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@Paulhauser followed your advice. Sold the Euro as I just could not make it work for me. Still have the Starr, my only "not for sale" bass. Killer combo -solid maple wings, EMGs and the US Haz (originally came with the TP, but I got it replaced with a Haz when they were still available to buy). Man, times, flies, they introduced it more than 10 years ago! Check out this video from the launch event at NAMM in Jan 2015. It shows Mike Starr's sister Melinda, Stuart Spector, and PJ Rubal. Don't know who the bloke on the left is. Any idea?) The video features one of my fav basslines. The one that really got me wanting to buy a Spector. If I would, could you?

Grasshopper ~ The Mamas & The Papas

I concur on both points

Has anyone wide experience of using specialised dep musicians? Or maybe you work as a regular dep. If so how has it gone for you and what do charge/pay for a typical gig? We've been trying to get a project going for a while and keep stumbling over finding a decent guitarist. Quite simply most of them struggle to work outside of their usual genre and fail to learn the songs. We don't gig frequently enough to attract pro musicians to join the band and the amateurs are too amateur. We started out with a great drummer and guitarist and played three gigs to an enthusiastic reception from the audiences and re-bookings from the venues. The guitarist left due to changes in his circumstances and the drummer sold her house and moved. I've used a number of drummers as deps and it has always been great. Dep guitarists have been mixed with one turning up for a run through knowing every song in the set with around a weeks notice and at the other extreme having to turn the guitar off in the monitors so we could get through the songs. I've talked to some of the function bands round here and the use of deps is fairly extensive and these bands sound great. Using deps wopuld let us go on developing the band and building up contacts whilst looking out for a long term band member.

Beautiful finish!

You may be pleasantly surprised. I'm specifically referring to Sunbeams.

Lol we use Accu quite a bit ... they are a really good solution for difficult to find things - like tiny M1.6 Allen headed cap machine screws ... we use these to replace drilled out rivets in some old Hofner pickups when we rewind them ... as we invariably have to! Handy on some old DeArmond stuff too.

Not my videos... they are my partners in this collaboration!

I've only ever had D'Addario Chromes or Fender flats. Neither, thankfully, have felt sticky, just smooth 😎

Are you a billionaire? 😁

I read through the thread about sharpening chisels and I have to doff my cap to the lady. I love watching Masters (doesn't seem quite right to say Mistresses) in action. I sit at the feet of greatness. I shake my head and realise I will never achieve that level of Jedi like woodwork. Rob

Nothing can be "too vintage" for me, that why I like it! I do play a vintage P bass with LaBella flats on though. Rob

Thanks but I'm never going to achieve that! I do have a little jig to hold your chisel at the right angle while you work it on the sharpening stone though, and that will have to do.