Maude

I'll happily give him a couple of quid to buy some sidecutters and cut those bloody strings, grrrrrrrrrr 🤬 😂

It looks like he has now removed the decal as well as stating what it really is so clearly not trying to fool anyone. But I know what you're saying 🙂

Do you ever take more than one out the house? Ha ha, I've got more than one that have never made it into the house 😄 I'm in two bands, one acoustic (ish) and one electric. In the acoustic band it's doublebass all night long but I usually take a uke bass or fretless acoustic just in case the worst happens, it never has. In the electric band I used to use my Variax exclusively with a Yamaha Bex4 just in case and now it's my 4005 exclusively with the Bex4 in case, and yes the worst has happened, twice in the last five years I've broken a string but I do get quite physical when I'm playing and I play with a heavy touch as well, I've tried to reign it in lately but the heat of battle and all that. The rest just get used at home and rehearsal as and when I fancy. They're also brilliant for just looking at. I've never found any joy in looking at numbers on a bank account and if the need ever arises I can just sell them.

Some people love bronze strings on an acoustic, others hate them. I hate them, all finger noise and clatter, but they are loud, no doubt why they all put them on. I've got Fender tapewounds on mine and really like the tone, especially amplified.

I have a Harley Benton that I got as a deko. It's one of the ones that are a step up from their basic ones (I have a basic fretless one to compare to). It's actually a very nice acoustic bass, nice shaped and inlaid headstock, pin string holders in bridge, Fishman pre-amp, nicely finished and bound, satin body and neck and it's a 32" scale so doesn't feel too long. https://m.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_clb_10sce_nt.htm?o=27&search=1567103103 Edit: mine is satin but the linked one is gloss.

Now I have raised my head I'll take this opportunity to say how much I enjoy all of your builds Andy. I like your ingenuity and approach to your builds and enjoy learning from them, keep up the good work 👍

I can imagine slotting an unslotted bridge with the correct angle to get the bridge square and the intonation spot on would be a pig of a job.

I'm usually quietly but keenly watching these threads. I don't normally like to air my inquisitive mind for fear of sounding like I'm criticising, which I wouldn't do. But, I totally understand the jig you've made which puts the saddle in the correct place but that now puts the bridge out of alignment by the looks of it. I know the saddle position is more important than the bridge alignment but that would play havoc with me. Are all precut bridges supplied with the saddle slot cut to a generic angle or are there angles you can choose from?

Rubber gimp suit keeps all the sweat inside. Dry hands and looking good to boot!

We use our own pa on most gigs and have good monitors and our own easily adjusted monitor mixes using the xAir app, I never use an amp when gigging like this and much prefer it, just bass into my Line6 X3 Live then into FOH. But when having to use an in house PA with a sound engineer I always end up taking my amp. I've lost count of the amount of times I've been told, "Oh yeah, you can put your bass through the monitor", and then find their monitors will only handle a bit of bass before the engineer gets tetchy, and I'm happy to cut the bass and boost the mids in the monitor just to be clearly audible and not fussed about having it pounding. It's just quicker and easier to take an amp and look after my self.

Nope, I love it 😎 There's another thread currently complaining about the heat as well.

I adopt a different persona onstage anyway to help me 'perform', different clothes than I'd normally wear helps me be someone else. I'd imagine the same would work in front of a camera. For instance, this chap from @NancyJohnson's band pretends to be Mark Radcliffe 🙂

A weekend of two halves for me. Friday night my Mod band played a pub in Plymouth's Barbican. While putting the lights up, our guitarist left the stands at half mast until all connections had been made. Two girls were sat at a table just in front of the lights and one of them complained to him as they were blocking her view and she had only come to see the bass player. So people do notice us! We had a good gig, packed the place out and plenty of dancing. Saturday my other band had a wedding booked. We got to the venue to find we were in one room with the bar, seating and buffet next door. There were double bi-fold doors opened between the two which let enough noise through that very few left the bar area, it was also very hot so a lot were sat outside. Nevermind, the few that did come through for a dance enjoyed it and we were paid handsomely.

Poke the string down the bloody hole first. I'm mixing up the two stroke as we speak! 😄

That's just the ultimate in roadworn. "Hey man, look at my guitar, over all the years of playing my forearm has worn the paint down to the wood". "Pah, I've been playing so long I've worn the wood away as well!"

I'm generally a fairly placid chap but stringing like that does bring out the psychopathic masked chainsaw murderer in me.

Apologies if this something you are genuinely trying to get started but that page you link to screams to me 'click here for a free virus'. 'The ultimate bass players toolkit'? You'll need more than three popular riffs to get me to click on that.

I like that the amp is too big, it's very Spinal Tap 👍

Wait wait wait! Yeah yeah, we have band logo shirts, Mod band so Fred Perry type polo's with small band logo, no I won't wear one. Anyway @Happy Jack, @Silvia Bluejay, is that a printed amp on a roll down banner thingy?😎 Cool!

I don't know but now I fancy some coconut ice.

I did the same to take a photo but when packing them away in their cases there was a knock at the door. I answered it and it was my neighbour, I had taken delivery of a parcel for him earlier, anyway I invited him in while I fetched the parcel from the dining room, it was quite big so I stored it in there out the way. On my return he was in a right state as he'd only gone and sat on the sofa and sat right on the one bass left there after the photoshoot. He was so apologetic and it really wasn't his fault so said not to worry and reassured him I could fix it. I couldn't, the bloody body had a dirty great crack right through the control cavity. Luckily the neck was fine so having always secretly lusted after a flying V (it's all about the looks with me) I had a new body made for it. And what a body it is, such beautiful craftsmanship and it's so lightweight it's unreal, that coupled with what was probably my favourite neck and I have my dream airbass, so much so that the others rarely get played now. Here's an arty little shot of Vee (short for Vera which I named her) reclining in a Chesterfield, I think you'll agree she's a beauty. Now every time my neighbour pops in he does a little jokey feel around of the chair or sofa before he sits down and says "No basses here today then?", and we both roar with laughter.

Yup, I just knew that clip had to be in here, and there it was. 😄

This is another benefit, they soon forget the shouts of "one more" and have a little boogie.

I can understand the jukebox thing but if you don't expect the crowd to like your music choice what hope have you got when you start playing?