Stub Mandrel

Than normal flu. The 1918 strain was far more lethal than ordinary flu.

The 2018 flu pandemic killed a quarter of a million people in the UK. It's calculated that 50% of the population was infected. The death rate was probably around 2-3%. A the time one could equally have said: " The first thing to note is that the vast majority of influenza cases produce symptoms similar to a cold. Of those that are more serious than a cold, the vast majority produce symptoms similar to flu. Of those that are more serious than flu, most sufferers develop very nasty symptoms that can be life-threatening to a minority of the population. And finally you reach the cases that the media are drooling over ... people dying. " The main difference is that it appeared to have an additional peak in mortality for 30-year olds: Coronavirus seems to be just as infectious, but may have a lower death rate - we really don't know as there simply aren't reliable figures on how many people are infected without symptoms (or who hide them). The things that are certain are that we still have too little data to really understand how the outbreak will progress; it could be a year or more before we have a vaccine to enable us to do more than we could have done for historic pandemics; and if this one does fizzle out, there will eventually be one that doesn't.

Crikey Ped, when did you last change those strings? Hourglass wear at the 20h fret?!

Mysteries of the universe... eBay (and the wider shopping world) is awash with cheap Jazz bass pickup covers, J-bridge covers and P-bridge covers. But you can only get P-bass pickup covers sourced from Fender. Does anyone know why?

Past a certain age, nothing is better than a clean loo!

I line my control routing with lead sheet and use depleted uranium pole picks on my pickups. I never get neck dive and get great sustain 🙂

The corona virus has been contained more effectively than flu, but possibly spreads more easily. The 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic is possibly directly comparable. So it ain't going to wipe out civilisation, but it could have a profound impact on us all, as even 1% of the current population is about 70 million people.

A few of weeks ago we got free beers before the set, and after. The landlord was most upset I only wanted a half afterwards (driving) "The Worthington's virtually alcohol free anyway!" In the 'green room' for a 5-band gig my brother's band were playing at a month ago there were two huge trays of sarnies and free cans of beer and cider (but the bands were playing for nowt as it was a fund-raiser for a free festival). 🙂

The attention to detail - it's a 5-string bridge 🙂 But refreshingly honest " This is probably the Worlds Ugliest BASS Guitar on earth if You can call it that. Fretless 2x4 Primative UGLY 1 OF 1- 3 Strings. Sounds worse than it looks almost unplayable. High action. Condition is Used. "

You'd better take a lie down, having such a good idea can be dangerous for those of a delicate constitution.

There's no universal 'right' for a setup, it's mostly dependant on an individual's playing style and choice of strings, but with some variation according to other factors - for example if you fret hard (especially with 'jumbo frets') you will tend to lift the strings a little just past the fret reducing buzz at low actions (try it!)

I'm trying to blag us a spot at a festival where dear Cheesney is a headliner...

You might not find that getting the right angle and position of the bridge with the default saddle arrangement gives you the best compromise (all strings within a few cents of spot on). Adjust it to get the best possible result, and if one or two strings are still significantly out, consider changing the slot their saddles are in. You MIGHT find that (depending on the strings you use) the best setup is with the E saddle in slot 3, A and D string saddles in the slot 2 and the G string in slot 1. You may even find another arrangement works best like this one: Personally I would angle the bridge to get the best

Then fit the castors on the side! Those Mesa castors look like bog standard off the shelf items to me, why not buy some ordinary locking castors with the same size plate (you should be able to get better quality with proper tyres and even a ball bearing hub for less than the cost of those ones!)

I would rout a groove into the back, to about 2" in from the edge then fit a cylinder jack - this would remove the risk of a protruding jack catching and splitting the body.

But excellent for smiting down ravening hordes of goblins...

Aptly named...?

R's (Try saying it...)

1/4" originally...!

I've 3D printed two castor cups with flat bottoms and three screw holes to go on top on my 1x15 to stop my TE 4x10 combo rolling around. That said I have fitted castors with two locking ones for the front pair (the non-locking ones go in the cups)

Probably @andytoad 🙂

I'm thinking of building a 4-ohm, 1x12 for dual use - as an extension (actually bypassing the internal 8" speaker) for my little orange Crush 25, but also suitable for use with something like a Trace Elliot Elf.. I'm afraid I like a somewhat bottom heavy sound... might the Beyma 212 be what I want? I've been pondering a 1x12 build for along time and been playing with Winlsd guided by multiple threads on this forum. I've found this thread particularly useful. Looking at a 60l cab ( a bit bigger than Phil's design, but bout what I want) tuned to 48hz, I get a max SPL of 120dB at 350 W (I wouldn't want to put quite that much power through it) and a single 8.2cm port gives a vmax of 17 m/s. At a realistic 25W this would give an spl of 108dB which I reckon would be enough for non-drummer situations and with a 250W amp 119dB would be enough for small gigs... So questions: 1 Do those figures seem in the right ballpark? 2 I recall from 'designing' 'hifi' cabs in the late 70s (armed with no more than library books and Radiospares recommended cabinet volume) that it was 'good thing' to make sure all the internal dimensions were different (and ideally not simple multiples of each other) to minimise extra resonances. Does this apply to basscabs in a meaningful way - I note that many combos appear to be almost cubes. 3 what do the jury say about wadding?

I sometimes worry such music places an intellectual exercise above musicality.* *Which really means some of those chords are outside my comfort zone...

We played 'I'll be there' the other day. To be fair, it's a really good bit of songwriting with some creative changes.