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Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
Never mind when the photo was taken, I meant these days. After the plagues of toads and locusts and drummers with personality issues, I was hoping things had settled to some form of semi-stability. Working on things with a guitarist is a start. The good thing is it doesn't require moving any equipment. There's always a good side somewhere buried in the pile of ashes.
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
Start with the "we're only in it for the money this time" tour and skip the nonsense.
Thou shalt not eat thy fellow bassist's dog.
You are thinking of the Ferrari Bassisto.
The new to me NR is quickly settling in. I’ve put about eight hours on it and love the neck. It feels like the 1.5 on the ‘15, although the reach is a tad longer due to how it hangs on my body. It will be tied with the ‘15 as my #1. I’m loving it so much that I decided “what the heck.” I just ordered a Babicz that is set to arrive Saturday. While the three point is working fine, the bit of screwdriver wear on the bass and treble bolts was bugging me. And the bottom string wraps were on the saddles on the E and A which I never like but didn’t seem to be causing an issue. Rather than cleaning the bolts up and painting them, I’m just going to do now what I knew I’d be doing eventually. I learned my lesson re ordering as I’m still waiting on the Hipshot for the Silverburst. There were two available through Amazon Prime so I went that route rather than trying to save a few bucks.
Happy THUNDERBIRD Thursday!
Happy THUNDERBIRD Thursday!
What, no Cornish pasties or pork pie.
I don't know, I once built an entire racecar from a chassis another racer parked in the bushes. Here's what I started with -
And here's where she ended up -
I'm just gonna say this:
- Beautiful bass! Congrats!
- That case display makes it look like a funeral for your bass.
Awesome! Have you considered relocating the strap pin from the upper bout to the neck heel like on the Reverses?
Then you aren’t emulating Kevin well enough, although he fared better than Rainey in the end.
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
I have neither the fabrication skills nor the shop to do that. I do have the ability and space to take apart a bike and put it back together. What I no longer have is the time or the inclination.
I’ll settle for that with plenty of English mustard..
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
Neither of those guys bodies crashed as well as their crashes would require. Fortunately, I was a dedicated back marker whose crashes were the back marker kind that left a mark but didn't end up somewhere in another county.
We’ll see. I’ve found adapting isn’t that big a deal as I go between birds and other basses with different pin locations. We’re talking no problem playing, just a bit of stretch/angle tilt to reach the D and G tuners. I don’t have @Gaolee arms, but even at only 5’8” it’s really ok. I don’t complain a lot.
Yeah, last time was a washout. Her tiny Marshall decided to die. She has a tiny Orange on order and we're both kicking ourselves we didn't think to use my 2 chan interface as a mixer to share the Traynor. We agreed to do the new stuff to give ourselves a break from last year.
I'm super super spoiled in that regard. The shop is a 40x42 building at my brother's house where we house my racecar, his 2 racercars, his daughter's racecar and our friend's racecar. We have a huge surface plate, this 1.5" thick steel plate that is about 10'x14' and about the most level surface you could ask for when you need to reclip a front subframe on these things. The shop also houses an insane amount of tools, welders, torches, plasma cutter, chop saw, band saw, tubing bender, a 3 foot stomp sheer, a 4 foot box brake, sand blasting cabinet, a nice sized steel rack that we keep a decent inventory of "stuff we use a lot" and so on and so on. There really isn't much in the way of steel fabrication that we haven't gathered up over the years, so we're pretty set at this point. As for my "skills", it's an ongoing learning process. But I've gotten to where I can cut an entire front or rear clip off and put a new one on. The front clips we buy already fabricated, so it's a matter of welding them on in the right location. The rear clips, bumpers, right side door bars, interior tin work, dashes and that sort of stuff I build from scratch. Here's a dash I put in his daughter's little racecar, because I just couldn't handle how the gauge cluster was just zip-tied in there when he bought the car -
It wasn't fancy, it's a $500 racecar. Just a little time with the stomp sheer, the brake and the shrinker, but it was a huge improvement over what she had. Probably took me 4 hours total to get it where I wanted it. Luckily those are the times that my brother just steps back and goes "You do whatever you want."
Well at least it's not a lemon.
I don't know about you, but I'm 62 and my body feels like it's aged decades in the last ten years. I have pains in places I didn't even know I had.
I am remembering someone who broke one or both ankles (or feet) somewhere in Europe or Asia. The doctor did something bizarre, attaching the feet or ankles with pins or in a cast. That then had to be undone by either British or American doctors. Had to be pricey.
I thought it was Kevin, but it doesn't seem to have been, and I can't find who it was.
But plenty of injuries to go around, especially amongst the leaders in the 80s and 90s.
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I'm kind of in awe here. That can't have been cheap. Eons ago when I worked in a saw repair shop, we had a round surface plate (somewhere between 24" and 30") on bearings. It was one of the most expensive bits of gear we had until the shop really took off.
