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Stub Mandrel

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  1. Stub Mandrel
    Nice to see a quirky bass made usable.
  2. Stub Mandrel
    Great to see it coming back to life. These are such nice basses, they were outstanding for their price point when they came out.
  3. Stub Mandrel
    Is the rattle just when you lift your finger off or whenever you play the open string? The first could be technique, in which case it will improve as your technique develops, especially damping. If the second the nut could be cut low, still not enough neck relief, action too low especially if your playing style is quite aggressive) or a high fret. Hard to diagnose without the bass in my hands! You said you checked for high frets with a credit card. Something longer such as a 150 - 300mm rule is better. In the short term raising the action a little if you find the rattle intrusive.
  4. Stub Mandrel
    I'm Stub Mandrel and I endorse this message. Waiting for A Strings to open their new doors properly.
  5. Stub Mandrel
    Genuine sticker from Birmingham Bass Centre!
  6. Stub Mandrel
    I honestly was about to google cangle wax... 🤣
  7. Stub Mandrel
    Adverts that say how fantastic a bass is, but are selling it anyway. "It's an incredible sounding and feeling instrument but I just can't bond with the colour!" Hmm.
  8. Stub Mandrel
    It like it. Taste is so personal.
  9. Stub Mandrel
    I wouldn't presume to suggest what you should like. I have 19 basses, active and passive, 4 & 5 string, long and short scale, fretted and fretless, modern and traditional, d from every decade from the 60s to the 2020s. So I think I'm very open to different instruments. I've tried basses like the modern players. They look pretty, but I don't bond with them. My friends who have had early 60s fenders since the 60s/70s still gig them and I do prefer them. The two basses I find myself gigging most are the 1960 P reissue and the 1963 J reissue. Having played real ones, I'm pretty sure I would use them if I could.
  10. Stub Mandrel
    It makes me sad to see that YOB bass for me that I will never own 😫 At least I have my AVII.
  11. Stub Mandrel
    Hawkwind at Castell Roc again. Wonderful venue for an amazingly fluent and confident band.
  12. Stub Mandrel
    I noticed that your Gaelic pronunciation of 'Fender' is phonetically written as 'Rickenbacker'.
  13. Stub Mandrel
    Do you remember Nobles? Safly closing at the moment
  14. Stub Mandrel
    Sorry, I find that highly ambiguous. The arrows are drawn in the same plane as the truss rod and Allen key... so it's possible to interpret those arrows as meaning either direction. If you see it as looking into the end of the truss rod along the allen key, it suggests anti-clockwise as tighten.
  15. Stub Mandrel
    Yep, we were originals and the other bands probably were too.
  16. Stub Mandrel
    FTFY
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    If you use this like I get 90p commission! https://amzn.to/4m67EGR
  18. Stub Mandrel
    I searched the British Newspaper Archive last night and found a tiny ad for a gig by my old band Two Moon Junction (named after a spicy movie) at the 'Newt and Cucumber', in 1993. The extraordinary thing is a pub putting on three live bands for a Monday Night. Things were different then.
  19. Stub Mandrel
    All started with a gulf of misunderstanding.
  20. Stub Mandrel
    I've seen several bassists in established bands using the cheap Lekato straps iff Amazon. I have two.
  21. Stub Mandrel
    Never come across that. I'm a member of two and used to rehearse regularly in a third. Perhsps it's a regional thing.
  22. Stub Mandrel
    Bought a Spectracomp from Simon,rapidly despatch and well packaged. Many thanks!
  23. Stub Mandrel
    Peter Noble now in Whitchurch and closing I got my first bass amp from the Llanishen store about 86.
  24. Stub Mandrel
    Quad electrostatic speakers!
  25. Stub Mandrel
    Music Exchange and Bass Centre in Birmingham, unused to go there with bandmates in the late 80s/early 90s.
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