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[quote name='geoffbyrne' post='909686' date='Jul 29 2010, 09:49 PM']The problem is that when you drop the frets, you end up with a fretless with a really high action (for some!). G.[/quote] If you've bothered to make the frets go up and down, it's not a stretch of the imagination that the nut may do too, is it?

That Thunderbird-alike looks like they had several goes at positioning the strap button before they went for its current position....

Strings arrived fine today. Plenty quick. Really good guy to deal with. Cheers Jules

Guild B301F, just a very bad dead spot on most of the neck, and I never felt the pickup position was right

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='904948' date='Jul 25 2010, 05:28 PM']I'm not, so... a suprise would be nice![/quote] [size=7]Boo![/size]

[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' post='904817' date='Jul 25 2010, 03:55 PM']I'm wondering what he did to so piss off God, and why God's aim is so poor to have missed him twice![/quote] Maybe it's like your "3 strikes and you're out" law....

You've GOT to check out Chicago's version of I'm a Man, from the days when they were a proper rock band, it's got lary feedback guitars, a drum solo and a big smash-up ending, all in a 3 minute single! It totally smokes, hope you enjoy it! Couldn't find the single version on Youtube, but it is just the album version edited down, I think. Cheers Jules

Just out of interest, what was the electric sound like? Almost everytime I've seen him on telly it has sounded terrible, nothing like as nice as on record. Could that be just bad tv mix? I expect that close-up at Ronnies you hear exactly what's coming out of the amp.

"In which areas were they better built than the EB? " South east Asia?

[quote name='gilmour' post='896762' date='Jul 16 2010, 06:40 PM']Looks good, and I guess you like maple! lol It's gonna be one bright bass with all that maple, and the neck looks lovely with those black pinstripes.[/quote] I know what you're saying, but it's not necessarily so. I have a US Masters bass which is all maple with a soft maple body, and that is fairly bright, but not overly so, and have had several Hohner Jack basses, also soft maple bodies, and they're actually fairly mellow and organic and woody sounding.

Bought a Washburn D10 Electro Acoustic, good price, as described, and good comms - what more could you ask? Good guy to deal with! Cheers Jules

[quote name='Clarky' post='883010' date='Jul 1 2010, 02:29 PM']Thx. Would this cope with being put through a Barefaced 2x15 Vintage cab? Or is it too lacking in power? I need something thats loud enough to deal with a club/pub/small hall sized gig (for which the AD200B is obviously overkill!)[/quote] I can't speak from experience but would think 300W through an efficient 2x15 would be loud enough for most gigs (the Vintage is 4ohms, right?)

I've raised this issue before re. the shuttle 3.0, but I'll happily restate it : when you push the power stage quite hard, it distorts in quite a nice valvey stylee, and it's not at ear bleeding volumes either. This is worth considering, as not all desirable distortion comes from an overdriven front end. It's just that the Genz's transition in to distortion is a lot more musical than traditional s-s amps. I'm sure the 6.0 does it too, but you'd end up playing very loud to get the same effect.

[quote name='squire5' post='880779' date='Jun 29 2010, 11:16 AM']I hear what you're saying MBA,but it's not just as simple as the surrounds simply coming away from the frame.That would be easy.The cones have actually fractured well away from the area where they attach to the frame.A different kettle of wossname altogether.[/quote] I can see that from the photos. The point is that you stick something on that bridges the break, in my case it was foam surround, but you could try several layers of tissue built up using latex with each layer, front and back. If the glue is really thick you can water it down a tad, just make sure you overlap the cone and the outer with something, as just butting the 2 edges together and gluing is unlikely to last long. You WILL succeed! (good luck )

I have replaced the foam surrounds on a couple of pairs of hifi speakers (AR18s) and it's not that hard, just a bit time consuming. These were 8" cones, and you buy the foams and stick it with something supplied that looked very much like Copydex, a latex based adhesive of some sort anyhow. I'd say the chances of a result are good, and found centring the cones fine, the cloth support behind the cone pretty much did it for you, you just have to make sure the coil doesn't rub in the magnet as you gently push it in and out.

their older material stands out as better than the current stuff. Nice shiny guitar!