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Just made a video with my latest pedalboard iteration. Reduced to a minimum...for now. I'll see how it develops from here

You can get 9v DC powered led strips for cheap on Amazon, really nice way to add some atmosphere to your stage if placed under your pedalboard or inside your cab

1. Yes. 1a. Why not use a USB PSU? 5V is much closer to 4.5V than 9V is. 2. If you're going to be cutting the wires, mark one of them with a sharpie both sides of the cut BEFORE cutting, then after cutting determine the polarity using your multimeter. However, as the LEDs are diodes, they should be fine with reversed polarity.

That was yesterday, right?

GOOD TIMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The way the grain has played out on that tummy cut is very pleasing.

That's a fantastic colour, enjoy the bass

I was about to comment on the massive pay-off to Hofner arising from the random purchase of a violin bass by the then unknown Macca. On reflection though it probably wasn't that random. IIRC, Stuart Sutcliffe played a Hofner Senator bass, which Macca may well have enjoyed noodling on during idle moments between shifts in Hamburg while Sutcliffe was otherwise engaged with girlfriend Astrid. Although the Senator had a much bigger body, it probably had the same neck so the violin bass would have presented Macca with that nice playable neck on a much less unwieldy body.

I bought a battery powered strip of LEDs from Primark this afternoon. This was only two quid so it's not the end of the world if I destroy it during my tinkering, but I thought I'd ask here if anyone has any experience in tinkering with similar strips. Basically what I want to do is fix them to the bottom of a pedalboard, ideally powering them from the pedalboard power supply. The lights work with 3 × AA batteries, so nominally 4.5V. Two questions I'd like answered if anyone has experience are: 1. Is a 9v PSU likely to work, or kill the unit? 2. If I can't work out the polarity of the two wires and identify this using a trial & error methodology would getting it wrong first time be likely to kill the unit?

Over and Over - Space Opera

Looks like it's 14mm across flats - were you making a spanner for the tuners?

Absolutely. I'll pull it from the same place she pulled her claim.

A mime to Jeff Lynne's bassline! (who did the Wilburys bass work on both albums)

The Proggs

Do you have any proof of that? Please share.

Herman's Permits

Glad to hear it. My second-hand Space 5 had a strange pickup issue - when I picked it up, I only tested it with the blend knob at each end of its travel rather than in the middle. When I got it home, I found the B, E, and A strings were out of phase but the D and G strings weren't. Replaced the MK1s with MK5CBCs and all was well. So maybe there's also a bit of a QC problem with pickups.

Thanks, much appreciated. The Hofner and Wilburys are a pretty good match vibe-wise, although the only video I can remember showing TP playing bass with The TWs featured a Danelectro Longhorn.

Thanks Bill lots of useful stuff there. As far as I can tell the transducer in the horn is pretty well aligned with the main driver, so I'll experiment with changing its polarity to see what happens.

I've had the same problem with various sets of roundwounds over the years. It can, in certain instances, be to do with how the string has been cut and fitted. You might say "But I've had it happen with two identical E strings!", but that might be because they've both been fitted the same incorrect way. I'm not saying that's what happened in this case, but it's always a possibility when evaluating any case of Dead E String Syndrome.