Dom in Dorset

I do like the bass that he used for the Live Earth show, five strings and six pick ups- class.

It weights 6.25Kg / 14lb

That's the bass equivalent of owning the Turin Shroud. "Can I raise a practical Question at this point? Are we going to do Stone'enge tomorrow?"

I've just got back from my first rehearsal with "The Beast" as she now seems to be known. In that band I was using a fretless acoustic, with only an active piezo pick up. It had a nice "double bass" sound but quite diffuse, you had to play loud to hear what I was doing and sometimes it could be a bit muddy. The twin neck has a much more focussed sound, and I love to jazz necks. How does it sound? the fretted side sounds like a regular P bass, it's got light strings on at the moment and it's quite twangy. The piezo bridge is subtle but add great slap tone. The fretless neck has a nice warm sound, the piezo adds some nice top end "mmmwwwwaaahh" and "board crack" I'm a happy bunny. Yes it's heavy, but I'm getting used to it, I'll try and weigh it tomorrow.

I used to know a really nice bloke who looked a bit like Chris Wolstenholm.

"sex on Fire"- how they laughed when I invented the asbestos condom!

Not sure if I could cope with all the travelling.

I did the same with a garden shed, insulated, lined it and put in power. It seems to have turned into a brewery at the moment.

I keep it in a locked climate controled case , it's got tinted glass to prevent colour fading , it's bullet proof , bomb proof and radiation proof. the whole thing is kept in a vault 500M bellow ground in a concrete bunker with 24 hour security. The ones I play are just put in a case when not in use.

It's done! I'm still getting to grips with how she plays and how the controls are used best, it's a weight off my proverbial shoulders to finish it - now a weight on my shoulders to play it. It's beer time now.

Thank you BOD2 it worked! I'll be posting pictures in build diaries ASAP

Sounds like it might be worth a try, I'll reprt back.

I'm building a twin neck fretless/fretted. It's got a P bass pick up and a piezo bridge for each neck. I've been trying to put a switch in to select between top neck/both/bottom neck withy no luck. I wired each half like a jazz bass with the piezos in place of the neck pick up, this worked well in isolation (only tested with one string) but when the switch is put into the circuit I get awfull buzzing if only one neck is selected and although it can be played with the switch in the "both"position, you can't turn the volume right off on the unused neck, also the tone controls seem to influence the tone of the other neck! The switch was fitted by taking the earth side of each output and connecting it to the switch, a common wire runs to the jack from there. I know nothing about wiring, but I can copy a diagram, what's wrong?

I don't know where the affinities are made but I saw a Standard recently and it said "made in Indonesia" fairly descent bass for the money, my only criticism was that it was too lightweight, I'm used to basses being heavy.

The squier in question just says Precision , in small print "standard series" It weighs 7lb (3.1Kg)

depends on your budget, for cheap generic parts try CH Guitars on ebay.

I'll see it again tomorrow, I'll take a closer look. Light as a feather.

I recently had a go on a Squier bass, it said precision but it looked like a jazz neck and it had a jazz bridge pick up. A nice bass for (I think) £130 second hand but v good. I think they are £200 ish new. My only criticism was that it was too light!

"Lastly, dont build a bass to save money, build a bass because its something you want to do." So true, I could have bought a fairly serious bass for the money I've spent on my last build (not including time it's taken) . Nobody else has anything quite like it.

I think it's too specialised for anyone to run a regular course on the subject. You'll find a lot of useful stuff on youtube, ie how to adjust a truss rod etc. All the wiring diagrams I've ever needed are published on the internet. and , as I always say in these circumstances : get a copy of this book: [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Make-Your-Own-Electric-Guitar/dp/0953104907/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1287519701&sr=8-3"]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Make-Your-Own-Elec...9701&sr=8-3[/url] it covers all the basics.

The Marmite option:

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nameless , probably Japanese Jazz bass. A cool looking wreck that (as far as I remember) played like a dream. For some reason I sold it to this guy for £30, he gave me £15 on the spot and was going to give me the rest next week.....25 years passed.... Probably looking at that bass through rose tinted specs but it's bass I really learned to play on.

Matt Dulux - always takes a loaded shot gun on stage, the worst alto crumhorn player in North Somerset, drinks petrol and chain smokes Slim Panatellas. He ran off with my dog.

it's like the "Pina Colada" song! I think that you should apply under your own name, let them know that you're onto them, see what happens.