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It’s a gigging daytime for me, might make it for an hour but I’ve also got to contend with the massive M25/A3 interchange roadworks in process…..but have a great day everyone.
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Many of us ‘maturer’ bass players would put a piece of an icecream flat stick across the top underside of neck slot to get around the problem you’ve described. These days I route neck slots on a slight angle, trying to copy the through neck design much like an old Aria bass I have, where the neck is angled to the body wings. I’ve also wondered if placing that piece of flat stick under the top end of the neck slot left a gap where there was no contact for some of the neck underside to body neck slot and would that have a possible effect, in which case I concluded it’s best to have all contact with neck to body….in which case there are dedicated neck shims on EBay……as seen in the link below from Stewmac’s Ebay page.
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In my experience I found Parcel2Go were only a go between for customer to courier company and when things went wrong, I was directed back to the courier company. You were lucky you got through to P2go!
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Ah, my first ever bass model I owned in New Zealand.
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15 hours ago, Beedster said:
Fantastic @mybass, my music story was similar to yours albeit without the happy ending (and to be honest without the talent also)
Gibson Bass and Fender Fretless, very specific !
I’ll have another pic to put up of a very recent review Beedster, it’s a doozy!I used a Gibson Les Paul bass, converted to long scale by Richard Knight (RIP) down Weybridge area. The Fender ‘Precision’ was converted to fretless by Neville Whitehead a double bass repairer who lived around the corner from Wal basses, we used to pop in to Wal’s. The fingerboard was made from an ex double bass f’board.
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This CD is available in the U.K. via
https://propermusic.com/products/visitor2035-visitor2035?_pos=1&_psq=visitor&_ss=e&_v=1.0
Its the 1970's latter end of....I'm playing bass, answering ads in Melody Maker and making slow progress. An advert draws my attention and I eventually have a jam with the band down in deepest Sussex outside of Horsham.
Visitor 2035 go on to do a series of gigs at universities and some festivals. Whats most important is that we start rehearsals with some pretty hefty jamming which has served me well. We respond to a series of adverts from a German
record company who were advertising on train platform poster boards! We sign on the dotted lines and record an album down at Pebble Beach studios in Worthing. The record company have taken on a few UK bands,
I think 'A Flock Of Seagulls' was one. They falter on our release date for 9 months and slowly leave us behind. Its the dawn of punk and our Weather Report driven Chick Corea meets Brand X music is slowly disappearing from the mainstream.
Abandoned, we go our separate ways, keeping in touch now and then and for a couple of fun gigs.
2022....we get a call from Hannover based M.I.G. Music.de ...we have an old fan working there and he wants to re-release the album, now CD. Why not hah!
Its a fusion of rock jazz type driven instrumental music of which many of us were partial too at the time. Proper Music UK sell it as do M.I.G. We have world release, wow, didnt get that before...
NOW with a recent review from R&R latest magazine edition….and bass gets mentioned first!
I hope this short sound clip and picture link works:
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Nonsense pricing….
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Twin pack of Da'addrios off Dave the MungoBass.....great dealing with Dave, strings sent all on time and well packed....cheers Dave.
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Jansen…big name in NZ from the 1960’s……my start up playing days in Wellington NZ had me getting a Jansen tube bass amp. My drummer/cabinetmaker built two robust 4x12 cabs for me. I was probably loud 😄 The amp was great except, the tubes hung upside down in the amp’s open back enclosure and would rattle loose, (due to my volume 😜) Great idea of mine, turn the amp upside down so the tubes would be sitting upright which was sort of a bad idea because the top mounted strap handle became a pivot for the amp to ‘self turn’ on and there would be several looks of horror and calls to me as the amp teetered on the edge of falling off the bass stack……a learning curve eh…..never lost the amp of the stack though.
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8 hours ago, RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE said:
It's a great bass . Forgot to tell watchers , that you are a top man to do business with . Then again, we all know that anyway 😼
Thank you thank you…
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11 hours ago, Sparky Mark said:
It's a shame you cut the headstock off the full length photo so we could see it in relation to the whole bass. The other shot perspective makes the headstock look massive
I’ve added another older pic, shows the whole bass but not so clear a shot of the wood grains.
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17 hours ago, RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE said:
I have headless / fretless that you built . Great bass 😼👍
GLWTS
Yes you do….that’s was a nice bass, I really liked the lower bout cutaway…..lovely wood in that too…cheers Ray
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Yes to getting Neutrik.
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I am leaning towards reuniting with the Schaller 3D in black but crikey, prices (and availability) have changed!
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13 hours ago, BreadBin said:
It's very difficult to avoid as they are a pull through design. I'm quite tempted to bust out the dremel and turn one into a top loader..
A couple of the Goldo ones have open/top mounting string access and I think one series has string width setting.
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Rufus Reed has photos in his (old) book of DBs strapped upside down in a seat…I wonder if he got the bass’s meal and drinks!
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6 hours ago, BreadBin said:
I find they do, when changing strings. I'm in the habit now of resetting them before I tune up for the first time.
The Schaller 3D will move when changing strings if you inadvertently pull the string across the roller…
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Has anyone been using Goldo parts from Germany on basses and have they found a difference for better or not so over other 'established' names like Schaller, Hipshot etc?
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…..very good pickups especially as the individual Allen magnets/screw tops allow setting the string volume balance up nicely on Fender type radius string heights, not many pickups have this.
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4 hours ago, Waddo Soqable said:
That's a cracking bargain 👍
Pretty good huh Waldo. If I was more energetic I’d have it apart and clean the pots out then charge more !
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Then again…..if anyone was interested in the two basses I’m currently selling here, a fretless custom 33” scale and an Ibanez, the theory of ‘try before buy’ could be accommodated!