SpondonBassed

Ah thank you. Send the papers through to me ASAP.

I had forgotten. Thank you for the reminder.

Having inspired you with my facetious remark I fully expect a cut of the manufacturing royalties when you make your first 10k. Heeheehee. Why knot?

At least it isn't Balsa.

I get that. Having the luxury of space in which to spread out I can say with certainty that it is too easy to let things go slack and end up with several jobs running concurrently. Often it would be best to finish a job before starting a new one. It's okay to have a couple of things going when curing times are involved as the wait can be used to progress the other jobs. If you get it right, you have the basis of a profitable occupation. In the seventies Toyota shared its JIT (Just in Time) production method, also known as TPS (Toyota Production System) with its competitors and the world in general. This proved that lots of warehouse space is not necessary in large scale manufacturing if you get your chain of supply to deliver to tight deadlines. This removes the delays between production of sub-assembly parts and the final assembly of those parts into the end product. Less storage costs, shorter lead times, repeat orders as a result of delivering on time every time - everyone wins. Many large companies around the world adopted JIT and it is a well established principle in manufacturing today. People often produce their best results under difficult circumstances, in this case, the need to live in the space where you want to do the work. Admirable.

Welcome Faylith.

I shouldn't worry. If no-one kicked their kennels from time to time they'd pine away and the vet would have to be called in. It keeps them on their toes.

I know it's the matt effect of the paint but that body looks as if it might be covered in red suede leather. It'd be an impressive look new but imagine the patina that you'd get after a full year of gigging with one like that! My limited knowledge of Fender lineage can recognise the mash-up of eras there. I avoid playing Fenders for preference. Frankenbass Fenders are interesting though. Could it be that I am becoming a FF* fan? *FF = Frankenbass Fender in this context. Other contexts are available.

Nick Lowe is not only a singing bassist... he's been seen with an eight string Hamer on music videos too. Oo. (Heeheehee. 12 & 8 String Basses)

You're welcome. I thought it was an interesting diversion. There was a clip in that lot where the placement of hydrophones and dead spots in a small enclosure was discussed. Technically speaking, it was a treat.

It's the home straight now. You have more patience with web searches than I have. After I've sorted the irrelevant ads, other search engines and chancer websites from the list of so-called results in the search window I opened, I've almost lost the will to carry on. Jez's response is good example of the good natured sharing of information by those who have already been there. As proven, this is a great place to ask for guidance.

Between Music's YT Vidlist.

The commentary said that the sounds heard through water were a throwback to the sounds that every human being experiences in the womb. I have no experience of ghostly music other than the sound of the theremin.

I want to see the other side of this at least, if not the entire instrument. It looks fascinating. Have you played it?

Crikey Fleab, if you're like that over some plastic strips, what are you like with your Christmas shopping list? Ignore my attempts to extract the piddle. I'm glad to see you making efforts with the smaller things. It's so easy to add up a whole lot of seemingly insignificant costs and find you've spent too much. It looks like you enjoy the challenge of searching through pages of search engine results about as much as I do though. I bet it's all the more frustrating now that you can almost see a finished product.

...and others are waiting for the day that you give your router flying lessons after it delivers a vicious bite to your book-matched bits. Heeheehee. I hope I have not tempted fate with my facetious comment.

AquaSonic - Between Music I just saw a piece on this ensemble on this morning's BBC Travel Show. It was both fascinating and disturbing. For the disturbing bit, watch the last half minute or so where one of the performers is pawing, so to speak, at the glass. I realised that I had been holding my breath in sympathy up to that point when I had to breath in suddenly. Breathtaking is a starkly appropriate adjective for the act. The vocal parts require extra control as water is taken in as close to the larynx as possible without gagging. Some of the instruments have been made especially for this project over the ten years or so of its existence. Of particular interest was an instrument that has the sonic qualities of a cello. It looks like a strung wire-frame body with the saddle of a lathe (complete with tailstock wheel) at one end and a loudspeaker cone grafted on at the other end. I'm happy enough that the instrument takes care of the sound of bowed strings. If plucked, it might be good for metal too but I don't suppose there would be much opportunity for slappists in this group. With all that wrist flapping you'd risk emptying your tank before you got to the middle eight!

The one I noticed it on was Queen of Hearts.

It cheers me to know that there are actually people who can afford to buy items of this sort. If I was one of them I'd probably buy something equally inexplicable to onlookers like a hat made out of dodo skin gloves or summat. Seriously though. It is a beautiful thing.

Welcome Romain.

Cheers Andy. Apart from the slap and the awful stall after he did a palm slide it sounds good. I'd like to hear it played on something appropriate though. That sound could get tiresome in the same way that banjo or a uke might, I think.

I spotted Nick Lowe playing a Hamer eight on a Dave Edmunds number the other day. I'd seen it before and wondered but this thread encouraged me to look it up when I saw it again. I like Nick Lowe as a singing bassist too. I have almost got Love the Sound of Breaking Glass down.

Whatever it sounds like, it's an amazing bass in any case. I was gobsmacked. If you look closely at the saddle it is, in fact, irregular where each string breaks across it's length. I would have expected more of a difference between the strings but small as it is each string has a unique break point. I'd like to know if anyone's listened to or had a go on one. Anyone here lucky enough to actually own one?

Welcome Alan.

Welcome Jlawren3