paulnb57

I'll keep an eye out on the Comical Facebook site and hopefull will not be working, havent seen a pub band for ages!

Double post....doh!

No not in a band, although thinking about it, I'm a bit old and rusty! Where do you generally gig? What style of music? I haven't been to a pub gig for ages!

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1447100216' post='2904916'] I'll have most of my amps up around 1' o clock on the dial, at least, and the smallest is 500w. I recently listened to a whole day of music at a charity bass and the pub hired in a P.A which had 6 boxes including subs. After the first two bands... you couldn't hear what the bass player was playing altho you knew it was still there. I don't know why they bothered, tbh as it was so draining and tiring on the ear. I think many bass players can be heard..to a degree in a pub with all the guys playng loud, but what exactly can you hear and what can he play? Maybe you don't need to hear more than they've got and maybe you don't want to...but you get a loud drummer and a pokey gtr like a Les Paul or SG and you have a wall of sound that notr many basses and rigs will get passed ...and I mean 'passed' as in you can hear what the bass player is doing. This free for all should not be about a wall of sound, it should be about the layers of the sound... and you need people to stay out of each others sonic space as well as staying out of their playing space... [/quote] Reminds me of Iggy Pop at th Isle of Wight festival a while back. It was a wall of noise.....Iggy strutting about, like he does, climbs onto the bass rig, the bass player stops playing and a roadie appears at the bass amp. The band keep playing, now just Iggy wailing, drums beating and heavily distorted guitar, bass amp fixed, bass resumes. If I hadn't seen it and Iggy apologised to the basist, no one would have known! The whole set the bassist might as well have stayed in hostility getting blathered!

Hi Scott, I'm in Lake...

Thanks Dom, appreciate your thoughts...

VVTT is Volume, Volume, Tone, Tone... So, volume and tone for each pickup and a selector switch...

Was it fairly straightforward getting the transition sorted between the sawn off headstock and the new string retainer? Did it all marry up OK? Can you still access the truss rod adjustment? Are you happy with the quality of the headless hardware? Cool build!

Will answered my wanted ad for a pickup, we did the deal, it was sent well packaged, quickly and exactly as described. Thanks Will, Paul

Thanks Dom!

Kwality! Really like what you have achieved there... Where did you get your headless hardware? I'd like to have a go........ Paul

Thanks for the replies folks

So I have an Epi EB -0 shortscale bass, the Mahogany one, to many on here probably considered a toy (!) Anyroadup, I really like it, but as everyone knows the Sidewinder pup is a bit muddy, not as muddy as a Muddybucker, but well, its muddy, the tone pot is redundant really, and just sits there sulking...... So to my question please, I like Stainless flats, and I guess the brighter they are, a bit less muddy it will be, as they say in Tesco, every little helps, any recommendations for bright flats? Thanks! Paul

I have a Ply body and a Mahogany body, both use the same bridge......... 18mm centre to centre string spacing 54mm overall.... Cheers! Paul

Looking forward to seeing construction details of the 12 and the 15......great stuff chaps!

Not a hope in hell of me fabricating a sliding pup, I don't have the skills and even if I did, well, Meh!….

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1445372884' post='2891071'] Sounds good. Good luck with it. We will need to see pics of the progress please. [/quote] Consider it done....

Thanks for the replies folks The Coronado body is someone elses unfinished project, bare wood and is only routed for neck and the f holes are done, so its a blank canvas......the neck pocket and the EB-0 neck are the same dimensions so the neck should fit, perhaps with a little fettling, then its a matter of locating the bridge at the EB-0 scale length, which I will measure on the neck donor.....rout for the pickup, drill for the wiring and pots etc and paint, if the poles on the EB-0 pickup are far enough apart to go for the MM position then thats where it will go, if not it will be centred on the 24th fret location as it was on the donor...... I've built several partscaster guitars so am fairly confident its achievable....... Paul

An absolute pleasure to deal with, item was as described, well packaged and arrived when he said it would.... Thanks Geoff!

So I have a project on the go, I have an Epiphone EB-0 neck which I hope to marry up to an unrouted for pickups Coronado body (its in the mail)... I hear all the time about locating a pickup on the sweet spot, between bridge and neck position (?) ala MM....so, on a short 30inch scale, how do I determine where the sweet spot is? Or to put it another way (if the sweet spot is a myth) where should I locate the pup? I intend to recycle the EB-0 parts from the bass that supplied the neck, so Mudbucker/Sidewinder it is! Although I do have a Mustang bridge that I will use.... I may just put it where it is on the EB, unless someone suggests otherwise would be beneficial..... Thanks in anticipation... Paul

TC Hof mini, it reverbs!

Is there enough meat on the headatock to reshape it to one similar to the early P Bass, large Tele headstock shape? Just a thought...... Paul

[quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1443553099' post='2875782'] I'm lost. Why would you want to? [/quote] I don't, I just wondered if I could....

So today I received in the mail an Epiphone EB-0 which has 2 a side elephant ear tuners, which have sumetrical baseplaes, now I know that if I remove the centre screw from the gear the whole tuner can be taken apart, so if I was to reassemble the tuner key from the opposite side to that from which it came, would the tuner work in reverse? ie a left become right? I guess I'm asking could I make 2 a side from 4 a side, or is it all machined taken right and left hand into account? Am I a total idiot? Cheers! Paul

Fix it! It willl be fun! The headstock split isnt structural, the pin idea sounds good, possibly a dowel?