Owen

Mr Bassman, thanks for your kind offer, but the bass in question has bass guitar machine heads and it is making a real mess of whatever I put on at the moment. Have a set of 1/2 size 2nd hand spiros on the way and when I have got a new bridge set and all that I might put my present Honeys on from my DB and try a set of those solo Innovation ones tuned to concert pitch on my DB. I would not want to damage your D. I am thinking heat shrink on the Honeys at the machine head stress end to hold the wraps in, because I will need to snip them cos there is not much room on the machine heads. This would go for any 1/2 size strings as well.

Cool. I watched the vid with you on the 5 string for sale thread and it transpired that we have Billy Thompson in common!

I have just bought an Arco bass from the for sale forum. It is set up to be a 34" scale but I am messing with it to make it 38" scale which is, I believe, 1/2 size. What is the difference between "full size strings" and "1/2 size strings"? Is it just (obv) length or are there tensions and stuff involved? I am thinking about a set of Honeys cos I like them and need to do the Arco thing (otherwise it would be rockabilly all the way).

[quote name='baboom' post='1349068' date='Aug 23 2011, 03:20 PM']I also rescued my bow from my old flat and had a shot at arco in the house. It was a lot of fun (I even had a lapsed grade 8 cellist helping out)[/quote] 'cellists - wanabee bassists, every last one of them. Talk about denial!

SCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE! I am in London for one night with a bunch of students. I have just booked 6 tickets. Did I mention SCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE! ? [quote name='urb' post='1363943' date='Sep 6 2011, 11:47 AM']Errrrrr - anyone spotted this??? Pino is playing his first gig as bandleader at [b]Ronnie Scott's on 5th October[/b] - with hip hop drum monster Chris Dave on the gig - should be immense... [url="http://www.ronniescotts.co.uk/performances/view/723-pino-palladino-and-friends-feat-chris-dave"]http://www.ronniescotts.co.uk/performances...feat-chris-dave[/url] Mike[/quote]

Everything was smoother than a smooth thing.

I do not have time to trawl through this to see if they have been offered, but here are a couple of my faves http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnM1uNeQVnc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pidL0vSHFkc

But back on topic [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnM1uNeQVnc&feature=player_embedded#"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnM1uNeQVnc...layer_embedded#[/url]! [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pidL0vSHFkc"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pidL0vSHFkc[/url]

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='1356991' date='Aug 30 2011, 11:03 PM']I know this isn't Jazz but it's a great groove to noodle along to and an awesome song [/quote] Ben Folds 5. It does not get much better for solid pop songs.

Mike went above and beyond the call of duty to make this happen. He is a top bloke.

Mike went above and beyond the call of duty to make this happen. He is a top bloke.

Pete is putting a lot of time into this. He is essentially prototyping it on his his first build so there is quite a lot of to-ing and fro-ing, but I am cool with that. It is not Pete in the pic, but his Swedish intern who is over for a month.