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If the holes align, but are just too big... Maybe use neck inserts and bolts, rather than plugging and re-drilling

Wow!!! That is superb. And I struggle to get my head around how your did it. Lovely work generally, but that feature is a 'knock out of the ball park' jobee. Bravo!!

Green Hay.

That is the down side of long rehearsals. I try to play a bit lighter on long rehearsals and even the longer gigs. Dave

Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond

Simplified sight reading for electric bass by Jos des Pres. I used this to learn bass notation. It’s brilliant!

Just seen a review that stated the Xvive lasted over 7 hours. I’ll order those today. £118 on Amazon spread over 5 months interest free.

Agreed! I think the mastery of rhythm is where you can tell the difference between a pro and an amateur. (I’m in the latter category - and I know it.)

Now that is bloody helpful (I won’t tell you how I got a bushing out yesterday) 👍

I had a rehearsal on saturday with my new band. Guitarist played a good rock and so did the drummer. We played 5 hours with some coffy and cigaret stops. Rehearsal was good, i mainly played chords, said by guitarist and listened to the drummer. Long time ago i had to play 5 hours, so rehearsal ended with 2 big blisters on my 2 and 3 right hand fingers.

I guess one huge advantage of IEMs is removing a major source of potential feedback from the stage sound?

Yes, it's gone.

This is really a noob woodworking question. I got a MIM Fender maple neck that I want to put on a standard P body. Neck fits the pocket very nicely but when I went to screw it in I realised the screw holes on the neck had no bite on two of the holes. I'm using standard screws from Allparts and they are perfect for the body. It seems the neck has either previously been used with bigger screws or has just been badly treated when adjusting the truss rod (it's a heel adjuster). What would be the best thing to fill the holes and get them gripping the screws? As it's a heel adjust I will need to be able to unscrew and re screw a few times to get the right setup, barring incredible first time luck! Thanks.

Ive read good reviews of both, that's why I can't decide. I like the idea of the Fender not having a light show on them, just one button and longer battery life (although its more than I'll ever need from one charge). Xvive is a tried and tested company I guess, and they are a bit cheaper.

@Eldon Tyrell can I assume that this has gone?

There's a ton of sheilding paint. The shaft is 25mm long, 8mm dia? and the knob is 6mm dia. 150kohm linear. I've looked everywhere and even thought about putting a short shaft one in and putting flying leads in, but there's not enough space. The one I ordered ended up being 6.5mm dia. It's 25 years old, and it's done its work. These things don't last forever. Cutting my losses for the sake of £30 and a half hour swapping over.

Out of curiosity, how is the body size on these? Is it closer to the Ibanez SR or to a Jazz bass?