Frank Blank

Measure from the bridge to the nut.

Ascertain the scale length of your bass and then most string manufacturers specify which scale their string lengths are for.

I think I’m right in saying the full version is saved for the DVD release, certainly the case with the Jazz documentary.

https://schaller.info/en/s-locks/

I think TC sussed that the poly part of the Polytune (the bit that allowed them to charge more) was rubbish so everyone bought the Unitune, withdrawing it might make folk buy the Polytune again.

Just received the Schallers, what difference, even on a brand new (so still quite rigid) strap. Lovely satisfying secure click as they go in place, difficult to explain really, it just feels really... secure, only word I can think of really. @Reggaebass, I 100% recommend these.

Really enjoying this series, just like I really enjoyed the one on Jazz.

That is beautiful...

I’m very much enjoying the 24 frets on the ACG, I write a lot around and above the 12th so 24 and the single cut shape is right up my rue.

@dmccombe7 is absolutely right here, however, if it was me I’d be having a twitchy Xmas and New Year wishing I’d pi55ed in their chips.

Well as Alan built the bass with Schallers it seems daft not to continue so I’ve ordered Schaller S Locks, we Schaller see.

The Schaller website says the S Locks are compatible with older iterations of Schaller strap locks.

Ha ha, Christ on his many splendid bike, if I had a brain I’d be dangerous! Thanks Alan. Why the change to Dunlop?

Oh that’s because I’m one of those people who would start turning the screw and the neck would fall off, then as I tried to catch the neck before it clattered to the floor I’d stab myself in the eye with said screwdriver, miss catching the neck as the strings pinged off one by one trapping the cat in a ball of sharp strings, then the toilet pedestal would crack and flood the loo. Sirens would be heard approaching the house heralding the arrival of armed police prior to my unexpected shooting, a tragic case of mistaken identity, chance in a million.

I’m quite tempted to take it back up to @skelf a) for a check up b) to see the workshop where it was built and c) to see friends. I could bump seeing friends down to d) (you know, Bass first innit) and slip installing strap locks in at c).

Little did I think Grolsch would be beating Dunlop and Schaller!

As a usually seated player I am a recent convert to a strap which, I have to admit, has made a shed load of positive difference. Having said that I’m already noticing the holes that secure the s strap to the bass are very gradually becoming wider and looser. What are your thoughts on strap locks? Ant favourite brands? Any problems? I’m a little weary of putting them on the ACG, I’d never undertake anything like that, obviously it would go to a luthier.

Hello.

I remember listening to this as a child and for years just thinking of it as a children’s song but as I got older I realised what a brilliant commentary on life it is, it just paints a picture of a simple scene and yet you can hear the machinations of a sinister system ticking behind. I remember having a discussion with a member of Crass about this song, how it was a benchmark and how Seeger manages, in such an almost nursery rhyme way, to covey an actually very bleak view of late 50s early 60s America. Brilliant and absolutely still relevant.

The actual nature of the human condition right there.