Jean-Luc Pickguard

[quote name='Kenny_K75' post='626516' date='Oct 14 2009, 10:48 PM']Just gor my hands on an epiphone thunderbird and am going to do the normal strap button position modification. Any ideas what would be a good material for filling and finsishing off the hole from the original strap button screw. Just want something that will be permanent and easy to get hold of.[/quote] When I did my 'snow-white' epi t-bird, I put the original screw back in there with a countersunk white nylon washer under it.

I dunno about most people, but I'm happy with off the peg basses once they have been tweaked to my preferences. Degloss the back of the neck if required, set up with the action low with TI flats, replace the pots & socket with CTS & switchcraft, roll the fingerboard edges, put on an aged pearl pickguard on a mustang, chrome covers on a Precision, badass bridge on a jazz, hipshot d-tuner etc Getting one custom made would take all the fun out of it.

I tend to set the eq flat on my LMII and tweak the vle & vpf to get the tone. Although at the gig on Saturday I did roll off a little bass to compensate for the room.

[quote name='Master blaster' post='623570' date='Oct 11 2009, 10:29 PM']its been the same setup since ive had had, even using the same type/gauge string, it and its only just started buzzing.[/quote] Most likely it just needs a setup then. Probably just a truss rod tweak. Most basses need this twice a year as the seasons change. - well mine do anyway.

What a crazy website. Its almost as if navigating it was deliberately made difficult. Then no indication of any prices. For the price of one of those instruments they could have a paid for a proper site many times over. Weird. Its a bit sad really - all these guitars will probably end up in glass cases in lawyers offices.

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='623969' date='Oct 12 2009, 01:55 PM']It continued to fruition here: [url="http://bassoutpost.com/index.php?topic=434.0"]http://bassoutpost.com/index.php?topic=434.0[/url][/quote] Thanks for the link. I wonder if Bach would get some more of those made...

btw lowended, give that question-mark key on your keyboard a bit of a whack, it looks like its sticking

On the old dudepit there was a plan for a bunch of members there to get bach to build a batch of vintage style non-reverse thunderbird copies using measurements from one owned by a forum member. I was following the progress, but the forum disappeared, so I have no idea whether it came to anything. The bach site is [url="http://www.bachmusik.com/en/c100008/bass-guitar/"]http://www.bachmusik.com/en/c100008/bass-guitar/[/url] Never seen one of their instruments, but they look pretty good for the prices considering that 1000 CKZ is around 36 GBP

I once did a gig with a couple of other bands and as we were headlining, the other bassists used my ashdown stack. It was only a small pub, so the bass didn't go through the PA. The girl (employed by the venue) running the PA twice asked me to turn down the bass amp while one of the other bass players was playing, as she didn't know which one was the volume knob. I felt such an ar$e doing that - what do I care if his band sounded awful due to him being too loud?

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='623211' date='Oct 11 2009, 04:32 PM']The Vibe will be my pit bass for the pantomime in Sheffield, as it'll be left daily at the theatre.[/quote] Oh no it won't! Sorry - couldn't resist

Have you done a set up - checked the relief etc? When I bought my mustang it had roundwounds on with quite high action, but when I set it up low with TI324s it was buzzing on a few frets and nothing I could do helped. Got a fret dress from the gallery and now its setup exactly as I like it & plays easily with no fretbuzz.

[quote name='lemmywinks' post='621160' date='Oct 8 2009, 11:22 PM']I've shipped 4 basses with Interparcel and have had no problems with their budget/economy service[/quote] I sent a couple of thing through interparcel recently including a bass - no problems. Paid for the economy service, the stuff was picked up late afternoon and was delivered to the recipient the next day. Its probably a good idea to print off an extra copy of the label & ask the UPS driver to sign it to confirm pickup as its a paperless service. You can also use the tracking number on the label via the UPS website.

The japanese-made bodies & necks are very good quality. The alder sunburst P body I bought was virtualy indistinguisable from the one on my MIJ Fender 62' RI Precision & The fretless neck has a fantastic ebony fingerboard & is quartersawn maple. I fitted mostly Fender parts as much of the hardware they supply are from the cheap & cheerful (but serviceable) end of the spectrum. For example the pickguards are a different shape to fenders. I did use the alnico pickup from brandoni on the Precision though. Its easy to put together a great bass using their parts yourself & save a bit more cash, so (IMHO) buying a ready-made one would defeat the object. I also built a telecaster using brandoni parts.

1 - setups - action, intonation, truss rod, replace pots & socket etc 2 - horizonal is fine - usually on an ironing board 3 - nope. I once had to take the neck off my mustang to tweak the truss rod just before a gig. No problem laying it on a pub table with a wooly jumper under the bass. I don't see a market for such a product & for that reason I'm out

Glad it's sorted. I wonder if there'll be a listing in Glasgow gumtree: "tartan trousers - slightly soiled"

What a t0553r good luck getting your money - I'm sure you realise you should have ensured that payment had cleared before sending, but I its easy to imagine that all basschatters are decent honest people as all the ones I've had dealings with have proved to be. Hopefully there'll be someone (or maybe a posse) in Glasgow that'll be happy to pay him a visit. With or without baseball bat.

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='619515' date='Oct 7 2009, 01:03 PM']Him and River Phoenix are absolutely WASTED![/quote] & so was my £12.99

Who's seen Flea's 'instructional DVD for bass' from around ten years ago? - what a pile of sh1te (IMHO)

ditto what "thisnameistaken" said. I used to cart around two ashdown mag cabs - a 115 & a 210. couldn't believe how much easier it is to just have a single 1212L. Love the sound as well. Does tend to get a bit too loud though.

I've tried Ashton guitars & ukes and can report they were the worst made-down-to-a-price crap I'd ever seen. I don't know how its possible to make a difficult to play uke, but they managed it. From my experience, I'd say that they make behringer stuff look posh.

I get bored of any thwakkita-thwakkita-thwakkita type sounds after about five seconds, so I'm not qualified to say who's best even if I did care about that kind of thing. However I can name some tracks flea played on, but none of vic's...

they're fugly

[quote name='Moos3h' post='615848' date='Oct 3 2009, 04:58 PM']But you don't need a full-blown e-commerce site! I've often thought this, a simple website with contact info, perhaps some blurb about the staff, what services are on offer, what manufacturers they deal with etc etc etc is still worth 100x more than nothing at all. The sort of site I mentioned above is very cheap to build, can still look professional and won't cost the earth to host. To not have a website presence at all (and I'm not talking about Bass Cellar here in particular) smacks of two things to me: 1). Total luddite owners that don't understand the value of the web or 2). Arrogant owners who consider it a waste of time and "Don't want the hassle" of online enquiries. Cheers, James[/quote] I agree totally. I think they haven't really considered the possibilities. If they get something static built it would go out of date very quickly and being content-free it wouldn't encourage repeat visits. I could build something simple in a day or two, but if no one ever updated it, it would go out of date within a few months & won't have any real value. If I recall correctly there have been at least two bass cellar sites like this in the past. What might work better for a shop like that would be to build a website with the usual contact details & 'about us' info etc, but also a prominent blog area with comments enabled where the staff can write bass related articles, reviews of amps, fx & basses, post their latest mp3s, youtubes vids, pics of famous people that wander into the shop, drummer jokes and anything else that pops into their heads. I could build that fairly quickly & write an easy to follow numpty-proof manual, but it would cost more more than a simple static site, but on going costs would be minimal. The main benefit of such a site would be that if all the staff knew how to publish a blog post, then they would also know how to edit the static pages, so it wouldn't go out of date.

[quote name='GreeneKing' post='615610' date='Oct 3 2009, 11:57 AM']...I think the whole band thing is about his self image as a 'rocker'. I think that unconsciously 'his' band fills his narcissistic needs but the threat from actually performing is to great as he has much insecurity. The only problem with this is if he's not honest about it either to himself or others. It's leading us all up the 'garden path'. I've tried to organise a 2nd local jam night just to get up in front of an audience and he's just a moment ago come up and said that work commitments mean he can't do it yet again.I'm sure it's totally genuine certainly predictable in the extreme. Over a year of practice and one gig - some sort of a record perhaps and I'm slowly losing the will to live [/quote] He's obviously holding the band back from doing what the rest of the band joined for - ie playing in front of an audience. If he's not the same page as the rest of the band its time to tell him its time to p155 or get off the pot. Perhaps you may not want to be quite as blunt as that, so getting a additional guitarist in the band (they're ten a penny in most areas) would be the answer. That way they can do the stones thing weaving in & out of each others lines, or one acoustic/one electric or good old rhythm & lead. If he then can't/won't do a rehearsal/gig/jam night - no problem the other will be able to. Otherwise do the jam night without him. Prepare some rock standards everyone knows and borrow a guitarist on the night from another band.