Owen

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I have worked out what was wrong with the lefty Tele I bought for a friend. The octave dots are on the 13th fret

You all probably know this, but the iRig blue thing foot pedal is not compatible with iPad2. How I laughed.

If anyone sees a Uke bass on there then I will happily pay you £10 to buy it for me if I miss it. Ta

Just to add 2p worth. I have found piezos very disappointing on fretted basses until I got hold of a Bolin NS bass. The sound was everything I had always hoped for and more. It was a Fishman system (pickup and preamp) which sadly Fishman only sold OEM. I am not sure what the processing in the preamp was as far as fixed High Pass Filtering was, I presume it was in there. The real joy about it was how it fitted in with acoustic instruments in a way that Magnetic pickups (for me, YMMV) never have. I have a set of Graphtec saddles to go onto a bridge soon and am just getting my head around the preamp situation. What was nice about the Fishman/Bolin thing was that each string had an adjustable vol on trim pots inside. EMG used to make such a beast but I cannot find it anymore. I have looked at the East stuff and I guess that is the way I will go. I understand that the OP is going fretless, but I thought I would chime in about fretted not being all bad given the correct set up and how it works superbly with acoustic instruments.

[quote name='scojack' timestamp='1428171100' post='2738808'] Thanks Cloud. ..'ere why don't you give it a go? [/quote] Yep, it looks so easy.

[quote name='Owencf' timestamp='1423679331' post='2687893'] i patched my blisters up with a dab of superglue once its broken to hold the skin together a bitty longer to allow the meat under to toughen a little. [/quote] Superglue before the event. As soon as you get to the stage of thinking "hmmm...I might blister up here" then put a layer of glue on. It holds everything together. I have not blistered for years and in no way keep my right hand match fit because my gigging is MUCH more infrequent these days.

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1427739348' post='2733719'] Thanks Owen. What do you think of the acoustic sound of the classical? Both in terms of loudness and sound quality. [/quote] Acoustically it is similar to a standard electric being played acoustically. Not very beefy. But it is an exceptionally nice instrument. Did I actually need it? No.

My thin bodied Electro classical thing has arrived. Struggling to find anything wrong with it. Just for reference, my 5 string acoustic bass had a body the size of a small planet and the neck was placed in a way which meant the nut was pretty far away.

I cannot think of any other way to say this and I am aware that it could be misconstrued, but you know what I mean. Your body shape is very graceful.

Here is my Uberhorn 5. I bought it on here in a fit of GAS. It came with a bridge pickup and an ACG filter pre. I knew that I loved the instrument but I also could not get on with the electrics. I sold it and had sellers remorse about 12 months later. I tracked it down through the internet and bought it back. I sent it back to Jon to have the neck pickup routed and got a pair of pickups made my Aaron Armstrong. They both house 1 J pickup and half a P pickup so, in the words of Hannah Montana, I have the best of both worlds. The controls are Vol/Tone/Dummy/Dummy with a 5 way selector in the middle giving various options of combinations. The pickups are close enough together to make the halving of the P pickup a non issue. I have brought the pickups up to be almost touching the strings which gives me the ramp thing. I had some Luminlay markers put into the side of the neck. I am not convinced that light side dots + maple was my best idea ever. [URL=http://s8.photobucket.com/user/peredur/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20150328_144321_zpsmy4oy6tl.jpg.html][IMG]http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a49/peredur/Mobile%20Uploads/20150328_144321_zpsmy4oy6tl.jpg[/IMG][/URL] The first time I saw an Uberhorn I knew I would eventually own one because the aesthetic is just so well balanced. It has also introduced me to the 33" scale which I am loving. I had always been Mr 35" but this has proved that there are always alternatives. While I am at it here is a Shuker body which I picked up on here and then had Firecreek make up a neck, huge pickup cover and do general routing screwing together stuff. I fell in love with a rosewood neck in some Alpher pictures so that is what I had made. The fingerboard is part of the orginal rosewood plank and is extended because the hole was there but there was no point fretting it up there due to access so it acts as a nice ramp. [URL=http://s8.photobucket.com/user/peredur/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20150226_212609_zpsn3bx59j2.jpg.html][IMG]http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a49/peredur/Mobile%20Uploads/20150226_212609_zpsn3bx59j2.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

I took the tele as well. It is my left handed friend's birthday today. I added it to the batch so as to avoid postage costs

It is official, I have to stop following this thread. I bought a PJ5 and the nylon strung. One of the cheaper nylons arrived a couple of days ago. Shockingly sharp fret ends (but I have a file) and astoundingly white.

It is just as well that I cannot think of a use for this. I am fighting pretty hard to not bid.

And then I got an email saying that they have run out of stock

I got it. Just what I needed. The guy I bought the acoustic for loves playing bass but the acoustic is the size of a small country. I have flogged that and the Jazz will be fine and dandy for him. Thanks again.

Thanks for the heads up.