BigRedX

I've had no tuning problems with any of my Kramers or the Fake Duke all with Aluminium necks.

The neck on this is actually wood with an aluminium fingerboard, similar to the Andreas range of guitars and basses (I have an Andreas Black Shark guitar and the tuning is rock-solid on that!).

I'll be having a punt on this unless the bidding gets silly - which it could since last year's new price for one with a hard case shipped to the UK was approaching $4000...

Join a band.

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='283786' date='Sep 14 2008, 05:38 PM']Some Wishbasses are made of cherry from Steve's own garden.[/quote]

That's probably not the best recommendation! ;-)

[quote name='tayste_2000' post='283302' date='Sep 13 2008, 06:35 PM']It's a 2001 Overwater Progress in original body shape so it doesn't have the newest preamp in it but thats fine by me as that just has like a bright switch that I would never use.

The top on it is the same as the one they used on a C bass for John Entwistle just further down in the wood so basically an identical top.

Bought it here a few weeks ago.

Here is the ad

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?s=&showtopic=26420&view=findpost&p=270979"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?s=&sho...st&p=270979[/url]

Gives loads of info and pics[/quote]

Thanks for the info.

I can remember this from when it was on eBay and I considered a punt but had my eye on a couple of other bass at the same time...

Just as well for you that the for sale thread listed this as a Progress (and therefore I didn't look at it) otherwise I might have made a more serious bid for this bass... ;-)

Wonderful looking bass - I bet you're enjoying that!

(And should you ever decide it's not for you let me know...)

Interesting bass. Looks like an Overwater Original but with newer style pickups controls and bridge. Can you tell us more?

The ACG filter pre-amp is IMO the best pre you can get for a bass.

While I was waiting for Martin to perform the finishing adjustments to my Sei, I had a go on the second-hand single-cut fretless. Nice playing bass but I much preferred the sound I got out of mine. The filters are spot on for mid-range tweakage.

I'll be following this build with interest.

Top person to deal with!

Even delivered all the way to Nottingham

Thanks!

I nearly bought the fanned fret bass, but spend so long deciding that someone beat me to it.

Still fancy the Macdonalds Countertop bass

I like the technical information:

[quote]Neck: 2 pieces of maple (used to be one piece), with metal reinforment
Fretboard: maple, nothing and maple again
Frets: 9 pcs for playing, other for decoration
Scale: 34"
Body: trash with glue and metal strips.[/quote]

For those who don't know this bass is from [url="http://www.bas-extravaganza.nl"]Bas Extravaganza[/url] and unfortunately it's sold.

Thanks. That does look good.

I had a look at them at the LGS, but at the time I thought I was going to need an 8U case.

Unless someone has some serious negative experiences I'll probably be ordering a 6U version tomorrow.

Having changed most of my rack gear I'm now looking at buying a new 6U Rack.

Ideally I would have bought another Gator Shockmount rack case (my last one was the 4U) but they don't do 6U.

So looking for alternatives I came across the Boschma range and although they're not shockmount cases they do look good and chunky.

Who's got one? Good or bad experiences?

What's your budget?

If you can stretch to it a second hand Pedulla Buzz would be something to consider £600-1000 depending on condition and desperation of the seller.

Otherwise what about the Ibanez Gary Willis GW35?

How about black?

What on earth is in the Behringer rack tuner to make it 15-20cm deep? It certainly isn't useful, functional circuitry!

My new Peterson StroboRack is only 19.5cm deep and that does everything that you could possibly want from a tuner (and then some) and it does it brilliantly. Also the perfectly functional Korg DTR-2 that it's replacing is only 10cm deep. I doubt there's a rack you couldn't fit it in!

If you're not sure on lines or not then you need to try some fretless bases of both types and see which you get on with best. My favourite is side markings (make sure you also get one for the first fret - it's a big help) and very very subtle front face dots near the highest string to help with the parallax problem when playing higher up the neck.

Is Jennifer Moore [url="http://www.single-bass.co.uk/"](Single Bass)[/url] still gigging?

If you only want to use the MIDI capabilities and not the actual bass guitar sounds you could string the controller instrument with piccolo strings which being an octave higher than normal should cut the MIDI conversion time in half. You then of course need to pitch down all your synth patches by an octave.

^ Beat me to it. Excellent book!

Cocktail stick(s) as many as required to fill the hole wood glued into place. When the glue's dry, cut flush with the surface and drill a new pilot hole for the strap button screw.

[quote name='kemra' post='278800' date='Sep 6 2008, 08:28 PM']I have been looking at suppliers for paint for use on this project and am unable to find certain colours available from seelers in this country. I can find surf green fine but when i try looking for LPB or CAR I have no luck what so ever.

Does anyone know anyone who supplies these colours?[/quote]

For nitro lacquer in the UK you need to contact[url="http://www.manchesterguitartech.co.uk/lacquer.html"]Manchester Guitar Tech[/url].

I don't know about Lake Placid Blue, but the reason you can't find Candy Apple Red is because it's not a single colour but produced by spraying a transparent red over gold or silver.

Should sound the same as with no treble cut, maybe a little brighter.

Thanks!
Nice and cheap too, and even better I notice that there's a model shop in town that stocks their products so I might not even have to pay postage.

Can someone recommend me a source of hardwood dowel approximately 12-13mm in diameter? I need about 4" in total to plug some holes in the body of a bass I'm renovating. The rest of the bass is a light-coloured wood (ash? maple?) although it's going to be sprayed a solid colour when I'm done as the existing wood isn't too pretty, so colour matching isn't that important.

That's a nice looking bass - and the Burns in the background of the first pic looks good too!

The strings on my Traben when I get it had silver/grey silks and if they were still the originalones would have made them GHS of some description.