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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

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Polish Thunder said:
alaskaleftybass (can I call you AL Bass for short? :)),

So you are a lefty who plays a lefty bass, but strung upside down (with E sting at bottom)? Kind of like how Albert King played his guitar?

As a lefty who plays a lefty bass.....left handed, I am curious why don't you just get a RH bass and flip it over? The strings would have the E on the bottom. Besides the controls being up near the top of the body, what would be the other reasons to do it this way?

I sometimes ponder whether I should have learned to play a RH bass upside down, keeping the strings as-is (E string at bottom). I would have more options for basses. Then I would probably spend more money on basses....:woot:
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Hey @Polish Thunder :-) Thanks for chiming in. An old GOF coined me ALB or you're welcome to call me Will.

As far as righty instruments, yes I did start out that way 55 years ago. I started on an Aldens guitar left handed I bought from selling newspapers after school. Remember the good old Aldens catalog? Sweet memories.

I got a hold of a Kay hollow body single cutaway sunburst righty bass for $50 when I was 15 and kept playing righty's until the early 2000's. I finally got tired of holding the neck up for five hours a night-- even when I mounted the strap button on the neck heel. I also didn't like how they looked anymore-- so I've been on a quest to find a quality economy bass since then. The problem is as you already know-- most lefty basses come in Henry Ford Model T colors-- black! It would make my life easier, I guess, I could buy a Gibson EB-3 bass and be happy. Thanks for the suggestion! :thumbsup:
 
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beans-on-toast said:
Without removing the nut, you can cut new wider slots and fill the wide ones.
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@beans-on-toast I just remembered, a few years back I bought a lefty bass and it was already strung righty. The owner had done exactly what you recommended. He used a string nut file and carefully filed the slots wider (but not deeper) and the bass played just fine. I'm thinking-- the bass may go to Juneau for mods so what the heck-- what would it hurt to try widening the slots to string righty. Thanks sir.
 
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GwenOnBass said:
GOFs have been getting an early start on life for a long time, I see.

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W. T. F.???????????

This has gotta be a fake!
Read the text of the ad. "Spark plugs"??
Love the Latin. That makes it official.
"Flatus". Wasn't he one of the greatest gladiators? Flatus, the Impositor. Yeah, think I read about him. ;)

@Dr. Cheese should be offended at the blatant maligning of his namesakes odor, as well as all the mothers who stand accused of being "negligent when not under the supervision of a man". o_O


Ovaltine.......mixed with MAYONNAISE?!?!?! :wideyed:
What sort of Nazi propaganda is this?!?!? :nailbiting:

Good God, it's no wonder we're so effed up in later life.
I can't wait for their ad campaign supporting high colonics thrice daily. :rollno:


Thanks, @Morrighan , best laugh I've had all week! :thumbsup:
 
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2tonic said:
W. T. F.???????????

This has gotta be a fake!
Read the text of the ad. "Spark plugs"??
Love the Latin. That makes it official.
"Flatus". Wasn't he one of the greatest gladiators? Flatus, the Impositor. Yeah, think I read about him. ;)

@Dr. Cheese should be offended at the blatant maligning of his namesakes odor, as well as all the mothers who stand accused of being "negligent when not under the supervision of a man". o_O


Ovaltine.......mixed with MAYONNAISE?!?!?! :wideyed:
What sort of Nazi propaganda is this?!?!? :nailbiting:

Good God, it's no wonder we're so effed up in later life.
I can't wait for their ad campaign supporting high colonics thrice daily. :rollno:


Thanks, @Morrighan , best laugh I've had all week! :thumbsup:
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I was an Ovaltiney had a special mug and...and...EVERYTHING!....:hyper:....

Don't know about the flatulence though...Maybe that's why me mother buggered off!.....:D
 
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OK, GOF's! Take 5 right now and TAKE YOUR MEDS! LOL

Too much psychobabble,talking rapidly and continuously in a foolish, excited, or incomprehensible way.

Synonyms: prattle, rattle on, gabble, chatter, jabber, twitter, go on, run on, prate, ramble, burble, blather, blether, blither, maunder, drivel, patter, yap, jibber-jabber. :laugh: :roflmao: :cool:
 
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G-Dog said:
Most of the closed threads, in Amps or Basses forums, got a link to the first thread on the same subject, which is in the Miscellaneous forum, by the way. Seems like a not-so-subtle effort to discourage multiples of the same, especially in "inappropriate" forums.
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There were no links when I looked at them, so somebody finally realized they were needed, instead of just cutting them off at the knees. :cool:
 
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alaskaleftybass said:
OK, GOF's! Take 5 right now and TAKE YOUR MEDS! LOL

Too much psychobabble,talking rapidly and continuously in a foolish, excited, or incomprehensible way.

Synonyms: prattle, rattle on, gabble, chatter, jabber, twitter, go on, run on, prate, ramble, burble, blather, blether, blither, maunder, drivel, patter, yap, jibber-jabber. :laugh: :roflmao: :cool:
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I represent that remark!.....:rolleyes:
 
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2tonic said:
W. T. F.???????????

This has gotta be a fake!
Read the text of the ad. "Spark plugs"??
Love the Latin. That makes it official.
"Flatus". Wasn't he one of the greatest gladiators? Flatus, the Impositor. Yeah, think I read about him. ;)

@Dr. Cheese should be offended at the blatant maligning of his namesakes odor, as well as all the mothers who stand accused of being "negligent when not under the supervision of a man". o_O


Ovaltine.......mixed with MAYONNAISE?!?!?! :wideyed:
What sort of Nazi propaganda is this?!?!? :nailbiting:

Good God, it's no wonder we're so effed up in later life.
I can't wait for their ad campaign supporting high colonics thrice daily. :rollno:


Thanks, @Morrighan , best laugh I've had all week! :thumbsup:
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Saturday Reprise

Surf's up! Not surf and turf. Dick Dale and the Del-Tones added some reverb and Middle Eastern influences to instrumental music in the early 1960's. He was left handed, played a left handed guitar with heavy gauge strings, but had it strung upside down. Like a right handed guitar flipped upside down. He would often reach over the fretboard, rather than wraping his hand around.

He worked with Leo Fender, testing new eqipment. He kept blowing amps. He needed an amp that was louder than the girls screaming. Leo went to JBL wanting a 15" speaker. This led to the development of the JBL D130F, it became a very popular speaker. Fender developed the first 100W amp to pair it with, the Single Showman. The rest is history.





There are surf fanatics all over the world. I like The Surfrajettes for their rawness, musical feeling, and good original numbers. Well worth checking out.

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