Stub Mandrel

Just missing smiley, I fgured your list was trying to be as 'out there' as possible 🙂

Last couple of visits to Cardiff - PMT crammed to the gills, Cranes, a few doors away, almost deserted. From, the Street Cranes looks like a shop for 'serious' musicians - "please show your Grade 8 certificate to the attendant before approaching the instruments". But out the back, loads of nice guitars (not many basses) and knowledgeable friendly guys. OTOH, PMT sucks in all the wannabees and djent-merchants and has killed off most of the competition.

Allow me to correct that for you...

Just about any combination of the musicians on Stephen Still's first solo album?

Angus Young?

You want sacrilege? Squirt expanding polyurethane foam in the f-holes 😈

I found this neck in a skip 🙂 The eBay body blank belonged in one... it was almost as soft as balsa!

For something a bit different for sort of psychadelic jazz/folk: Dave Pegg or Jack Bruce Simon House or Jerry Goodman Cozy Powell or Billy Cobham Jorma Kaukonen or Leslie West

Check this out, found it on a 'what are you listening to thread'. Jump to 1:50 if need be!

I got snapped at the Midlands Bash. As you can see I am either of enormous size or that's a 24" scale bass...

Here's the K-2T - just bit of plywood with pickups screwed on the front! His MDF guitar is 40 years late!

Having a gig in the diary does focus the mind! This came up in conversation at the Bass chat; there are bands that never get past rehearsal. In contrast for the 'weekend warrior' event I'm doing we have to perform 5-8 songs. We have 9 and have dropped a few - and only done four rehearsals. We are all old enough and ugly enough to know you learn songs at home and use rehearsal to practice playing them together!

This is just to pile on the guilt about the Westone Thunder so I end up paying £2K for it... 😆

An ancient (30+ years) pair of 12" Mackenzies in a box made to similar dimensions to the 12x12 cab I already had. I think they are intended for guitar use and happy in an open back cab so probably pretty robust. I have tried to get Thiele Small parameters for them but they have no identifying model details. If I can find a nice cardboard tube of suitable diameter I will experiment with different port sizes. Actuially looking at the chart on my earlier thread they might be the 12-100 TC - they have big voice coils and twin cones.

After having them explained, I've just had one of my speakers wired up to a signal generator. Distressed to see the sound dropping like a stone below 69Hz. I removed a handle to create a port in the side... and it got slightly worse 😞

Start of the 90s we used to practice in a room in an old mansion that a band who lived there had converted into a practice room. There was an unloved and funny-shaped bass in the corner, gummed up with tobbaco smoke and dust. We agreed £80 as it was bass no-one wanted. It's now my treasured Fender Performer :-) Then last October, found the match for my Hohner B2, a Jack Custom V. Then the guy said tehre's a case too - a hard case and inside it a jack lead and Dunlop QR strap... all for £130, and it had a fresh battery in it!

Representing the Campaign for Real Sideburns... Why has Ritchie got bird poo all over his jacket? And that Rainbow must have given him ideas...

No, I mean a really Really REALLY weedy sound.

Amazing that a layer of varnish weighs 2lbs!

I found this thread:

The weak point with reviews by companies that sell things is that if they are in a position to review they have to sell them too... I sometimes review things (not instruments!) and my rule is if it doesn't make the grade I let them know why and don't write the review - why promote something not up to scratch?, In one case I didn't want to undermine a product that I know many people swear by but just wouldn't work well with me equipment, despite much help and advice from their techie).

The original fades and I think what he plays at the end is completely improvised! We've agreed I'll just do the little trill then go round again. Three times for some unknown reason... I've really enjoyed learning it.

😮 Sorry!

😆 As we noticed when it went through my little Orange Crush - like breaking glass until I turned the treble down! I couldn't believe it when you told me to pull the foamy bits off!

PROBABLY red to white will work, but if it hums when you move it near electrics, try reversing one pickup. The other way is to hold them side by side with the polepieces aimed at the SAME string. One way round there will be barely any bass, the correct way round is when the bass sounds good and solid. Unfortunately, different manufacturers use different colours for the same coils and I've even found with a guitar humbucker the only certain test is whether or not it sounds duff. Also (as I found) on a PJ guitar if it sounds weak and pathetic with both pickups maxed, you need to swap the wires on the J pickup.