SpondonBassed

Done to pay tribute (and earn a living). I like this. Done to extract the urine (and earn a living) I dislike this.

Does anyone do Roy Chubby Brown's I'm a Merchant Banker?

That's what I get for my smart mouth! Hahahahahahaha!

I haven't seen many like that. When it came up before, I thought it was a good idea especially if you are into your pedals and fx. If the pickup placement is done with a bit of extra care and it has a solid passive output, I reckon it'd work for me. Try Custom Colour as a starting place and go for hard anodising. As for the making of it, I'm a bit handy with metalwork. PM me if you like.

The pickguard is doing as its name suggests. It's guarding your pick. That's all you need to say. You needn't drag your guitarist in to cover your backside. Heeheehee, I don't care if you use a plectrum on a fretless. It could be much worse. You could've posted an image of a fretless bass with a set of Tony Levin's Funk Fingers tucked under the strings.

I'm not really thinking about it now because whenever I see JF I am wondering if Boss Hogg is behind the camera. Hogwash.

I can appreciate the neck angle quite well from those last images. Not having played that style of bass I wonder if it adds comfort to have the body tucked back under your picking hand. Up to eight weeks or more 'till they see hardware; that's the bit that some home builders would struggle with, myself included. Of course, experience would teach most of us to wait if only we got to make as much stuff. It's great to have a forum like this where those with the experience demonstrate their skill as if in real time and have no problem rubbing shoulders with Johnny Come-Latelys such as myself. Cheers Christine. For now I've got to wait while they gestate. Harumph!

Knot too shabby, I should imagine.

Can you get off-white hardware? Black then.

That's two thirds of a house jam without having to leave the house itself. Nice.

Good?

That was how I looked at my kit. I wasn't expecting too much but what I got was a lot better than I deserved. It was also a good indication of how I'd get on with the physical shape of the model it was paying tribute to. I got on so well that I bought the genuine bass soon after and decided that the Pitbull would be a worthy test bed for when I want to play with alternative electronics because the HBs are splitable. I have had the Pitbull out at Open Mic and it was fine. It's nice to have an inexpensive backup. It made me smile to hear that you now have a two bassist household. Gawd help your neighbours when you're both practising, one at either end of the house!

I couldn't put it better than that. Especially after the artist has passed away. How many Elvis impersonators are there in the world currently? I found the question had been asked in 2008 and I've pasted an answer below: "There is a lot of speculation as to how many Elvis impersonators are out there, with experts reckoning that the number of Elvis Presley impersonators has reached an all-time record high. "There are now at least 85,000 Elvis’s around the world, compared to only 170 in 1977 when Elvis died. At this rate of growth, experts predict that by 2019 Elvis impersonators will make up a third of the world population." - The Naked Scientists 3 December 2000." Fun Trivia

Bump. We've heard about late eating in Bristol and Leicester so far. I can't believe that these are the only two places outside of The Centre of the Known Universe (formerly known as Wigan) that offer food to the weekend warriors on their way home from a gig. With the weekend upon us, please keep this feature in mind and submit your findings for inclusion in the September Podcast.

Welcome Jon.

Welcome John.

Cool. I especially like the knife. Handy for cutting free of all flying V associations.

Please tell me that you are going to do two fretless fives and that I can have one for displaying such an impressive beard.

Excuse the diversion - They're genuine. They were shown on a BBC feature either on the News or the shortened version of BBC Click, I forget which.

Great quote from Douglas Adams. Interestingly, he seems to have predicted the creation of Vantablack. "In addition to directly growing aligned carbon nanotubes, Vantablack is made into two sprayable paints with randomly-oriented nanotubes, Vantablack S-VIS and Vantablack S-IR with better infrared absorption than the former. These paints require a special license, a temperature of 100–280 °C, and vacuum post-processing"

Much. Honestly though, that's all "disc two" material for the AJR Guitars DVD. Who bothers with that anyway?

If I have to get my credentials out, would you at least draw the blinds first please?

Fair enough. It could well be a collector's item in its turn. You've still not said what all the Allen keys are for. Have I to provide evidence of Musicman ownership to find out or summat? I mean, this topic is quite cliquey already. Heeheehee (Puts on flame proof onesie)

That's a serious looking fret press. Respect. I modified a vice grip based tool for a ukulele fingerboard once. It would not be up to the job on your build however.

You've lost me, sorry. Can you expand on that?