Les

Ta boys, giving it a whirl now, feels like it's going to take quite a bit of sanding to get it smooth

Managed to knock me bass over on Saturday, fell on it's front and the lacquer on the back of then neck has cracked a bit round the skunk stripe.

It's a VM Jazz, doesn't stand me at much but I am very partial to it and it's been my gigging bass since I got it about 2 years ago.

It plays fine and there's no other damage that I can see but the lacquer is cracked, raised a bit and I can feel it under my hand 

so I need to sort it. Not worried about preserving a finish etc just want it back to being smooth.

Can I just sand it smooth or am I missing something ?

ta

Les

How else would I respond to the singers 27th request for more monitor ? 

4-1-0-0.5 ish

Which ones have you tried @kevvo66 and what didn't you like about them ?

6 hours ago, jazzmanb said:

Big trench on mine,great bass for money though

No doubt, I'm astonished how good these basses are.  May pick a VM fretless up just to swap necks

3 hours ago, AndyTravis said:

The USA standard stuff is the same, my Custom shop has a big fat ‘RELIC’ stamp under the pickguard 🙄

That;s grim innit ?

5 hours ago, The59Sound said:

Hey, MIA Fenders are still being made this way and your Squier was a hell of a lot cheaper. 

True

Wonder why it's done like that ? Would imagine  a machine's done the work on both mine and the fretless version but the fretless is much more  thing of beauty. Both around the same price point.

bum 😒

7 minutes ago, paul_c2 said:

Don't do it then

 

Have to. It’s become a quest now. 

I can’t believe you lot are going to make me get a screwdriver and do this. 🤣  

Just now, Ricky 4000 said:

I also want to know what's under there. Could be some smuggled blood diamonds or anything! 😁

That would be classed as a result. 

3 minutes ago, paul_c2 said:

I have a Squier VM which doesn't have a pickguard on at the moment, do you want me to post a pic of it?

Ooh yes please. 

15 minutes ago, Reggaebass said:

If you unscrew the control plate you will see if the body has been routed for the wires to the neck pickup 🙂

Still sounds like a lot of holes on 2 VM’s 🤣

come on lads surely someone’s done this ???

1 minute ago, Aidan63 said:

not all VM are equal, is yours a ICS or IC serial number ?

naughty boy not doing the washing up when cooked for, you won't get invited to tea again

Both ICS

That's a lot of hole round that neck pickup innit ?

38 minutes ago, Aidan63 said:

hope the tea was nice and once you've done the washing up get the screwdriver out

Was nice ta and I ran off without doing the washing up as per usual.

Surely I'm not going to have to get my screw driver out ? I have 2 VM's, that must be like 20 screws in all. There must be 5 thousand VM Jazz owners on here. 

Will it be a thing of beauty I can run without the scratchplate like the fretless VM's or will it be a world war 1 trench ?

I know I could just take a look but I'm sure you've done it and Paula is making my tea for 5.30 so I have to go out now.

Ta 

Les

15 minutes ago, colleya said:

Looks & sounds great Les.

How many Shelby bookings are you getting compared to the Troubadour-ing?

Not as many as we want hence the promo. 

One of our problems is the Troubadours are heavily booked so knocks a lot out of the diary for the Shelbys. 

I'm quite pleased with it 😁

We bolt our front lighting to the top of the PA speakers, many plastic cabs these days have resessed nuts on top, presume they are for flying them.

Works well and cuts down on stands. 

31 minutes ago, lowdowner said:

Yes, I used to gig Chasing Cars doing bass and lead vocals.

I do this now, took some work.

13 minutes ago, lowdowner said:

I'm not as phased by the idea as I was when I first thought about it

Yep, you can do this.

Not incredibly difficult arrangements to remember, some quite repetitive once you've learned the line.

If it were me I'd "learn" Gold dust woman, obviously the Chain's signature bit, the Rhiannon pattern and nail the stop in don't stop, to me the most musical thing bout the song. 

When I was in the house band at a local jam night we busked Don't Stop with no notice and everybody stopped at the right time, made the song. 

Good luck and do let us know

Les

Sounds about right, it's a little different with singers cos' of keys so a bit of communication re keys may be in order. 

Past experience would compel me to speak to them before hand about what they are expecting re commitment and money and explain what we would be wanting from them.

That way your're not wasting each others time if your both on totally different wavelengths but I would say the mechanics of what you have in mind are good.

Les

1 hour ago, vmaxblues said:

not through the PA.

Have you got enough PA to put the kit through ?  You'll certainly have an easier time finding the problem frequency and rolling it off on the desk I should think

Another for Google Calendar.  We've used it since April 2014 and not had a balls up. 

It has it's limitations I suppose but they can all fly it and I can do rebookings on the night on my phone whilst the iron is hot.

Any calendar/diary will only work if everyone is on board and on top of it. 

Needs to be discipline as with every team activity.

One thing nearly caught us out but we've fixed it now is you must cross yourself off a date that you're unavailable EVEN if somebody else had already crossed the night off and the band isn't gigging. 

ie 

MemberA crosses night off for some event.

MemberB looks and thinks great I'll take the wife/girlfriend/boyfriend/partner/secret lover etc away for a romantic weekend if we're not gigging.

MemberA's event gets cancelled some weeks later so he marks the date as free.

MemberB hasn't blocked themselves off as they didn't think we were working anyway.

Date shows as free now.

Gig goes in.

Problem. 

Les