EssentialTension

[quote name='spacey' timestamp='1419772562' post='2642569'] Repaired a jaguar that the strap button would not stay in no matter what screw was used, even a 3 inch chipboard screw would not stay in. The wood looked to have been tampered to give it a hard finish, but underneath it was like balsa wood and it had to be honed out and filled with epoxy wood resin and then drilled to get the strap button to stay. Most unusual circumstance. I guess in China anything goes as long as it looks good. My personal opinion added to this is putting Fender on Chinese made instruments has lowered the brand to budget instrument from what once was Kudos instrument status. [/quote] I've seen exactly that problem on a USA Fender. It needed a coach screw and Araldite.

So-called TV logo dates from 1969 and later. So bass is after that date. Tugbar moved to finger-rest above the E string from 1974. So bass is before that date. Being Fender these dates need to be taken with a pinch of salt.

It looks like someone is shouting.

Is it this one? http://youtu.be/kvU2GSy85hA

I have had two Chinese made Squiers and both were very good.

Always right-angled, less chance of accidental damage.

Flatwound bass strings in guitar shops is extremely rare.

[quote name='Gaslion' timestamp='1412983846' post='2573972'] ... The best sounding is the one i take to my workshop ... [/quote] ... and what is your test for best sounding?

Using a pick is no fail at all - check out Bobby Vega.

Nonsense.

... and welcome.

[quote name='bluejay' timestamp='1419350514' post='2639032'] ... as long as you stay within the rules [/quote] That's a quote from Joe Stalin isn't it?

I think something that may have been different in the 1960s was that the old executives of the record companies did not pretend to know much of anything about the 'new' music and people got signed and given something of a free hand especially if they managed to sell even a few copies. By the 1970s, and ever since, the newer generation of executives thought they knew the new music and interfered accordingly. This is only meant as wild generalisation and not a fully sourced historical analysis that I wish to defend. I did once hear Zappa in an interview saying something similar.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1419371640' post='2639352'] Love it! Blue [/quote] I thought you'd like it and I do like it myself. It's interesting to see the development over the six years.

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/251945-the-rolling-stones-ed-sullivan-appearances-1964-69/"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/251945-the-rolling-stones-ed-sullivan-appearances-1964-69/[/url]

http://youtu.be/pMY5KyEVq2g

[quote name='alyctes' timestamp='1419282071' post='2638390'] Nope, they are triangular-bodied. This seems to me to be a lute with only a single set of strings. [/quote] ... and I believe a lute is descended from al-oud.

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1419286069' post='2638461'] What's up with the sound hole? It looks as if someone decided to drill it out, but stopped part-way through. [/quote] It does look [s]hand crafted[/s] home made.

Never had this problem, and particularly never had it with Thomastiks. If you aren't happy get Newtone to make you a set.

Very nice.

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1419206325' post='2637681'] Probably better for metal than a ukulele. [/quote] But probably not better than a ukulele banjo.

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1419204744' post='2637663'] I think we're back at the first post. Too few strings for an oud. [/quote] Half as many.

Looks more like an oud.

This is a kora:

It's not a kora.