Paul S

No backline, just into the pa. Due to some magic I don't understand these units sit behind us without any feedback issues and so I can hear what goes through without extra monitoring. Great kit imo.

All thanks to you, Davie.

That is bloomin' lovely. How much does it weigh, do you know?

I can maybe stop looking at your one now.

Got it back this morning. I couldn't be happier! Looks amazing - Leighton Jennings made a fabulous job of the modding - and actually sounds great, too. I thought at first it was a touch too mellow in the clank department but then changed the eq from my P bass setting to a slight push on the upper mids (I normally cut these) and a bit more treble and now have a passable Rick-type tone. With all the new innards it works out at 3.4kg, which is a whisker under 7.5lbs. A little neck dive, cured by a grippy strap. Happy chap Big question - do I bother with some black triangle 'inlay' markers? I invested a whole 99p in getting a sheet to make some but am now thinking it looks fab without. Maybe I'll do it and see. Someone who knows Ricks would know but I have a feeling the unbound bodies are more likely to have dot markers anyway?

I quite like your posts. Gives me a direction - when you write your usual disparaging ranty diatribe about something it means I should check it out as I will probably like it 😂

Bet they get a lot of disappointed male tourists.

The bridge pup was a drop in, the neck Maxon was a different size to the Artec, which needed some fettling to fit into the rout and a new pickguard - but by all accounts the Artec mudbucker is a drop in for Epiphone and Gibson. The dimensions are there on the Artec site somewhere.

This one still hurts Yamaha SB-35.

I have an old '71 Antoria short scale EB-3 and swapped both stock Maxon pickups for Artec ones. Stupidly cheap but a massively more mudbuckery.

Best I can come up with isn't even a Sabbath song but Ozzie's 'Mamma Mia I'm Coming Home'

That's got legs, I'd say.

My fave track from that album. Great stuff!

Don't know her but saw her live and enjoyed it very much. Great voice, loads of character. Great gig to get Blue.

What is an 'FSO' please?

Well, all the bits have arrived and been handed over to the guy who does my bits and pieces and he is going to make a start on it next week. Going to treat it to a new pickguard and 4 of these Ric-style jaunty, labelled knobs - treble/bass and volume/tone so I don't forget which one does what Plus a fat toggle pickup selector switch. It won't look exactly like a Ric and I don't suppose it will sound exactly like a Ric but near enough to keep me happy - plus it is going to cost me under £375 all in, which isn't exactly like a Ric, either. I'm allowing myself to get a bit excited about this Pics will be posted when done.

Laser-like logic, Mr Del-Var, with an unequivocal solution. Well done.

This is exactly the sort of thing I'm doing with my lot, too, and I absolutely love it. I like the way it kind of falls between a cover and an original as for every song there is room to go somewhere within the structure. Learning Hendrix's 'Stone Free' for Friday There's a Gary Moore 'Blues For Jimi' version with Mitch Mitchell and Billy Cox that we are going to align with, except maybe we'll work out an ending

That's fine, it is your opinion. I like it. That's my opinion. The world still turns.

2 pickup set neck one on eBay at the moment. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/275119800421?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160811114145%26meid%3D7dadb398869443bb8a8eeee1e7fb2fb4%26pid%3D100667%26rk%3D5%26rkt%3D8%26sd%3D125104697088%26itm%3D275119800421%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2334524%26brand%3DDeArmond&_trksid=p2334524.c100667.m2042&LH_ItemCondition=3000

Indeed. But they weren't called the Sensational Alex Harvey ... oh, never mind

i suspect I'd have found your potato's singing voice slightly easier on my ears than Mr Lee, whose vocals I can't get my head round.

That can't be right. According to Wiki he formed the band.

A random observation. Years ago someone on here flagged up using La bella white nylon tapes for acoustics so I tried a set. Wow. Much livelier than the black nylon ones, sharper and middier, but still the same sort of feel. Not cheap just to take a punt on, mind.

That entirely depends upon your own perspective, doesn't it. I was a huge fan of SAHB, saw them multiple times. I saw SAHB without Alex when they toured, bought the album. IMO they were excellent - a totally different band to SAHB but still a fine bunch of musicans playing good music. You might not like what they did (have you even listened to any?) but no way were they 'awful'. Yet another 'I don't like it so it must be crap' type comment. Opinions may vary, folks Here on the OGWT