Stub Mandrel

Cripes those are cheap! Are they as good as their basses? (OK not quite as cheap as I thought with VAT added, but still cheap.)

Sound good to me, put a set on Hohner BVa and they sound much better than whatever was one before, especially the B string. I've used elites for years.

I bet they were tuned properly, given their reliance on keyboards and JJ's classical training.

I use these, whether you call them cheap depends on what others you've been looking at! http://www.basscentre.com/elites-dbe-series/elites-double-ball-end-v.html

I have a few Boss pedals ancient HM2 & BEQ7 plus a TU3. While they are great, losing that stupid little screw on the front would be a 'good thing'.

I fitted proper knobs to my Laney, as a Trace rip-off it originally had little white 'nips'. Rather than fill gaps I fitted proper slider caps. Check out the controls, it's 100% a Trace clone on the outside. Inside it uses op-amp based circuitry, rather than pure transistor like the GP11. Also uses remote FET switches rather than having mechanical ones in the signal path. So strangely its technically more advanced but it doesn't sound as good! It would be a shame to spoil the TE, but I honestly think these knobs do look better: Dang, now I'm getting really BAD thoughts about bi-amping, but that would demand another 8R cab... room for a 15" perhaps?

These little b****rs cost about $22 a pair to import from British Audio in the US. I need a green one, so I've done a trial 3D printed one, with layers 0.05mm (0.002") high. Unfortunately it's blue, but it looks a lot smoother than the picture with such thin layers, it cold be tidied up a bit and polished. I've ordered some green PLA and I will print another one with 0.025mm layers which is as close to injection moulding as I can get. The white dots appear to be painted on.

That's not just a bass, it's a biography!

Many thanks, , of course the really interesting thing now is 'what are the other 80 basses' and the Fender outliers and oddities' 🙂

You mean the old technique of going on a pub crawl round town and handing out demo tapes to any landlords willing to give you a few minutes dopesn't work anymore?

If anyone wants their books signed for a far more modest fee, let me know. I have quite passable handwriting. I'll repeat my original and long-forgotten question is there now a list of the featured basses (or can someone take a photo/scan of the contents page)

I ended up buying four or five different types. The best is a cheap stripey and long strap witha big velcro pad on it, I just cut it short so it just warps around my wrist. I didn't like the 'thumb' one although i was able to cut the thumb bit off.

No, they had them all set up ready. Just didn't bother plugging in. Swarby suffered serious hearing loss in the seventies which were part of the reason why Fairport broke up.

The seller's username is "tedkarslake" and lives in Leigh on Sea. He's also selling this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ovation-Custom-Ballladeer-1612/223533081085?hash=item340b9c21fd:g:yaQAAOSwa55cVZ6L A professional musician called 'Ted Karslake' is on twitter and shares tweetws with Paul Karslake, the artist who was indeed Ronnie Wood's BIL and also lives in Leigh on Sea. As the guitars are 'collection only' I think the balance of probability is that they are genuine.

Ivor Biggun and the Red Nosed Burglars, but it's been done...

I saw Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick in a pub in Brighton. The room was so small people were crowded outside the door. They went to get started looked at each other and Martin said 'let's not bother with the amps!' I spent a magical hour or two narrowly avoiding being poked in the eye by Swarbie's bow.

Loo on teh bright side, WTO rules and we'll have to go through this if we buy something from Europe...

Might be three separate businesses to keep under the VAT threshold. Those mutes might look expensive if they were £36 each...

My Mojo is zip-tied to the forks of my mountain bike.

No, You transfer the money back to him. He then reclaims £10-K via paypal.

I thought a heavy metal band could be called Truss. But they would only ever be support...

I have some sympathy - I read this on Wikipedia earlier: Translates as "let the bass player use whatever effects he wants, as long a she keeps the volume down and we can send a dry signal to the punters". Surely what's needed (and I have no experience of big shows) is being able to trust the sound engineer (and making sure your DI switch is set to 'post').

I'm going to have to give this Westone Thunder proposal some careful thought now...

Have you seen this? https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2013/may/15/ginger-baker-beware-mr-baker-interview

I've just been 'noodling' without the 12x12 attached. With the input gain set high and preshape on and gentle (3dB) lift at the bottom end I couldn't really go past 1 on the volume in my workshop. The 'dum, da-de-dum' riff from Human sounds great. As does a bit of Sly Stone. It's definitely sending me funky...