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Rang Jon today - he's got the board off and he's sending me photos of various pieces of macassar ebony in the next day or two.

Presumably whoever is selling it on Gumtree would know.

Could be that they restocked greens and blacks at different times, and the wholesale cost had changed in the meantime.

Seems rather odd as when I bought mine (second-hand), the new prices were identical for green and black.

Ublock Origin is now obsolete but there's Ublock Origin Lite which I use (in my case, with Chrome, and I also use Ghostery and Stands adblocker).

Not really necessary if you're not putting cab corners on, although I suspect that rounding the edges would make them a little less prone to damage. If you are putting cab corners on, they need to be flush with the faces so rounded edges are a must.

Nah, you want Lexan. If it's good enough for the Robot Wars arena, it'll stand up to anything.

PS. Mani puts in a few appearances.

Square window every time. But then I would say that, as the toy under it is the same as my Chinese zodiac sign - a cock.

Just watched the first episode. Would have been better titled "A history of Peter Hook with occasional talk about other bassists, and other bassists talking about Peter Hook." The bit with Glenn Matlock talking about Anarchy in the UK, which was in fact split into two bits so the second part could be shoehorned into a bit on James Jamerson (he must have got all of two minutes), was interesting. There were a few other interesting bits, but it was 45 minutes about Hooky going on about his personal history and Love will tear us apart, and 15 minutes about basslines. Where a bit of analysis was squeezed in, by people like Glenn Matlock, Guy Pratt, and Adam Clayton, it was rather more revealing, but there wasn't a lot of that. I'd wait for the highlights programme to come out.

My opinion. He has written a few good songs, rather like Only Fools and Horses had a few funny moments. Mostly just twee dross though. This is, of course, my opinion, and therefore cannot be wrong, although you may have an opposing opinion, which also cannot be wrong because it's your opinion. Neither, however, is an objective fact, unlike Only Fools and Horse only having a few funny moments.

That's just your opinion.

Busy night for me - last time, a guitarist I've played with before at a different open mic turned up with a drummer friend who hadn't played live for years and we did about half a dozen songs. The drummer turned up again this evening and sat in with one of the regulars while I played bass. I'd made notes, having been slightly forewarned, but everything was two semitones down, fortunately not complicated songs (Stick season, Shotgun, Somewhere under the sun). Then played with another regular who always does the same three songs (a blues in E, Folsom Prison blues, Knocking on heaven's door), and then got recruited by another duo of drums and guitar/vox to play Route 66, Amarillo (hadn't played that for about 20 years), and Ventura Highway (new one on me). And a guitarist I've played with a few times before asked me to have a look at a couple of songs for some future occasion.

And despite repeated pestering, there's no sign that it ever will (also doesn't work with the MS-plus series). There is a patch manager available that works through a browser at https://sym.bios.is/