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Sorry to hear so many people have been having a hard time. Take the time you need to be kind to yourselves and work through it. Not a vintage year here either tbh. My brother was diagnosed with stage 4 sarcoma, my mother in law had two strokes and most recently pneumonia. As already said, these are tough times when you’ve got relatives in the later part of their lives and trying to cope with the complexities of that. At the same time I’m getting to the end of my Masters in Psychotherapy and Counselling, and have spent the year helping other people through their own difficult situations. As others here have said, help is available if you need it. A lot of places offer low-cost or “pay what you can” counselling services, and organisations like Andy’s Man Club offer a supportive place to talk without the expectations of formal counselling sessions. Take care of yourselves and here’s to better times ahead.

I’m assuming it looks like a normal muffin tbh

Well, nobody in their right mind would risk putting an Ampeg on anything!!

Travis Dykes (Nashville Session musician) certainly seems to like the Harley Bentons (the second one featured on the video below is the five string):

The tone switch is Series/Parallel switch.

My birthday and Christmas fall within three days of each other and I was gifted this Retrovibe by the fam after seeing it in Bolton and commenting on it (not by any means as a hint; as a few of you know I'm selling my basses these days due to arthritis). Having been in touch with David it seems it was one of 8 made in this colour around 10 years ago. Absolutely immaculate although the pickups are apparently not the original fit items, so I will probs restore the right ones if I can find some. Interestingly it's a 33.25" scale and has the push pull on the bridge tome control.

Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight) - Ramones

Ain't Got Nobody To Grind My Coffee — Clara Smith

A Happy Christmas to you all.

I got singing lessons from t'other half. Could be a subtle (or not so subtle) hint. Never has a singing lesson in my life. I used to sing solos when I was younger in primary school and then I grew up or something like that<cough> and can now strip creosote off fences at 10m. Fish wives and RSMs aren't in it.

Only thing music related was a DVD of the Bob Marley film One Love. Which is excellent btw.

Here is mine ... Eberhart meinel ❤️

I haven't played that HB, but I have an HB MB5 and an HB Marquess and they are both excellent.

I Like Driving In Mocha - Madness

I owned the Squier briefly and thought it was excellent in every way. Only got rid of it to maintain a one in one out policy. Never played a Harley Benton before.

As I'm a fan of flat(ter) radii I would definitely look elsewhere. ACG for example or even a Warwick Corvette.

Thank you kindly. Certainly sounds good to me.

I mentioned earlier today I had 'another idea' - I've implemented it, and it works! When thinking about what didn't work for me about the stacked-knob setup, the main issue was the tone pot taper, where there was little effect until the bottom quarter turn of the pot. I removed the extra 56nF caps and added a 510k resistor between the wiper and the 'hot' lug of each tone pot, thereby converting the existing 500k tone pots to 250k with a somewhat different taper. The tone pots behave much better! Curent plan is to to stick with this, but also acquire a 3-control plate and build it as Vol/Switch/Tone or Vol/Blend/Tone. Watch this space...