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Ask Cetera, after all, he is in one of the biggest KISS cover bands.

Leave it fretboard down in the sun for a few weeks?

[quote name='NancyJohnson' post='375935' date='Jan 10 2009, 09:37 AM']To affirm the US pricing, the 5-string carries an MSRP of $999, the 4-string $832. P[/quote] Now that's not bad considering a gibbon T-Bird comes out at $1799 according to the updated Gibbo website. Wonder what the UK prices are going to be, anything around £500-600 and it falls between Fender MIM and MIA and is half price of the Gibbo (shows how much you're paying for name), which puts it in a prime position marketwise.

I'd be lying if those didn't go straight to the top of the gas list, not overly fond of them being actives (it's a T-Bird ffs!), but neck through epi with proper woods? Please Thank god I bought my normal one so I can live without the new one. For now anyway.

I use both. Fingers are predominant as I find it easier, although I'm terrible at damping with my pinky and ring fingers on my plucking hand, and palm muting is much easier with a pick. I'm also faster with my fingers, either using two or three finger methods, than I am with a plectum, partly because I've done it more and partly because I've not really practiced alternate picking with a plectrum. I suppose it's also because I play a bit of guitar (learning to anyway), on which a pick is near essential for ease of chords, so I'm no stranger to it. Both have their uses, and it's good to have them both as skills.

There used to be a really good build thread on BW/BT where some awesome bloke went through making pups step by step for his own handmade bass. From what I remember the construction theory is simple, creation is like most things, needs practice to get done right. I do remember something about mounting the pup on the end of a variable speed drill on the lowest setting (with the drill in a vice), and holding the spool of wire so it can rotate freely, apparently it not only speeds up pup winding massively from doing each loop by hand but allows you to be quite accurate as well. And yes, it's thousands of times round and round.

Ah, percussive maintanence to the less enlightened

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[quote name='bumnote' post='374164' date='Jan 8 2009, 03:57 PM']You are a pompey fan for f... sake, dont you know thats first solution to all problems.[/quote] Hold the phone, someone else living in Pompey isn't a Pompey fan? sh*t the bed, I thought I was alone.

Wizards? I'm sure Andy and co would be quite happy to take the pup housings and make custom pups for you, powerful as you like

Segregation is not needed. When I first joined BW (back in the days) as a beginner, you do a bit of reading to catch up, that's all. About the only thing that would be handy is perhaps a beginners sticky linking to certain threads and other websites for extremely commonly requested information. It does suprise me how some people are afraid of asking questions incase of being told they're repeating others, yet don't use the search function to go find the information they're looking for.

B then C. Does no one else spot the resemblence of design B to one of the ACG designs?

I do a bit of scales and a rather nifty 1-2-3-4 finger exercise that was posted on here which basically consists of playing all the permutations in one "position" before moving on. F'instance, start with index on fret one (eg, F on the E string), middle on 2 (F#) etc, then go: 1,2,3,4 1,2,4,3 1,3,2,4 1,3,4,2 1,4,2,3 1,4,3,2 2,1,3,4 etc... But that's more of a workout that an warmup.

Basswise I've satiated mine for now with the purchase of the T-Bird, hopefully with new strings, new bridge, fixing of the problem with whatever is under the rear pup, that'll tide me over until I can offload my Aerodyne in the summer. Pipe dreams for a 'Ray and a Rick are just that, pipe dreams. Guitar wise I've got my little project nearly done, might do some more spraying at easter so I can finish the white coat, laquer will be a summer job. I'm just hoping that it'll fit together properly now it's all been sanded down and I won't need to route the neck heel and the neck pocket as that'll require construction of jigs, and is nearly far too much hassle for a £65 Les Paul copy. Although, I might succumb to a bit of hardware GAS if I can pick decent bits up cheaply of the 'bay. Gear wise, well, I'm still using practice amps, I might aquire either a Little Giant or that new Hartke 350w head later in the year, and a cab to go with them. Depends on whether a friend of mine wants to restart a band in the summer.

Kudos for Fender, isn't that their first 6 string bass (not counting the baritone guitar) ?

Perhaps a silver metallic base coat with white sprayed thinly over it? Best to get the number of some local car respray shops and give them a ring asking for advice.

21 fret neck, Any intonation or fitting issues? Looks quite nice anyway.

[quote name='ahpook' post='371756' date='Jan 6 2009, 11:13 AM']i love the look of thunderbirds, but having played a few, the neck dive totally puts me off. they're just too much hard work ![/quote] You can move the strap pins to completely negate it Defacto mod for any of the Tokai/Epi/Gretch copies, and quite common on the gibbo's as well.

I can't imaging it's easy on the batteries either.

Sheehan models? Sounds like a rather spiffing plan though.

I've got Status Hotwires HalfRounds on my VMJ, they're coming off though as I'm having a rounds phase, think I might go for steels over nickels on it though, pups are quite dark . My Aerodyne has Ernie Ball Slinkies on, 40/45-100 I think. Not impressed, don't like the feel or sound, so they'll be coming off in favour of some nickels methinks. And I've no idea what are on my T-bird, but as I'm putting a new bridge on it, I'll stick some nickel rounds on, just not Rotosounds. I'm awfully tempted for a set of Elixirs for my VMJ...hmm.

Hmm, that's rather quick. Flawed as by what I could tell the tuners were quite happy to tune down to pitch, common knowledge is that you always tune UP to pitch to get the tension right and to help ensure a stable tuning, although that could be a mute point if it constantly checks that the guitar is in tune as just by playing it would end up tuning up a little bit.

Beedster, while I don't own one (nor plan to), if you're thinking of adding a mid pup you'd be straying into the territory owned by Yamaha with a certain signature bass played by a rather good player. And that series of basses get glowing reviews sound wise. Just sayin'

I've voted no difference, but it depends on how you describe what is "better". Pure out and out soundwise, I'd presume that with identical resistance and inductance pickups (or scaled properly with correct R and I to factor in the 5th string), with the same strings and hardware, I'd say they would be no noticable difference. Sure, slightly more wood on the neck, but I suspect it would be unnoticable. If you mean "sounds better in a musical environment because of range" then 5 wins, more versatile.

Mmm, tasty basses