Crusoe

Double (fence) post

20 hours ago, Beedster said:

Strings, who mentioned strings, luxury, all I had was a fret 😀

You had a fret? An actual fret made of metal? Luxury!! Don't even get me started on fretboards and necks... an old fence post that I found in a field were all I 'ad.

Well done Danny, congratulations. Sounds like a great time.

That looks the business

*The Smiths have entered the chat*

1 hour ago, lownote said:

It has to be unlined fretless.  Not because that's good for rock but because I just think everyone should play unlined fretless 🤣🤣🤣

No way. I watched the video on that other thread. 😄

1 minute ago, Beedster said:

 

Buying that particular bass when not being able to play fretless is like me buying a helicopter however.... 

 

 

😄 When I said it makes sense, I meant I understood why his playing wasn't great. Let me know how you get on with that helicopter

On 26/02/2023 at 01:24, Norris said:

The luthier that taught me had a pair of pincers that he ground down to make the tips quite sharp for getting under the frets to remove them. Some heat will help too e.g. from a soldering iron

 

For nut files, don't buy cheap. I'll say it again - don't buy cheap. Hosco are a decent brand, but are not cheap

Yesterday, I watched a YouTube video that someone had posted on here, where a guy refurbished a MM stingray neck. He applied some solder to each fret and ran the soldering iron up and down the frets to heat them, before removal.

5 minutes ago, Beedster said:

OK, didn't watch all of it just tried to find sections in which the bass was being played - increasingly a rarity on YT demos - but he seems to not really be an especially competent fretless player, or is that the point of the clip? 

There is a bit near the end where he says that he's only had the bass for a few months, which makes sense.

27 minutes ago, TrevorG said:

It really does take your breath away. What a stunning bass. Can ask how much it cost?

Id say that if you looked at one of the dangly things hanging from your shoulder and one hanging from your bum, it would be about that expensive. 😄

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Umm, that's it. Why are you still reading my list?

1 hour ago, pfretrock said:

I love passive basses!

I love acoustic basses

On 26/02/2023 at 16:10, Horizontalste said:

Imagine the scenario, you've been playing with the order of your pedals during the week & at Fridays gig you feel like the GOAT (ask the kids) cuz you know your new sound is gonna blow everyone away!

 

But you plug everything in, you look as cool as the proverbial cucumber then you go to sound check & theres no signal getting to your amp!

 

You check over everything convinced that you've set up the signal chain just like you did when playing at home, you scratch your head, you begin to feel heat building up in your face & you know your cheeks are going red!

 

Then, the drummer looks over your shoulder & says "you've got there input & output backwards on your tuner mate"!

 

THE DRUMMER! 

I turned my amp on yesterday, pressed the overdrive pedal and nothing. Checked the volume knobs on the guitar and amp; checked the cables, scratched head. Remembered that I had unplugged the power to the pedal board to charge my bike light. Thank goodness I'm only a bedroom player.

6 minutes ago, rwillett said:

Thanks for the information. My sample set is two sets of bass strings and one of those was trashed. Playing the new strings feels great, but I have no experience to base this on anything else.

 

I am unclear what Roto 40-100 means, but I suspect this is the thickness of the strings? if I replaced the current (and new ones) with thinner and less high tension ones, I think I would still need the truss rod sorted out? is that correct?

 

Thanks

Rob

That's just the bass version of guitar strings eg on a six stringer you might user Ernie Ball Super Slinky 9-46

Welcome!

I'm another Money man. Maybe a bit of Good Times by Chic or Transmission by Joy Division.

I don't remember my parents playing many records in the house. There were some old albums there, like James Last and His Orchestra, or Frank Ifield, and the old dads' favourite, Jennifer Rush. My dad liked a bit of Status Quo and I still quite like some of their older stuff like Piledriver or Blue for You. My neighbours mum had been a big Beatles fan so I ended up liking them and I remember he had a 7" copy of Golden Brown by the Stranglers which remains my favourite song to this day. 

Glad to hear it's gone well so far, so I'm wishing you all the best for your recovery.

On 02/02/2023 at 06:20, Bolo said:

New band name!

I thought it was a Rod Stewart song that the Stereophonics covered.

Just now, Dood said:

The strings are hitting the top of the pickups because you are plucking the strings towards the body rather than picking up and down - I can tell this is playing finger style. 

I wasn't sure it it was the frets or pickups. 👍

15 hours ago, Doctor J said:

There's a thread about an early 70's Precision with a five figure price tag and a neck just as misaligned. Nobody seemed to care about that, just that it was old. Fender can get away with this because they have always gotten away with this. Brand names are more important than quality.

I can remember when I started playing bass in the early 90s, the advice in the magazines was not to touch a 70s CBS era Fender with an excrement coated stick.

I don't hear anything that sounds like fret buzz. I can hear a "click", but I think that's just the strings hitting the frets as you pluck them, a bit like Steve Harris (Iron Maiden) sounds.

1 hour ago, Che said:

Right after Seventh Son of a Seventh Son and right after And Justice for All. 

I don't remember typing this... 🤔

Disgraceful that there's no mention of Andy Rourke in this thread.