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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out

Bought the Hartke. Haggled it down, and the guy included the Gator case he kept it in so I'm pretty happy. Gotta wait a couple of days til I can plug it into a cab, but oh well.

I think it'll be better than the mag300 or any peavey at that level.

Don't neccesarily do this, but I read this. They are nigh indestructible, but can suffer from cold solders. I read to make it invincible drop it from like 1-2 feet flat on a hard surface. Then touch up any solders. I kinda did that, maybe less drop, more thorough inspection.

That head also was my worst Craigslist experience ever. Sold it to a man who bvtched at me before he even showed up about his time being valuable. Then he showed up and proceeded to play it for 20 minutes while bragging about his son and talking down at me any chance he could. Paid finally and left. Then I wake up the next morning to see all night he's left me threatening voicemails claiming I sold him a broken head, that I owe him restitutions for ruining a gig in the hundreds of dollars, and he has my address and will "get me". After around 5 voicemails #6 starts to shift in tone as he basically admits he's just a broke ashole who spent his wife's money on an amp.

I called him, said I'd take the amp back. Get to a gas station and he still claims its toast. I inspect it hand him the money and called him some stuff even the devil would cringe at and left.

Got home and it worked flawlessly. So I texted him about his lie in a black hearted way, and he called back to spew more threats and I reminded him that his threats on voicemail about hunting me down would be shared with the cops... *click*

Sold a week later for $75 more so whew, funk that guy.
 
Get ur lifting girdle on and hope he's not the flake.


Yeah I'm thinking I'm Chicago bound. I don't think he will flake though, he knows I'm driving from STL and also seems very interested in me specifically because I have a 2000s head that deserves a proper cab.

@Pelham Bleu I'L get you those pics today. Maybe we can meet in Chicago and save you some gas money.
 
Finally back in a Texas bed...
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The desert didn't let go so easy though. Some plant poked me and gave me a wicked growing hematoma or something.
 
Man what weird timing last night. I am watching and episode of F is for Family where they take the kid to a concert. I hear my phone beep from a chat telling me Lemme died. Then I settle back into the show and they based the bass player in the band on Lemme, with his three pickup Rickenbacker bass and muttonchops.
 
Whoa Tonebender and Rat had an ugly baby:


Catalinbread Katzenkönig Review | Premier Guitar

I watched a few demo videos of that the other day, I want one. My best friend just gave me back the Strat I sold him cheap a couple years ago (was planning on building one to replace it, never happened), freshly setup no less, as a birthday present. I bet that pedal would sound explosive with it, with the input gain cranked.


I posted about this awhile back but I finally finished my rack case for the mostly harmless. It's not perfect but I'm fairly happy with it.

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I can't like this enough. Purple, black and Dunwich...

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Love Motorhead, might love Hawkwind a little more than that. Saw the documentary a few years back, his home life wasn't much but I don't think he really cared about that. He wanted to be on stage, on tour, playing rock and roll.

Which is exactly what he did.

We should all be so lucky to be able to spend 50 shaging years touring and playing music.
 
What kind of finish did you use? Did you have to do a bunch of conditioning to the wood to get the purple to show up well?

I used a purple transtint dye, mixed it with alcohol and rubbed it on. It worked well on the baltic birch. I mixed some in with the poly clear coat as well for a layer just to darken it up a little more, then I sprayed that on with an air gun. That was the worst part. I think the poly needed thinned some because I just couldn't get it to go on smoothly. In the end I didn't end up thinning it but that's also why I couldn't get it as smooth as I would have liked.
 
I used a purple transtint dye, mixed it with alcohol and rubbed it on. It worked well on the baltic birch. I mixed some in with the poly clear coat as well for a layer just to darken it up a little more, then I sprayed that on with an air gun. That was the worst part. I think the poly needed thinned some because I just couldn't get it to go on smoothly. In the end I didn't end up thinning it but that's also why I couldn't get it as smooth as I would have liked.

Spraying poly is a huge pain. That's what made my pine P-Bass project implode, before I spent about a year stripping it and eventually shipped it to Andrew Drake to fix, I totally botched the clear coat. If I ever do a paint job on an instrument or something I'm doing stain or milk paint or something and a wipe on finish like a catalyzed oil or thin wipe on poly or something.
 
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Spraying poly is a huge pain. That's what made my pine P-Bass project implode, before I spent about a year stripping it and eventually shipped it to Andrew Drake to fix, I totally botched the clear coat. If I ever do a paint job on an instrument or something I'm doing stain or milk paint or something and a wipe on finish like a catalyzed oil or thin wipe on poly or something.

It was an absolute nightmare. I ended up sanding it all off three times because I just couldn't get it to go on smoothly. Again there's some thinning or something that needs to happen, it was my first attempt at spraying poly on smoothly with an air gun. I had used a Rattle can poly clear coat on a table I had made before and it also was lackluster.
 
@Turkeypills hope that 2000s cab works out. I'm actually about to contact a guy about a set of 4 NIB JBL K140s, which would be so sweeeeeeet.

Someone is selling a pair of the JBL K140 with the aluminum dust caps here for like $100. Supposedly in mint condition, they look really clean in the pics.

Correction...$100 each, apparently. They do look brand new though.
 
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