Stub Mandrel

Not well known outside Ireland. I have The Man Who Built America on original vinyl.

Add a zero the price and say it's a boutique maker and people will be falling over themselves for it... (I think I tweeted my disgust for that particular one a few weeks ago...)

I hope no-one is sad enough to leave the bit of plastic with the control names on in place....

It does sound great, I haven't played a bouzouki since the early 90s and as I think it was tuned AGDB (or similar) like the top four strings of a guitar to make it easy to play. GDAD would be like a strumstick with a bass string 🙂

It is possible to design amps with Safe Operating ARea Protection - SOAR - that limit their output if they start to overheat, so they run louder and longer with better cooling. In practice I've only come across this on integrated amps - much easier to design with all the sensing components on the same chip. It would surprise me if compact class-D amps don't do this. It can also allow an amp to output brief amounts of headline grabbing power taht it can't handle continuously. Worth remembering that the PSU needs to keep up as well and if its a high-power SMPSU it will probably need forced cooling. (On which point these days most computer PSUs are virtually silent so why aren't amps?)

The black bell shaped object is a jig that should help you with making a neat job of sanding the sides of the cavity. It's not always obvious but the sanding drums fit over the rubber cylinder, loosen screw, slide on sanding drum and tighten the screw to expand the rubber and grip the drum. Easy to split to crease the drum if you don't know this.

Trace usually have something written by the speaker o/p. explaining what impedance speaker you can connect and how.

It's a Gadzooki!

My Firefox is set up so that Facebook content is only available when it's in a fenced off container to stop it sucking up all my personal data.

You got to admire his guts...

String wrapped...

Probably, if it's an 8 ohm cab.

Cool cat, another P-bass with a 50s style headstock 🙂

How many do you need, Ped? I can do you great deal...

If an amp has no fans, you have to ask 'why is it so unpopular?' 🤣

And how does this rate as a pop song...

Something good to discover in 2020, although it did make me a bit misty eyed. Nice to see DM drumming, but feel a bit sorry for Gerry on tambourine.

Interesting, but it's clear Trace changed things lots. That diagram is marked SMX Power Board and is dated '97. I think my amp is older than that as it has a GP11 preamp.

If it's designed properly to be cooled passively, it should not matter. I'm assuming it's the same 300W unit in my TE amp of similar date, which has an always-on (but actually rather quiet) fan. <edit> Yep, the SMX series have a 12V fan

Beware the snowballs of Satan.... Why do they remind me of this:

Birthin', bondin' and buryin'

Well I just listened to a YT documentary on Spem* Alium by Thomas Tallis, including a performance at the end. Left me wanting to experience it live. At ~450 years old it isn't new music but is is to me... *That's spem @Skinnyman

Klaus Wunderlich and his Amazing Organ. My dad was into Klaus when I was a kid. Now I know what I was missing (and I can see from the video that Klaus was about as enthusiastic as I am...)

I have little pocket book of guitar chords by Ulf Goran Ahslund (anyone remember him?) The best bit is on each of far too many chords it gives their (impossible) fingerings and inversions for guitar accompanied by a little dude with a 'smiley' face that reflects the character of the chord e.g. happy, melancholy, apprehensive, totally confused...

And the root of 50% of anti-ukelele prejudice...