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Ugh! I have just read about yours and spent some time reading a 14 page thread on the VM P5 on TB. I am struggling to think of a reason not to buy one and get it re-finished in Nitro black and relic it.

[quote name='Subbeh' timestamp='1389265443' post='2331999'] Absolutely love that! really is a fantastic looking bass, got any sound clips? [/quote] Who cares how it sounds? I just want to hang it on my wall!

The Carol Kaye thing is a reference to many classic basslines which people had assumed were played by bass player A but were claimed by Carol Kaye. It is kind of internet folklore - if you are geeky enough to have wasted a significant amount of your time on bass forums. I am that time waster.

Thanks ikay. Chamfering the entry hole makes a lot of sense. There is a nasty edge on it at the moment. I have used a headway and another similar (which I cannot remember at the moment). which are both flexible but obviously not made for sharp edges. I shall get the corner rounded and take it from there. Are all flexible piezo strips much of a muchness or is Piezo XYZ significantly better than Piezo ABC? I understand about buffering them and it is going into an Fdeck preamp which is lovely, but is there a difference between the actual strip from different manufacturers? I love this place

Very fine indeed!

I have a very long running project on. The build thread is here [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/104007-5-string-bass-ukulele/page__st__30__p__2190563__hl__ukulele__fromsearch__1#entry2190563"]http://basschat.co.u..._1#entry2190563[/url] . I think that we have managed to break 2 undersaddle piezo pickups. The hole to put the pickup through the body into the bridge slot is at an angle of approx 75 degrees to the actual laying flat of the element under the saddle and this seems to snap the actual pickup giving me bucketloads of hum and a rubbish weedy output. The second pickup worked fine and dandy before installation but once the saddle was on and the angle created it all went pear shaped. Can anyone suggest a piezo element which would be super flexible? It is either that or I will have to get the angle changed on the mounting hole which is I guess do-able but will be royal pain to get done. I could take it back to the luthier to get done and it might come to that, but given the 3 year build time, I would like to keep it in my hands if at all possible. I don't want to get into the whole "it should be right before I get it" argument. I am aware of that but by now I just want to be able to use it and the luthier's time scale does not match mine. TIA

The last time I heard shirt collars called that was the late 70's. I can even see them in my head. Wow, nostalgia central.

The headroom issue is there if you have an inefficient cab. I have and did not love the mb200. The 500 on the other hand kicked arse.

I would pay SERIOUS coin for a bass sustainer. [quote name='chriswareham' timestamp='1388694024' post='2325019'] I wish Washburn would do a Peter Steele signature of the very rare M series bass that he used towards the end of his life. Cool looking bass, probably customised with a prototype Fernandez sustainer (why oh why did that not go into production?). [/quote]

Matching headstocks on a jazz are the bomb!

[quote name='tonyf' timestamp='1388501854' post='2322742'] Bass stuff into my work inbox every day. Seemed so exotic to be talking to people the other side of the world about bass shizzle. [/quote] That sums it up for me

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/the-bottom-line It would appear that I am older than I think. I thought everyone with a hint of bass geekery knew about it.

The Bottom Line was the original bass-centric email list. In the days before super easy www action it was the place to be. Every day there was an email discussing lots of bass stuff. It was most excellent.

I feel kind of sad. It was a beacon of bass back in the olden days.

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1388312796' post='2320578'] Nah... sorry, not for me. [/quote] I am not hugely fussed about the sound and have not really listened - I would certainly not be slapping anything on any sort of gig, All tone is changeable. I would love to try it for the ergonomics of the neck.

The [url="https://www.facebook.com/StashBassGuitar"]Stash Stainless Bass Guitar[/url] is totally doing it for me.

It is all beyond tedious. It feels like a guitar forum.

Sadly, there is something to be said for HUGE power supplies.

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/224762-hughes-kettner-bassmaster-tube-preamp/"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/224762-hughes-kettner-bassmaster-tube-preamp/[/url] Prob gone already.

There was a Hughes and Kettner thing on the amps for sale pretty recently. Preamp and very tiny power amp. Drive into the AI and you do not find yourself carrying the weight of a small country around with you.

Aaron Armstrong made them. They are just a couple of MM5 shells, because the one which was in there already was an MM5. The J ones should be in where they need to be. The P will be slightly spaced out and it is an experiment but it will work, even if it is not "pure P". I have put an Armstrong P5 into my MTD Kingston which is in the MM spot, and in the thick of a live band I have not felt that the position being a few mm to the left of where it "should" be is an issue and it still does "P". I was originally going to put one big cover in with multiple magnet options in there but because the original rout was MM5 with ears it would have to have been the size of a bus to cover all the holes. If you are putting a new block of wood in the middle, then you could put a large one piece cover in - like the monsters you were considering earlier, just with your own configuration in there.

I am in the process of changing a single pickup instrument into a double pickup. I wanted the best of both worlds so have gone for 2 x humbucker pickup covers with 1 x J and half a P in each. They are mounted fairly close together and that way I can get either 2 x J, 1 x J or P options running. Just an idea.