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It's a reasonably pricy option but I've used Fender's deluxe USA stubby bridge to good effect on an older American Fender bass. Has the grooves to limit saddle slip and the saddles are multi grooved to help with string spacing/alignment. Plus it looks original on a Fender without changing the basic aesthetic. Does top load and string through as well. It's a three screw fixing. It's a very neat lo-bling style bridge. I might add it didn't really sound any different from the original Fender style bridge. Feels more solid if anything.

The audition went well. Blasted through seven of the ten songs. The usual botche and getting lost once or twice. But generally a positive vibe from the band. They're auditioning one more bass player next week, so a ten day wait for a decision.... Good bunch of guys as well.

Well I do fancy one but I have just received the Nobelium from The Rev over in Australia with the new addition of a Jensen DI and I think its better than the Noble, and I have had a few of them. It may be the best Preamp DI I have had to date. Pic attached. The silver is the new V1 ( bought for a mate of mine ) and the gold is the one with the Jensen. It is simply magnificent. I would love to hear what you think of the new Luce when it lands though still.

Would that be the Bender Distortocaster? There was one in a shop in Shrewsbury in the 1990's for years; I wish I'd been able to afford it.

"Super awesome" and "wicked" are like nails on a blackboard for me.

Exactly, especially in a down-at-heel former mining town.

Saves a whole 15g/tuner, incidentally.

Off to the Hartshead Moor WMC on Saturday for a 60th birthday bash. We'd done one of those last year and it was essentially a paid rehearsal with nobody up and dancing really until we were near the end of our second set, and when we saw the size of the party we weren't confident, but this lot were a lot livelier, with dancers up in varying amounts from the middle of our first set, and we went down well. It turned out the organiser, the birthday boy's niece, had seen us before, so knew what to expect, and we pretty much nailed everything right up to the drummist ending our last song Two Tribes two bars too early. Fortunately we were all well aware he can never remember when it ends every time so managed to style it out, although it sounded a touch anticlimactic. Went with the trusty ABM into the Two10S, which was probably overkill given the volume dial didn't get above 9 o'clock, which was also good because apparently the club often gets complaints when bands are too loud so we played quieter than we thought we would, but with the bonus that said drummist comments that he could actually hear all of us for once! 😂 We politely rebuffed the birthday boy's husband's entreaties to let him buy us drinks, but I gratefully accepted the offer to snag a couple of muffins from the buffet on the way out. Home by 10 and actually got to hang out with the missus for a bit, which was nice. (We've played smaller stages but this was the first time our singist had experienced a bass guitar to the head so was grumbling a bit)

Not generally much of a tinkerer but some black ultralites came up in the classifieds and here we are 😅 Still need to change the strings and clean up some bits. And read up on how to clean a matt finish.

Monet's Too Tight To Mention - Simply Red

If used for a musical instrument, tone wood? Mark

Uh, dog hair?!

This sort of post should end up on the dustbin. You should be ashamed of stuff like this.

Zoom B1on Marshall Super Bass Amp and Cab Sim... Patches set for Amounts of Lemmy - From Hawkwind to Real Motorhead, plus the stuff that came after. Comes with a Free Tuner! I just so happen to have a B1 On and a B1 XOn up for cheap in the FS... 😉

Tree wood? I would hazard a guess at something in the mahogany area, or maybe walnut? But I only know if I have a lump of any type of wood if I bought it and wrote on it what it is so my advice may not have much use.

That's about right - I was in the shop last year and they gave me a new price list that starts around £3.5k