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[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1389139212' post='2330667'] Satellites were nothing to do with Teisco, Matsumoku didn't build Columbus Js, end of. There's a lot of out-of-date erroneous information floating around on the web, most of it (including the Japanese manufacturer list I'm sure Fleabag's referring to) has been picked apart & discredited on the various specialist JapCrap boards where there are people who have been living & breathing this stuff since 1972. Because most of the factories & importers are long-gone, the few that aren't kept no records, and these were irrelevant budget instruments at the time, the study of JapCrap is an odd cross between archaeology & detective work. Some manufacturers (Matsumoku, for example) have easily-identified features, while others are much more generic. Often the only way to define the origin of an instrument is to compare a no-brand or off-brand with an example of one with a known provenance. Eg - there are no confirmed Matsumoku Jazz copies which are the same as Columbus J clones, therefore Matsumoku didn't make Columbus Js. On the other hand, a particular Maya J copy looks to be identical in every way, apart from the logo, so it's quite likely that Rokkomann (brand owner/possible manufacturer of Maya) were responsible for these Columbus instruments. I'll stop now because one of the rules of BC is that one should not post material which is "tortuous" and I think I possibly am. But you get the gist. Hopefully. J. [/quote] I found it very informative - please set your tortuousness filter up by one notch so you dont bail out so soon next time.

Keep the sandberg You'll grow into it

It looks lovely How much does it weigh? Would it help with neck dive?

[quote name='Geek99' timestamp='1502790035' post='3353510'] I'm ashamed to admit that I did this recently [/quote] my excuse is that they were Dunop super brights and so [i]those words[/i] [b]made[/b] me do it.

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1502873535' post='3354019']. BB King used one for years to do over 300 gigs a year. [/quote] I know he was a big guy but ...,

[quote name='Thunderbird' timestamp='1502868425' post='3353976'] http://basschat.co.uk/topic/302963-finished-a-bridge-too-far/page__st__660__p__3344062__hl__a%20bridge__fromsearch__1#entry3344062 [/quote] Ok fair enough - I don't tend to follow those so thank you for enlightening me

[quote name='Thunderbird' timestamp='1502791227' post='3353525'] there is lots of pictures on the build thread [/quote] I had no idea there was a builder thread

I'm ashamed to admit that I did this recently

[quote name='keeponehandloose' timestamp='1502720291' post='3353081'] Is this a posthumous book? [/quote] yes - unless there is a huge hoax going on https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=90053524

i still watch his performances in the Blues Brothers movies (particularly Funky Nassau) and hope one day to be halfways as capable. And to be able to "[i]turn goats p1ss into gasoline[/i]" of course.

[quote name='Steve Woodcock' timestamp='1502653105' post='3352736'] They could have saved 75 pages by getting rid of all of the tab [/quote] True but then it would have been dense and impenetrable

Ditto Did you read the amazon review ? Some muppet complains that there is insufficient biography and too much transcription

No, like an app that lets you choose beats and tests you, gives feedback etc

i'll try it, thanks

Can anyone suggest a good one? Thanks

[quote name='IainS' timestamp='1480020790' post='3181149'] Listening to Woodface right now. It's so good. What did he play? Was it a Spector? [/quote] Ive mostly seen him with a Fender - sometimes they play Sherwood Pines in Nottinghamshire. He is totally underrated. Very tasteful.

interested to see how you do the checking and body relic. What did you do the the tuners, or did they come like that ?

Yes that's what I meant There are better designs than the BBOT but it's iconic so they don't fix it but I don't see why an unseen but not uncommon fault can't be fixed

ive got a nice dark one in celluloid available

Thanks Mr east himself has been in touch to advise, maybe I'll start a new trend

if its true, it seems fair to me.