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Probably going to cut down the amount that I go to the Shirley British Legion open mic night, as the guitarist who plays bass badly is also the one sat at the mixer who can just grab his bass and impose himself on whoever's playing, and I'm finding it a bit stressful (it's OK when somebody other than me who can play bass is playing, it's not so good when you're anticipating 25% of the notes being out of tune, time, or both). Plus we only get two songs apiece so Mrs Zero has even less to do than I have. Still, I did get to play a couple of songs with Annette that I've never played (or, in one case, heard) before, so that was fun. Rather sobering event coming home from it. I leave the M42 at junction 10, and the roundabout was partially closed off by a number of police cars and another couple of vehicles, plus an ambulance. Going past the scene, I caught a glimpse of someone lying on the road with a full-face helmet a metre away from them. No sign of activity around them. It didn't look good.

You may be watching the wrong programme. If you want your tat fixed, you have to go to Tattoo Fixers, where your 2cm x 4cm tattoo saying "BOB" (your ex-husband) will be transformed into a giant peacock covering your entire arm, or your rather unfunny tiny little picture of a man weeing somewhere a few centimetres north of your penis will be turned into a Cthulhu covering your entire torso. That is one programme where the punishment in no way fits the crime.

I think we should take a helicopter view of this, preliminary to a deep dive. And don't forget to think outside the box while you're pushing the envelope. We must use synergy for organic growth.

Where are the pitchforks and blazing torches? She's got a clip-on tuner on the headstock!

I'm baffled by all the variants of EBMM, SBMM, Sterling, SUB, etc Rays. I'm currently at the cheap end with a <checks headstock> SUB series Sterling, made in Indonesia and presumably a Ray5. I'm sure somebody listed the various ranges and models a while ago but I haven't been able to find it. Would anybody be able to produce a definitive list of Rays past and present, with maybe some information on things like neck profiles, virtues, and vices? Pictures would be nice, preferably showing the headstock so it's simple to know what you're looking at when you spot one in the wild.

I'm not keen on the looks of singlecuts [1], although I do have one - a Barcus 6-string fretless that was feeling unwanted at a Gardiner Houlgate auction, so I took pity on it. Very nice to play, and the top unhorn slopes to the neck rather than being one of those (like the Ibanez above) where the unhorn slopes back towards the bridge giving it a Snoopy nose. Other than the looks, there's nothing really to differentiate this from other basses. The neck is very playable, it sounds good. [1] Except Les Pauls, though I'm not so keen on the basses

Probably not an autobiography.

You could use M7 spring washers to space out a 7mm thread pot: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/363082401549

A gilter? Is this an attempt to gild the lily?

"Dimed". Just say "full" or "maximum", we're British [1], not bloody Yanks. [1] Most of us, anyway

I'm taking it a month at a time. Failed in January, so far I'm OK in February.

Surely that's a minefield, as it has now been sold (which was illegal) but is now owned (which is legal) as the process of forming a contract of sale has been completed.

Yes - if the jack socket is a skeleton type and you've got a 2-band EQ so the jack socket will be sitting on the same shielding, the shielding should be grounded by the jack socket. If you've got a 3-band EQ with the jack socket in the side then you'd need to ground the shielding by connecting a pot body to ground. It would be worth checking that everything is properly grounded by going over it with a multimeter afterwards.

It could have been worse. Imagine what effect a cut on your thumb would have had on your typing.

I detect the hand of the master luthier, and one of his fat finger specials.

Are the pots on a shielded surface? If so, the bodies are already grounded through the shielding, assuming that there is either one pot body connected to ground or the jack socket ground connects to the shielding. If you then connect the pots together, you could create ground loops, explained in more detail here: https://www.fralinpickups.com/2018/11/12/understanding-guitar-grounding/

Get a long velcro cable tie and use it to hold the bug on your strap?

Two 1x8s and a 2x8 for playing Wembley stadium?

Because there is a reactionary lobby in the UK, and old f*ckers refuse to move to the metric system because they're morons who hate change, instead insisting that young people brought up in the metric system use the stupid ludicrous primitive imperial system instead. We've got as far as degrees Celcius and selling food and petrol in grams and litres, but we have such oddities as the jack length in indoor bowls being given in metres but bowl distances from the jack being given in feet and inches, and petrol being sold in litres to enable us to drive along roads measured in miles at speeds measured in miles per hour. And if R*f*rm should by some dreadful mischance win the next election, expect this all to go backwards, the metric system to be unravelled, and currency to go back to LSD (which is what we may have to take to try and escape the dreadful reality). As you can tell, I don't have any strong feelings on the subject.

I prefer the "traditional" woven look.

Same here. Especially if you're recording in the control room (or at home) with a lot of electronic gear around you.

Isn't it a velcro wrap around a two-part handle? Less convenient than a one piece handle which my older version of the case has, although it does mean that the handle cradles the case rather than the case hanging from the handle. Not an issue with the light headless basses and headed guitars I carry in it, but possibly an issue with a Les Paul.

If you were prepared to overlook pedantry, you could have celebrated twice. Like I did.

Someone on a newsgroup I'm on has been using Claude Code to diagnose issues in code, as well as generating code.