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OTOH, I have Seis and a Shuker and wouldn't touch a Wal as I find them unpleasant to play (might have another Status though). People want different things. Shuker, Sei, Overwater, GB, and ACG (can't miss Alan out) wouldn't be replacements for G&L as they're not the same volume of production - well, possibly Overwater, less so now that they've dropped the Aspiration series.

My old club band played at one social club NYE gig. We were in an upstairs room, children were only allowed downstairs. The room was half-empty. The consolation was that of the three raffle prizes, we won two (I got whisky, the guitarist got vodka). I've played at weddings - only a couple with rock bands, rather more were with the ceilidh band. For the ceilidh band, we used to use sashes[1] for same-sex dancing pairs to determine which was "man" and which was "woman", but when we did one for a wedding between a gay vicar and his partner, we decided that we could finish up overthinking things. [1] Against my advice, orange. And our dulcimer player wore a bowler hat. Fortunately we never played any Irish gigs.

Move the bridge, which is embedded in the full-length fingerboard, and lose a little off the headstock end.

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I remember you having severe doubts about keeping it - glad you managed to overcome them. Sadly your original thread has been Imgured. The biggest issue is that the fingerboard runs the length of the bass - however, as Jon said, he knows how it went together. And that also means that he can change the scale length while he's at it, so there is an upside.

Evri seem to have improved of late. Our local drivers have always been good, it's been the bit in the middle where Evri let you know that a parcel has disappeared into their cavernous maw and you know it'll be a week before it gets regurgitated that's been the bad bit, and that seems to have speeded up of late.

I voted a little late - still, I went for A. One factor being that knot as I wondered if that might prove problematic on the front.

Couldn't you just put the chrome (or whatever) control plate on and leave the reast of the scratchplate off, making the most of the fact that the pickup lead channels are drilled and not routed?

Nice job. "Scratch guard", eh? That's fence-sitting if there ever was.

Unfortunately it has truss rod issues, and it's off to Jon to be reconstructed.

I recently bought a Shuker Uberhorn at the Gardiner Houlgate auction. Lovely instrument, 5 string fretless, although it's 35" scale but I can live with that. However the action is stupidly high, because the neck is bowed. A 4mm allen key is too small, so I contacted Jon to ask his advice. He said he used to use ABM truss rods with 5mm adjuster - I couldn't get a 5mm allen key in without cutting it down, so I got one off Ebay and cut it down. I could get it to the end of the truss rod but it wouldn't fit in properly. So today I took it up to Jon and he had a look at it. The adjuster nut has been somewhat mullered, but a different sized allen key did move it, but it also wasn't in the right position and Jon thought that tightening the truss rod any further was likely to break it. So he's going to dismantle it and replace the truss rod with a 4mm one (as God intended), and while he's there make it 34" scale. I'm also going to have a choice of material for the replacement fingerboard, and ebony is very tempting rather than the composite fingerboard currently on it.

Polar Audio do the replacement Paragon drivers but I don't know whether they've got any in stock. Fair Deal haven't got back to me yet - emailed them on Monday to ask about progress.

Incidentally, there is also a suggestion on the MOD forum that Darkglass Anagram bass effects might appear on the MOD store. That would be nice.

Ah, should have posted in this thread... There's an unofficial MOD Dwarf image now released - https://forum.mod.audio/t/starless-unofficial-dwarf-image-alabs-v3b/12853/71 Must get it loaded up and give it a try.

There's an unofficial MOD Dwarf image now released - https://forum.mod.audio/t/starless-unofficial-dwarf-image-alabs-v3b/12853/71 Must get it loaded up and give it a try.

Works OK for me on Chrome and Firefox, both on Windows.

But then when they see photos of themselves, they demand to know why you didn't tell them...

I'd forgotten just how hideous they are.

Also made a Warwick, er, tribute. I had one that had been defretted. That did me until I got a cheap Thumb and had it defretted and the neck reprofiled to JD Thumb dimensions.

As G&L are purportedly an innovative brand, it could be a route for Fender to bring out its own headless range and enter the latter part of the 20th century.

So when you add a functional extra string, for people like me, the 5er looks fine?

I don't see what's bad about the Sire headstock, except, of course, that there is a headstock. It looks a little more function over form that the fugly Fender monstrosity.

I do quite a few open mics which have featured bands, and 90% of the bassists have 4-string FSOs. Having had both fan-frets and parallel frets, I prefer the parallel. I also prefer 5-strings to 6-strings (and 4-strings). For those reasons, this doesn't interest me except in the sense that I'd like to see if NS comes up with the CF equivalent of the Hohner B2AV or Spirit XT25 (with a nicer neck). It does look like a better thought out body than the symmetrical cricket bat.

Take the ones you don't want to bring back.

I'm in as long as it's not the last weekend in June. Probably.