Maude

Further to the young kids old bands discussion, my son (16) has just got back from a weekend of seeing Avenged Sevenfold in London and A Day To Remember in Cardiff and announced the band he really wants to see is Black Sabbath.

I seem to remember that anyone can carry out PAT testing, the only 'qualificaton' being that they are deemed competent. I don't mind paying if I'm getting something for it but the guy testing it could be less competent than me to do it.

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1485015068' post='3220432'] a badly run pub stands out a mile when posters advertising gigs that have gone are still up, amateurs, same with out of date facebook pages, it's not rocket science is it? [/quote] I might start a band called Rocket Science, at least when a punter ask the landlord "Who's playing in here on Saturday?" they can rightly follow with "It's not Rocket Science is it?"

Anti-Procrastination Song by Stormtroopers Of Death repeated for the whole set. Should be able to do it 2400 times in a two hour gig. If that's not your thing then any set made up of prog rock should piss off an audience, and rightly so

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1484252628' post='3214109'] I'm thinking I may not be alone with: Stop Talking Sense - Talking Heads [/quote] Pah! You can't even remember the title Stop Making Sense. Mine would have to be, Disintegration by The Cure The Real Thing by Faith No More and Substance by Joy Division among many others.

Danelectro Longhorn, or other Dano shortscale. Cheap, very light, short scale, slim neck, cool as hell

[quote name='pmjos' timestamp='1483898650' post='3210965'] Everything aside, compared to what he does Weller is Jazz, I mean he uses more that roots, thirds and fifths. [/quote] Forget the Jazz debate, what are these thirds you speak of?

Didn't Billy Gould play fretless on a few Faith No More tracks?

My little plan to cut a corner looks like it should work. I wanted to metalflake where the original binding tape would be on Danelectros but as a couple of recent attempts by folks on here have shown, doing it at home is not easy. I am using proper sprayguns to do this bass but the nozzle I have fitted isn't big enough for using metalflake so I tried my plan. I remembered seeing that Duck tape do their tape with different finishes, one of which being a silver glitter. Not knowing what the glitter finish is I feared that the solvent in the lacquer would melt the tape or dissolve the silver colour on the sparkle. I stuck a piece of tape to some cardboard and gave it a couple of coats of lacquer and although it did wrinkle up slightly the sparkle effect stayed fast. The wrinkling was, I think, due to the cardboard absorbing the lacquer and once applied over a painted guitar I reckon will stay flat. The roll of tape is hard to photograph but here you go. [URL=http://s157.photobucket.com/user/Maudebass/media/_20170101_192719_zpsougdp70s.jpg.html][IMG]http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t49/Maudebass/_20170101_192719_zpsougdp70s.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

Got some paint on on Thursday but the very cold weather was causing problems with it fully curing. The paint was plenty hard enough to handle but you could leave a fingerprint in it if you pressed hard enough. This doesn't quite show the true colour due to failing light but it's the mint green used on the new shape Fiat 500. [URL=http://s157.photobucket.com/user/Maudebass/media/DSC_0307_zpspawqbijx.jpg.html][IMG]http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t49/Maudebass/DSC_0307_zpspawqbijx.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s157.photobucket.com/user/Maudebass/media/DSC_0306_zpslhe1rrxr.jpg.html][IMG]http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t49/Maudebass/DSC_0306_zpslhe1rrxr.jpg[/IMG][/URL] The paint really needed a good dose of heat to fully cure it and luckily with the body being quite small on these I managed to suspend it in the kitchen oven and give it half an hour at 70 degrees, "What's that smell?" enquires Mrs Maude, "Nothing Dear" The paint is now nice and hard and ready for the binding and good lacquering.

Ha ha I had a knot in my speaker cab lead at the last gig, couldn't get hardly any volume out of it. Lucky really the lead didn't burst.

I don't understand how 'patting' electrical equipment can test it. What are you feeling for?

The acoustic version (red one) works well with bass and has a mid control.

Don't want to worry you Pete but someone's left a miniature ice scraper in your arm

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1483016305' post='3204130'] These are people who can't just ignore things that don't apply to them. [/quote] I'll ignore that

[quote name='Coilte' timestamp='1483016174' post='3204126'] I don't see anyone [i]telling[/i] anyone else what to do. What I see, are people giving their opinions on whether or not they agree that certain "accessaries" are to be used on stage. [/quote] Fair enough. I use mine on stage as it's used for the set list that will be e-mailed to me on the day once decided, it saves printing it out. Also our individual monitor mixes are done via it and not using a backline means that without it I cant change what I hear. It's on a stand behind a PA speaker and in no ones way.

[quote name='jezzaboy' timestamp='1483015408' post='3204108'] If it improves the quality of the performance. I`m all for using a tablet. Does anyone watching a band really care if someone uses a tablet? [/quote] No, but people on internet forums telling people in bands what to do do.

I'm offended by musicians hiding behind a impenetrable wall of clothing and instruments. Leave your instruments at home and your clothing at the door, once you're up on stage singing and dancing naked your audience will be at one with you. Well that was the plan until the police made their own divide between the audience and us. It turns out just taking what you need to put on a good, solid show is best after all.

I'd always liked the instrument but cost, storage, travel, etc meant I'd never seriously considered getting one. I was into, among other things, rockabilly/psychobilly, The Meteors, The Cramps, Stray Cats, Rev. Horton Heat, etc even if lots didn't use a doublebass. I was between bands and decided to get an EUB to learn how to slap. Bumped into an old mate who asked if I still played bass, joined his band and it turned out the guitarist and the bassist I replaced had a little acoustic thing going with another singer and the bassist back on guitar where he belonged Our guitarist heard about my EUB and said it's exactly what the acoustic band could do with, our drummer also joined using a cajon. The natural progression from EUB to doublebass happened within months of joining and I haven't looked back since.

Blablas, I had seen your post before in the Rick section and was thinking of PMing you but as you've posted here, what is the size of the body like? Is it a large as a real Rick or as is sometimes the case with these things, is it scaled down at all? I don't want it to look small. I'm glad you posted as I respect your opinion as a quality builder. I totally understand that at worst I will only get a Rick shaped piece of wood but as long as the dimensions are right then I'm happy with that, anything else fitting/working is a bonus. Sorry to hijack the thread a little bit mcnach.

That's it for yesterdays activity. Hopefully I'll get some more done today but first I have to go and buy something I saw a while ago that will, fingers crossed, help me cut quite a corner. Details to be revealed after testing

Taking the neck down to bare wood has revealed the inevitable scarf joint which unfortunately made of two very differently grained woods. The neck is very plain while the headstock has quite a bit of grain. I wanted to leave the neck a nice pale natural wood which I think will look nice and clean with the mint green and silver colour scheme but it might need to be painted. This picture does make it look worse than in the flesh (wood). The neck, if left natural, will be lacquered rather than oiled or waxed as I find oiled or waxed can become sticky and dirty over time. [URL=http://s157.photobucket.com/user/Maudebass/media/DSC_0301_zpsf00en94g.jpg.html][IMG]http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t49/Maudebass/DSC_0301_zpsf00en94g.jpg[/IMG][/URL] I haven't worried about taking all the finish off the front of the headstock as it will be painted mint green. [URL=http://s157.photobucket.com/user/Maudebass/media/DSC_0302_zpsr2wrzo9g.jpg.html][IMG]http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t49/Maudebass/DSC_0302_zpsr2wrzo9g.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

I forgot to say that I sanded it all down using a cheapy Black and Decker Mouse sander with 180 grit, then 320 and finished by hand with 500. As long as you have enough experience using Sanders and are disciplined enough not to dig the edge in to speed things up then a flat enough finish is achievable without using a block. The primer will be wet flatted using a block now though so will show up any discrepancies.

A quick prime and the body is ready to go. Using a general aerosol primer is helpful as usually they have a high solvent content which means if any of the previous paint is going to react badly it will do it now rather than further down the line. No adverse reactions from the previous paint when primed means it'll be good to go, yay These pictures show how I screw a wooden baton into the neck pocket to use as a handle when spraying, it is so much easier to hold like a giant lollipop and turn the bass to fit your natural spraying position rather than hang the bass up and try to manoeuvre your body and spray can/gun around the bass. Also if you do happen to get the beginnings of a run then you can turn the bass around/over to make the paint flow the other way to minimise the run. [URL=http://s157.photobucket.com/user/Maudebass/media/DSC_0298_zpssc5hyu11.jpg.html][IMG]http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t49/Maudebass/DSC_0298_zpssc5hyu11.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s157.photobucket.com/user/Maudebass/media/DSC_0299_zpsxtyyie9j.jpg.html][IMG]http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t49/Maudebass/DSC_0299_zpsxtyyie9j.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

After a quick strip down it was put to one side whilst I decided on colour etc. The side binding had been removed by the previous owner when they painted it and although are easy to get hold of, they have a tendency to lift off around the internal curves of the horns so I decided on a different plan. I decided it would be a light mint green with silver metalflake binding and a thin black line separating the two. Natural wood neck and a body coloured head stock. Possibly silver metalflake the scratchplate but unsure yet. That was a few months ago and yesterday I decided to crack on as I have some spare time over Christmas. I sanded the body back to a mustard coloured coat that was under the naff white paint that it had been refinished in previously, as I've never seen what these basses are made of looks like I didn't want to sand too far and cause myself problems. I've never really understood why other folks take off all the coatings right down too the bare wood. The colour, yes if you are worried about chipping it and the previous colour showing through, but the clear sealer under the colour (which is usually a pig to remove) just causes grief when trying to cover the woods grain with primer, just leave it on and save yourself a whole load of agro, anyway back to the Dano. On to the neck, under the white the same mustard colour was found but under that was seafoam green, which made me think that the mustard could've been a primer/sealer used by the previous painter as it was that sort of colour. Then when the headstock was sanded the Danelectro logo appeared on top of the mustard coat so now I'm not sure, maybe it was seafoam green and then finished in mustard at the factory before sale as Fender used to do, or maybe the mustard was a refinish but there was no signs of a decal being on the green coat, which hadn't been removed so who knows? [URL=http://s157.photobucket.com/user/Maudebass/media/DSC_0294_zpswbzoy7y2.jpg.html][IMG]http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t49/Maudebass/DSC_0294_zpswbzoy7y2.jpg[/IMG][/URL] You can just see the layer of green in this picture, [URL=http://s157.photobucket.com/user/Maudebass/media/DSC_0293_zpsntjuzivp.jpg.html][IMG]http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t49/Maudebass/DSC_0293_zpsntjuzivp.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s157.photobucket.com/user/Maudebass/media/DSC_0296_zpsg0fokz3v.jpg.html][IMG]http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t49/Maudebass/DSC_0296_zpsg0fokz3v.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s157.photobucket.com/user/Maudebass/media/DSC_0297_zpsoifuoczl.jpg.html][IMG]http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t49/Maudebass/DSC_0297_zpsoifuoczl.jpg[/IMG][/URL]