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Thank you! 17.5 mm, as on a Stingray 5! 🙈 Now I've got to check them out!

That’s one sexy bass, congratulations. Pangborns are as rare as the proverbial rocking horse p… I used the Warlord as inspiration for my custom built Jaydee GA24.

Boys Don't Cry - The Cure

Sam bought a Stomp from me this week. Excellent comms, fast payment and a pleasure to deal with.

Andy Rourke 😗👌 It was only relatively recently that I discovered that most of his beautiful, melodic and highly memorable driving bass contributions to The Smiths were performed using regular (and pretty high tension) Rotosound 66s, but tuned up to F#! He made it look easy. Fabulous talent.

I have owned two of these over the years, I've also owned a single neck 4 string as well. I bought the first double neck way back in the mid 80's, it was an OEM model offered by a guitar deaker who had purchased a quantity of these from the Hondo after they had been discontinued. I modded it by adding a Dimarzio Model One mudbucker just below the neck on the 4 string. I eventually traded it away. I found the 4 string used, it was a great bass, ironically, it felt and sounded like an old P bass, the Hondos are different from the Danelectro Longhorn in that the bodies are solid and the they are long scale (34"). Someone ended up offering me a bunch of money for it, so it went away. I found the second doubleneck on reverb as a project bass, most of the parts were there, but it was in pretty rough shape. I build basses for a living, so I added it my pile of projects that I hope to get done. Recently I had the chance to work on it and everything went together nicely, it has two output jacks, which I believe was wired like Rickenbacker's Ric-O-Sound (the control harness was missing). I need to located the output jack that Rickenbacker uses for this (I think). It is heavy and huge, but the 4 string sound like a Precision and the 8 string sounds thunderous. I haven't gigged with it yet, but hope to soon. Here's a pic of my employee Tyler, holding it. It's bigger then he is. LOl.

Dry Your Eyes - Streets

Cheer Up, Boys, Your Make Up Is Running - Foo Fighters

I think Saturday is probably better for me. But then again, I don't gig. Does a Sunday draw in folk who have playing commitments most Saturdays?

I just bought the previously mentioned HX Stomp from Paul; I had no qualms based on the glowing feedback here and to be honest could not have asked for a better experience. Great comms, insanely fast delivery and well packed. Thank you Paul! Sam x

This is an interesting perspective. I am learning a lot about the degree of control the luthier has in general, and how much Martin and John have in particular. I'll bear that in mind when I'm trying things out.

I guess I probably am. But I've never tried one of their jazzes. How do you have it set up?

I took on beta testing on a lark when they were soliciting on the PPCB forum, but now I'm all-in on actually building some pedals with them. It actually sounds better than some old mid level rack delays I've owned, maybe even all of them. Just for example, with a little effort you can wire in one of those uber cheap signal generator boards on eBay or Amazon as an LFO, and a dead simple mixer circuit or two, and voila...a very good sounding chorus pedal. Same for expression pedals as controllers, etc. In my case I already have many small DIY mixer and EQ modules on hand, so instead of breadboarding I just hardwired those in various test configurations.

If you mean, I can strap them to the underneath of my boat, to use the extra buoyancy, then yes please! She sits a little low in the water under the weight of my colossal ego. Joking, of course. I don't own a boat.