SpondonBassed

I like it because it is tactile and that helps my fretting hand find first position accurately.

Volute

Welcome Orphious. Which Ibby have you got? A 215 eh? Nice.

Yeah. Derby is a bit far to travel just for a go on a cheap Steiny. If however you fancy the Midlands Bass Bash in May I hope to attend with my B2A anyway and now I'm going to take the Steiny along as well. If you or anyone else in attendance wants to compare them I am happy to let you have a good old noodle. Of the two, only the Spirit has a low B. I suspect that the B2A was a higher spec relative to the Spirit within their respective catalogues. I certainly think the Hohner is the better instrument all 'round. It will be interesting to hear what folk think in general. If you've not been to a Bass Bash before, I can recommend it as a friendly place to put faces to some of the screen names here and to see basses and amps that aren't usually available in the showrooms. (There's usually cake available and all).

No. These are Men on the Moon:-

That's a very nice bass. When you see what it came from, it's all the more remarkable. Good work.

Jim Morrison's Back Door Man had me convinced that he'd lost his front door keys for quite a while.

(peeps out from within bunker but says nothing before slowly battening down the shutters for the duration.)

Don't they? How crude.

Oo. Option 2 looks a lot like the start of Dr Who! Can I have one of those and a sofa to hide behind as well please?

I shouldn't joke really. I think I'd like the facility of a tablet with me at gigs too. With a footswitch there would be none of that tedious wetting of thumbs and turning of pages every so often.

That's a great twofer. You get shiny and grainy both in the same package. Nice.

You could always modify a music stand... (Retires to the bunker before the fallout settles)

I'd christen that bass The Purple Tart if I didn't think that the name would rub off onto its new owner as well... Nah. The Purple Nemesis will do just fine.

The neck must be attached to the body for the nut to be properly cut and preferable it should be with the same strings that you intend to gig. As far as I know that is.

You must know by now Stew... You can't grow slopey shoulders. You're either born with them or you ain't. You'll be mucking in with the set-up and tear down before you realise it, guaranteed. PS: I hope you enjoy it whatever else you do.

Welcome PZ.

You may regret putting that in writing... it's only March.

I am fond of the occasional mollusc or two actually now that you mention it. African Snails are amazing. Now I have MC Hammer's I like Big Butts on repeat in my squirrel cage of a brain! The bugger keeps saying I like big molluscs and I can not lie...! That must be why he kept jumping around in big pants... he was smuggling African Snails across the border in them and was forced to fidget to hip-hop music to get past customs whilst being molested by concealed molluscs about his nethers. I'll go and lie down in a darkened room for a bit now.

Yes. Exploder is a bangin' name for an axe innit.

Great frame grabs (given the technology of the day). Thanks for sharing. It's an image that takes me back. Where are you based?

Yes. I hardly ever mention it. I even like one on a headless neck (assuming that's still called a volute). I shall bring it up more often now that you've pointed that out to me. Thank you. Sur la photo de gauche, on voit l'angle de la tête de manche, ici un angle de 17 degrés. Sur la deuxième photo, on voit une tête de manche avec une volute qui n'a servi à rien. Sur la photo au milieu à droite, on voit bien la volute sur une gibson Flying V2 de 1980, la volute est plus ou moins élevée et son angle varie d'un modèle à l'autre à l'image ici de la SG I de 1972 dont la volute est particulièrement haute. From JerRock Translated: In the photo on the left, we see the angle of the head of the neck, here an angle of 17 degrees. On the second picture, we see a head of the neck with a volute that was useless. On the photo in the middle right, we can see the volute on a gibson Flying V2 1980, the volute is more or less high and its angle varies from one model to another in the image here of the SG I of 1972 whose volute is particularly high. And of course, almost no-one has heard of the big Gibson volute controversy before... I now have Tutti Frutti by Little Richard going off in my head only he keeps going "Tutti Frutti, vol-utey"! I hope you're satisfied young man!

Quite so. I have seen them with individual rollers and for bass too but I was unable to find images in my brief search to back up my post. Sorry. I'd consider incorporating this sort of nut in a five when I build my fantasy scratch build. It would be prudent to pay close attention to the neck thickness at the nut in such a design however. Great excuse for me to have a volute too. Did I mention...? I like a good volute. What's more likely though is that I'd do a headless neck through five with the rollers at the bridge end since the nut end is where the strings are anchored. That way there is more room for a good roller bearing system on a fully adjustable bridge. Virtually all of the string movement during tensioning would occur at the bridge end in this configuration making it unnecessary to weaken the neck where strength would have been needed to support a headstock under tension.

I'm honoured to be in the company of such great names then.