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Never known anything that could withstand cellulose thinners. I've not used it on guitars but was using it in a specialist spray shop. Eats the paint off the guns, melts rubber and plastic, destroys your skin after its eaten your gloves. Could be worth a go, but be careful! You can also get sanding discs for small angle grinders, would shift the paint but it would be very easy to sand chunks out of the body.

Fat Albert Rotunda - Herbie Hancock.

It is (or was?) a Fender colour. If you look in the pick-up cavity, or maybe the inside of the neck pocket you might be able to see if it's been re-sprayed.

Maybe everyone's waiting for someone else to buy one?

If only good basses made for good players. We could all just spend over a grand and be great.

Working stuff out by ear is great, but for those of us not blessed with a "good ear" tab or sheet music can be helpful. If I can't pick up a bass line by ear then I'll see if I can find the tab. True it's often wrong but sometimes once I have a start on how it goes I can do the rest by ear. I really don't know why stuff is getting blocked, if I can't find it on the web I'm not going to decide to spend a small fortune on a book that might only have one or two tunes I want to learn and tab for other instruments as well. It's just bad mindedness on the part of the copyright holders.

Same for Led Zeppelin, can be very hard to find tab that isn't blocked.

Never really thought about muting, think my left hand does that for me.

Anchored, but it's just habit. Even had to put a thumb rest on my acoustic as it felt wrong having nowhere to anchor.

Tried a visegrip yesterday, couldn't find a dead spot anywhere on the neck but then a visegrip is 20 oz! Borrowed a small G-clamp (8oz) and tried that and the dead spot moved a tone down. Seems that the thing to do is add just the right weight to get the dead spot where you don't mind it. Maybe even the smallest change of mass, cutting the strings longer or shorter might be enough to make it more or less noticeable? Looks like an evening with bluetack and bits of metal for me!

Can't have a top without a bottom!

Just put a visegrip on my headstock and it's cured the dead spot on mine. Had tried this on another bass and it made no difference.

Can only speak from my very limited experience, but play as many as you can and buy the one that speaks to you. I was in a shop recently, tried all their fenders and the one I fell in love with (but couldn't buy) was a secondhand highway one jazz. Tried MIA's at twice the price through the same set-up that sounded weak by comparison, and felt lifeless. If you can go and play enough basses one will out-shine the others even if it ends up being a cheaper model.

I use an old cello soft case for my acoustic, not ideal but if you're stuck you might well find a cheap one on ebay.

I'm not sure that I quite GET jazzes yet. Got a jazz recently as an up-grade from my p-copy and I'm still spending a lot of time fiddling with the pots each time I pick it up. I miss the simplicity of the P, but like the narrower neck. Amazed fender doesn't do hybrids as standard, plenty of people must want a jazz neck and p-body, or p-neck and jazz body.

Great player, cool dog, tasty flat. Bastard.

Thanks andyjingram. Was looking at Ernie Ball flats and it says "Flat chrome plated steel wire wrapped around a hex shaped tin plated steel wire. Provides a smooth feel and mellow sound." My other choice from the place I'd normally get strings is the DR Fl-45 flats which are stainless. Might look elsewhere if need be, can't say I know anything about flats so if anyone has a recommendation....

I'm looking at making a switch from rounds to flats. Have been using stainless rounds and I'm wondering with flats what are the pros and cons of stainless or chromes. Anyone got a strong feeling one way or the other?

What kind of logo are you looking for? What kind of music are you playing? Have a friend who has done some album artwork and band posters who might be able to design something.

Should probably try to defend my previous statement, but I was just having a bad day. Starting to feel old and confused by what the young people are listening to. I'm not even going to say anything on Hendrix's behalf. *Gets coat, backs away towards the door and tries to leave without anyone seeing*

I find the bass is often lost in a lot of "modern" music. Hard to know if it's poor arrangement, poor production or poor playing, but I rarely hear tunes with the clarity of instrumentation you hear on older recordings.

Gave it a go, no harm done but no real difference either. At least I now know it's the carlsbro speaker thats a bit sh*t. Will just have bang away as is.

Ballad of Hollis Brown by Dylan. Most depressing song I know.

If it's not likely to do any harm I might give it a go then. Thanks for the advice.

There's an aux send and return. So maybe if I tried line out to aux return? Just want to try to get a different sound from the carlsbro is all. Thanks all.