Low End Bee

[quote name='yorick' post='895295' date='Jul 15 2010, 07:04 AM']Welcome to the OTB owners club [/quote] You get an orange satin jacket, a keyring and eveything....

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='894496' date='Jul 14 2010, 10:24 AM']If you put a Fender Jazz neck (the king of necks) on a T'bird would it cure the neck dive?[/quote] No and the Queen of necks would still be too skinny....

Nice. A Sid junior. Very Captain Sensible on Supersonic.

[quote name='OldGit' post='894128' date='Jul 13 2010, 08:19 PM']I've never seen machine heads with Fender stamped on the winders before ... Wonder what they are from ...[/quote] From the factory production line of Beijing Bottle Top and Fake Hardware Worldwide Inc at a guess. They're OK when you've got them to pitch but are a little vague on the way there. Had another play last night. Everythings settled down nicely and it's not too bad at all. Can't complain for £50 all in.

[quote name='BigRedX' post='893999' date='Jul 13 2010, 06:03 PM']Surely part of the attraction is that it doesn't have the crapy Fender style neck?[/quote] Crappy Fender broom handles are a perfect match for my style.

[attachment=54151:DSCF0014.JPG] [attachment=54150:DSCF0017.JPG] Late 80s. Made for a Florida guitar chain apparently. I've had this knocking around a fair while. Bought it as a wreck with a banana neck for £20. I replaced the dead jazz pick up with a £10 fleebay special, the missing tuners for £15 and likewise the seized bridge for a fiver. I wound the truss rod right off and stuck it in an old case with a cloth wrapped plank on top of it to straighten it a year or so ago. Forgot I had it until last night. Took it out . The neck looked straight. adjusted the rod and put an old set of Elite flats on it. After a bit of setting up it all works! The pots are a bit scratchy but apart from that you could get away with this at a gig if you absolutely had too. Not the greatest tone in the world and a lot off neck dive but cheap enough not to worry about that. No idea what I'm going to do with it though? Maybe i'll set fire to it in a video or something?

I love the look of them. I'm put off by the neck fro the same reasons as Clarky. I have a plan to shoehorn a Precision neck onto an Epiphone body one day for a cheapo Entwistle style Fenderbird.

I played through a Carvin BX500 when I sat in for a few numbers with a band in the States recently. Warm, loud and punchy. I was very impressed. Very portable too.

The 'Dekker' will be getting a debut gig airing at the Half Moon on Saturday 24th. I hope my public can cope with a change from the diamond crown pork pie. I'm sure a photo or two will be taken. Thanks for sorting the discount OG.

The mighty Mankocaster a grotty old Korean Squier Strat is my songwriting tool. These days we mostly jam them out from a chord progression, bass line, drum beat or whatever though.

1978 bass? I chopped in my old Shaftesbury Ric 330 style bass against a Shergold Marathon in black. With some staff discount jiggery pokery and a kind manager I paid £120. I still miss that bass. The 1968 Precision I bought for £250 in 1979 was next. I preferred the Shergold to be honest. Both of these were bought with my own (not my parents) cash before I left school. I was a hard working little school dodger in those days.

I'm sure a sound clip of me bashing away with a pick sounding all clanky would put 95%+ of BCers off buying a bass of mine which would sound nothing like that in their hands.

The avatar is because I met an old friend who I haven't seen for years recently. He noted my lack of barnet, glasses and grey 'tache combo and remarked "You look like Alf Garnet you old ****" Alf's political views aren't mine. The curmudgeonly aspect does ring true though.

I was working week days after school and Saturdays at Maurice Plaquet's on the Uxbridge Road, Shepherds Bush in 1978. That brings it all back. Roland Space Echo at £295. I reckon that at about £1500 plus today! I remember I sold 2 to Roger Waters (I didn't know who he was). I made him walk to the bank to get cash as I couldn't get through to Access on the phone for authorisation. Every shop had glass cabinets full of MXR pedals, Dimarzios and brass hardware.

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='889228' date='Jul 8 2010, 08:27 AM']Does it say anywhere how much that discount is?[/quote] 10% HJ. My Dekker trilby is on its way

Pelham blue looks good to me. Doesn't it go green as it ages?

[quote name='steve-soar' post='888065' date='Jul 7 2010, 07:37 AM']Petral?[/quote] Cheeez?

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='887369' date='Jul 6 2010, 03:03 PM']Intonation can go down as well as up.[/quote] As long as it's OK on frets 1-5 I'll be fine.

Already got a couple from there. I feel a gig hat purchase coming on.

Thanks you two. Another one up on [url="http://www.myspace.com/thejetsonics"]Jetsonics Myspace[/url] from the session called 'Amazing' Cracks along at a fair lick.

[quote name='Bilbo' post='887158' date='Jul 6 2010, 12:06 PM']Every decade, whether I need to or not...... Hate new strings. All [b]clanky[/b].[/quote] Excellent desciptive word. I can't bear them when they're not clanky Maybe I should play your strings in for you and save the planet?* *Offer only applies to multiples of 4. May be used in extreme non jazz situations. Consult your doctor if symptons persist.

2-3 months for DR Black Beauties. 2 or 3 weeks for Rotosound RS66's. Or whenever they stopped sounding 'zingy'. I use a fair bit of gain/overdrive so it sounds too woofy to my ears if the strings aren't bright. The back up Precision gets the dead strings. This is useful for recording when it needs thump. I can however see how ancient strings are the best thing in the right context. Doesn't Herbie Flowers keep his black nylons on (ooh matron) until they disintegrate?

I'm not fussed either way about relicing. Some I like some I don't. This one looks like it's got mange though. Yuk.

The RS210 can handle all gigs I do without PA support with plenty to spare. My drummers a noisy sod too. The RS112 just gives a bit more low end. I use it on its own at rehearsals for the portability and it still keeps up fine at 3/10 on the master volume. I should imagine the RS212 will be more than OK unless you're in a twelve piece doom metal band or something.