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just wait till after the world cup there with be about three hundred billion of them on ebay, but no-one in the entire world will want to hear one played ever again! o_O

Laney GH100L, cheap and loud, they come in 50watt versions as well. Single channel with extra switchable gain stage for more LOUD. The GH100TI version is the signature version of some dude called Tony Iommi. I just got mine re-biased with new valves, tiz a joy!

My claim to fame: I was on Jim'll Fix it when I was 3, was in the BBC studios in London but unfortunately I have absolutely no recollection of this at all! Had a good bleather with Clare PProduct of Antiproduct fame once as well, top lass!

that could just do it man, cheers for that! I'm sure its just the vibration!

Its happened on two different basses, both had fairly standard non-through body bridges with two screws on each saddle for action and one long intonation adjusting screw. One was a budget Washburn the other a Burns London thing. I replaced the burns bridge for a for a Schaller bass bridge as it also had issues with the ball ends jamming and string spacing but I still have to re-tighten it now and then. I'm pretty certain is something I'm doing as I'm the only common factor!

Hi, I'm after a top tip for securing all the grub screws in a guitar's bridge, the ones for adjusting the action. I've lost screws out of one of my basses already and I keep having to re-tighten another bass. It appears that I can't tighten both sufficiently as if I tighten one up this takes the tension of the other and allows it to then rattle free. I cant be the only one with this problem surely?

you have a fair point, and I'd be the first to tell you that if I had spent all the time I have actually playing my instruments rather than messing with them I might actually be a reasonable player! But its only human to experiment, we'd all still be sitting in a cave watching a fire if one of us didnt think "I could do something better with this!" there is still a 99.9% probability that the guitar will be bollocks post mods though!

Hows your wood working skills? To make it look any good you really need to cut to pick up templates (I know this is a pain as you have to make templates first but honestly you WILL make a mess of it without one) for the pick up hole. Also look at the guitar and check where the bracing runs, it might be right under the proposed pick up position. Also you should probably go to speak with someone who knows pickups and they could recommend you one. I used a standard electric guitar humbucker and it just sounded like a shite guitar being played in a wooden hole under water. Also also my duct tape method was highly flawed as if you moved about too much the pick up magnets would stick to the strings! I'd say give it a go for the experience but be prepared to throw the first guitar in the bin once youre finished! Or at least fit a giant scratch plate on it to hide you mess!!

I duct taped a electric guitar pick up into a classical guitar once, wired it up with some old stereo parts and surprisingly I even thought ahead and fitted steel guitar strings, to avoid that "duuuuh" moment! Funnily enough it sounded, looked and played like shite BUT the duct tape pickup mount appeared to eliminate any feedback as the pick up wasnt actually fixed solidly to the guitar and didnt resonate as much. Eventually the electric guitar strings crushed the classical's bridge and then the neck joint failed and the thing ate itself!!

I actually have a couple of "as finished as there going to get" versions of the tune, one with added "frilly bits". I ended up selling my mixer and replaced it with cubase but the computer appears to just fail under the epicness of this tune so I can't really add anything more. I'll get some copies made up!

haha excellent thread! my musical history reads much like any successfuly musicians history although with out the success and musical ability... 1995ish to 1999ish: Played classical guitar, took regular lessons and joined a school orchastra. Technically I should be shit hot on the guitar because of this but I never practiced much at all! 2001 to 2007: The Scott and Doob Show Me on guitar or bass, my best mate on drums or guitar. Good times, wrote songs in afternoons and made wee demos for our own amusement when we had time, rock and pop punk mostly. Once convinced a group of pish heads we wrote Kyuss' Freedom Run when we recorded it onto the B side of our demo tape!! 2001 to possibly as far as 2002: Scott, Doob, Sanj and John. My fist band while at school, pop punk to the max! We never made it past bedroom rehearsals but good times none the less. 2002 to 2009: Derived by Insdecision My mate Scott and myself were asked to join this band, me on second guitar and scott as a "temporary" drummer. I ended up on bass after we lost touch with the origonal bassist. (if anyone knows Andrew Grieg from inverurie acadamy get in touch!!) The band recorded some terrible demos and achieved nothing!! We did one gig at a Youth conference in Aberdeen, many moons ago, it was very bad!! 2007 to 2008: Granite Ruin I blagged a lead guitar slot but was kicked out after almost a year or so due to work clashing too much. Also I'm a woefull lead guitarist but the guys must have been too polite to say!! Good times again! I missed all the gigs apart from an open mic at the Moorings.... 2008: Irritable Down Syndrome I played bass in this epic sludge machine. also recorded a demo which has never been finished.... my bad 2009: Echo Tunnels I joined this band on bass but it imploded two rehearsals later, I think I gave them band Aids after having unprotected rehearsals with multipul bands. 2010 to present: Glassman Playing bass for this stoner rock monster

yeah man, i know a guy who has EXACTLY the same problem, he's a bit of a fanny though....

errr..... you did ask about "adding bevels" as apposed to "painting bevels" Again I would still get some scrap practice pieces to work on, unless you are skilled in the use of spray paint! It's all to easy to create runs or overspray other areas.

for me it has to be OM: Its that beautiful I think I got a semi the first time I heard the band!

Listen to these words of wisdom, the man speaks the truth!

Apparently rotosound do something similar now. I'll test them next string change an report back! If the suspense hasn't killed you!

Top Tip: tape some holes to your guitar to make it lighter..... o_O I'd recommend practicing any cutting/painting on scrap bits of wood of similar spec to your guitar before carrying it out on your instrument. Go to a local timber yard and ask for some scraps, I'm sure if you offered the yard hand 20quid they'd let you fill your car with off cuts! Get some packs of varying grades of sand paper, masking tape and whatever paints your needing, then you can balls up as many times as you can afford without wrecking your instrument. Best tip I could give you for a first time attempt at most things is: prepare to be woefully under whelmed by your first attempt

Some excedingly dull advice: I'd recommend using a 5 string set for drop C. I use Rotosound 5 String Swing Bass Strings 45-130 and chuck the .045 string. I also lifted the action as well, the extra string hieght and tension gets rid of all the buzzing, though it does make playing past the 10th frett a bit of a work out!!

You have mail sir.

my offer of 600quid is still available! i'd have though you'd get less for it the further south you go due to the greater availability of gear/shops/choice down that way. but then again aberdonians really are tight buggers!!

dude liamtw, you should get an award for you haggling technique!! i'm taking notes as my own selling usually goes something like: me: i'd like 700 for it buyer: hmmm i'll give you a tenner for it. me: i'd need a bit more than that buyer: i'll chuck in a mars bar me: sold!! buyer: awsome, oh i have no money btw and cant ever pay you me: thats cool........

you have a pm

you have a pm dude

i've never had a good draft pint of cider in the bassment ever, its always just horrible!

no, i'm not familiar with this method, please divulge i've modified my pedal board to give some switching options using some splitting, I already have a switchable fx's loop, but with some mods I can now run the pre-fx loop units out to one amp and the fx-loop out to another with the input to the fx-loop coming from the pre-loop units or bypassing it. o_O edit: the plan is to build some isolating transformers into the circuit (if it works I was planning to still use the TU-2 as the splitter and house the transformer circuit in my fx loop switching box. i can now play the smells like teen spirt riff (almost) in stereo through two amps and a million effects