Jean-Luc Pickguard

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.

I tried one (fretless) before getting my CR5M. If I had the money I'd have bought both. If you liked the CR4, but couldn't get on with the scale I think you'll probably love the OmniBass. I can't believe how much the prices have shot up since I got my CR5M.

[quote name='ficelles' post='1307373' date='Jul 18 2011, 02:34 AM']The best ever guy I saw on one of these was a support act for Kevin Bloody Wilson at the Hexagon in Reading some time in the 90s... forget his name but he was an American comic telling the bluest jokes you can imagine while not only riding a unicycle but at the same time juggling an axe, an egg, and a giant dildo. Had to be seen to be believed. ficelles[/quote] He was juggling an axe, an egg AND Jeff Berlin?

I use a guitar tuned like a banjo with no low E string - like Keef

Thanks for clearing that up. The dead spot stuff was a red herring, so clamping something to your headstock won't solve your problem. When you say you "messed around with the truss rod", do you mean you were following any directions on how to adjust it and understand the prinicples of what the truss rod does & how it does it? or were you giving it a tweak to see what happens? If the latter it is unlikely you'll be able to set the optimum amount of relief correctly and in that case it's worth letting someone more experience take a look. where are you based? perhaps there's a BCer local to you who foes his own setups who can have a look?