Tait

search for live videos of the song carousel by blink 182, the intros played up high on bass and mark hoppus has to sit down to play it because he wears his bass so low. it always makes me laugh, i'd just wear my strap a little bit higher

can't say i did, sorry!

i saw this bass today, and recognised it as a basschatters build. its looking brilliant! that finish looks gorgeous!

this is looking great al! i visited jon shukers workshop today, and he's building two rick copies atm. i got to say, yours is looking much nicer.

[quote name='wizbat' post='393301' date='Jan 28 2009, 12:01 AM']For what it,s worth, how about shape 2 but with the top horn joining with the body again further up (just for fun and the fact it hasn,t been done before) so it makes a bigger semi circle in the cutaway line and forms a handle for easy carrying :-)[/quote] that could get really annoying moving up and down the fretboard.

i've played this and i have to say - its one brilliant bass, it looks and sounds soo good. hmmm... my dads out now... actually i think id better not touch this bass, if anything happens i'd be dead

i plug in and play, me.

£3000 for a bass and hes not posted a full body picture of it from the front

very nice, i especially like the vintage jazz and the shuker jazz

[quote name='budget bassist' post='394778' date='Jan 29 2009, 06:11 PM']The mark hoppus sig is a jazz bass with a precision neck... EDIT: beaten to it, it's a common thing though... i don't see how it would make any difference aside from being wider, it would still sound and look like a jazz bass.[/quote] they dont look the same. i think a precision neck really makes a difference to the way a jazz looks, i can usually tell on for sale threads and stuff before ive even read the post if theres a precision neck on it.

my dad (simon1964) found a precision bass that had the serial number show it was made the same year as him, and a stamp in the neck pocket (as some fenders do) saying his exact birthday.

[quote name='Beedster' post='393390' date='Jan 28 2009, 08:47 AM']Funnily enough, Precision necks look really wrong on a Jazz [/quote] really? i prefer the way a jazz looks with a precision neck.

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='354990' date='Dec 15 2008, 01:26 PM']Hideous beyond belief. BUT. It's a bolt-on neck. Assuming everything else is original and un-butchered, all you need is a Grabber body salvaged from somewhere and I suppose you could do quite nicely out of this. They must come up occasionally. Probably.[/quote] i was thinking along the same lines - an epiphone ripper bass and a router, and you'll have a nice bass there.

if it happens i'd like to go, but its up to simon1964 to decide for me.

err.. what is it? i think its a stompbox modeler, but what point is there being one of them on your pc

[quote name='Longmayyourun' post='392845' date='Jan 27 2009, 03:54 PM']Well yes - a lot of tools certainly helps, but after machining and jointing the neck and body blanks, which you might be able to get a local woodwork shop to do for you, I used a router, pillar drill, spokeshave, block plane, a fine hand saw and an electric drill. And a selection of cabinet scrapers and chisels,marking knives etc.... Sure you need some tools, but there are plenty of guys on here who do lovely work in their front rooms / garages / back yards with the minimum of stuff[/quote] true, when i built my taitycaster on my shuker 5 day course, although there were a lot of big machines jon used, i only used 3 of them, and there would be easy, much smaller alternatives. for example jon smooths out the bodies to make sure the wood was flat with this huge machine that you put the body in one side and it sort of smoothed the top layer, but that could also be done with sandpaper. another obvious one is that jon uses a bin pin router for cutting bodies, but i used a plunge router - much smaller and easier. i think it would be quite easy to build a bass without huge tools, the only one i think you probably would need is a bandsaw(? - a big electric one that has a vertical blade).

[quote name='Buzz' post='392105' date='Jan 26 2009, 08:42 PM']In Pork 'n Beans the bass appears to be a '51 type telebass on the outdoor shots, and a normal P-Bass inside (tort scratch), and Buddy Holly has a '51 type. Not that it makes much difference as the video has no correlation to the actual basses used in the recording. Nice bit of crunch on the bass side though.[/quote] yeah, im just saying thats where i got the idea that he used a telebass from.

the links not working for me EDIT: just realised the / after myspace.com is a \ in the link, you might want to change that sounds great anyway, im currently doing a bass instrumental as part of my bass lessons, i dunno about you but im finding it much harder than it sounds that bass instrumental is good because i can sit and listen to it, unlike a lot of instrumentals, where i get bored

what always strikes me about this bass is how its very normal in some respects, just a 54 p copy, a fender-alike and yet its so different, too, what having a sparkly gold paint job, and a dark wood neck etc. its kind of like a bass oxymoron, a different, unique fender copy

lower the volume on the bass and up it on the amp. it makes all my basses sound sort of deader and bluesier, kind of like my double bass sounds, anyway.

[quote name='Dave Dubya' post='391178' date='Jan 25 2009, 08:18 PM']Matt Sharp's look like Telebass', but aren't: Their second player, Mikey Welsh, used Gibson Grabber/Ripper. The current player, Scott Shriner, uses 60s Precisions.[/quote] noo... i was thinking of these- dunno who the bass players were for these videos, but hes defintaly using a 50's precision/50's reissue/telebass

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='392028' date='Jan 26 2009, 07:15 PM']Indie? Ash, Feeder and the Manics are not Punk bands.[/quote] i agree, im a little confused by what linus said. i [i]think[/i] he meant that although his band was labelled punk, those bands were similar to what they played yet they arent punk bands. am i right linus?