Stub Mandrel

Or even buy a body of the 'bay. I made a strat-style guitar with two humbuckers and a hefty Floyd Rose type bridge and it only weighs just over 6lbs because the body wood si so light, unfortunately also a bit soft so it should relic nicely...

You can always turn to eBay for inspiration...

Phew. I thought you had lost the plot for a minute...

remind them what a DJ costs...

What do you think about that Captain America? "Err ... Avengers dissemble?"

Severe case of bridge lift...

Actually, at the Midlands Bass Bash everyone was pretty civilised volume wise...

Was it JJ Burnel or Jean-Paul Sartre who said 'hell is other bass players'?

Having now got my combo working 100% again, I had a go this morning and wired it up with an extension cab for a theoretical 300W, noting that the 4x10 speakers are now in phase, which definitely made the bass sound more solid. With the input gain on 7 (not near clipping the way I was playing), pre-shape and about 3dB of bottom end boost I cranked it up. At an output gain of 7 there were so many things rattling around the living room I chickened out of going louder. No sign of distortion. My perception is that it's louder than an Ashdown 500 through a single 15, but I would have to a/b them to be sure. But it is loud, very loud and I can't see myself needing louder.

Why is he wearing an Internal Revenue Service?

You'd look crumpled if you'd lain unworn in a draw for 20 years!

And that lot!!!!

A different America that is blindingly good... hope I don't get lynched for mentioning the Nice...

I did think of sticking it on my website...

Saxon, Black Star Riders and Girlschool on the same bill. Must get a neck brace...

Who needs genres...?

Dress to the left, bass to the right. You know it makes sense... Left leg resters? Come the revolution you'll be first up against the wall, together with guitarists who use a footrest and people whose strap still holds the bass up when they sit down. We know who you are!

Yessongs Because it has all the stand out tracks from the previous albums and most of my favourites. I think my collection covers from The Yes Album to Going for the One. I lost enthusiasm when they stopped having Roger Dean covers (always a sign of good music- Greenslade, Babe Ruth, Uriah Heep etc. etc.).

Proper kettle leads can take higher temperatures and have a little cutout. Ordinary ones without the cutout won't fit into things like kettles, ovens and fryers that get hot. But you can fit the high temperature ones in ordinary low-temperature goods. Not a lot of people know that. From wikipedia: C13 C14 14 (H) 4 (V) Yes I Yes 10 70 Very common on personal computers and peripherals. Commonly but incorrectly referred to as a "kettle cord", but kettles actually require the C15/C16. C15 C16 14 (H) 4 (V) Yes I Yes 10 120 For use in high-temperature settings (for example, electric kettle, computer networking closets). Also used in Cisco Catalyst series switches, Cisco MDS9500 series rack-mounted SAN switches,[15] HP Procurve switches, Dell PowerConnect switches and early Xbox 360 power supplies. C15A C16A 14 (H) 4 (V) Yes I Yes 10 155 For use in very-high-temperature settings, such as some stage lighting instruments. Similar to C15/C16, but the top is narrowed to exclude the C15 cord connector.

I hand painted and tie-dyed this one myself over 25 years ago - and it still fits! We got a bit psychedelic at times (when I could get away with it)...

Didn't Paul McCartney play one on 'Give Ireland Back to the Irish'?

60s psychedelia. Space rock. Add flange and phaser as well... 🙂

Well this amp is the one that just keeps on giving. Removing the power amp board revealed the FETs have been replaced. Probably the consequence of running it off that high power PSU. Both fets had 'rubberised' insulators, one with compound on one without, but they looked like the work of the same person (the part numbers for both fets are written on the board in the same fat felt pen). Probably along time ago, as the original Hitachi fets, now obsolete, were used. I replaced all the insulators with mica ones and servisol heatsink compound - best to have them all matched. Also redid the compound on the heatsinking. End result, offset voltage still 0.2V, low enough to be acceptable. That's 1/100th of a watt wasted compared to 16 watts when I started, and there's now no visible displacement of the speaker cones. Most importantly, with parallel fets each one now has to handle ~75W instead of 150W, which is probably a good idea when they are individually rated 125W. Best of all, I've learned the amp inside out and if it DOES fry in the future I'm confident at worst I could rebuild a complete replacement amp from the ground up.