The Last Bass Outpost

This last year I took delivery of a Fender tone ring reproduction cab made by Rick at R A Woods. I love it. Rick is having a bit of a hard time now. I just got off the phone with him. He just finished two orders for 15" cabs and is taking orders for more. I know he can use the work.

If this is not appropo then delete this thread. Told Rick I would post it.

just wanted to pop in and sy hello to the gang. had a bit of action here in Missouri and it is kind of leveling out. got up here for the grand kids birthdays and traveled to get my new tone ring vcab then never made it back to Texas.

had a hosp stay in Jan that lasted over a month and ended up losing most of my kidney function. I am on dialysis three times a week now so traveling is sort of out. I am moving back to Missouri and a good friend (Dale) my Marine buddy, is going for my things soon. I have most of my equipment in Pecos. lost abot 55 pounds in weight and feel good. had a small surgery on my arm to make the veins pop ouot so I can get this catheter in my chest out. had it in since Jan.

on my travels I dropped off my black Bassman head to get new blonde Tolex applied and have my mid 60's 2-12 cab restored and RA Wood speaker cabs. should be done now, talked to Rick last week. I have been trying to read the BOP but not a lot of computer time with everything going on. hope I get on a transplant list so any extra good kharma would be appreciated.

be well all of you and the best to all of you.

love ya all,

your bro,

CW (Sniper)

doing more research on the Sunn 200S amp, i realized i need to know a little something about choke values in amplifiers. i found this article on the 300guitars.com site. it explains the choke usage very well and i thought i would pass it on.

"Chokes: What Are They? What Do They Do?A choke is an iron core inductor used in the power supply of a guitar amp as a filtering element. Looking a lot like a transformer a choke only has two leads coming from the housing. They are designed to block AC while passing DC. Their purpose in guitar amp filter supplies is to smooth out the ripple in the rectified DC.

In some guitar amplifiers a high wattage resistor is used instead of a choke. A resistor in place of a choke saves money and to a certain degree manufacturing time.  The drawbacks of using a resistor is there is more residual AC ripple in the power supply after rectification resulting in a little more background hum in your amp. One example is the 5E3 Fender tweed Deluxe. It does not have a choke in its filter supply. (Nor does the Bassman 10 amp have a choke filter. ... Sniper).

Chokes have ratings of voltage, DC current ( measured in milliamps), resistance (measured in ohms) and inductance (measured in Henries). A typical choke for a 50 watt guitar amp is rated for about 500 volts and 50 milliamps. The resistance measures in the 250 ohm range and inductance between 10 – 20 Henries. The inductance of the choke coupled with the capacitance of the filter capacitors determine the bass response of the amplifier. A larger inductance value choke will have a better bass response than a smaller value choke. An amplifier with a power supply choke will have a deeper, crisper bass response than one that uses a resistor instead of a choke.

To sum up in simple terms using a choke in the filter supply the result is less background hum and cleaner, better bass response. Using a resistor manufacturers save time and cost and there is a bit more background hum and a looser bass response."

i'm just not a bird guy but someone might be:

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i just got off the phone with Hipshot and ordered a new two stud supertone for my reconstruction on the crispy crittered '66. Hipshot told me that for almost a year now they hae been making the two stud bridge with an elongated hole to address the earlier (angled) stud mount for the pre 67 Gibson basses.

one of the problems he said i might run into buying from a distributor is them having old stock types that do not have the elongated hole to address this problem. i ordered one from Hipshot directly.

this should be a viable solution for those of you wanting a newer type bridge to work on your EB2's. just be aware that the Hipshot bridge still sets on the wood of the body and might make an impression when mounted.

when it arrives i will let you know if it works for sure on the older angled stud mounts.

almost forgot, FWIW Hipshot will make, on special order, tuners for the open bass/slothead type head (think 70 and 71) as they have to have longer shafts for the strrings to wind around and they will reach so the shafts will be supported by the center section of the head. this will be no extra charge to the customer but will require a direct purchase from Hipshot. i talked to Josh. this modification will only be available on thier ultra lite tuners HB6 series.