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Probably magnolia Mick!
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Yes it does look like that and it was. The days of one bass ownership only, struggling on apprentice wages to pay HP on a an amp head and mates building speaker cabs for me. Those were the days my friends, we thought they'd never end.
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My second bass, this EB3 was meant to make me sound like Jack Bruce, hard to find in the day but it finally appeared in a weekly instruments for sale column...From the days of black n white from a Box Brownie camera....
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Good basses, I've had one for 20 years +. -
Try WD Music UK.....https://www.wdmusic.co.uk/electronics-c17/pots-c69
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Look at Allparts U.K.
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ps.....don’t buy the cheapest make....
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.....and couple this to an extension cab and you have a terrific rig.
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Great dealing with Mike 'Chimike', taking a blank ash block off me and yes....lots of bass and machines talk, marvelous!
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'Vintage' Warwick (82 - 96); neck / relief / truss rod issue
mybass replied to warwickhunt's topic in Bass Guitars
It’s a fretted neck ? If so there may just be a slight chance, especially if it’s been refretted, that the frets may have been ‘forced’ into too narrow a fret slot for the tang width, the hidden part of the fret that seats into the fboard. Many luthiers superglue frets In now so as I say, there may be a slight chance the frets are forcing neck issues. I think there is only one way to check all this I’m afraid and that’s a pro refret job. Other than this by what you are saying, the neck wood itself may not be right. I think early Warwick truss rods were double flat rods that only adjusted one way before the later dual action ones were readily available. -
Roscoe Beck with drummer Tom Brechtline In Robbin Ford’s Blue Line, they always seem to be able to find a different groove and riff for any song Ford wrote.
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Keep looking in the UK and Europe then...what is the neck and finish, maybe someone here has a connection to forward you to.
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Yes I’ve been hit with handling charges before. It was from a courier fee to take the item to customs shed and collect it. Downright out of order as far as I’m concerned. I think your 20% vat is correct but those hidden handling fees will possibly need to be included into that. Alternately and as told to me by a U.K. customs official some years ago..... If you have a friend on ‘mainland’ Europe, get it sent there and then get them to re-post to you as this (apparently) skirts the U.K. import tax stuff from the USA into the U.K.
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Very good read, funny,historical and well written.
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To a degree yes 'Stub'. The little finger is often 'supported' by the 3rd finger with the hand helping by 'leaning' slightly over the forth finger when playing certain positions as it is the weakest finger. In the half, 1st, 2nd positions in the book we see use of the 1st/2nd/4th fingers playing on the E string the notes ... F / Fsharp / G.....then likewise on the A string for the... Bb / B / C and so forth, eventually working up the fret board. I am relating this from my own experience in that being a 99% fretless player, these double bass fingerings have helped enormously with my positional playing on fretless. My tutor at the time (Roy Babbington, now back with Soft Machine and a terrific DB player) also got me into singing the notes and scales, a bit scary at the time but I do feel that has helped cement the fboard knowledge in further. (try singing scales while bowing a double bass, when you ain't that hot with either!). I'm afraid explaining this in writing isn't great from me.
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Maybe the Simandl double bass books will help will show you the 'position' playing for correct finger placement on the neck regarding double bass work but these exercises carry over to electric bass.
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Allparts UK maybe....Possibly WD Music UK too.......put a decent one in like CTS (or maybe Alpha). Ebay have a host of pots for sale but not always the best makes.
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Lets build an abbreviated (double) bass!
mybass replied to Cathode_Follower's topic in Build Diaries
Where and how is the internal soundpost situated. Usually it sits from the back to the belly/ front of the bass, situated around and underneath where the bridge sits. If it isn’t in place there is a strong possibility of the belly being put under huge stress and possible collapse? -
These look interesting. Bass direct have a host of stuff in their pre-amp page.....http://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Tone_styler_BAss.html
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I think quite a few of us have been demoted......apparent software update going on....but I do NOT like pop up ads appearing over post stuff I’m trying to read.
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Will a 2x12 give more volume than my 1x15?
mybass replied to Bloc Riff Nut's topic in Repairs and Technical
I preferred 2 of 2x10 markbass cabs over the single 4x10 markbass. I now use a Ninja 2x12 Markbass 800 watt handling and if needed I have a single 12" Ninja cab for extension. -
Practise as much as you want to!
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Picture added showing the piece with a P bass style template to show how much weight you will be cutting and routing away. Another piece of this same ash block made up as a 'modern' style body weighed in with just a Hipshot brass bridge attached at around 2.4kg / 5.25lbs. This is for one piece of a solid Ash wood block large enough for a bass build. Bought from Germany sometime ago. Postage to be added. I do not have exact postage costs (if its needed and any collection meet up can be arranged) but I looked a 'guide' from the "Parcel2Go" website and used a packed size of 60x40x6cm and weighted @ 6kg .... UPS gave £6.84 uninsured and £8.64 insured. (Ebay UK prices show an average of £13/-15 for similar goods so please do check and decide yourself). I can drop this off near me to a few different 'drop off' shops like UPS or Hermes or Post Office but I will leave it up to the buyer to decide on their choice of courier and even better if you sort that yourself and I can deliver to a shop nearby for collection. -
I think they do a 32”, call him up.
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I was given for xmas a soldering station .... mine was about £45/50. It will keep the iron at the chosen temprature...be careful what setting you use. there are a number of manufacturers around starting here... https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_odkw=solder+staion&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR10.TRC2.A0.H0.Xsolder+station.TRS0&_nkw=solder+station&_sacat=0
