Woodinblack

Progressed?? I like a bit of progressive music, but it sounds a bit dated these days!

Yeh, women, how can they play stuff, they would be too distracted by kittens and handbags to learn a proper mans job 🙄

I still like that album, but then I like most of his newer ones as well I don't think it sounds dated, but some albums if you don't really like them anymore seem dated because you used to like it before and now don't. To me all blues sounds dated - even if it is new, but I know that is because I used to like it when I was young but now don't.

I can't remember which but one of the foo fighters albums is so compressed up to the maximum it is unlistenable. Which is fairly common for a lot of 90s stuff I love trick of the tail though, and love the production on it. I bought the remastered version and actually threw it away as it was so bad. The previous albums and can easily skip though.

I hated those, because I liked the older stuff so much. I had a friend that kept trying to persuade me 'listen, this new album sounds just like the old stuff' - it didn't. I didn't actually mind some of the songs, just the sound wasn't there. Odd really, I liked power windows, and that was the same producer as hold your fire.

Excellent - worked out well then!

Can't see they would cause any trouble at all. Changing string gauge is a pretty normal thing. On my 4 string bass I have used the DDTs, which were 125-65, I am sure that was more notable.

Oh I don’t know, there is the fun of getting something and hacking around on it, although probably more for the money you are better off looking for unpopular but good brands on eBay that no one has bid on. It is true to say that those don’t look like they are going to be good!

I don't know, maybe there are going to be some american kids who get a not very good bass but learn to play it and end up in a band. Probably not bad.

But bone bridges are not that adjustable are they?!

funnily enough, my wife has just given me some marvel comic paper which I am going to put on an old telecaster that I have kicking around to test the papering thing before I do it with the good paper! I bought some red primer and have now done the first coat.

Would love to get any narrower bridges, it is so hard to find decent spaced bridges anywhere, even china. Its odd really - the standard spacing on an ibanez is 16.5, and they are very common, so you would think there would be loads of aftermarket 16.5mm bridges, but there aren't.

The 43 was noticeable on mine so I got a bar of nut material at trimmed it down. The fireman had got monorails on it which when pressed together are 15mm. You can get stingray bridges at 15mm and I know you can get “normal” bridges too as I had a cheap bass with that spacing, but very hard to find stuff under 17mm

The neck isn’t hard to fix but the body isn’t really going to be that much use

Yes, the nut is a problem. I got a 43mm nut which was height adjustable. That would have been great except my neck was 42mm! My string spacing is 9mm at the nut and the 15mm at the bridge. Because it is not the widest 4 string neck it gets close to the edge and I was a little worried about it but it is fine and I don't have an issue with the edge at all (mind you I will be gigging it at the weekend, we will see how that goes). The P bass neck is I believe a bit bigger, or maybe it is an optical illusion. Turns out I love this spacing. Weird composite (to remove parallax) of the edges: The spacing of which is

Oh yes, that is pretty poor, wonder what that circle is? I get those in the garden! The luminays just look like stick on dots.

works fine here, have you got some kind of filtering?

Thanks It will be the normal P bass neck, but it will have 5 strings on it. That actually gives it a slightly wider spacing than my fireman, as P bass necks are so wide.

Sounds great - is that just normal car spray paint undercoat or anything special?

Ooh - that looks nice, I didn't know they had redone the spalted ones

Hi All, I have one of those cheap paulownia P bass bodies like people have. I have read all the threads and got very confused as to what I need to seal it with / not seal it / cover it. What I want is a P bass, normal size, 5 string (in a P bass 4 string space). I am thinking of painting it with spray can red, but the difference is that I want to cover the front with paper, a la the paisley telecaster (i have the paper, its a specific print). Then maybe a partially transparant pick guard (can't remember, I suppose it has routing holes). So first things first - do I need to seal this body and if so, what is the product I need to buy to seal it?

They don't look too intrusive. I am sure my fireman could make do with some of that.

On the plus side, nice to see someone so optimistic!

Works fine if everyone is 9-5 with regular commitments. Doesn't work if they aren't. Ours does. We send a thing out on the whatsapp group, like 'practice on thursday' (or sort of most regular day), 'no, can't do thursday, can do tuesday or wednesday' sort of thing. Almost every week we find a compromise and if not we skip that week.