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Doesn't look too bad - you might want to clean up that milky looking area with some IPA (isopropyl alcohol, not india pale ale, lol). Solder joints look solid enough, so my money is on the DC jack itself having failed. I'd replace it.

So this is where we are now - The neck joint is fully trimmed and VERY tight fitted - it's gone back to the correct depth leaving exactly 27.6mm of overstand as per the original. The underside of the fingerboard end to belly is also exactly like the original - this is testament to my grandfather and father's advice measure a job twice - have a cup of tea - then measure twice again - then have another cup of tea to think about if you are actually doing what you need to be doing: the four measure/two tea method (or coffee if that's yer bag). So the possible order of the the list of jobs still to do: 1. Scrape a small amount from the bass side of the neck heel face to correct the slight wonkiness of the original neck pocket that had the fingerboard way off centreline. 2. Bore the pilot holes in the neck heel out to 8mm and cut the wider area to sink in the cap head stainless bolts and washers. 3. Shoot the face of the neck with a sharp hand plane to prepare it for the fingerboard. There is a verrrrrrrrry slight back-bow ... but I will try to leave a bit of that in to pre stress the neck back a tad to resist string tension. 4. Glue the fingerboard to the neck - hot hide glue, properly warming the neck and fingerboard to extend the 'open time' - and I'll co-opt an assistant for that job as it has to be done fast and right! 5. I'm pretty set on an access hatch in the treble side cutaway - so that will be next probably. 6. Making the neck inner clamp plate - yep I'm going to try that method: a plate bored and tapped M8 and secured to the inside of the neck block 7. Fitting tuning machines to peg box and some much needed final neck shaping ... the replacement neck is like a tree trunk! Then technically speaking the neck can be bolted on, the end pin, wire and tailpiece installed, the bridge shaped and fitted, the nut fitted - the sound post re installed ... And if I want to I can whack a set of strings on there to see what I have! Yep I'm going to refinish her ... but I think it's worth putting the old girl back under tension for the first time in I believe over 40 years to make sure she doesn't go BANG before I spend a lot more time making her look beautiful!

Wonderful ideas, people, but I don't want to attack this bass with power tools any more than it already has - it's already had holes filled and redrilled for F pattern 5 screw bridges. My ultimate goal would be to obtain an original Fernandes BB-8 bridge and return it to how it was designed in the first place.

Yet another Salisbury Live gig but proper old school Salisbury Live...we're playing the same night as a bunch of other bands are playing boozers around town. Not sure but we might be the only originals band on that night so we'll have to push a little harder to get an audience that usually want something familiar sounding. Hopefully the Muppet image will help 😂

I'm still waiting for some consensus on their long-term reliability. I haven't heard nearly the amount of complaints that I've heard about the old Portaflex series and the SVT-7, but I have heard a few. Mostly about the lower-powered models, strangely.

I certainly count myself very fortunate in that I've never had any difficulty swapping between 4 and 5.

Looks great though @gobasserk I want to do a a 424x in Shelby Blue like my AES800b guitar

Every Crane of Sand - Bob Dylan

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Lifted - The Lighthouse Family

Slightly steep price 289 €, but looks good, most likely sounds, too.

We need pictures, or it isn't back.

A torque wrench helps with adjustments.

@stewblack has a multi-pedal waaaay cooler than that.

Just saw this on facebook and can't help think someone has missed the point of pedals in that having the flexibility to changes things is the main draw. Nevertheless there is a bit of me that things this is otherwise quite cool, and I am aware that some touring musicians (e.g. Ed Sheeran) do something similar to reduce faff on stage...