Shambo

I'm looking for a luthier based in Bristol to set up a Stingray for me. I could do it myself, but the adjustments would never end... up a bit, down a bit, back a bit, forward a bit, repeat ad infinitum. I'm happy to pay for a good pro luthier, then tell them how I'd like it to play. They can usually do a better job than me. I hear Waghorn only does guitar builds now. Or that Eltham Jones doesn't work in Bristol very often. Can someone recommend one to me please?

Bought a Stingray off Lawrie this evening. Collected it from his house and he was kind enough to give me a lift home! Very nice to meet you, hope we can do business again sometime.

I just picked up one of these new. In a musicshop audition with the Fender Rumble 15 and a Laney RB1, it was the clear winner for me. Not very loud but it articulates well. Definitely for bedroom practice, not band practice use.

Bought a bass of Mike today, which he delivered personally. Great to meet you. A highly recommended forumite.

I decided to face my fears head on. Like when I watch Heather Smalls on the Camino De Santiago, I've been singing 'You've got to search for the hero inside yourself', in a deep husky voice, as I photoshopped a mock up of the automotive incubus that haunts my sweaty nights. I'm hoping this will help me better come to terms with my irrational phobia.

That... rippled beige texture. It reminds me of quilted maple. Gross.

It'd look much better in Butterscotch Blonde... IMHO I'll take one from the middle please.

It certainly suits the guitar but, for me? I'd take the orange one please. Even the blue version seems to have a bit of a subtle burst thing going on and for that reason, I'm out.

Actually, the antiquity of the burst finish works nicely with the 1950's pulp sci-fi body shape... and I've got a real big Big Al SSS itch that I can't quite reach to scratch. If you were to ever put this one up for sale, despite me really wanting one, I could never bring myself to buy it and that makes me sad.

Strong word isn't it? Hate? A couple of years ago I had a dream (nightmare) that I was driving around my locale, visiting friends, in a clapped out old Austin Metro. The jalopy in question had been finished in tobacco sunburst by a previous, semi-professional, pensionable rock guitar wombler, who needed to express his intrinsic love of everything rock and/or metal to absolutely everybody he passed on the street. I'd found myself the owner by virtue of being unable to afford anything else. Each body panel had individually been resprayed tobacco sunburst... the roof, wings, doors, hatch and bonnet each had that brown middle moving into red and then to black along its edges. The stanchions that held up the roof were black, as were the bumpers. I woke up and was awoken to a basic internal disgust for any guitar with a burst finish. At first, I thought it a mildly amusing figment of my imagination, one that I would soon forget. But I can't. My dislike tobacco sunburst has since extended to any type of burst finish, surpassing my previous best dislike of coffee table basses... even more that the nausea I feel when I see quilted maple, which looks to me like baby has just vomited a Farley's Rusk on my shoulder. I despise it. I see perfectly good basses that I'd like perhaps to own, but couldn't entertain the thought of buying just because of their finish. Is it just me? What is my problem?

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WAIT until he's started his course, got settled in, spoken to his tutors and come to understand exactly what hardware he needs to progress with his studies. He won't need a new mac on the first day of his course and will have a better understanding of exactly what's needed after 3-4 months.

A friend of mine has a couple of those tall thin advertising pull ups for his band, and I can't quite decide if it looks naff because of the thoughtless design, (think plain white background and comic sans type font from MS Office), or that it simply betrays their day jobs as office workers trying a bit too hard. Not against then per se, just that that a poor visual ident can have a negative effect. If you can't do it justice then it might be better not to do it at all. If you can't/don't have a backdrop then you could just get the singist to remind the punters of the bands name every few songs.

Catching up with a topic I posted in a couple of weeks ago, (pre update), and I'm getting little bleeping notifications about '1 new post, go to new post', but there aren't new posts in the thread. I don't know if it's been mentioned earlier in this thread, I haven't read it all obviously. I'm liking the new update overall. Good work. P.S. My avitar has been squashed to fit in the circle. This is an outrage.