SICbass

When I spotted that this thread had re-appeared, it felt like Christmas had come early this year.

Frankly, I feel you‘re being much too kind.?

Brings regular solarium visits to mind.

9 years, my God you‘ve got some stamina!......oh, wait a minute...... oh, you mean..... ....coat.

Pictures ir it never happened! ?

Just accidentally bought a new bass... oh, don’t you just hate it when that happens.....

My point is, that the fact that they‘re a functioning/trading company (albeit with a minimally altered name) with great products and not a fading memory.

Genz Benz re-emerged last year as Genzler https://www.genzleramplification.com/category/17/Bass-Cabinets.html Same family and he was even willing to pick up some of the maintenance work that disappointed customers didn’t get when Fender folded Genz Benz.

Thanks for that. I‘ll keep an eye out then.

Does anyone know if these are halfway playable? Only I‘ve got a project coming up (no joke) that it‘d be ideal for.

80%

What, rancid?

Sexyyyyy!????? can I go and play now? ????

[quote name='El_JimBob' timestamp='1510221807' post='3404680'] Perhaps for elegance and aesthetics' sake, something like [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuhlWTD1htQ"]THIS[/url] from Haeussel... [/quote] That‘s very impressive on a fretless. Close to Jaco‘s and Pino‘s sounds in one instrument.

„But as SICbass says, it's a pretty straightforward job, if you can use a soldering iron....“ In the interests of fairness, it was nilebodgers said that, not me 😊. By the way, I‘m still fantasising about your cv precision which I see is back up on sale. If you were in Berlin like this pro-tone is I‘d have given in by now.

Thanks very much for the rapid response.

I‘ve got a fair offer to buy one of these. The tone pot looks like it may be damaged (it turns unendlessly). Anyone here know what spec the pot is and what it may cost to replace? To be more specific, it‘s a squier pro-tone V, p/j set up.

[quote name='fretmeister' timestamp='1509992174' post='3403108'] As amusing as that would be, the ensemble is mostly kids. And the show is in December. Ahem. [/quote] A festive tube-sock perhaps? ...coat.

[quote name='fretmeister' timestamp='1509842125' post='3402079'] ....the best bit is that both my kids play in that ensemble too. I have the chance to massively embarrass them... [/quote] So it looks like Christmas came early for YOU this year then, eh? 😘

[quote name='YouMa' timestamp='1509551295' post='3399846'] Stanley clarke does it on schooldays. [/quote] He had a Bigsby tremolo bridge and did the bending the strings at the tuning-post thing described above.

[quote name='obbm' timestamp='1509536612' post='3399663'] The year was 1963. Jet Harris had left the Shadows and I'd just seen Little Richard and a few other artists at a show in Slough. I decided that I wanted to play a bass so I set about building myself one because real basses were just far too expensive, about 8 times the average weekly wage and I was still a poor schoolboy. My first bass was made out of one piece of plywood with no form of truss rod - I had no idea about such things as a 16 year old. The frets were inverted pieces of model railway track and the spacing was calculated using logarithmic tables. I needed a pick-up and remembered that during WW2 when my father was in the anti-aircraft artillery, one of his spoils was a German flying helmet. I'd used this as a headphone however needs must so I removed the ear-pieces and used them as the pick-ups. I saved up to to buy some tuners, a bridge and strings from a local music shop put it all together and amazingly it worked although the neck was like a banana and the action appalling. The second bass was made from a 1-inch thick piece of Pirana Pine and used most of the components from the original. I bought a cheap pick-up for this one. I had no amplifier so I got inside the family radiogram and soldered a screened cable to the volume pot. It worked but wasn't loud enough so I had to use my tape recorder to boost the signal. All very Heath Robinson but it worked and it meant that I could play along with records. Having played the trombone at school I had some understanding of music fundamentals however there were no tutors or internet back in 1963 so I bought just about the only tutorial book available and set out to learn some scales. Eventually I persuaded my mother to lend me £45 to buy a Framus Star bass, saved up and bought a Linear 30 amplifier and got a cabinet maker to build me a copy of a Marshall 4x12 which was fitted with Bakers Group 25 speakers from shop in Croydon. This rig served me well for several years. [/quote] That is absolutely briliant. For a moment there, I thought it was going to be one of skankdelvar's (a most excellent BCer) imaginative pieces of work á la Monty Python's "Luxury - t't kids uv tuday" etc. and then it turns out the whole thing is real. Or it least I hope it is and I'm not just a gullible prat, because it makes super reading. My beginnings in the late 70s were pretty humble, but pure luxury compared to that. Congratulations for all your initiative and thanks for sharing a cracking bit of history.

Can a plug-in sue for non-support?