Jean-Luc Pickguard

Definitely a bassballs. I used to get the exact same sound out of mine. Unlike David J I never found a use for it as its an really stupid and annoying sound.

I don't normally take a second bass, but in the rare occasions I do it's usually an ashbory as it weighs nothing and takes up no room in the car.

I don't play my '81 Precision much as it is made of lead cunningy disgused as ash, but I wouldn't part with it as to raise the money for it I had to endure a summer of working in bejams between leaving school and furthering my studies. The other one I wouldn't part with is my CIJ mustang. It only cost £300, but when I first got it I took it to the Gallery for to have the frets levelled, so now it plays wonderfully with TI324s.

Let the breadheads take a bigger share, but charge them a fee for every lead your website generates.

I really miss seeing bands who look like this

Perhaps a bitzer someone put together?

I want the daphne blue mustang on the product info page, but without the stupid squashed slug things.

They were [b]much[/b] better with John Fogerty before they shortened their name.

When I had weekly jazz bass classes I'd left my bass [b]on its side[/b] at the front of the class so the tutor could use it (he only had an electric plank with him that day). Some idiot of a girl hadn't noticed this blummin' great piece of wood on the floor & tripped over the endpin causing it to resemble a giant game of spin the bottle. The bass was alright, but I use a bass stand these days.

Double denim or whenever possible, triple denim

Are they all Rock mags? No Jazz Mags?

If the rest of them were any good, wouldn't the band have been gigging or at least playing at open mic/jam nights rather than rehearsing for er... nothing? They sound like a bunch of idiots. Don't give up bassing, get into another band or form your own. I'd recommend getting to a few local jam nights.

Its definitely worth learning to do a good basic setup. Especially if you have basses where the neck shifts at the onset of Summer & winter.

The only time I had that problem was when the nail on the index finger had been cut but the middle hadn't.

Absolutely bonkers - love it! Shame I have no money

I put an EMG in one of my precisions in the mid 80s, but took it out as it sounded a bit characterless and muffled almost as if there was a compressor killing all the attack and dynamics. I put it back in a few years ago after reading that they can take more than a single 9v battery. Powered by 18v it sounds transparent and almost like a passive pickup but bigger,. Its worth trying the double battery trick - you can make a harness from 3x9v battery snap-clips for mere pennies from Maplin. I found that I couldn't actually fit two of the usual 9v batteries in my precision and I didn't want to route it out at all, so I stuffed a load of button cells (obtained by opening up a couple of 12v car alarm 'plipper' batteries) into an AAA holder and soldered on a snap-clip.

I wonder when the thread starter is going to edit the original post and change the thread title to "cock size"? ...Mine's twelve inches, but I don't use it as a rule.

[quote name='Count Bassy' post='1143278' date='Feb 27 2011, 01:31 PM']I think it's great. Personally I find this sort of thing a welcome relief from todays over produced, over dubbed, pitch corrected stuff. At least you know its being made by people rather a a computer.[/quote] A big plus one to that.

[quote name='Ghost_Bass' post='1141869' date='Feb 25 2011, 09:52 PM']I also know another maker whose small amps do justice to their big brothers: Crate - they all sound sh***y!!![/quote] Bit of a sweeping statement. Even if it was intended as an opinion rather than a definite statement of fact. My 15W Crate practice amp cost me next to nothing on ebay and it sounds pretty good to me whenever I use it for acoustic rehearsals with my Ashbory or Tanglewood. I have no idea what any other crate amps are like though.

trade it with someone in the same boat - there's bound to be someone after a 5er with a nice 4 stringer to swap. Or sell it & use the proceeds to buy one to replace it - remembering that you'll (probably) get a lot more for your money buying secondhand. I don't miss my Peavey 5 string or my alpine white thunderbird at all as I used the proceeds to buy a natural Thunderbird pro-V, which I have now probably used for as many gigs/rehearsals/jam nights since I got it in December than I had used both of the basses it replaced in the years I had them.

[quote name='Mod_Machine' post='1135332' date='Feb 21 2011, 12:20 PM']Anyone know if the chrome plate where the jack socket and tone knobs go is a standard mustang guitar piece?[/quote] no, the mustang bass plate one is a totally different shape to the mustang guitar one.

I once saw a kid trying a bass for the first time in a music shop. He wasn't as good a player as Peter Hook.

I like the mag pickup on my CR5M, but if the NXT was available when I bought mine, I'd expect I'd have gone for one of those instead and I'd probably not miss the mag pickup. Both appear to be all maple with ebony fingerboard and are made by the same people in the Czech Republic. The natural finish on my CR5M shows off a nice bit of flame in the maple. The stand on the NXT is the cheaper camera-style tripod used on the WAVs

[quote name='cd_david' post='1125884' date='Feb 13 2011, 12:51 PM']He likes his relic fenders this guy. A single ply white guard? [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160533426700#ht_1420wt_1141"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...#ht_1420wt_1141[/url][/quote] I have a hunch that this 'Fender' strat which sold for £375 possibly started life as an afinity strat from argos

I finally got to use the Ashbory in a band setting with the new strings- three of us from o5b are forming a cut-down acoustic band under a different name doing folkie/americana stuff aimed at pubs which are too small for the full lineup - the idea being totally acoustic apart from the ashbory going through a small amp - my £35 crate practice amp seems to do the job surprisingly well. We had a living room rehearsal - Mr drummer was using just a snare with jazz brushes & doing BVs, Mr guitarist was playing acoustic & singing lead. I was going to either take my NS upright or tanglewood acoustic, but settled on my Pahoehoe-equipped ashbory to see how the strings sounded in a band. It knocked me out as I managed to get the best double-bass-type sound I'd ever achieved from anything at low volume. Simlar to my weedwackered Stentor, but less hard work. We recorded the session & knocked together a demo, so hopefully we'll be gigging the lineup soon and the Ashbory will be my weapon of choice for it. Must get a spare set of strings soon.