SpondonBassed

Welcome Andy. We call that a bout of GAS (Gear Addiction Syndrome) in these parts. The gear rabbit hole is a whole other euphemism. I'm so glad you didn't say you had been up the gear rabbit hole else we'd have had to shop you to the RSPCA.

Good to see you posting anyway. They're shaping up well. Distinctive lines.

Welcome Seige.

You beauty! The only way you could improve on that would be to have countersunk cup washers in the socket boss as well.

My goodness. It's like an enormous pencil sharpener!

https://alexnld.com/product/6pc-stainless-steel-metal-finger-pick-plectrums-thumb-picks-for-guitar/ The head office address is in Israel... I was wondering if they have extra fingers there.

I'm hoping the dots sparkle a little in bright light. Can't wait for some photos on a fine and sunny Spring day.

Our Jack placed an Internet order for me after I bunged him the seven quid and today I got my tin of 12 heavy Gibbo plecs. Just the right ones too. I had only ever seen them with the name Peavey on them before. Either would have done but Gibson branded ones turned up first with a reasonable price. I had neglected my plectrum technique for a long time but recently I found an new interest in developing it. I had just got into a regular practice routine when I lost my last one. Happy now.

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

Good lad. It's for the best in the long run. It'll be all the better if we can all get together after the whole thing's run its course.

Aha. Not that far removed from our own word undercrackers. Much appreciated.

Welcome KE. The Ibanez necks are lovely for an affordable bass aren't they? I've got one myself, the SR605, much the same as yours except for the finish I think. Songs for fivers... I couldn't find a lot but then I only do TAB and then only when it suits me. I found it isn't difficult to find ways of rattling the bowels of most songs with the five. What you might find useful is the reduction in travel along the neck for any given scale. Because of the extra string you can find a more economical use of the fretboard and get fingering arrangements to suit your speed, so to speak.

Er, thanks... I think.

Don't overstretch yourself now will you? Heeheehee. I've enjoyed a lot of @Dad3353's GD links recently. I had been meaning to give the Dead a fair listen to for a while having missed out on them first time around. Good stuff.

Great thread Clarky. It complements the Covid themed thread nicely. I've got some interesting links from this thanks. Let me drop this one by way of a contribution: This is what turned me onto the proggy/fusion trail in the seventies just as I hit puberty.

If that works for the string gauges you have in mind it certainly looks good. The pickup is likely to give you a bit more top end definition to the E string than the G. The G being closer to the sweet spot for the fundamental.

Welcome Dave. Have you read the FAQs in the Basschat Marketplace? There is also a search facility if you weren't already aware.

I'd be tempted to hide wedge the guitarist's chorus pedal under a cab and kill two birds with one stone, so to speak.

I'm liking the balance of colours a LOT.

I find it difficult to barre. I used to think it was because of that awful first guitar with its flat fretboard but I still can't do it well even on Jack's Jaguar bass if I'm truthful. What do you reckon the radius is on that? I imagine it's short relatively speaking but I have no clue.

I always hated my first guitar because it had a flat fretboard. It was only a cheap guitar (£4 in the early seventies) intended for nylon strings but it was sold with steel strings. I was pre-teen and the whole experience was painful. I later modified it by pulling out the frets and sanding the fretboard to get a radius... by eye. Refitted the frets and ruined it good and proper. It would be interesting to try a flat fretboard again now that I've settled on bass and developed a bit more dexterity. I still think I'd prefer the radiussed boards somehow.

Rob Strong Last century, way back into the eighties... We used to enjoy an evening or two at the Dublin Harcourt Hotel basement listening to the Rob Strong band, His stage presence is like his surname. Great voice and great lines. We had artists like him and Red Peters. Often we'd get members of Moving Hearts and Planxty jamming there.

Pffft.