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Cost effectiveness may be a big issue. In my valve amp building moments I have found it cheaper to buy s/h kit e.g. Peavey 120 W combos and use the big iron - transformers, chassis etc from these. Also get RCA / GE valves thrown in. For your project the lightweight Class D power amo combined with own pre amp might be the way to go (as mentioned before). You could build own chassis /cabinet to house?

One other tactic that can help is to heat them up, the differential expansion can sometimes 'crack' the corrosion products that have seized them. If you have access to a drill press you could drill out the grub screws from the top and then file out carefully. By this time I would be making my own new ones - much easier.

Rather than WD40 soak the saddles in penetrating oil for several days. You may be able to get an 'easy out' into the hex slots if you can get a smell enough one. Another approach might be to file flats onto the height adjusting screws. This will allow you to grip the screws with a suitable tool. Wait for further advice from Pete above. Final options; find a bridge with similar saddles and use saddle, use barrel shape saddles (fender style) that will fit, make new saddles from brass or stainless steel - not difficult Hope it goes well.

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1352489436' post='1863856'] The luthier I use, Terry Chapman, of TJC Guitars in Stevenage does this for £50: • Level, dress and polish the frets • Clean and oil the fretboard • Check, clean and lubricate electronics • Re-cut nut to suit (if necessary) • Set pickup heights • Set intonation, action and truss rod • Clean and lubricate bridge screws • Set Tremolo (if applicable) • Check all hardware • Fit new strings • Full clean and polish And my basses feel great when I get them back from him. [/quote] Should you be in Mid Wales, Tony Revell does same at same ball park. Sometimes you can not sort out your own kit, in my case it was my Heritage 575 archtop. I have had 2 basses and 2 guitars set up by Tony, all superb and with all he has sorted subtle issues I had not noticed apart from being unable to get them just so. Most of the time I fix my own kit. As a bonus he helped me respoke and rebuild a bike wheel, another money saving life skill.

Once repaired it will be stronger than before and unlikely to break again. Guitar player in band gained a good 335 with broken headstock. You would not be able to spot it had been broken. I dropped my 58 EB2 once, somewhere around 1975 if memory serves me. It fell off strap and headstock hit ground from waist height. Luckily it bounced, bent elephant ear tuner though. Was Leo Fender onto something with his designs, neck should be easily replaceable? Hope guitarist not too traumatised and repairs go well.

On a more serious note [url="http://www.epanorama.net/documents/audio/speaker_impedance.html"]http://www.epanorama.net/documents/audio/speaker_impedance.html[/url] gives possible explanation of the situation. 6 Ohms would be DC resistance, nominal impedance is 1.3 (roughly) x DC resistance = 8 ohms. I do not know the validity of that estimation.

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Hi, post picture of bridge and the route into bass body. Ideally with a ruler next to it. This may help gain some ideas. Good luck.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1351898825' post='1856852'] You've said too much to not tell the whole tale. Heavy tables were being thrown about..? Spiritism..? A very low door, as in Alice in Wonderland..? Intrigued; please share... [/quote] Nothing so exciting, sadly. The table concerned was made with 8 x 4 x 18mm ply sheet. Heavy, very heavy, in fact $*7^ heavy. Yours truly misjudges door entrance whilst struggling with said &6%$ table and makes large dent in plaster above the door. The gig with tables being hurled about by rogue spirits who randomly change door aperture size sounds much more fun. A sort of Witches of Chiswick gig that Robert Rankin would write

I have mixed views on this chestnut. Never had a bass lesson, am of an age when 'lessons' did not exist in the rural backwater I grew up in. Good bands and musicians did exist (your taste may differ), Mott the Hoople, Free, Bad Company, Sabbath (to name some). I now realise thanks to youtube how much faster my progress could have been with lessons. I would say to anyone have lessons to get started, then listen & watch & play (youtube is your friend), then have lessons to advance further. Had youtube / internet been around in my youth I might have made a fair guitar player, it has certainly improved my technique over the last few years. As far as music tuition in school goes, it is a thorny issue, driven by finance and budgets as well as quality. I will say no more on that one.

Sounds ok and above board. Next questions to ask, how many others have lost their deposit? can you find out, as in does venue play fair? The big one, what are your punters like? I remember getting very close to being thrown out of University after 'bad' rag ball gig. Something to do with band's singer making provocative remarks resulting in several fights, fire extinguisher discharges and main hall stage curtains being trashed. I was only playing bass at the time.

More context is needed, what sort of venue are you booking, are you organising the event for yourselves or is a promoter / venue owner asking? My other half books large village halls (not music, in fact most unlikely audience to do damage lol), sometimes until they know us they require 'damage deposit'. Sadly I have damaged a village hall once ran heavy table corner into plaster above door, they were very understanding however.

[quote name='AnalogBomb' timestamp='1351810131' post='1855836'] Plus I have a beard. Beards are good. [/quote] Agree, totally

[quote name='The Admiral' timestamp='1351806543' post='1855781'] "You will not apply my precept," he said, shaking his head. "How often have I said to you that [u]when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, [i]however improbable[/i], must be the truth[/u]? We know that he is not an egocentric, posing, musically stagnant, pentatonic only guitarist. We also know that he is not a temperamental, big girls blousy, semitone flat all the time frontman and nor is he the cerebrally vacant, shorts wearing, 10 bpm faster at the end than the start paradiddler. Ergo - he must be the bass player". [i]The Sign of the Four[/i] [i]Four in A[/i] ch. 6 (1890) Sherlock Holmes [/quote] [b] “It lives, Igor! It lives!”[/b]

Just assembling 'the bass player' in the lab right now. Hands have immense strength with ability to span 5 frets. Eyesight permits sight reading in dark at 2 ~ 3 m unaided. Hearing is pitch perfect with total discrimination between different instruments, unaffected by volume. Physique never fails to impress, you can imagaine where this is going. Has mental resilience and iron cool temperament for dealing with others in band. Anything else needed? Clearly I fall a long way off spec

Same problem in local hall. Guitar player 1, Gibson les paul, peavey classic 20, severe feedback / high pitch whistle, guitar player 2 Fender strat / Fender valve amp, no probs, Singer using Fender Tele, Fender valve amp, no probs, Me using G&L SB1, Peavey Tour 700, no probs. Conclusion... is not a single coil issue. solved by turning induction loop off.

[quote name='philparker' timestamp='1351629472' post='1853551'] I would keep the action high otherwise you will get fret buzz - you also have to play it differently than your electric bass and simplify some of your bass lines to suit! [/quote] I have owned my acoustic bass since 1980, an EKO. At the time it was the first affordable (i.e. not Guild) acoustic bass. Bulit like a brick outhouse, the neck is massive, the finish must be 1/8" polyurethane. It has an action that is as good as any of my electrics, I do not see or find the need to play any differently. Has been cheap on strings, the original Rotosound Trubass still fitted, and they are very playable even now. Amazing really, or are my standards low lol.

Gigs, what are those lol, if I could get my band all in same room at same time I might consider playing my bass. Seriously though, when I played 2 / 3 nights per week, most weeks of year (long time ago) I never picked the thing up otherwise. These days I dabble now and then, bit Gary Moore like lol, when I see the pile in other room.

Excellent, real good email communication and the kit arrived in no time. Super BC member.

[quote name='Paul S' timestamp='1351496853' post='1851683'] I had a Berlingo for many years and the load space was nothing short of phenomenal, even if it does look like an icecream van. Took me, drummer and guitarist to a gig with all our kit plus some of the PA once. It did, however, start to expensively self destruct at around 60K miles. OK if you dabble in mechanical things but I don't. Also had absolutely no traction on a slippery road surface compared to most cars I have driven which, in the end, proved to be the end of it as I live on a steep hill and couldn't get up or down during icy periods. [/quote] Renault Kangoo very similar, no mechanical destruction but the traction was just as Paul S says above