SpondonBassed

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.

I think the refined neck must be a characteristic feature of the five stringers in the SR (Sound Gear) range by Ibanez.

I have a B2A and a Steinberger Spirit XT25. Have either of you compared necks between the Steinberger XT25 and the Hohner B2AV? Of the two of mine I think the B2A is far nicer to play. I wondered if the Hohner fiver had a similar neck to the Steiny fiver...? I didn't like the B string on the XT25 until I restrung it with flats. It's still a bit of a cheap thrill though compared to the sensual neck of my SR605.

Sorry. If I was thinking along those lines I would have said that 3+2 looks a lot like two afterthoughts. I like my Ibby fiver's headstock too you know and I much prefer it to the Fender headstock but I can't really follow your reasoning. The afterthought thing is in the eye of the beholder. If you've imprinted, let's say, on four stringers, it would look odd to have 4+1 or 3+1 or 3+2. If you've grown attached to five stringers, less so.

Shame we won't see speed blocks like @Si600 suggested. Like the Yamaha RD400, the shape of this body would suit quite well. It will be interesting to see the new satin black colour scheme. It should show off the centre rib a little better.

I'm very pleased to see you up and at it again. If you do an angled headstock (my preference because I don't want a string tree) it would please me greatly to see a volute. Looking forward to seeing these unfold.

Spoken like a seasoned BassChatter. Welcome back.

Aren't kayaks just massive Shewees that you can also sit in and piddle paddle? I might be confusing them with canoes. I know. I just don't get out enough.

I wouldn't personally like them to have it back but that is out of spite on my part. It would surely be different if I was in your shoes though. It's not a bad result but it is a shame that it takes a public pestering to sort it out. Where's Esther Rantzen's That's Life team when you want them? Never mind, the BC collective has stepped in. I am interested to know where you end up getting the nut and set-up done. My feeling would be to have it done independently. Then again, I have been called a total 4rse for behaving like that on several occasions. I admire your stiff upper lip my friend. Me? I have a trembly bottom lip with issues like this. I struggle to be objective sometimes. Well done.

I once signed on to the forum formerly known as KazooChat. I left sharpish like when I found it was really a secret meeting place for recreational Shewee TM users.

More spin than a politician, slightly less spin than a quasar.

A known issue? Why the heck are they dragging their undercarriage then? As a working musician you could be at a serious loss due to the delay. In engineering, for example, tool makers like Snap-On have a no-quibble lifetime guarantee on their tools. If you present them with a broken one, they replace it immediately and then look at the causes of failure for product development to see how the tool can be improved. The mechanic can carry on working and everyone benefits. With a known issue there is no reasonable excuse for holding you up. What a bunch of mother-fenders!

Ah. Much like Scotland is to England then. GC is the testbed for for trying out controversial legislation before subjecting the BC nationals to it. Like it.

Why not? I can't play bass and they let me hang around here ALL of the time.

That's funny. Worryingly, this sort of thing actually happens in real life more than you'd think. During the eighties a misguided politician by the name of Peter Bottomley tried to force legislation through to make the fitment of patented leg protectors on motorcycles mandatory. He said that this would significantly reduce the number of serious leg injuries sustained by motorcyclists in general following collisions with other vehicles. What a guy! The TRRL - now known as the TRL - established that his pet campaign would result in serious head injuries to lots more of the motorcyclists in side-on collisions with cars (very common) than before. Without the leg protectors serious head injuries were uncommon. This was because the leg protectors caused the motorcyclist's body to pitch violently resulting in severe head injuries as the victim's head met with the edge of the car's roof where it is least likely to deform. Still, it did save legs so WELL DONE Peter. Don't let the door smack you on the 'arris on the way out will you. P basses have been responsible for about as many head injuries as leg injuries when wielded appropriately in a bar fight so no problem there. Carry on.

I went once. Too many strings attached...

It was more that the lighter coloured rings were wider where there was a more favourable length of growing season. The lighter rings are less dense. Density is Mass over Volume and therefore the weight (mass m times acceleration due to gravity g) would be affected in all cases since taking away the weight of the water affects the weight of the timber. The width of the lighter growing rings relative to the darker, Winter season, rings wouldn't change that much even in kiln dried timber. You would get variations within a locality too as you suggest. If a tree grew in a less well lit or a less well nourished part of the forest for example. I wish I could remember what that documentary was called. There was a lot of fascinating stuff about really old timbers.

Can you reverse engineer my RH thumb so that it bends to a more convenient shape like some players' that I've seen please? I have real problems with double-thumbing technique. Seriously though: That's a great offer. I'll bear it in mind. Thank you.

You lucky divil! He is one of the all time greats in my humble opinion. Now I'm going to search for material showing his mandolin skills. Thanks for the heads up. Sorry to veer off-topic for a bit of idol worship. As you were.

I saw a documentary that looked at Olde English timber framed buildings. I forget the details but depending on the latitude of the forest the oak would grow more or less quickly. This has a direct bearing on the density of the wood. You could tell, by looking at the relative width of the rings showing the length of the local season for rapid growth, roughly what part of the world the oak had come from. Wealthy builders imported oak partially for this reason.