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#136
Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 9:22 pm
by pre65
Nick wrote:you really are showing off now Gorham!
There has to be some reason for staying up till 1 every night building power supplies.
It's good to treat oneself now and then.
#137
Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 10:15 pm
by Greg
Nick wrote:you really are showing off now Gorham!
There has to be some reason for staying up till 1 every night building power supplies.
Well, I do know what you are doing but, unless you have some kind of financial target you are aiming at, it does beg the questions, why, and is it worth it?
#138
Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 11:06 pm
by PeteC
Nick,
I like what you have done.
you can never have too many guitars..that's for sure.
Enjoy playing her.
Rgds
Pete
#139
Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 11:16 am
by Dave the bass
Nice leccy violin!
DTB
#140
Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 1:11 pm
by Paul Barker
#141
Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 1:35 pm
by david C
Well, lust got the better of me. The combination of it being my birthday last week (and a prime birthday at that), and spotting this 9 year old specimen on line in a shop up the road (Manchester), I now am looking after one of these
best learn to play it now.
don't know how I missed it, that is wonderful enjoy learning, there is large amounts of envy here
#142
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 5:45 pm
by chris661
Been working at the Students Union here since Christmas, mainly rigging up the ~35kW PA system for club nights. Arrive at 4pm, get home again at 6.30am.
Decided to reward myself, as a lot of the recent events had been quite well paid...
The obligatory "topless" shot. CD included for scale - this thing is really tiny.
I've had the guitar for a while, and the Laney cab came up in a Cash Converters for £15, with a HH speaker in there. Methinks it dates back to the '80s, same as my bass head. Couldn't leave without it, so didn't.
Sounds nice enough, anyway, though I did have to throw a couple of resistors in there to get the impedance out the gutter for this little amp.
The valves are a pair of 12ax7 for the pre-amp and phase splitter, and a 12au7 for the push-pull output stage.
The output transformer is also teeny-tiny, so very easy to get the saturated valve sound at fairly low volumes.
If money allows, I might start playing around with different brands/types (maybe a lower-gain 12at7) of valve to play with the sound further.
Chris
#143
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 7:07 pm
by The Stratmangler
I changed Pearl's springs t'other day for some of these
http://www.rawvintage.com/eng/item_springs.php
What can I say - she sounds better than ever now, and she didn't sound bad before.
I'm a very happy bunny, and it's £17.00 well spent
#144
Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2014 5:05 pm
by david C
a favourite,rather like this one
66 slab body, torty binding and J bass neck
#145
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 9:20 am
by The Stratmangler
I thought there needed to be a new post in this thread, and I spotted this whilst digging around .....
#146
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 10:17 am
by PeteC
just lovely....
thx for posting .
Pete
#147
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 10:35 am
by Dave the bass
Is that a 'Bass of Doom' replica Chris?
#148
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 12:48 pm
by Nick
Dave the bass wrote:Is that a 'Bass of Doom' replica Chris?
Thats what I thought as well.
#149
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 2:11 pm
by The Stratmangler
It's a Fender Custom Shop replica.
Here's a pic of the man himself playing the real one ....
#150
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 2:59 pm
by IslandPink
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