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Well, I've bought a body off ebay, it's got all the routing and that done but no holes. So my question is, how do I decide where to put the bridge so the strings will line up properly with the pickups (fender bridge) and also, best way to mark out the neck holes and ensure that it's a straight join? Borrowing a hand drill from a mate, I don't have the luxury of a drill press. Any way to ensure the holes will be straight? Edit: After a few posts it appears I may need a hand, anyone in Plymouth able to help me out with a loan of a drill press in exchange for a few beers or something?

Well you could realistically dissolve a lot of the meat in acid then bury whats left and the decomposition is likely to be less. CCTV will obviously need a workaround mind you, although I'm sure graveyards don't have wide coverage, you'd first take a stroll in the daytime to check out the cctv and security lighting situation til you find a suitable grave. Or if you didn't want to do acid, stick the body in a deep freeze until you found a suitable burial site. How about this, use a woodchipper to shred the corpse into a paste and then flush it down the toilet. And theres always this guys method: Disposing of a body is easy enough if you just think logically, so many murderers bury a body in a public place with road access closeby and I think "are you seriously f***ing retarded?" not that I can speak from experience but if I was an axe murderer I'd certainly do a better job at covering my tracks.

Bridge or neck wide open. Tone wherever I like. I can't run both pickups at the same time or my bass makes next to no sound, really odd, I have to turn it up like 3-4 times what I'd put a normal passive bass through if I have both pickups cranked. Giving up and rewiring it soon.

Already in debt up to my eyeballs or I'd be so on it being that Geddy is one of my favourite bassists and I'm pretty into Rush in general right now. But seats? Man I don't think I could ever bare to go to a rock gig and sit down, I'd rather come out with agnoising back pain and numb feet than be that far back

I've just spent an inordinate amount on a bass body, budget wise I didn't intend on spending a third of what I ended up bidding. Then I won and the reality set in "OH GOD WHAT WAS I THINKING?" And in this stupor I paid from the wrong bank account (one with nothing in it) so I have to go and pay in the cash 9am tomorrow to avoid a charge... Who else has ended up in some kind of mad GAS bidding war?

[quote name='Bassassin' post='1212237' date='Apr 27 2011, 12:58 AM']Does anyone else keep catching the title of this thread & seeing "[b]Rotting[/b] Bodies"? Just me, then. Anyway: polythene rubble bags, 2m depth hole, fill with concrete. Jon.[/quote] Wrong, everyone knows you go to a graveyard miles away from your home in the dead of night, dig a predug grave slightly deeper. Then bury the body, cover with soil to bring to it's original height. They'll put a coffin on top, bury that, and no one will ever find it. Pity cremation is becoming so fashionable these days.

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='1211540' date='Apr 26 2011, 11:14 AM']To my mind, the 70's guy (let's call him Jeff) looks more suited to our tempestuous and troubled times than the two doughy dullards in 'homogenized metaller black'. Think about it. Jeff looks like he's having a good time. Jeff's eyes gleam. Jeff's moustache is full and luxuriant. Jeff's hair is bouncy and elegantly coiffed. Jeff's threads are bright and sparkly and - well - friendly. Jeff's weight does not exceed that of his band's touring PA. It all suggests a man at ease with himself. Adam and Jason (for those are their names) are a different matter. Their eyes convey a self-important stupidity. Their faces are pouchy. Adam has bingo wings. Jason is clearly busting to hang a colossal rat. Adam and Jason affect that ubiquitous hard-man scowl that says "Talk to me and I'll get my 'entourage' to give you a kicking". They are endorsees and thus quite clearly total breadheads. They are a summation of all that is wrong with society in general and our bass-playing community in particular. Jeff is a man for our times. Jeff would tell you that dope gets you through times of no money better than money gets you through times of no dope. Jeff would point out that we all have to work together to stick it to the man. Jeff would let you sleep on his couch and he'd square it with his 'old lady'. We need guys like Jeff. He's a dude.[/quote] I want to marry this post. I'd buy Jeff a beer and then give his missus one too

Get a stanley knife, every time you think about buying a new bass, cut one of your fingers off and drive to hospital to have it reattatched. This will remind you, you don't need a billion basses and a billions amps and effects to be a great musician, as long as you have working hands you're all set. I haven't tried this method so obviously you'll be my lab rat but I think it's a worthwhile contribution to humanity if you can save a few bassists from crippling bass related debt

You wouldn't you'd assemble an army and create an uprising, if you've had all your freedom taken from you, what have you to lose? Hell, I'd assemble an army for a parking ticket if I could, anything to avoid a lawyer.

[quote name='TimR' post='1210461' date='Apr 24 2011, 10:32 PM']Depends what they want to ban. They banned handguns a specific barrel length and stock length. Rifles weren't banned. So my description would be a stringed instrument with scale length of between 30" and 36" with open strings producing fundamental frequencies between 20Hz and 200Hz. As a start....[/quote] I'd build one just outside those boundaries and call it a contrabass ballsack.

[quote name='TimR' post='1210396' date='Apr 24 2011, 09:36 PM']I'm not sure about that. When they banned 'handguns' they didn't just ban handguns, they described exactly what a handgun was. You can't just call it something else - a bass by any other name is still a bass.[/quote] But you'd theoretically then have to ban all guitars, a bass is a type of guitar is it not? You could just change the tuning and scale and call it a baritone bassolin, technically not a bass guitar and thus not banned.

All laws are workable, you'd just have to be the one who is strong, smart and insane enough to take over the government and change it yourself. To be honest if worse comes to worse you can just call it a "contrabass guitar" and it won't be illegal, different enough to still be legal. Or maybe a contrabass sax, there needs to be more contrasax players.

I do a lot of things that are illegal, for recreational purposes. But those laws have been in place for a while, this one I'd happily be a protestor, start a small rebel group, build, network until I have a sizable global network of bassists. I would then give myself precisely 1 month to organise a worldwide protest, set the date, tell everyone where they need to be at what time. If they kill all of us, it'll be worth it, if you aren't prepared to give your life to protect something beautiful then you are no kind of artist. And thats not an over reaction, if they take away one instrument, they will take away more and make it all illegal, force an identity on us. Tell us what to think, feel, do. It's a slippery slope, you can't give them an inch or you'll be in a full on dictatorship before you know it.

Cheap and quality pedal board? Only solution is to build one yourself, it's quite easy

It's just a session gig, I'd play for someone I don't like if it'd get my name out there. Anyway as a musician I feel it's important to experience all kinds of music, even stuff like Justin Beaver or Rebecca black which, lets face it, is sh*t. Mixing the good with the bad, it's all progress and it's good sh*t man.

Stuff the old fashioned way. If fender could mass produce basses in the 60's extremely sought after today, not to mention a whole chunk of oldschool tube amps, handwired, handcrafted. Why can't they mass produce this stuff today without it costing an absolute arm and a leg, we still have the 60's technology. dust it off and start making things how they used to be. Seems every time some kind of replica is brought out it's not the same, it's always incorporating loads of new technology and build differently so would never sound the same.

A device specifically for getting a really nice polish underneath the strings and around the pickup's. Infact. A device for removing evert spec of dust and polishing basses. (I'm ocd about my shinyness, it's disgusting how long I spend polishing it)

Spirit of radio - Rush. Just getting the timing of that bit at the start was a huge pain, plus it was back when I was just getting back into playing after a lengthy break and my fingers weren't nearly as fast or accurate as they are now.

I don't know, I might pay, it's more convinient than acquiring stuff you don't have but want to listen to or searching for it on youtube.

"I was sitting here thinking about how much I love you, when this Raccoon came in out of nowhere and..." it's foolproof

I've had a look on the bay and google and it all seems to be 0.6mm thick or unspecified, I've heard you need around 2mm to fill fret slots but can't seem to find any that thick, I don't suppose anyone knows where i could get hold of some?