Should I shoot my new bass? (Modding the Harley Benton MV-4MSB)

Oh man, I can’t decide currently.

Pink’s Hot is not "manly "enough if I want to intimidate @krescht.
And a gay fried of mine had an idea for the pickguard that I will implement, so it will surely not be manlier soon :slight_smile:

And the Barney bass, eh Ronin, it needs to be optimized.
It’ very good, but not the best currently. F#cking PU position terrorism!

:joy:

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No such thing as manly or girly with instruments

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It’s funny cause it’s true!

I remember passing through Luxembourg on a trip to France. Wanted to get cheap gas there.
I saw the Luxembourg sign, said: “Let’s find some cheap gas!” to my girlfriend … and we were already in France by then.

EDIT I’ts really funny. Every time I look at it I have to laugh!!! Cannot focus like that…

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LOL! I’m not so sure. He ordered the wrap film for me in a colour of chaps he would wear on a Kitkat party. I’m sure it will be shiny and colourful!

I will have an @ss free bass :slight_smile:

(Don’t google Kitkat Berlin, please!)

Here in the States I’ve done it with Rhode Island

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That’s where Family Guy lives!

If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying ‘End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH’, the paint wouldn’t even have time to dry - Terry Pratchett

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He was a wise man!

I’m not so sure about that, Portnoy looks ridiculous playing this kit…. :rofl:

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works better with guitar

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I still kind of want one of the tiny ESP Roselia’s. The full size one is cool but the tiny ones are adorable.

But not $5k adorable.

The big one has a GrassRoots version, not sure about the small one.

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i’m from rhode island - its the biggest little state in the union:

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Too right! :rofl:

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I find him absolutey cool, honest!
In fact, he made it my my hero list with that video!

That’s really nicely done … if Pink’s Hot is not gay enough with the pick guards, I might change it to a Hello Kitty theme…

So you know Quagmire?

Pickup selector switch hole and thumb rest screw holes are filled now and hardened great.

First go with sanding … with K80 sand paper to get rid of the rough epoxy spots.

Looks already good (the Barney pickup is missing, I will do that last, as this one is the most complicated)

Will use some super glue to fill any missing spots … and then use K120 and finally K400 sand paper.

When I did this a few months ago, I missed some bumbs at the pickup selector switch holes.
After I put the film wrap on the pickguard, it looked like this:

You need to look very closely to see it … usually nobody notices it. But I do.
The funny thing is, I couldn’t see nor feel it before I put the wrap film on the pickguard. It was only visible after I had put the wrap film on the d@mn thing!

I wish we had something like a good carpenter at BassBuzz, who could give me advice how to make sure I sanded 100% smooth! There must be a simple trick!
Does somebody like that exist??! :slight_smile:

We used both for software dev. at Motorola. For each major software system (for example, cellular infrastructure), we had three different development teams working on it: the version team, the dot team and the point team. If the current release was v2.6.12, the version team was working on v3.0.0 (new major version), the dot team was working on v2.7.0 (new minor features) and the point team was working on v2.6.13 (bug fixes). Something like waterfall was more appropriate for the version team, agile for the dot team, and a bonfire under their butts for the point team. :grin:

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Love that!

But that’s only possible for very large, IT driven companies that can afford that (which explains the Motorola pricing).

If you have only 20 to 30 devs available, it’s a different story!

By the way: this only works, if software is documented really well. I have yet to meet an agile team that cares about documentation…

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I agree, but for a different reason. Around 15 years ago, I knew a guy in Phoenix who published bootleg CDs of Rush and Dream Theater (I even got a credit mention of one of the Rush CD sleeves). John Petrucci despises all things bootleg, but Mike Portnoy was cool about it. So cool, in fact, that he provided unreleased recordings to the guy I knew. I have several of his D.T. bootleg CDs, all excellent quality.

Unfortunately, the bootlegger was much better at creating bootleg CDs than he was a running a business. He opened a shop in the east Valley (Mesa) that sold cards for games (can’t remember the name of any of them). A couple of years after he opened, the IRS showed and seized EVERYTHING, all his inventory and his computers, which had ALL of the source material for his bootlegs. No back-up anywhere. All gone. At least I’ve still got the CDs. The knucklehead hadn’t paid any federal or state taxes. Hadn’t even filed returns.

There’s a hit blues song in there somewhere.

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