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I hope whoever you borrowed it off didn't pay much for it, thinking it was a hand-made one-off. I think I paid about £40 for mine.

Will post back if I get any dropouts, haven't so far, but early days. I don't think I had any dropouts with the U4 (although I did have a total transmitter failure) so maybe I just don't go far enough! I also haven't had any inteference with any of the other wirless stuff.

Sad news. I only managed to make the one last year, but it was fantastic. Thank you to all of you for the work you've done organising over the years.

These look great in the flesh. £63??? Very gently kicking myself now.

Here are more pics and if it is one of those that has been painted then it would explain why there are no dots on the side of the neck! I had to improvise with bits of gaffa tape to know what I was playing 😂

The great Bill Hicks said this: That may or may not be factually correct, but if so, it may account for why statistically no-one on Planet Earth has ever heard or cared about a single note I've ever played, not to mention the hundreds of songs & pieces of music I've created! And that's because the smallest amount of tangible intoxication - whether from restricted substances or alcohol - utterly severs whatever connection exists between my brain & hands, and I literally cannot play. Muscle memory vanishes, the flow of learned song structure evaporates, my knowledge of the fretboard fades into the noise and it's all replaced by uncoordinated, stumbling, incoherent, atonal, unmusical nonsense. And giggling. Lots of giggling. Some may say that's just my perception, and my playing's actually better if I'm wasted (and they may have a point), but it has meant I've actively avoided mixing drugs/alcohol with music since my late teens/early 20s - and have been able to coldly (and sometimes furiously) observe other people, including former bandmates, spectacularly f*cking things up onstage, while plainly having the times of their lives, thinking everyone else was too, and that the garbage they were churning out was being channeled from some higher astral plane. Man. So I dunno if you're right, Bill.

Mate, that's rough. Totally understand though. I really enjoyed the couple I managed to attend, and I want to thank you for all your (and your co-organisers) efforts over the years. Hope someone else manages to pick up the reins.

Thanks. I'll probably just leave them, and stick the badge on with that stick foam you fit car number plates with.

These days, production costs in Japan are as high as any in the world. That's why production has shifted to lower wage economies like Indonesia and China. Japan does high quality engineering and mass production better than most and they know their worth.

Some of the staff have come via Musical Exchanges and PMT. I was in there very recently - bought a second-hand GK MB150 combo which had the speaker cone disintegrate on first proper use, and they were very good about seeing if it could be repaired (the 12" driver is now unobtainable and substitutes don't work so well) and refunding me when it couldn't.

Mesa flip top counterpart. All the Mesa tube goodness in a studio/small room format.

Was that the one with PJ pickups? Really nice bass, I bought one but had to send it back because the preamp was dying

I reckon you'll need to pull them off. They may be very hard to pull off after all the years.

Another point is that every single image of a Blitz bass shows them with PJ pickups, not twin soapbars. And the Blitz doesn't have a scratchplate. However, the Hamer Explorer has twin soapbars and a white scratchplate with what I assume is a pickup selector switch.

Ibanez to resurrect the small bodied SGR800 (I think that was the one I had), with it's non flared fingerboard, and U Shaped neck.

You are Lord Percy and I claim my £5.

I bought a pedalboard from Jim. Absolutely seamless transaction, packed well and posted promptly. He's a good 'un!

Sold Brian a Boss GKJ convertor. He paid instantly, was very easy to deal with, and was a top chap.

Well, it turned up just before lunch and I'm very impressed! It's very green. Almost purest green. A slight tweak of the truss rod and it's good to go. I do find the jazz bass shape very comfy. Maybe because my first bass was a jazz. It's reasonably weighty at 4.44kg (9lb 8oz). Neck is a good shape. There's something on there that's rubbing off as I play which is a bit weird, but at least it's coming off. The pickups don't sound bad at all. Did I mention it's very green? For £63, I'm very pleased!

Ash bought some hardware from me - no issues at all with the transaction, highly recommended!

I bought some bass parts from Carl, great communication, packing and items. Brilliant stuff thanks!