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Inspirational musician... and always such an amazing double bass tone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_Utj4Aljc

Totally agree - before the I made my first neck I viewed it as something akin to witchcraft, once you do it once you realise it's actually quite simple, and is now by far my favourite part of the build process

The 3D images are of the US custom shop as he discusses using the same dimensions/shaping. The blue one is a US custom shop. You can tell by the bridge, pickups, figuring, matching headstock and inlays.

There is no 100% correct bass for everyone. This forum would probably half in size if that were not true...

Is the nut further out than it used to be? If it suddenly appeared after years of being hidden, then it may well be a broken rod. Or the nut has stripped off the rod. Technically they are replaceable, but remember Leo's original idea was just to bin the neck and get a new one if it needed any major work. You can either drill a hole at the heel and push them out, or take the fingerboard off. Neither is a good option.

Sold a TC Ditto Looper to Simon. We met outside an overground station close to my house and ended up chatting for 45 mins! Great guy and other than the quick sale it was fun to meet and talk about Warwicks 🤘🏻

You can do it perfectly well with a hand drill, just get (or make) a drilling guide so the holes go in square to the face. Use some sharpie or tape around the bit as a depth gauge so you don't go too far. As far as making necks goes, just try it! As long as you're starting off with a cheaper piece of wood and are prepared to risk it turning into scrap, what have you got to lose? You don't need a bunch of expensive jigs, just lay it out carefully and take your time. The first one might be a bit wonky or maybe even unplayable, but you'll learn a lot and the next one will be better. Remember, if you wanted the best possible bass you'd buy something, but you actually want the best bass you can make!

If you search for “online tone generator” you should find a free app which will generate pure audio tones via the iPad. You can then use that to put reasonably high level 4 or 5khz tones through your cab, which might give you a more accurate indication of the effect of switching the tweeters on and off?

Bark At The Moon - Ozzy

Werewolves Of London - Warren Zevon

Spectors are NT and have EMGs - all else seems wrong to me.

It's a Mighty Mite neck which I purchased brand new nearly twenty years ago, I've owned many high-end basses, including American made Fenders, but this neck feels so right in my hands which is why I don't want to replace it, so I was wondering if the truss rod is replaceable?

Hungry Like The Wolf - Duran Duran

A true legend . The world is slightly poorer without the wonderful Danny Thompson .

Ah, such a fantastic player. Genius.

That's not a crossover. A crossover splits the low and high frequencies, sending the lows to the woofer, the highs to the tweeter. That's just a high pass filter, and a very poor one at that. It's what's called 1st order, meaning that it attenuates below its knee frequency at a rate of 6dB per octave, which is totally inadequate. I never use less than 3rd order high pass filters, which attenuate below the knee frequency at a rate of 18dB/octave. That makes them over ten times more effective in reducing low frequency content to the tweeter that leads to high distortion and blown tweeters.

Since I was just inside my BG250-15 adding a tweeter switch, here are a couple photos of the stock tweeter and capacitor (1 μF) for posterity...