Stub Mandrel

My plectral stash, the box is early 80's. I've seen some lovely ones covered in matches (used to be a reliable sign of an old lag), plus those with the logo scraped to read 'COLD VIRGIN'.

Look original.

About 40 years old (it not me) and I still can't play it properly... my first electric is older but you said no guitars!

Wouldn't it make sense to use a waterproof adhesive under such circumstances...

One of those as a bass...  Not far off in 187, see below...

Nah, I'm 6'2" but it's still bigger than a guitar. Does Leslie West worry about looking silly playing a little six-string? - Possibly...

I doubt this will keep anyone foxed for long...

The Jaguar SS comes close.

Nope 🙂 None of my others sound like that.

Our drummer takes the fosters out of me for always turn up to practice with a different bass (OK I rotate through five, but I like the way each feels and sounds different). I still haven't had the guts to turn up with my 5-string.

Go on then, or I've got a dead easy one...

I bought the Thunder 1 Stew sold. Used in in anger (rehearsal) for the first time this week, it sounds more precision than a precision does - as in that cliche rumble when you hit the e-string, like a touch of distortion even when you are playing quietly. Gratuitous picture, just to make Stew wish he hadn't sold it... It does appear to have the control cavity stuffed with neutron star matter, so no neck dive issues then... I'd forgotten but my brother* had a 1A he converted (tastefullyish) into a lefty so it looked like an SG. Also i hadn't realised his current bass is a Westone Spectrum DX, the top of the range and a proper lefty. *the ukelele/bassy one, not the guitary one.

I'm a sucker for a bargain. My brother gave me my B2 (in all fairness, I later gave him my Hohner Jazz because my Performer does everything it did, better). My performer was abandoned in a corner of the practice room my band used to borrow, so crusted in gunk I got sold it dirt cheap (turns out iot was only about five or six years old, it looked nearer 25 but was mint under the crap). My Jack V was ridiculously cheap s/h. As in absurdly cheap. My Jaguar SS felt so good after trying out a horrible Wal and the guy knocked 10% off (so I spent eh money I saved on a mandolin strap...) Then Stew did one of his dutch auctions on the Thunder 1. Now his bloody Explorer is preying on my mind night and day...

It supposed to be like in the original post, although some nuts are the same height right across so the smaller strings appear to sit deeper in the slots.

May I borrow the time machine when you've finished with it?

Or look down this thread... This guy claimed to own it in 2011 - you could make an offer for the actual shirt! https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/what-band-clothing-do-you-own.250707/

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Walking on the Moon.

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Probably a good idea as you have to soften the old glue soaked into the back of the tolex. I'd also peel the tolex back to get a bigger new surface to spread the glue on.

Sounds like hide glue...

+1 for this. I did one and now the 'Grizzly Beers' are presently engaged in expanding our set list up to about 2 hours from the 40 minutes we originally did 🙂 The discipline of learning about 15 songs (e.n. route to whittling down to 9) was incredibly good for getting me back into playing properly.

MNaybe it's a bit niche, but how about a hollow body 24-fret SS bass/mandolin twin neck.

I ended up making my own hard case for my Jaguar SS.