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Things from a bygone era Jack Hargreaves probably mentions them in “out of town” at some point

That's amazing for a duo act!

‘Don’t Stop Believing’ - smothered in chorus!

Roll off each pickup and see if that makes the issue change. It's not a complex circuit. Could you send me some photos of inside the cavity to see if there's anything obvious?

Shielding issue is also a good shout especially if it is worse when you move nearer your amp

Most pub music venues have realised a solo singer or duo, open mic night is a cheap way to give live music paying £150-£200 As a band it should be around £300-£400 but most small pubs cannot afford it paying £200 -£300 tops Plus the old bands play too loud issue is often a reason not to get re-booked if they are struggling locally with noise complaints. I don’t think pub venues have a clue about band quality or how good they are and book the same old bands each month as a lazy approach to booking music

I've played the green Wattplower in a shop in Glasgow and a few other Reverend guitars - They're very well made. I like the look of the yellow and root beer, but I prefer a 34" scale. The pink fade up top is lovely.

Definitely a fretless. 100%.

This is what starts the urban mythology that caps are "always" the culprit, they always go bad, without digging a little deeper to discover that there are products that last decades without any cap failures. You kind of get what you pay for usually 😉

Brilliant! Is that the Root Beer Sparkle, I love that colour too. How do you find yourself using the pickups and tone controls? It's an unusual setup!

I use a Marshall Regenerator on the vintage chorus setting- as others mentioned very subtly applied - just adds a dimension like a nice reverb would, but without muddying things up. its not an “always on” effect though. For me.

Lad Zeppelin

I’d go again - I’ve done “that’ll do” stuff in the past and regretted it. you’re obviously skilled…maybe get close to the size shape of the rout template and finish off with a file?

Also interesting, given the thousands of Spectors you've owned 😅

And some Pub Landlords tend to favor "cheap". We have few places where the owner/managers are living in the past and won't budge from $350.00. We won't take those types of gigs. Off topic, sort of. I know some folks here are not in this for the money, which is fine. However, some of us are. I've never hit the big time or even come close. I'm a struggling local guy. In my area we have some $50.00 a night guys, $70.00, and $100. 00 a night guys. I can proudly say I'm a $150.00 a night guy. That's not much money, but more than most guys are getting around here. Daryl

So today I had a wee go at making a routing template for the T-40 pickup. First time I've ever done such a thing and all I can say is "Rome wasn't built in a day"... But for all that, you can't see the rattiness of it once the pickup is in... Not sure whether to try to finesse this template a bit, or junk it, learn from it and start again. I drew around the pickup ring to see how much room for manoeuvre I've got...

Bill Haley and the Vomets. Alice Pooper. Bog Brother and the Holding Company. Pong.

I use it on 'who knew' by pink.

Had a busy day today, on both projects I have got on the go right now. Here's what happened on the shed bass. First of all, I offered the neck up and used some string to see how the alignment was. Not too shabby, as it happens, with the neck almost along the top edge of the neck pocket, just needs a slight angle away which I will hopefully be able to create with a bit of veneer. And scale length looks good with the neck pocket the depth into the body it currently is. Next wee job was to drill out and fill the old neck screw holes. I checked them a while back and they were a little jaunty and I wasn't happy to use them again, so they need to be filled. Now, because the neck pocket had to be routed out to clean it up of all the glue and unevenness caused by the removal of that infernal glued in neck, the result was that the neck pocket was too deep - the 21 fret overhang of the neck was sitting on the top of the body, but the bottom of the heel wasn't making contact with the bottom of the neck pocket. So I used some 2mm thick maple veneer (intended for headstock fronts) and got to work shaping it to fit the neck pocket. Then it was glued in and clamped down. So, toddling along nicely, more neck pocket fettling to be done then it'll be time to fit the neck...