kodiakblair

My God, add Bat out of Hell, 2112 and it's a repeat of the Tommy Vance New Year show from 4 decades back 😁 Longer the track the more folk vote for it.

Aye, that was my thoughts too. Couple of year back some 'singer' from the early 90's got in touch, said he'd found a tape and if convert to MP3 would I like a copy. Out of politeness I said OK. Wished I hadn't , awful fails to describe how bad it was🤣 Crazy thing, by the early 90's I'd a serious alcohol problem. OK my playing on the tape wasn't great, pretty shite, but compared to the hash head guitars and drums it was acceptable 😀

@Mrbigstuff I don't see that happening, there's no real parallel between China and Japan in this respect. Post-war Japan had crippling poverty coupled with a heavy US military presence, folk grew up with a culture they wanted but couldn't afford. When their economy picked up folk bought American. China had decades of crippling poverty but almost zero experience of US culture. Now things have improved, when they want nice things they buy domestic 🙂 One of the Zheng'an luthiers, Zhang Weiyi, charges between $26,000 and $52,200 for his guitars; man has a waiting list 😎

Still some way off but it could happen. Zheng'an county has a big fancy guitar info centre, brochure/handout leaflet says 30 million Chinese folks have taken up guitar playing in the last 10 years 🙂

B&Q flat bar. 1m aluminium 30mm wide, 2mm thick £7.60 https://www.diy.com/departments/aluminium-flat-bar-l-1000mm-w-30mm-t-2mm/253985_BQ.prd Also comes in 2.5m length for £15.20. https://www.diy.com/departments/aluminium-flat-bar-l-1000mm-w-30mm-t-2mm/253985_BQ.prd 1m anodised £10.33. https://www.diy.com/departments/anodised-aluminium-flat-bar-l-1000mm-w-30mm-t-2mm/254149_BQ.prd They also sell steel flat bar.

Also Pub bands in their 60's playing 50 year old songs to punters pushing 70 🤣

Peavey's B-Quad was most technically advanced bass they ever built. They went OTT with electronic, designed new pickups for it, bought the necks from Modulus. Had a $2k price tag and that was 30 years ago. B-Quads, both 4 and 5 string models, were fitted with the Wilkinson bridge. £20 !!! You won a watch 😎

Sad bastard me left the upright in the basket until the price changed 🤣

Got rid of some, still far too many 😀 Happy Birthday when it comes lads. Must have been something in the water, I'm pretty sure you both have the same first name too 🙂

The Tobacco burst was once owned by Dave Swift 😎

Steve I've edited my reply. Can you give me the dimensions ?

As do Zephyrs and Grinds. If you can hold off ordering anything for 24 hours, I've a box of empty pickup shells in the hut; good chance I've zephyr shells. Plenty pickups can be hidden below an empty shell.

I'm pretty sure the pickups in your Peavey "Dyna-Bass International Series", it's Sunday might as well use it's full name, are the same as in the C-Series/Zephyr. I never found replacements with the correct dimensions, hopefully time has solved that wee issue 👍

@Owen I think this wee example may illustrate the difference between those who target "niche/hobby" and trade. There's this 51 slab body and you just know it's screaming out for binding 😁 Rabbeting bit is needed but those sold by B&Q/Screwfix/Toolstation etc cut too deep 😕 Luckily Stew-Mac can save the day, they sell a kit $102 or a cutter for your Dremmel for $140 or the LMI $69.99 + $5.99 for the bearing. They're a one stop shop as well as a respected name 👍 Here in the UK we have Wealden Tools, they only sell cutters, drill bits and blades for machine/wood shops. Their rabbeting cutter is £18.99 + £3 for the bearing 🙂

There's plenty. That Ali-Ex store I mentioned earlier, B2 mould Accessories, no prizes what sector they cater to 😀 Google 1.1mm fine cut file, you'll get similar outfits in the UK; I got 3 hits couple of hours ago. Watchmaker's files, jeweller's saw are another option. Knife edge carbide needle files yet another. Decide on what sizes you need, 1.1mm/1.2mm/1.7mm etc then do a search.

That was my impression. 3/4 sales must outnumber 4/4 sales by a fairly large margin. Better to shift 4/4 to make room for stock that sells.

My mate has a Martinez hammer, it's great. Cost him over £300 yet he doesn't get a penny extra per nail than me with my old £22 Estwing or one of the young lads with a £9 Stanley. Hosco are a company marketing to the guitar 'hobbyist/luthier'; they don't manufacture themselves but buy from others. Stew Mac do the same. For a reliable cost effective tool it's best to bypass the niche sellers and go to manufacturing brands or specialist industry suppliers; for files that's fabrication and mould makers.

Seems there's a shipping problem. Well that's the message showing on my payment page 🙁

Purchases were scant this year 🙂 Bought 4 lipstick pickups for a build and I replaced the Herrick quad-coil in my Bonnywood 51 with a great single coil from China. Sold by 7th Song, I imagine that's the dynasty not anything music related 😀 It's a cracking wee thing, cloth push wires, white string wrap, alnico 5 slugs; best of all it's just 6.7k DCR so closer to Fender single coils from 70 years ago than the 9k/9.5k which others market as 'vintage voiced'. Just £17 inc delivery, I call that a result 😎

Possible bass Christmas present. Had a surprise "Merry Christmas" message from a guitar player friend, first one in forever 😀 Mentioned a close friend, who we lost back in 99, and that he'd got his hands on our mate's bass 😎 Said he thinks it's only right that Hammy's bass should go to me 🙂 Arrangements for hand over to be made in the New Year.

@dub_junkie Cheers for that. My pal Rick Wilson (Moonshine Guitars) was working for Greg at the time when the Cort collaboration started, I was going by his tale of events.

The "Pre-Cort" version would be those made by Greg Curbow in Atlanta. Greg teamed up with Cort to gain a wider audience for his ideas on ergonomics and synthetic materials. His own place was only building 10 guitars/basses a month but Cort's facilities could really ramp up production 🙂 That was around 2002. Greg passed away 2005 and Cort kept production going for a couple of years longer. I don't know how Tanglewood ended up with the design, they did a bloody good job, but it was post-Cort 🙂 Thought I'd a photo of my two together but nope. Cap on the Tanglewood was nuts 🙂

Pretty simple formula for me. What will it cost me in parts, materials and timber from the sawmill to build. If it's another 100% more to buy then it's expensive .

Would anyone at the BBC go to the trouble of fitting a bridge pickup ? There's what appears to be a Telecaster guitar control plate alongside the standard 51 P-bass plate. Can't quite make out what pickup has been added but it does hint at Ric treble.