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I’ve owned one and I’ll be honest, once the thrill of owning something so old and cool passes you’ll likely get bored pretty quickly with it. Mine was a nice little curio that sat on the stand and looked pretty but that’s pretty much it. A lot of these vintage guitars are like fine art, I can appreciate its aesthetics and value but I have no need or desire to own it (anymore). I’m happier with the modern US stuff and I reckon you should be too.

Brilliant, thanks. I'll see what I can get sorted.

From the same email I mentioned above, as I was asking about a 6 string bass, which in typical Ibanez (and Cort) style uses the 5 string dimensioned PUs for the 6s. So mebbe the router will have to come out. The 6-string size would be suitable probably, but that one will be 118mm long with an 87.6mm magnet length. I wouldn't fuss about the 1mm differences mentioned until I was trying to fit the pickups into the cavity as the slight numerical differences I see all over the place re these PUs are likely conversion rounding errors and the EMGs are actually accurate to the Bart dimensions as it would make little sense for EMG to do anything else. Strange that these ExW PUs still aren't on the EMG site.

The Gotoh GB707 has a plain full shaft, when the older GB7 has a concave at its center shaft. Both will work, with more accuracy for the GB707, and the original Gotohs machined heads are excellent.

Aviva, both cars registered for business, the second car only cost an approx extra £12 for business…..actual cost will depend on what car, your age, normal use for etc…I recently read of someone who was given a fine for driving without insurance cover for use as business, best to cover all possible types of car usage insurance.

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Thanks Chaps When I Googled NS Wav replacement tuners it was the Gotoh GB707 set at Thomann came up. i saw the Hipshots on the Golihur site, but they don't state the code for them, for me to look closer to home.

It makes me sad to see that YOB bass for me that I will never own 😫 At least I have my AVII.

Hawkwind at Castell Roc again. Wonderful venue for an amazingly fluent and confident band.

Plenty of mojo going on with this ‘63 Precision.

In addition to the shops in Brum I'd have to add Hingos in Walsall, ran by Andy Ford who I think was the uk distributor for Kramer. Great secondhand gear along with new Ohm amps that always looked cutting edge to me as a kid. Again, after trying out every bass in the shop I'd reward them by buying a copy of Music UK or some plectrums from my pocket money.

I noticed that your Gaelic pronunciation of 'Fender' is phonetically written as 'Rickenbacker'.

The US Gollihur website is a good resource for this type of thing. Then you might be able to source some locally. Exactly the he same thing happened to my Ibanez SRH500F a couple of weeks back so I ordered some GOTOH replacements from Thomann.

They are Gotoh GB7 type.

According to a thread on TalkBass, the 5-string EHB models come with BH2s in the P4 size, which is 117x32mm. That corresponds with the E6W dimensions given above, just about: 119 vs 117mm length. so the magnet length would be correspondingly longer, maybe another 10mm to 76mm. That makes more sense, given that the pickups are slanted. Spacing is 18mm at the bridge, maybe 17mm at the bridge pickup position, meaning 68mm from B to G. Add a few mm above and below, and a few more mm to cater for the angle, and a 76mm magnet looks about right. Could I safely remove 1mm of wood at each end, carefully? I don’t think it’s beyond me. I have needle files and I know how to use them. 😬 EMGs don’t come with a balance control: if you want one, you have to buy it separately. It’s included with some of their EQ circuits, such as the BQC. I wonder if the control cavity is big enough for that?

You are proving with your diagram that has created even more confusion to the OP that you are the one having problems, just see above the mess you've created. I'm really fed up by people like you, unable to explain anything with the correct vocabulary and then pretending others are the culprits. Next time don't interfere with such non sense as the OP was clearly lost and made it to other way round. It's not because I understood your very ambiguous diagram that I agree with all the non sense you wrote. Left is left, right is right and has nothing to do here when the correct words were clockwise and counter (or anti) clockwise, what everyone has been told at school. Period.

Faithless at Lakefest last night. I was playing on the VIP stage after Reverend and the Makers’ main stage set - heard them but didn’t see them as the VIP stage was immediately behind one of the big screens flanking the main stage, so when you looked left from our stage you saw the huge crowd! After we’d packed down I went out front with Mrs Axe and our son and DIL and caught most of the Faithless set. If I say I’d never seen or heard anything like it, it’s because I have close to zero experience of EDM. I was pleased to see a ‘real’ bass (some kind of J-type 5-string) and guitar (Jazzmaster) alongside drum kit, percussion, and keyboards (no doubt with sequencers). I have played Insomnia in a party band but didn’t recognise the songs except for God Is A DJ and a cover of a Dido song. Some of the songs were accompanied by videos featuring a guy who wasn’t on the stage, and who I later found out was late member Maxi Jazz. I have to say the performance was as tight as a very tight thing. Not my thing but I was glad of the experience.

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Express Music in Solihull. Rather more geared to keyboards (I bought my Roland D10 there) but they did have guitars (I bought my Eko Ranger 6 from there, the instrument I've owned the longest). I remember dropping in one day when there had just been a delivery and Pete the guitar specialist was doing the unboxings. One of the instruments was a Tokai bass, IIRC a Jazz (FSO anyway) which had an amazing finish, a lacquer with glitter in it, very sparse but it seemed to be really deep. Pete went on to run his own shop in Shirley which has subsequently moved on to new hands a new name, the Bop Shop.