Owen

I flogged the Shuker and I am now waiting for the body from the first post. It can be long and lonely.

Went over today. It now has a connected neck, fingerboard with LED on the side being glued after I left. Neck carved with rolled edges on fingerboard. Going again on Friday to fine tune. Then it will be going to spray shop. Pretty excited I am.

LOW achiever SUB standard I will buy one of each.

Thanks for all the offers of transport from stations, but on reflection I think I will probably drive down and split the journey down overnight.

It works nicely with the amp running at 4 ohms but that is at home levels. I REALLY want to believe that one of the micro amps can speak with the authority of a proper, dedicated power amp. I have not tried it at gig levels yet because I have not had a gig and my wife does not love extreme LF in the house. I cannot understand it myself, but there it is. It speaks nice and clearly all the way down to bottom B in a consistent way. I will be back at work soon and I will be able to cane it and see then. Importing it was easy-peasy. I paid and it arrived. It worked out at £600 - odd all in, which was a bit more than I was hoping for, but so far I am happy with it and can see it will fill the niche I intend it to fill. I will do a proper review when I have a bit more experience with it.

I quite fancy this but am wondering about doing it by train. How far is the station? What is the nearest mainline station? The route suggested to me by train line.com is into Euston and then out again. I figure it would be easier to hit a bigger place the night before and truck across by train from there on the morning. It would be a 6/7 hour haul by car with the Friday night traffic and it would be lovely to avoid that. TIA

I have never met Guy so could not comment from a personal point of view. However, my mate says he is an absolutely top bloke so that is the definitive word for me.

That's proper nuts. I am loving it.

Well done that man!

I have written "Fragile - no, really" and "please don't break me" onto white gaffa before now. It has really helped as the slight humour gets their attention and I have had it handed back to me at the other end by a nice man in a suit.

I paid. It came. It was packed beautifully. It was all good. There you have it.

Just for clarity, I do not and never have slapped the honeys. I also do not slap when I play. I like the rockabillys for the low tension and mellow tone. [quote name='daflewis' post='1316516' date='Jul 26 2011, 01:06 AM']Hi Rev, Well, first the easy question! yes, the colour is the only difference between the golden and silver slaps. as to pizz on the silver slaps - as a jazz/show player my experience of the silver slaps is a little limited especially compared with some of the other folks round here... - i have played them but not "in anger" so I wonder if someone with more experience could help us out here? As mentioned before PaulKing slaps the braided solos, but i wonder if there would be enough sustain in them for you; and Owen slaps the honeys (man, that sounds dodgy!) but they would have higher tension than the solos (though, i think, not as high as the garbos?) Thank you for mentioning this as it's something else I can look into on the development side - (though i know that doesn't help you right now!) but, again, if there are any current sets that you'd like to try out for a few weeks please let me know and i'll get them out to you as soon as i can. Cheers, daf[/quote]

You will not break into a scene that already exists. Any work you do will be with people who are on the way up. They are doing open mic nights as we speak. The big paying gigs (such as they are by now given the appaling state of the uk music industry) are already sewn up and there is a queue of 12 deps waiting in line. Why would Mr major label album producer hire someone he did not know when bass players x,y and z have been providing him with all he needs for years? The people who will need you are the decent singer/songwriters who are open mic-ing it at the moment. I know this through experience.

I love my rockabilly strings. I wish I could bow them. I use honeys as a 'nearly there' bodge, and they are also great.