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I'd never really paid any attention to them but have just watched a couple of YouTube vids on them and like the idea. I might give one a go. 🙂

I always use a laminate saw rather than a 'normal' handsaw. They seem to stay sharper for longer and give a cleaner cut. I like the idea of the double sided Japanese Saws. But after last years mishap maybe I should stay away altogether.

@akabane replied as I was typing and has pretty much echoed my thoughts, so saved me typing any more. 👍

Hopefully it's nice and cheap. Looks like a fun little bass. 👍

Play them a tune on it badly and explain that the notes are all in the wrong places. Should get you a decent discount.

Very much this. I wanted that sound but really, really didn't want the Beatles link, so much so that I got a black club as the sunburst, as great as it looks, still looked too Beatlesy. I think the ignition is fully hollow and the contemporary has a centre block, but I could be wrong.

Yeah, I don't really ever post anything, maybe twice a year, three if I'm feeling particularly sociable 😁.

I don't use my real name on Facebook. I had no interest in using fb but had to join up years ago for band stuff, I made up a nickname and used that. No problems yet.

I have a 90s reissue longhorn. They had two circular top knobs as opposed to the pointer ones on yours. Mine do just pull off but they are tight. I use a spoon as a lever, slide the bowl end of a pudding spoon under the edge of the knob and gently push down on the handle, do one little push then rotate the knob bit and repeat. It should lift the knob off. If Danelectro still use the same pots then the shafts are odd sizes, the lower knob fits into two keyways like the big old radio knobs and the shaft for the top ones is 4 or 5mm rather than the usual 6. A new loom from @KiOgonwould enable you to use more conventional knobs, and if you do go for a new loom it would definitely be worth considering incorporating a series/parallel switch in it. In series the two pickups act like a spaced out humbucker and give it some serious punch. I've heard about this issue with the tone and volume knobs both turning together but it doesn't happen on mine, which makes wonder if it's something as simple as the top knob being pushed on too far and it's contacting the lower one, the added leverage from having the later pointer style would likely exacerbate this as any slight rocking as the knob turned would 'grab' the lower knob.

He makes it look so effortless, amazing. 👍 It reminds me a little of Adam Ben Ezra, except he doesn't need anyone else lending a hand on percussion.

Here's another System Of A Down song that's in many different signatures, and in all honesty it keeps changing so quickly I don't know what the hell is going on. They use odd timings quite a lot and is possible due to their Armenian heritage, I don't know but I can imagine traditional Armenian music using odd timings. Spoonman by Soundgarden is 7/4 in the verses. And of there's Led Zeps Kashmir, polyrhythm with 4/4 drums but most of the rest in 3/4,but the drums are boring as hell so maybe go with Blackdog instead, 3/4, 4/4 and 5/4.

I can't really hear that bass drum polyrhythm here 😉.

He may be using one of these.

YouTube is my go to practice site. The only problem is is that I inevitably go down the rabbit hole of following all the suggestions. Next rehearsal I hear, "Did you learn so & so?" "No, but I have learn to play six completly unrelated songs!"

In loving the look of this, just classic good looks.👍

You know, I did think of that half way through but couldn't be bothered to go back and change it. Yet here I am, spending even longer explaining why I didn't change it than it would have taken to change it. Beside I couldn't get the canaries on the plane as they just looked at me incredulously whilst shrugging their wings, but the rats were more than happy to oblige. 😉

Without turning it political, as any party would do the same, I feel the whole pubs opening, air travel kind of stuff is just sending the lab rats out there to test the water. If the rats don't die maybe we can all do likewise. If the rats do die then it's a good job we all stayed well away. We have an abundance of lab rats and if a couple of cage fulls die then it's not the end of the world, could even be good as we have to many. If the rats spread the virus to a couple of innocents that subsequently die then that's a risk we're happy to take. Obviously no party could actually say this though.

To be honest I'd always assumed that to be the case. In my mind if the virus is carried in droplets of water then just breathing out can transmit it. Shutting yourself in an enclosed space for a length of time with lots of socially distanced people still, to me, seems like a bad idea. You're inhaling what others have exhaled without any direct coughing or spluttering. Breathe on a cold window and the water condenses showing just how much water is in normal breath.

I think the singing is 'in time' with the guitars, it's just the the snare being on the 'wrong' beat puts everything on edge. Obviously the drum isn't wrong and shows just how comfortable you get with a certain way of drumming that just putting the snare on the opposite beat than your brain is expecting can trip you up. An excellent drummer in a previous band would, when everything but bass and drums dropped out on a song, throw in all sorts of unexpected patterns to try and trip me up. It became a game and I very nearly lost a few times live.

Reading this thread is making me feel like I need a short scale Gibson in my life. 🙂

We've had this question a few times and simple physics would suggest hanging vertically is best. Although in real terms it makes no discernable difference compared to the tension the strings put the neck under.

I like the look of the Eastwood Magnum advertised at the bottom of the linked page though, so thanks for that 👍.

I don't know how magnetic bronze is compared to normal steel/nickel. That would be the biggest worry. As long as its magnetic properties are similar then they should work in a similar way, but I've always hated the screechy nature of bronze strings. If they're magnetic just give them a try. 🙂

It reminds me of those nail and string art pictures you'd see in the 60s.

I'd use basecoat and clear lacquer. Mask the face of the fretboard first, then mask the right angle edge of the fretboard, and finally mask another line along the neck to fretboard (or binding) join, the three separate maskings will become apparent later. Colour with basecoat and then remove only the last piece of tape you put on along the neck/fretboard join whilst basecoat is still wet, this allows the edge to sink slightly, reducing the sharp edge. Once basecoat is dry apply your clear lacquer coat up to the previously masked line along the right angled edge of the fretboard, again whilst wet, remove the second length masking to allow the paint edge to soften,leaving the face of the fretboard masked to reduce the risk of introducing dust into your wet lacquer. This will give you a fully painted neck with no hard edges. Masking a straight line isn't difficult if you use one piece of tape. Stick one end of the tape where you need it, then whilst keeping the tape fairly low to the neck, pull the tape taught from the opposite end end just slowly lay it onto the neck. Don't press it down until you are happy with placement. This will allow you to get a perfectly straight line with ease. 🙂