Duarte

Yamaha Pulser. Excellent bass!

Agreed - now I'm thinking it's a veneer/laminate. Guess we are going to find out soon enough!

To me, the body looks as if it might be a one-piece with attractive grain - maybe consider going for a natural finish with oil? I did a similar thing with excellent results.

*double slanted P ...maybe?

I remember this - Although I don't recall how this build ended up? Last I remember you were unsatisfied with the swirly paint job I think! I'm going to try and keep this simple, and going with a solid colour, possibly orange. I will have my friend route a pocket for a truss rod wheel, and maybe chuck in a push/pull series parallel switch to the original TBX circuit design. New hardware across the board and strip the neck - voila! I've been keen to start this for so long, but I spent a year doing my masters in Australia, leaving my projects unfinished in Thailand. Now's the time!

Nice to reveal a 3-piece neck - a great little surprise. If you've gone through the finish on the neck at all, I'd just remove it all from the back of the neck, down to bare wood, and just finish with some tru-oil. I did the same to my fretless J bass a while ago and never looked back.

Stage 1 has begun:

So, I've had this bass sitting around for a year or two. Picked it up for around £100 in Bangkok. It is in a bad way. The electronics are shot - although the pickups work. The truss rod is broken. The finish is peeling badly. It's unplayable. But I have big plans. We are going for a full rebuild, which will hopefully end up with something pretty unique. Follow this thread for updates! Before pics....

The classics had some modern appointments, such as 6 bolt neck plate and truss rod wheel, and new (to musicman) finishes. Plus they made a big deal out of having figured necks. They had vintage appointments like slab bodies and mute bridges too. The classics were reissues of basses that never existed, essentially. I'd seek out an old 'classic' over the 'retro' for those quality of life improvements.

Trying to get youtube shorts to make a perfect loop - fails every time https://youtube.com/shorts/-9e2JE8rZ-c?feature=share

Cheers mate!

Just checking in with a bit of funk

A discovery I made today! It's nice. Reminds me of The Expanders...

That bass

Sign me up - love it! Although I am disappointed it won't be upside down for me. Presumably it comes in lefty!

My Redwood Concert ukue is great. I bought it for the same reason as you, and had no experience in playing the uke. I went for the concert as it's just big and loud enough for a class of children to hear it. I'm unsure if the model still exists, as all I can see on their product range is around the £60 mark - but I paid around £250 in PMT. I trust you won't have any issues teaching the Uke, it's easy to get to grips with the basics. However, don't allow the kids to get better than you, which happened to me in my year 8 class.

This is interesting - feel the total opposite. I really enjoy hearing new interpretations and arrangements of songs that I know and love. To me it keeps the material fresh and relevant. An extreme example would be the band Eels. Every time they tour, the band goes in a different direction. One time I saw them they had horns and played soulful versions of their classics, another time they were a 4 piece punk band, another time it was orchestral. Same songs, but a totally different experience each time. I'll keep going, partly for the anticipation of what I'm going to get. Another artist I've seen many times in George Clinton, whose band roster changes with every tour. You could have any combination of P-funk elders and new recruits, bringing elements of metal, trap, jazz, classic p-funk or anything to the sound. Each lead guitarist in p-funk has their own interpretation of Maggot Brain, which is always a journey. Also I enjoy spotting members that I recognise and looking up members that I didn't recognise. The Prodigy play reimagined version of tunes from the 90s to keep them up to date, which is important in electronic music. They'll perform mad arrangements of classic rave tunes at one gig, then never again, and you will never hear it again. That makes each gig unique and special. It also means the only way to re-experience a specific version of a song might be a shaky 30 second long youtube clip, so it exists only as a memory.

I feel so lucky to be in a world where I can see many of the musical legends that I was brought up on - there's no point where artists 'should' retire when the likes of Dolly Parton or George Clinton, at a million years old, are still crushing it, with new material and quality sets.

Smashed it!!

Go on then. This new (old) Tokai bass is too fun to play.

I find that posting on youtube is a good incentive to play and learn when not otherwise playing with others - even if nobody watches, there's a purpose to the practice. Anyway, here's a hidden gem of a Funkadelic track, totally eclipsed by Not Just Knee Deep on the same album. Just a solid jam.

Always good to see some sterling love