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I have just bought a Rusty axe acoustic bass cheap. I have no idea about them and have bought blind on price alone to dabble with acoustic bass. Does anyone have any information on them as the searches I have done have brought nothing at all apart from a couple of links to electric guitars for sale. I am guessing they are a 'budget brand' but any info would be much appreciated.

Another vote for the big muff, they regularly come up cheap on eBay too.

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1484256585' post='3214181'] Then it's caveat emptor-'buyer beware'. [/quote] Not always on eBay, sadly they are now so biased towards the buyer that selling on there is a risk and I have stopped for that reason. Hopefully the OP will be ok in this as he is completely in the right.

Unless you stated it had new strings then tough luck to them. Sadly eBay is full of complete and utter morons these days.

Smashing pumpkins Gish stands out, but there are quite a few when I think about it.

I have a zoom and love it, it has some limititations for sure but a great bit of kit. I haven't used any of the more expensive ones so can't comment on them.

Looks good to me, but it would be easy enough to get them sprayed black if it was make of break.

Sorry to be slightly off topic, it can you get left handed keyboards that run the other way? I can't recall ever seeing one but it would be so simple to do on an electronic one.

[quote name='thegummy' timestamp='1484172033' post='3213366'] To be honest I don't fancy DIYing it. Any idea what kind of place I could go to for that service? [/quote] Do you have any handy friends? It really isn't a complex job and a router isn't uncommon in a toolkit of people who dabble in diy. As for getting someone to do it for you, I would guess that most luthiers would do it, probably in a bandsaw which would be a quicker way to do it. And I would guess that most woodworkers would be able to do it but no idea if they would be happy to take it on (and good old fashioned woodworking places are few and far between these days and tend to do high end stuff so may not be cheap).

You could cut a pattern in wood and then attach the plastic to it and use a router with flush cut bit to make a nice edge. You would also have the benefit that it would be easy to make more than one if needed.

Or this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9m7tPikH0UA

[quote name='Maude' timestamp='1483994295' post='3211846'] Forget the Jazz debate, what are these thirds you speak of? [/quote] Its what large people have after seconds I think, then the fifths come in a few minutes later.

It looks like an update as opposed to a completely new unit so probably similarly priced to the B3, I love mine and would be tempted if the new one offers anything extra.

I have seen a few 'big' bands in London or parts thereof under assumed names. Usually a reference to one of their tracks or something about them. A mate was obsessed with discovering them and used to hunt through the gig pages in NME (remember them?) when even tiny venues used to list and look for obscure references on band names he didn't recognise. A lot of the time it was just small bands we had never heard of but we saw Paul Weller amongst other people in a tiny place and badly disguised, but obvious who it was as soon as he started singing and judging from the number of The Jam t shorts being worn it was obvious my mate wasn't the only one to suss it out. I am not sure if they did it to try something new or just because they wanted the feel of a small venue again, my guess is the latter.

My daughter is 9 and can't get on with a full scale. As a short term thing she is playing four strings on a semi acoustic guitar I have. I am looking at short scales as I think they will be ok but the Tanglewood ones look even better.

I have an EB3 (long scale) but epiphone version and the neck dive is horrendous. It's very tiring and frustrating over time, especially as you just can't let it go or it heads straight for the floor. I haven't tried the short scale EB but obviously assume it will be better, but no idea by how much. I have got a second EB3 as a project and I am making an attachment to shift the strap point further up in the hope of countering the dive. I have seen others have got on with different straps but nothing worked well enough for me.

Hmmm, don't see how suggesting people just chillout is either name calling, or pot and kettle. Noel has one opinion, others have different opinions. The world continues to turn. It's hardly the most important issue in the works at the moment and NJ^^^^^^ seemed to sum it up perfectly to me.

All painted and lacquer on, looking gorgeous now with only a couple of tiny imperfections. Will get some pics when it's dried enough to look nice. Lacquer always seems to go through a really patchy phase as it dries. I will give it another couple of coats over the next few days to get a real depth on there. Then the best thing to do would be to leave a couple of weeks then cut back and Polish to get a glass like finish but I may just start building it back up as the finish looks like it will be really nice anyway.

As I found out last week (on a toy for my daughter, not bass strings) if they refund and cancel the purchase you can't leave feedback. So checking the feedback may on,y show the positives of people who did not realise there was an issue. In my case it was a toy called qixels which involves small plastic 'beads' preloaded with glue that can be made into various shapes with just a spray of water to stick different ones together. I don't want to go over the top, but it's not something you want being dodgy, I contacted eBay. I was refunded so they don't care. The guy has a few positive feedback but if you search you can find a few cancelled auctions. eBay really are useless in this sort of case and I would bet similar goes on with the link above, refund and prevent negative feedback so others buy and some won't notice. Big fat con achieved.

First coat on the back, the picture doesn't do the colour justice, it's quite a greeny blue. I am very pleased with it.

Neck is finished and I am happy with how it's come out. Last coat of primer will go on in a few minutes and I may even get the first coat of colour on tonight with the weather being a bit warmer. The colour is a bit different to the usual red or black SG colours but I am hoping it will look good.

Whilst that's true bubinga5 I don't think it's unreasonable to say you don't like a Genre, I don't like Jazz, I don't like Rap. It's not the same as saying it is ALL s**t. There are a very limited number of jazz and rap songs I like and a few I can tolerate but as a whole I really really don't like jazz. And his image of the jazz club sadly sits exactly with my own experience of people heavily into jazz and their complete lack of understanding how anyone could be different. It's a wide genre and I am sure that not ALL jazz people are like that but the majority of the ones I have met are. Equally there are bands in genres I love that I don't like and whose attitudes properly stinks. But it would make a very long winded interview if he tried to get across all that sort of stuff.

I think I may have been in the same club that night..........

And the pics don't do the crack justice, there was about 15cm of the thin section where the electrics sit and that was all holding the bits together. You could flex the smaller piece enough to fit a 10p in the gap. That made glueing up easier as I could getbthe glue right into the crack as well doing the insert. I originally intended to just take the neck and fittings but I thought it worth experimenting with repairing it as I had nothing to lose and I would now be confident to do similar if I needed to on a more precious one.

The glue simply won't go off if it's too cold so I let it go tacky then bring it in. The paint can end up dull but as I am using lacquer over the top then it wouldn't be an issue but it's not one I have ever had working on cars over the years. I am far from an expert but just have a go. My top tip is to have a bit of scrap to test the paint compatibility on. So far I have used German primer from Lidl (very good), black from the pound shop (superb for this sort of job) and Halfords lacquer. The top primer for the body is U pol with Jewel base coat and more Halfords lacquer so there is ten potential for a reaction so always worth testing first.