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Stub Mandrel

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  1. Stub Mandrel
    That was the weak day... I will confess, it was Black Sabbath with Ian Gillan - I was probably one of the few people who enjoyed that. Steve Ray Vaughan on his first UK tour (the rumour was that he was an excellent Hendrix mimic). Thin Lizzy's last UK gig (I saw the previous one in Gloucester too) Man! Little Stephen! Mama's Boy's! Suzi Quattro! Steel Pulse! Magnum! Marrillion! Ten Years After!!! And most of the rest were good to! And I got to see the Enid play the Dambuster's March with 15,000 people making googles with their thumbs and forefingers. And Anvil!!!!!
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    My pocket was a bit oversize BUT it wasn't a fender neck - in fact I have no idea where it came from (before the skip where I found it).
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    Blimey, once you start looking they turn up in all sorts of places!
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    Indeed, it's not surface area, it's all down to diameter...
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    No I said you've got to get with the BEAT not the BLEAT!!!
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    I bought one of these made out of similar 'barrel material' in 2018. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Electric-Guitar-Unfinished-Body-Barrel-Material-for-Strat-ST-Guitar-DIY/283051735079?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649 IMHO too soft for a decent guitar, although it looks OK.
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    Obvious answer is to have enough basses that some have them and some don't. I like them because the increase the differences in how my basses feel and the point of having a small collection is that each one makes you play differently. Plus they do look the dogs on a bass with a sunburst and tort scratchplate.
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    Ill see you and raise you 16 years. This was one of the best festivals of the '80s and the BBC recorded it all:
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    Oh luke a cuke buke... 🙂
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    Lose the stickiness.
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    Or is this for something other than a Jazz bass? In case you cant tell, it's angled. I suupose it's ideal for someone who wants to fit an angled Jazz cover to a split P-pickup.
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    Scotchbrite looks the same but has aluminium oxide particles in it and can be very aggressive. I would use wire wool or 600 grit wet and dry if I was to do it again, but I would think twice first. Unless you are a speedfreak guitarist most glossy necks will mellow after some use without losing finish.
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    I never objected to a bit of punk, but as I've grown older I enjoy it al lot more - I love the ramshackle chaos of some of the old live stuff but appreciate that many of the classic punk recordings demonstrate a lot more craft than I realised, even if they sound simple.
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    Scales, some bits IO've been learning recently, and improvise over various scales, usually in a bluesy vein... main objective is to keep the guitarist on his toes 🤣
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    Used 600 grit wet and dry on a couple of my guitars and basses. these days I'm not such a thug.
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    Sad but true story... When I was about eleven I spent ages trying to find the 'Colgate Ring of Confidence' inside a box of toothpaste...
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    Model of the 4x10 in my Trace Elliot combo (Eminence Beta 15s) with an Eminence Beta 15 in a 'well matched' cab at 150 watts. The 4x10 is quite a bit louder, but the 1x15 fills in the bottom end. Like Ice and Cointreau - they complement one another perfectly 🙂 Must open up my 1x15 and find out what the previous owner had fitted when he had it swapped from 4R to 8R. Any guesses?
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    But do you find that it still has unwanted overtones because the damping in the bridge cover isn't powerful enough? 🙂 TBH I find that I don't need to tune more often than two or three times a day 🙂
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    I have an ancient Ibanez digital stereo chorus, funnily enough I saw another one not long ago. I think it works really well with bass.
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    It was clearly a different instrument in those days. Put on a set of brand new roundwounds and everyone would have run a mile. how to play the electric bass carol kaye.pdf
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    Carol Kaye.
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    Things are difficult in our 'random' band at the moment. It's clear three of us are, shall we say, at a different place - not least in our capacity to learn new material or even jam a song we haven't played before. But the other two would probably like to get there but I can't see it happening. I'd like the five of us to do another one of the weekend warrior events, but to become a real, gigging, band we need a more committed front man.
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    My Squier Jazz is a 2001, so the pickups are probably not the same as the new ones. They did sound weedy, after doing the neodymium mod I A/B'd it with my Fender Perfomer, which is only 'average' volume but has an incredible wide range of sounds. I had to turn down by a whole number (8 to 7) when i changed to the modded jazz. The Jaguar presumably has the same pickups as the VM PJ and the P-pickup is fine but I had modded the bridge J pickup and now the bass is really nicely balanced.
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    I'm just a big-mouthed attention-seeking gobshite desperate for validation :-0 At least I'm self-aware...
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