New 2009 Grabber II and, yes, even the Ripper!

[uwe]

Vates, I'm sooooooo sorry, I messed up on the origins of the posting, I'm sure you are a fine person with a healthily distanced  relationship to mammals delivering wool, I wasn't insinuating anything, I swearn, not even about your ancestors being handpicked by English judges!!!


Those "coffee break sweets" are off my BFG Les Paul (which now has skull knobs). I thought they would bring out the wood character of the satin fin Mon(k)ey even more before your mutual derision tore holes into my heart ... 

[vates]

Uwe, you will be forgiven only in case you'll send an envelope full of that 1st-class weed to my address

Now seriously: is that wild slab of rosewood a custom order or an aftermarket replacement done locally?

[uwe]

The latter - I felt there was a good fretless sleeping in it and as you can see from the pics I had two (fretted) others. And the satin finish one sounded - finish influences sound? - most resonant so I thought it should be the one. Haven't regretted it.

That said, the satin fin needed a truss rod repair in any case as I had messed up the allen nut (which was barely accessible on mine, the cavity was way too tight for proper adjustment access) in a vain effort to remove it - in utter ignorance that the Money basses are the one and only Gibson bass type with a biflex rod where the nut is one with one of the rods and cannot be removed, duh! So be warned should you attempt something similarly silly!

[Dave W]

I still don't understand why that rod was used on the Monkey Bass and no other. Something fishy there. Like maybe these basses were made by someone else to Gibson's specifications.

[uwe]

Maybe they were attempting something state of the art even though there are people out there who say that a biflex deadens response of a neck. With this bass' not very thick and all-maho to boot neck, there was never any danger at all that it would be too convex (flat) under string pull, so adding a more expensive rod which can do just that is baffling.

[Freuds_Cat]

Those "coffee break sweets" are off my BFG Les Paul (which now has skull knobs). I thought they would bring out the wood character of the satin fin Mon(k)ey even more before your mutual derision tore holes into my heart ... 

right idea poorly executed IMO.

I would go with either of these two:





Like my opinion is even remotely relevent here 

[Freuds_Cat]

Vates, I'm sooooooo sorry, I messed up on the origins of the posting, I'm sure you are a fine person with a healthily distanced  relationship to mammals delivering wool, I wasn't insinuating anything, I swearn, not even about your ancestors being handpicked by English judges!!!

Based on the fact that we South Australians were never a penal colony and it was the wealthy English pastoralists who settle here, (before going broke and having mother England bail us out  )  I feel it beneath me to even comment on such misinformed sideways insinuations. 

As for the sheep.........   

[uwe]

"Based on the fact that we South Australians were never a penal colony and it was the wealthy English pastoralists who settle here, (before going broke and having mother England bail us out  )  I feel it beneath me to even comment on such misinformed sideways insinuations."


Ouch!!!!   

[Highlander]

As for the sheep.........   

[OldManC]

Wooley backs?

[Freuds_Cat]

C'mon Kenny thats the saddest looking Merino I've ever seen    

[clankenstein]

sheep?i know where theres 48 million or so.not too far from where im sitting in fact.

[Freuds_Cat]

heh    I wasn't gonna mention that in terms of sheep NZ is to Australia what Wales is to England.

[clankenstein]

we are outnumbered 12 to 1.better not make them angry.

[Freuds_Cat]

And the surprise winner is CHINA!


The most recent statistics come from the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organisation, a survey done in 2005.

All numbers are in millions.

People's Republic of China 170.9
Australia 102.7
European Union (15 nation) 99.3
Russia (former Soviet Union) 65.3
India 62.5
Iran 54.0
Sudan 49.0
New Zealand 39.9
United Kingdom 35.3
South Africa 25.3

World Total 1079.0
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep