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    Mister Sledge 🙂 Porn Guns and Poses Mole Flee
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    Mush The Jar Queer The Rolling Scones Wes PISS Had Company Jethro Lull Los Hobos Lady Maga (no...) Oink Floyd The Buggers (too much letter tampering?)
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    Drilled and parts set in place. To the bench this weekend, and I'll have a couple weeks to make the sleeve look like something.
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    Thanks! I was very much already put at ease with this when I saw it was a nearly-snug fit. Just enough room to get it in there without a serious fight, and a little space above for air. Yeah wood is cool to work with, especially when it's your own project. 😎 No more combo? I've subbed that, took a Peavey Combo 300 and made it head-only, because of the weight. I ended up loaning it to a guy and never saw it again. Teach me to be a nice guy! That was a good solid gig amp.
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    Well sock it to me! She fits. Gluing 'er up and setting screws, off to the bench... You may notice the butt-joint at bottom-right. Somehow I made a wrong cut on the top and bottom pieces, but has enough left over so I could adjust the width (height, properly oriented) of that side. The shape is still true, it just looks wonky. Some Epoxy and Duratex'll hide that badge of shame... 🙂
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    Thank you! That should be very helpful, yessir.
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    There have been many detours and life has thrown into the path, but finally this is started in earnest. @Matt P, I took your drawings to the shop yesterday and cut me some plywood. Glue, screws and clamps tonight... Got my tech guy interested, off to the bench soon as it's fitted to the sleeve.
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    See post above... 🤪
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    The fun thing is noted! 😁 Heavy strings too. Thanks mang! (I meant to quote two posts... See next post... Sorry!
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    I'm sorry, I just thought this was an amusing reply! Brought a country song to mind, which was pretty funny... Don't mind me, carry on... 😁
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    Good comprehensive info, thanks!
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    Thanks! The nice part is you don't really tend to see the crate. For me the fun part was that it usually says something like "Property Of..." on it somewhere... 😏
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    I had an old Peavey combo I did that with. I got hold of a plastic milk crate and cut a 90⁰ angle out of it at an appropriate tilted-back angle, and set the combo in it. It was a good solution- it was very stable as it was a one-piece stand, and it lifted the amp up off the stage so it wasn't so well linked to it. You want to tilt it back just enough so its center of gravity is well inside the crate so it doesn't lean back too hard... it worked really well, I found out how really good this old tank sounded! I moved on to something a bit lighter though, of course...
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    Greetings all. I haven't been through the entire thread, but I'm the house bass player for a local open mic once a week run by a band mate. We'll open the night with four or five tunes, and when there's no guitar player I inherit the guitar solos. I've been doing a lot of string bending, and have considered looking for one of those Squire Bass VI things. Jack Bruce, one of my formative mentors, had a stint with one. Anyone here have an experience to share?... Thanks!
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    This is really cool.
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    Nowadays in the USA we just basically steal it off the Internet. I only hear about streaming and downloads nowadays. I still like to go into a record store, but that's not the mainstream. Now it's like a retro-novelty thing.
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    This seems to be unfortunately true. It's part of the same current that feeds our lately emergent hard-right movement, also unfortunate- but I don't wish to go there. American cover bands often want to be a jukebox rather than exercise their own signature on a tune, partly because they think the audience wants that- I find myself guilty of that and lately have striven to put a new spin on a thing rather than cop the bass line, getting technical about details and nuance. What have *I* got to offer?... Being a jukebox takes the fun out of the experience on both sides of the mic. Anyway I am not a big fan of American pop, but I do like rock n roll. I find Nickelback very annoying, but give me some Supersuckers, deep-track ZZ Top or Cheap Trick's first record, there you go. But there's definitely an angle with Brit rock/pop that goes by/over the head of an American dive-bar audience. The cultures are pretty different. There's a good percentage of knuckle-dragging, flag waving mindset here. On the other hand we do have blues and early rock and roll history, it's our backyard... My .02.
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    Life takes you down the river... Have *not* gotten to this! But this coming week I've got an appointment with a friend's panel saw...
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    Plywood this weekend, and a trip to my friend's panel saw.
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    Well. Just now getting into this! There will be progress/completion pix...
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    This dude is a character. I think it's funny the way he laughs after playing a passage! Kind of a kook, but it's a pretty good review. I'd watch another I suppose.
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    No. Do it.
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    Subscribed...
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    This. You should be able the make a sound that inspires the bringing forward of your voice. Then, right, what this guy said. 😀
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    You seem to have successfully addressed a 'quality of life' issue. The tension of making music needs to be rewarding, for all the reasons we know. Well done! Go on and break a leg!
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