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Fitted the correct style of jack socket and mounting plate (courtesy of the excellent Solsounds in Potters Bar), so I decided to compare with the original cabinet. I couldn't hear any differences tonally, so I'm very happy. Then decided to connect both speaker cabinets in parallel, having doubled checked the phases match by using the 9v batter trick. Perhaps because of the change in amplifier impedance, it sounded much punchier. Anyone whos says that 18" drivers sound woolly or muffled needs to hear this rig!

[quote name='Jenny_Innie' timestamp='1422559521' post='2674159'] Old men and hair has always perplexed me. See, girls who colour their locks have it done in textures and layers and subtle changes of shade here and there. Now, I guess this guy has money - so why did he have such a crap job done all in a colour that doesn't exist in nature? And don't get me started on old blokes with pony tails. [/quote] Get back in the kitchen and make my tea. ... And if you don't get the sarcasm, I'm implying your comment is sexist.

Very dodgy company - if you read the music dealer press publications and comments from suppliers, DV247 went into a "flat pack" administration, shafting a lot of employees, customers and suppliers. Lo and behold, the company was reformed overnight with all stock shifted to Germany.

The only really decent bit on a Kay K-20B is the pickups (I should know, I've owned three of the strange creatures). The neck is prone to twisting and the bridge is only remarkable for its extreme crudity. He'd have been better off junking the Squier or finding the correct neck for it.

The fella in the pictures has absolutely terrible tattoos on his right arm, regardless of who he is.

Today was day seven. Then something disastrous happened - I had to speak to one of my neighbours, and it was explained to me by my better half that I look intimidating enough even without the face fungus. So sadly the following picture was just before I razored it all off :-(

More progress! The baffle is now finished in matte black spray paint, the driver is mounted and the baffle fixed in place with black anodised screws and wood glue. The back panel is secured with the same type of antique brass coloured screws and cups as used on original cab. The corners still need rounding off, but no urgency as the Tolex still hasn't arrived from the States.

Until a year ago, it was Stingray with single humbucker and three band active into Ampeg SVT CL, 4X10 and 1x15. I was nostalgic for my old Simms-Watts head, so I bought a similarly designed SoundcCity L120, and it was way punchier than the SVT. I also use a pair of Vox Foundation 18" cabs (one a copy) as I used to couple the Simms-Watts with a Peavey 1820 cab. This is for industrial / Gothic metal.

[quote name='HowieBass' timestamp='1421940058' post='2666867'] Is that a reverse goatee? [/quote] "Friendly mutton chops" apparently, and pretty much the opposite of the neck beard favoured by many in my line of work (software engineering - although I've never understood how it can be classed as engineering, if civil engineers created buildings like most of the software I see then they'd all fall down).

[quote name='waynepunkdude' timestamp='1421937821' post='2666823'] What did we do so wrong? [/quote] Wait until you see the warts I'm genetically engineering in my [s]garden shed[/s] laboratory.

[quote name='Maude' timestamp='1421883866' post='2666338'] The best I've ever received was a bass from ebay, the seller just put it in a single black bin bag and taped the top shut round the headstock. How it wasn't damaged I'll never know. [/quote] I had a synthesiser sent to me with similar packaging. A sheet of cardboard had been taped to the bottom, then it had been placed in a black bin bag and taped shut.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' timestamp='1421936530' post='2666788'] Put a shirt on. [/quote] Think yourself lucky I cropped the picture, otherwise you'd be able to see my peek-hole bra, PVC mini skirt and stripy pop socks.

I have to remove my wedding ring when playing as I catch it on the strings (particularly with round wounds). I keep on meaning to get a short silver chain so I can hang the ring around my neck when playing.

New Beard Day, although it's got a way to go yet ... And the inspiration :-)

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1421657430' post='2663552'] Bloody hell! [b]Beffnull Gween?[/b] That area really is turning into Hipster Central ... [/quote] Blimey, it must be. Used to rehearse over there at a place in a converted basement garage between 1998 and 2000. Great rehearsal studio owned by a friend of one of the guitarists in the band, although last time I went back a few years ago they had stopped making food :-( No more sausage sandwiches halfway through a marathon session!

Finally made some further progress, thanks to a router owning colleague. The speaker hole is now finished, so I can now move onto spraying the baffle matte black and mounting the speaker. The edges of the cabinet still need rounding off with the router, but then it will be Tolex time! Here's the marked out speaker hole just prior to routing: Here's Dante inspecting the fit and finish: (As suggested by my wife, my next project will be two 1x12 cabinets that I can make into novelty beds for both our cats). And here's what the complete rig looks like so far:

Most expensive bass I've owned is a Musicman Stingray. I loved it, taking great care to clean it after every gig no matter how drunk I was, and it regularly got a setup at a decent music shop. However, for the 50 to 60 minutes I was on stage it got covered in sweat, beer and on one occasion blood while I hacked away at it with a steel tipped pick. After all, that's what it was as designed for.

British made bass from the 1970s. Evolved into the Shergold Marathon, which was a great bass, quite sought after by those who know about them. I had one on loan for a while and absolutely loved it.

Nice of Alice Cooper to pose for that shot. That's a terrible tattoo on his chest though.

[quote name='Jazzneck' timestamp='1421156599' post='2657727'] I could say "Serves you right for not using real live musicians in the band", but I won't......................... Runs away at the speed of light .............. [/quote] They'd need to be able to play at the speed of light to do some of the synth bass parts.

Had a bad experience where the house engineer got blotto the night before we played, and he hadn't noticed that someone had pinched most of the DI boxes. He had a few old DI boxes, but had to reuse them for each band. Come our set, he plugs our rack of synths and samplers into them - only problem is that he left them on the Mic impedance setting rather than switch them over to Line. No line check, and as we start our set I can't hear the drums or keyboards as the engineer yanked their levels down since the output was so distorted. Audience look perplexed as well. I ended up playing the whole set looking at the blinking metronome on the sequencer since the engineer was too useless to realise what he'd done. Thankfully the venue sacked him shortly afterwards.

I briefly used a Gretsch Jet Baritone as a bass. It's the same scale as a Fender VI, and I strung it E to E using La Bella strings. I could get a decent bass sound out of it, and I could also do "twangy" surf style guitar lines on it. Took some getting used to the string spacing versus a conventional four string bass, but it was great fun and sounds great with distortion if you want to play something approximating a lead guitar part.

[quote name='Kev' timestamp='1419806165' post='2642909'] What I find far more incredible is someone paid this, and is now selling it so quickly. [/quote] At this price point you are paying for novelty. No way does that play better than a bass a tenth of its price - it's value is in its exclusivity. I suspect that it was bought by someone with a lot of money that expected a quantum difference in playability to something like a top end Musicman or Fender and are disappointed with the reality. On a subjective note its as fugly as hell as well.

Haven't read much of the thread, so I'm probably doing an AOL style "me too", but my favourite JJ moment is the entire bass part to Nice 'N' Sleazy. It was my party piece when I first learned to play bass, and is invariably the first thing I play when I pick up an unfamiliar bass guitar.

[quote name='Roger2611' timestamp='1420145216' post='2646153'] Roll on the return of the Phillips Laser disc 2000, my mates dad had one, it was the only one I ever saw, actually come to think of it my mate had a mullet at that time [/quote] My school had that Domesday Project thingy that was on a Laser Disc kind of format that could only be read by a specific device for the BBC computer. Much to my amusement there was an article a couple of years ago about how the data was now difficult to access since the format and hardware was so unique. Didn't have that problem with the parchment of the original Domesday Book. Now excuse me while I go and insert a 3.5" floppy into my old sequencer (and no, that's not a euphemism).