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Empty On The Inside - The Mohrs

That is a very good idea! I need to see how nice I can make the rout (probably going with copper foil tape) and luckily, I can make one at work with the laser cutter... sounds like a plan. It's gone to the local luthier for it's refinish - he is going to do a very subtle darkening of the grain and wood before it's refinish so will see how it comes out.

For me the only significant advantage of the Stadium over the standard Helix is Showcase. I'll wait until it is included and I can see if it's actually going to be any use to me.

Seeing as the routing is quite neat, what about your previous idea of a clear scratchplate like on your Ray35 so the grain isn't covered up by a massive expanse of black plastic?

Depends on whats to do after. Check out the heat gun approach on youtube.

The one that was cancelled was from Manchester to Carmarthen... Which caused me to miss the connection in Shrewsbury to the little max 2 carriage train you mention - that's the Heart of Wales line to Swansea and there's only 4 a day!

I reckon its poly, its a recent enough budget bass, an LTD PJ type bass.

Looks like AI spurted out the guitar size here, either that or its one of those Uke basses

Is the existing finish poly or nitro?

He's had the Ibanez double a while - there are twitter posts from 2015 for example

(Im)patiently waiting for my Stadium XL from Andertons. It seems most of us wanted an earlier release, rather than waiting for Showtime to be included. Now to appear in v1.2

Back to the Cavern in Tamworth - Pitchers has now gone by the wayside. As I've just bought another bass, I've decided to thin the herd, and one of the candidates for thinning is the Esh Poseidon V which I never take out because it's valuable. However, I regularly take out the valuable Seis, and the valuable new bass will also get taken out, so I dragged it out and put in a new battery. Aside from the fact it's got tapewounds on it (they're black so they look cool but I really don't like the feel), it's lovely, so it gets to stay. The girls still don't have a bassist, so I stood in, but one potential player came along last night to watch rather than to play so they may be sorted out now.

Dammit, he makes headlesses too! Retro me Satane!

What!

I remember back in the early 90s I walked the Tour de Mont Blanc with my girlfriend... We carried a tent, and food/clothes for 7 days - being fit we managed the 100+ miles in 4 days but we'd sweated like pigs as it was also warm. When we got back to Chamonix we looked for gifts for folks, a friend of ours was well into Reblochon so we bought her a decent lump. As we were going home on the coach I'd put on my lightweight shoes for the journey back so the only safe place to put the Reblochon was in my mountain boot (the one I'd been wearing for 25+ very sweaty miles per day) in my pack. The nearly 24 hour journey was accomplished in sweltering heat - 30+C - so we naturally worried a bit about the cheese. However, there was nothing we could do... When we got back the cheese had melted into the shape of my boot, but we stuck it in the fridge and gave it to our friend the following day. A week later we saw her and she thanked us effusively for the cheese- "it's the best I've ever had!" she said.

so the Boss OC-5 is "better" than the OC-2 fair call?

The barrel jack is plugged into a socket on the vol control and is easily removable. Undoing the nut is still a pita though.

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Interesting word salad. Do they even know what words like 'triptych' actually mean?

Looks as if you've got enough slack in the leads to the jack socket to be able to pull it out through the body without unsoldering them, which makes life a lot easier when you replace the socket (barrel jacks are a consumable item) as you can solder in the new socket without having to furtle around in the cavity.

Oh, that makes sense. FTFY. There's no way a store that large writes such an epic saga for every product they sell

Yesterday, I had the first of what should now be regular singing lessons. It was only a short one due to temporary issues around a teaching venue. That will be resolved once the teacher has got a new house. I also went to my first rehearsal with a new choir. First impressions are favourable. I have about six months or so to go of not being able to play sax owing to the bone graft and tooth implant. In a random fit of wanting to do something different, I had a go at playing a brass instrument for the first time (I did clear it with the dentist first). I went to a local group that was having a 'have-a-go' session for newcomers. I opted to have a got at a euphonium and got some noises out of it, some might even have born resemblance to a note. The euphonium is the same pitch as both my cello and baritone sax - it starts on the Bb below bass clef and cello and sax both start on the C. An annoying aspect is that in band repertoire, the euphonium is regarded as a transposing instrument in Bb and is written for in treble clef. This is so that a player of another instrument can just play it if needed as the fingerings are then the same. Away from bands, it is treated as being chromatic, non-transposing, and the music is at concert pitch in bass clef. If you want to play both, you need to learn two sets of fingerings. Saxes have the same issue. They have always been fully chromatic as they were invented in the mid-C19th and did not develop from a more primitive instrument. Nevertheless they are treated as transposing to avoid having two sets of fingerings for Eb and Bb instruments.