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Warmoth, and all those companies listed by Mulcher, are great company's to work with and even if you are new to building and repair you can do it. It's pretty easy, just take your time. Whoever you decide to go with I would recommend that buy your neck and body from the same outfit in order...

I like to use that stuff because I work in HVAC and I always have it. No, you can not solder to it and the adhesive is not conductive, as far as I know. Sometimes you get lucky and one piece will conduct to another, but usually I scratch over one seam into the next when I’m pressing it in...

It's all about the outfit, and maybe the kind of band you play with In a few years I'll be old enough to be in a "White Guy Blues Band" While the guitar player will have to wear a floppy hat and a Stratocaster I'll need to grow a beard, put on 50 lbs locate a bunch of vintage Hawaiian...

Yo AMPEG... Ima let you finish, but Peavey has one of the best cabinets of all time!

I know I am. I drink the AMPEG cool-aid, I'm all AMPEG all the time, etc, etc, etc. It's a cult man! What's worse is that if I were blindfolded and chose another brand because it sounded better, I would still buy AMPEG because... hell I don't know? :spit:

Oh yeah... the top is, simply, a thin veneer over a basswood body, it is a "bent" top so it gives the illusion of being carved from a thicker piece of quilted maple. The ebay auction bass looks OK to me. Mine is a the amber color not the purple if you can get it for under 300 it would probably...

I have one of each and they are both very cool basses and there are many similarities and some subtle differences between the two. First of all they are both 30" scale, in fact, they are almost dimensionally identical... the wood one is a bit thicker. Since the neck joins the body where the...

Go for it! I run my SVT-CL with the 4x10 HE and the 15E and it rocks. I bought this before I knew that 10s and 15s don't sound good together :smug: No really though, I like the versatility of the two separate cabs I can load them myself and they sound great. I have a dolly that I can fit...

The side dots still work if you capo the 2nd fret, except for the 12th, of course. Sounds like a pretty tall order for an $800 bass...

Mine is a 98 but it has the Bart pre-amp. It sounds giant through a wall of Ampegs for sure. I have not heard to avoid the active models maybe I'll have to remove mine now that I know I shouldn't like it ;) If you don't mind, here are some other observations... Of course, it's heavy but...

I have in my possession an Ampeg SVR-215 isobaric speaker cabinet. :confused: I don't know quite what to think of it since I haven't heard it yet and I can't find a whole lot about it on line, but I think SLM may have also made it with a rack mount for an SVT II? The one I have looks a...

I know I came in late but... what a let down :spit: I was sure that Ampeg had been bought out by Fender. Remember when some of us thought that caould happen? Now that may be flame worthy or it may be a good thing. It probably would not end with a peanut butter thread killer.

I have come to the realization that I'll just have to lug the SVT and all the associated gear to gigs for the sound that I want. Having said that, I use the VT all the time... sometimes it works better than others. For example, our practice space is a rental and we are fortunate enough to...

I have been enjoying the Ampeg covers since December, they are very nice and durable too. We have been getting a lot of rain (for us) and I never worry about load in and out with the covers. The only real downside is being the nerd with the amp cozys :D.

I always fill old screw holes with dowel material. Buy a thin dowel, just bigger than the screw hole and buy a drill bit of the same size. 3/16 dowel = 3/16 drill bit, for example. Use the drill bit to enlarge the screw holes to the same size as the dowel. Measure an inch or so from...