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Lovely! Thank you.

I'm not - sorry - thought you were talking about his photo. Still - on most Telecasters the bridge ground wire has a little ring that is pushed hard into the bridge baseplate by a pickup mounting screw so the wire doesn't need a channel or hole in the wood under the bridge. It's all in the pickup cavity. One one hand that's a nice solution. On the other to swap the bridge pickup the entire bridge has to come off including the ground wire.

When you are really close you won't hear it. But back off to mid audience sort of distance and walk across the room and you'll hear the difference.

EMG's don't have an earth wire.

Maths is maths and improved horizonal dispersion is the effect of having a vertical array of single cones. You also get less beaming - you know when you walk in front of a cab and it gets louder and quieter in places - that's because sideways stacked cones are cancelling each other out. I'd go vertical for that reason as well as it being closer to your ears. Obviously if the PA is doing all the work then it doesn't matter as long as you can hear yourself.

*Laughs in EMG* (Sorry. Had to do it!)

I'd measure the entire instrument rather than relying on scale length alone. Some headstocks are surprisingly long to the point that a shortie with a big headstock could have a total length more than a Medium scale with a smaller headstock. Bridge placement varies a bit too with some designs having their bridges away from the edge of the bass so they are actually longer. In the photo on the left is a Jim Deacon shortie P bass. 30 inch scale. On the right is an Ibanez Mezzo SRMD200 32 inch Medium scale (this one is for sale! It's in the classifieds). The bottom of the basses are both in my bass stand. When they are on the floor standing up the shortie is actually a tiny bit taller than the medium. The little Jim Deacon P basses are cheap used if you can find one but will need some upgrades. The stock pickup is very poor and the controls are really on/off with nothing happening in the middle. They are also quite neck divey. I have 2 as after upgrades to a good pickup and loom and lightweight tuners they are fantastic little basses. The one in the photo hasn't had the tuner upgrade yet. I have them here already but I've been really lazy!

They are now available https://www.sushiboxfx.com/product/the-watt/ I'm very tempted but I have spent far too much lately - including helping my daughter get her very first car, so I'll have to wait for about 300 years!

You got any more of those pics....?

@Silky999 Who did the wrap? Looks like it might be a better bet than my local car place who have never done it before! Presumably it does not go under the bridge so the contact with the wood is unaffected?

This has certainly been a riveting read!

Thanks chaps. I've ordered some grain filler so I'll do that first then sealer then paint. It's a paulownia body so it is quite open grain. Most of the body is poly coated already, but I've put in belly and arm carves that are currently without any finish and they'll need a stable finish for the wrap.

That is a lovely bass. Definitely on my GAS list!

I think his opinion would be based on whether the definition and indeed those who were defining it had the intent to protect downtrodden groups or protect those doing the treading.

Apis mellifera Strangely called the "Western" honey bee despite it most likely coming from North Africa / Asia. Sodding bees. Coming over here...

Quick dumb question! I'm putting belly and arm carves into a Telecaster body (boo; hiss etc) and ultimately it will be getting a plastic wrap finish courtesy of a local car place that is willing to give it a try. The body already has a poly coat on it apart from the bits that I have shaped. They will be getting painted so the wrap will stay on. Do I need to use a sealer before the paint, and if so can someone recommend a rattle can sealer? Or do I just paint it - will paint alone protect the body wood enough? ta

If you are entitled to vote then you do own the place.

Perhaps not. But it does make it consistent and consistency is required for the old "ignorance of the law is no defence" to carry any weight. And ultimately no other body / person / dictionary editor gets to make a definition that carries consequence and enforceability. So in a practical manner rather than academic, no other definition is important.

On the website the left column has options of ALL / Favourites / Friends and so on. Just click Friends. For some reason that doesn't work on the iOS app though. I'm still looking on there. If someone works that out please let me know too!

Who: Parliament and the Courts. Authority: the constitution.

I hope I never get so bored / tired that I wouldn't try to stick up for those being demonised for no good reason. “Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. The grave will supply plenty of time for silence.” ― Christopher Hitchens

Some red herrings there. White grooming gangs outnumber non-white ones massively. I've yet to see a protest about them. "large numbers of migrants" is similarly loaded. There's about 30K in "asylum" hotels. That's about a quarter of Wembley stadium. Some elements have managed to petrify a nation of 70 million people over one quarter capacity of Wembley. They also never mention that one of the reasons it is now so difficult to deal with the actually small numbers of boat crossings is that the thing that cannot be named ended the treaties to return people to the first EU country they went to. I think you can usually tell when a person is coming from a position other than racism. They come with verifiable facts about public services for example. They don't generalise or demonise. They don't come with "They all get free ipads" type nonsense that could be shown to be wrong with 10 seconds of google-fu. They also tend to at least attempt some sort of suggestion for improvement in the process instead of a "I don't like it / them" rant. Anyone who enjoyed Carswell saying "From Epping to the shining sea, lets make England Abdul Free" the other day is probably not actually bothered by facts other than they don't like brown people. Anyone like the LBC caller who said he didn't care about an entire economy crash or people dying in hospitals due to lack of staff as long as all the foreigners were thrown out is probably not really troubled by the concept of rational thought.

It has to be left open to interpretation otherwise friends using words that they have deemed acceptable between them would be viewed as a tort or a crime. Circumstances matter That being said it will not be the person doing it that has the highest weighted opinion - but the person it is being done to. This is the problem with the "I make my own definition" approach because people saying that are never the ones on the receiving end. Like the old boy we probably have all come across who describes a local take away as a "Chi*ky" and says he isn't racist and won't change. When it's from a position of genuine ignorance, that is one thing, but once informed that it has offended others who have the mocked characteristic then it is a problem. It raises the question of once being aware is that old boy racist? Or is he just a very unpleasant person who is continuing to use something that he now knows is upsetting? I take a general view that the strongest weight should be given to those who are on the receiving end, not the giving end. As a white straight class person I don't get to decide what might be offensive to an Asian gay person for example. If they tell me something I said is a problem then I'll change my use of language. It might not be racist for me to not change, but it would certainly make me an arsehole if I didn't. If I can't make my point without offending then that's my failure alone.