The Bassist and Guitarist thread

[ColinJ]

I think a huge guy like @Drago deserves a huge bass, not the tiny ones that he has been playing up to now. I just found the ideal instrument for him...

 

[Seevio]

But does it slap? and if so, do nearby buildings risk structural damage?

 

[Drago]

I think a huge guy like @Drago deserves a huge bass, not the tiny ones that he has been playing up to now. I just found the ideal instrument for him...

That's not a huge bass.

It's a tiny player.

 

[rogerzilla]

And it sounds soooo ballsy.

Only fault - G is cut a little short, not enough around the capstan so when it tunes ro about F or F#, just short of G it starts to slip and detunes. At first I thought it was a duff tuner, but sussed it in the end. Anderton's are sending me whole new set of strings, so that's a result.

I bought a s/h Strat the other day where not only was there insufficient wrap* on the wound strings, they went the wrong way around the posts so they came out of the nut at a weird angle and the tuners turned the wrong way. The seller was a gigging musician!

*generally, you pull the new string up to the post, ease it back by the distance from the nut to the first fret, then kink it through the post (most tuners) or cut it (Kluson slotted tuners). This gives the correct wrap on every string, since thinner strings need more turns.