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#46
Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 10:10 pm
by david C
Dave the bass wrote:Shoddy!
DTB
exactly but I tried
never again, getting the right bits was a nightmare, you have to find a very friendly Fender parts dealer
#47
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 10:28 am
by david C
just a photo of the Callaham tremolo
really pleased with it,
well made compared to the Fender ones I've got, even the intonation is set out roughly and the saddle heights the same, just a sign of attention to detail
#48
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 10:29 am
by Dave the bass
david C wrote:
Is the fob-watch to help keep the player
in-time during tricky solo's?
DTB
#49
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 10:36 am
by david C
wish it was
anyway it's a bit sick at the moment, got to to the doctors for a strip down
don't ever get involved with old watches they're brain damage to keep running
#50
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 10:46 am
by david C
just a quick digression, my favourite watch a 1833 verge escapement fusee made by a guy in rural Sussex
#51
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 11:13 am
by Dave the bass
My Dad would've liked chatting with you MrC. He was into watches and clock movements before my little Sis and I came along, I think he gave it all up in the mid 60's. I remember finding little boxes of bits in the shed when I was a kid.
DTB
#52
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 11:46 am
by shane
Dave the bass wrote:I remember finding little boxes of bits in the shed when I was a kid.
DTB
That's probably why he gave up.
#53
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 11:49 am
by david C
I just love the thought of what these watches have been through, were they used in the Boar War, WW1 or were they put in a gentleman's desk draw and forgotton, what ever it's survived 180 odd years still works and keeps good time
#54
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 11:51 am
by Dave the bass
shane wrote:Dave the bass wrote:I remember finding little boxes of bits in the shed when I was a kid.
DTB
That's probably why he gave up.
Yeah but no but, he didn't have a shed before I was born! We were living a in a 2nd floor Council Flat, it was only when Sis-the-Bass came along in '69 or so we moved to a house with a shed.
So I'm blaming my Sis...
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#55
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 11:55 am
by david C
Dad the bass sounds a man of taste and distinction
#56
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 12:12 pm
by Dave the bass
david C wrote:Dad the bass sounds a man of taste and distinction
He was. In the past tense sadly, aye, he was also very funny and let me play with power tools from an early age and encouraged the 'making of stuff'
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#57
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 12:39 pm
by Mike H
My dad did watch and clock repairing "on the side" as well, had tons of tools and stuff. According to me mum he got into it while in the army for WW2, 'cause of not being able to find anyone else to do repairs or cleaning so had to DIY.
#58
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 1:21 pm
by david C
I have acquired a few tools and I play around doing simple things like changing hands and removing the movement, despite watching all the yotube vids about it I'm still freaked by stripping it right down, what I need is breaker to experiment on
#59
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 11:17 am
by Nick
Anyhow, whats it sound and play like? we need some sounds.
#60
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 3:02 pm
by david C
not too sure how I can do it,
I've got miniature USB tape recorder I'll try to record onto it and produce a.wav file,
it was a bit of fun setting it up, I was trying to allow for the compound radius but I was over complicating it, it actually plays beautifully with 10s on it, these Warmoth necks are teriffic and well worth the money, there is a rumour that Fender's custom shop have used them
the Texas specials give a good SRV Hendrix sound, but I can also do Chicago blues on them
at the moment I using a little Peavey amp but what I would really like is a
Fender deluxe reverb or a AC15, Philip Ramsay is looking out for something along those lines, valves would make a big difference,