='104533' date='Dec 14 2007, 10:31 PM']Those Ashbory are excellent basses. Congrats on the 2 !![/quote] ive actually got 2 more, but theyre identical to the blue one cheers Lucy

the friction pegs arent the greatest especially the ones on my rainbow ash the capstan has no hole or way of attatching the strings at all so stringing it is an excercise in frustration! the more normal tuners on the dearmond and fender ones are a vast improvement cheers Lucy

nothing unusual about my main ashbory really, except the different material i use for strings heres something different tho - one of the early prototype ashborys, pre guild-era cheers Lucy

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='104483' date='Dec 14 2007, 07:57 PM']Hi Lucy Nice to see you here Don't forget to post pics of your Ashborys in the Basspron forum.[/quote] ooo ok i will cheers Lucy

Hi Folks, Im Lucy (or Froovs) noisy fretless alt-rock bassist and Ashbory nut some of you know me from elsewhere, thought it was time i showed up here cheers Lucy