Jean-Luc Pickguard

Some kid is probable very upset that he spent his pocket money on this and it dropped out of his pocket. Can't you put a notice saying "DS game found" on a lampost for a week and see if anyone claims it & can say what game it was.

Awww - its gone. Does the garden gnome come with it or is that extra?

Another LMII/1212L here - still as chuffed with both as I was when I first got them.

If you find one, be careful - I got my head stuck in some railings once.

sweet! - welcome to the Ned club

[quote name='Beer of the Bass' post='1327994' date='Aug 4 2011, 11:11 PM']Erm, in the poll, which one is "basswood" and which one is "basswood"?[/quote] easy - the basswood option is for basswood, whereas the other one - the one that says basswood is for basswood.

[quote name='TRBboy' post='1327833' date='Aug 4 2011, 09:41 PM']I say tomato, you say tomato [/quote] lets call the whole thing off

Just see this video on another thread - don't want to derail that thread, so I started a new thread at around 1:20 Ed clearly pronounces 'basswood' as '[i]bass[/i]wood' instead of 'basswood'. So which is right 'basswood' as in 'bass' or '[i]bass[/i]wood' as in '[i]bass[/i]'? I've always said basswood myself.

I had one of the original Korean arctic whites - that's the one with the black hardware. loved how it played and sounded & the balance was much improved once I moved the front strap button. it had a limited edition decal on the back of the headstock where it joins the neck. I only parted with it as I wanted a pro-v in natural. I believe the newer ones are chinese - not that that would put me off. I much prefer the chrome hardware -mine looked a bit too, er... 80s hair metal for an Americana band

[quote name='SlackAlice' post='1322051' date='Jul 31 2011, 11:41 AM']Wunjo ... very knowledgeable.[/quote] Hopefully a bit more knowledgeable than the bloke there I spoke when I mentioned that they were selling a squier bronco bass with a badly repaired 70s musicmaster neck (broken & glued headstock) as a genuine 'virtually unplayed' US musicmaster at a typical Denmark street price. It was still on their website several weeks later complete with the false description and pumped up price. It seems to have gone now - I hope some poor sucker didn't pay six times its real value. Then there was the member of staff in there who insisted that S8 on a fender serial is a reliable indicator of an instruments age & ALWAYS means that a bass was made in '78 - even on the models that didn't come out until '81

I wish I had the money to put a winning bid on that

rock covers / blues -> americana

A blanket ban on all amplification is lazy & ignorant. Backing tracks should be banned though - thats not busking - its karaoke.

glue a block inside the body, screw on [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bass-Electric-Guitar-Bridge-for-headless-bass-/200634246084"]this[/url] hardware & convert it to headless? probably won't work, but could be fun

I'd get the 60th anniversary given the choice of those two. or bolt together some generic parts & build my own version of a nash & spend the difference on a holiday. Given the choice of any precision, I'd probably be looking at a sunburst fretted Tony Franklin

@cubecolour here!

I'm a big fan of the Behringer XM8500 -similar to an SM58, but under £20. we use them for backing vocals. Cheap doesn't mean shoddy with these - they seem to have a higher output than SM58s and a bit more clarity.

[quote name='MarkNS4' post='1312202' date='Jul 21 2011, 11:32 PM']Does no-one use the neck as a rest?[/quote] Oh yes - I do that - its the best way to play my danelectro longhorn

I think it looks like this

Short scale 30" - mustang bass, danelectro longhorn Medium scale - 32" - Daisy Rock Elite, Some unusual Fenders - Stu Hamm (?) Long scale - 34" - Fender Jazz, Fender Precision, Gibson Thunderbird Extra Long - 35" - Lakland 5ers If you go for 32" medium strings on a Precision you *might* get away with it, and then the silks *might* go over the nut.

[quote name='silddx' post='1311923' date='Jul 21 2011, 07:19 PM'] Frank Gambale [/quote] JB could pick up a few tips about sartorial elegance from Frank

I came to the conclusion that I didn't like thumbrests & prefer a fender chrome pickup cover to rest my hand on (like a cack-handed version of James Jamerson or Marcus Miller). On basses that don't have a cover, I just float my thumb, although I've temporarily blu-taked a jazz cover to my mustang to see whether its worth fitting one properly - not sure yet, but my initial impression is that it seems to be an improvement.

[quote name='bigash' post='1310901' date='Jul 20 2011, 10:12 PM']What should i do regarding the seller, any ideas.[/quote] Ask a basschatter in his local area to kick him in the nuts?

If it is a short scale, LaBella make a Danelectro-specific set of deep talkin' flats which are supposed to be just like the original 50s. I don;t know what the originals were like, but I bought a set. They fit my Korean danelectro longhorn perfectly and they have a guitar-type ballend which fits into the recess in the bridge better than the crappy rotos I had before.