That's a great score. My late father was a mech-engineer and I inherited some Starrett, Mitutoyo and B&S measuring stuff. I don't do much with metal working but I have a little sherline CNC mill in my woodshop and would like to mess around with it more. I forget: are you a professional metal worker?

That is fucking awesome!

Super cool. Love that they included a mirror if you need to reapply your lipstick.
I, too, am fascinated and would love to know/see more of this thing and whatever it gets used for.

Ordered a quad of the Verellen Octal power amp tube replacement thing. Yeah, they're pricey, but I could easily spend $240-$280 on a new quad of 6550s or KT88s, and I figure I'll put these in the main tube amp I use and hold onto the 6550s that have been in that amp since at least 2017.

Dr Tony Balls wrote: Wed Sep 03, 2025 12:47 pm

benadrian wrote: Wed Sep 03, 2025 12:45 pm

Dr Tony Balls wrote: Wed Sep 03, 2025 12:36 pm Be a bass player in a big city....it's easy! Bass amps are always in the backline. I walk to and from most shows that I play.

Fair enough. For a while I was the king of "borrowing a cabinet", then I just had to bring one guitar and a head.

Still, I'd say L.A. is a big city, yet there is no backline culture here. Maybe a few pay-to-play venues in Hollywood, but other than that it might as well be any other non-urban area.

Yeah.....a dense or dense-ish city? Does Chicago or Philly or Boston do backlines?

I'm from Houston originally and I remember shows in the early 00's with three bands, all FRIENDS, and yet each bass player brought their own Ampeg 8x10. WTF.

I think NYC is the only American city where I've heard of this being a regular thing. Seattle definitely doesn't!

That said, I think almost every show I've played post-lockdown there's been at least some gear sharing. I feel like everyone just wants to rock and if there's a way to make it more efficient on changeover then lets do it. We're playing in Portland in a few weeks and we're just bringing down amp heads/pedals/guitars/drum destructables.

twelvepoint wrote: Fri Sep 05, 2025 8:30 am That's a great score. My late father was a mech-engineer and I inherited some Starrett, Mitutoyo and B&S measuring stuff. I don't do much with metal working but I have a little sherline CNC mill in my woodshop and would like to mess around with it more. I forget: are you a professional metal worker?

That's awesome - I wish my mech-engineer dad had actually worked outside of government. He only passed on bad shop habits. I'm a controls engineer, but I worked at a company that worked in the CNC field and taught Mastercam on the side for years. Now I design/build mostly machines, products & software, but often involves tools & fixtures and I got fed up with having to borrow shop stuff to check parts (Taylor luckily has a tooling shop)

Teacher's Pet wrote: Fri Sep 05, 2025 11:13 am Super cool. Love that they included a mirror if you need to reapply your lipstick.
I, too, am fascinated and would love to know/see more of this thing and whatever it gets used for.

Also good to catch accidental milk-mustaches. I am mostly storing measurement tools, guitar work stuff, soldering iron tips etc.

tallchris wrote: Fri Sep 05, 2025 2:23 pm Ordered a quad of the Verellen Octal power amp tube replacement thing. Yeah, they're pricey, but I could easily spend $240-$280 on a new quad of 6550s or KT88s, and I figure I'll put these in the main tube amp I use and hold onto the 6550s that have been in that amp since at least 2017.

I look forward to the report!!

My experience in Toronto is no one brings anything but also doesn’t talk. The out of town band is then mobbed at the venue for their shit, has to stick around late and then drive back to wherever.

TylerDeadPine wrote: Sat Sep 06, 2025 5:39 pm My experience in Toronto is no one brings anything but also doesn’t talk. The out of town band is then mobbed T the venue for their shit, has to stick around late and then drive back to wherever.

Wow, dick move for Canadians!