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Can someone post a photo of the "ski jump" and demonstrate conclusively that it has been caused by a non-angled shim?

My personal bass hero. I didn't come to 6 strings bass in the late 90's thanks to him, but Alain Caron, so from the fretless side, but discovered a bit later that Anthony Jackson was the bass player on so many records I liked, so I also started to play a bit of fretted bass and had to have a single cut AJ6 model. I really love his bass approach with Michel Camilo and the trio he formed with Michel Petrucciani and Steve Gadd was simply amazing. I've been listening to Trio in Tokyo in repeat mode since I read this very sad news. I'll switch to the filmed Live in Marciac concert with Hiromi and Simon Phillips tonight, another fantastic musical masterpiece. His bass lines are so inventive, complex without being complicated and dedicated to music that is really extraordinary to have this level of musical knowledge always serving the music and never his ego. A true genius has gone forever. Rest in peace, Anthony.

Imgur is blocked to any UK IP address due to various reasons mostly do to with unwillingness to comply with UK data protection legislation. If you really need to see any images hosted with Imgur you'll need a VPN set to a non-UK location.

Yeah, that's a problem I'm having. Imgur is only linking rather than embedding. Some folks see it, others just get a link which is 50/50 as to whether it functions. I should look at alternative hosting sites really, and maybe, shock horror, pay for a service. I've nicked @Dad3353's link for it from his BC upload allocation.

To the OP: Even if you could get the image to display for you no-one in the UK will be able to see it without accessing Basschat using a VPN set to a country other than the UK.

Can't get the link to open @Si600 Dave

Yeah I was in a band where the guitarist trailed a power brick right the way across the stage for his multi fx. Just looked flimsy. When done right though (iec to board, board low voltage wired in neatly) I prefer it to batteries.

Celestion hired me to design compact lightweight enclosures for their TSQ 1845 and 2145 drivers. They're now posted on the Celestion site as free PDFs with youtube videos. https://celestion.com/blog/build-this-18-inch-bass-reflex-enclosure-featuring-the-tsq1845/ https://celestion.com/blog/build-this-21-inch-bass-reflex-enclosure-featuring-the-tsq2145/

My speciality is tap dancing whilst soloing.

Yellow - Coldplay

Of course most necks will be fine with a shim made of whatever. But a poorly placed shim and overtightened neck screws can contribute to ski-jump. Those full pocket shims don't have to be expensive. I've bought a few sets of 3 pieces for around £4 a set.

GLWTS. I think I know which one you're definitely keeping from our chat early in the year...

I was a zombie for you.

Probably my all time fave live gig was seeing the Zap at Hammersmith Odeon. What a treat. He's out there , for sure.

That reminds me, who ate all the Hobnobs in the GM black helicopter?

A CPD is a different document. As far as a carnet goes...In the good old days when I used to do a bit of tour managing, the turns kit would be carneted in and out of countries regardless of whether they were with it or not (ie. Air Freight vs a bus, for instance). The key demarcator as to whether you need a carnet for your kit or not is if you are being paid for what you do, as I understand it anyway, but I've always found that quite a lot is subject to the whim of the individual customs agent...

We Welcome to the club !!

There's this allusion that you need to buy these angled shims for £££, because anything else will have an adverse effect on tone (chortle) and sustain (chortle, again). Just make sure the neck is straight, then pop in a bit of playing card, business card, sandpaper, cornflake box into the back of the neck pocket, screw the neck back on and continue the set up. There's probably hundreds/thousands of vintage Fenders that have never had the neck off that are harbouring all manner of horrors in the pocket, and nobody is complaining about those not housing $30 StewMac shims.

Can’t say I’ve ever heard that one before 😁

You are Bruce Forsyth AICMFP.

Or not that kind of stuff. 😄