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Tuning systems for headless basses have cropped up in several topics, so I thought I'd disclose what the Fingy uses. Whipping the wooden cover off reveals this: The cap screws go through washers and a flat load-spreading plate, through the body, and into threaded holes in brass blocks sitting in routed grooves. The strings pass through holes in the brass blocks and the ball ends anchor them. Turning the cap screws with the provided allen key moves the brass blocks up and down the screw, using the string tension to keep everything in place. I haven't yet changed a string (haven't made as much use of it as I should, in fact), so I'm not sure if the ends of the cap screws are butted up to the ends of the slots or whether there are holes at the ends of the slots to stop them moving around. The bridge is a very simple non-adjustable one which could be replaced by something like the bridge part of the Warwick 2-piece bridge if that was really necessary. Apart from the trivial annoyance of inserting the allen key, tuning is an absolute delight - the allen key makes it easy to turn and get the tuning spot on.

As you don't have a zero fret, have you got an edge to the string holes in the string holder so that the string passes over a defined end point, rather than the end point being where the clamp screw contacts it?

I've got both - saw a Duo for sale on Ebay a while back and got it, then more recently picked up the Dwarf from Thomann as B-stock but didn't get rid of the Duo.

The ME50B won't make a difference as the output is at the same level as the input - about 150mV peak to peak signal, whereas the line in is expecting 1V peak to peak. How are you proposing to drive the monitors when using them as monitors?

The duo that I was 50% of supported the Strawbs sometime in the 80s, and I had the opportunity to tell Dave Cousins what a great influence he'd been on my songwriting. I don't know if he would have regarded that as a compliment, of course. I also had a gig programme signed by Gary Glitter and Gerry Shephard as they left the New Street Odeon. I have no idea what happened to that.

I was the final recruit to what was a five-piece - two gits plus the singer could also git for the occasional song, plus drums, plus me. By the time I was in, there was a list of maybe a dozen songs. One git could play some soloes, but never progressed beyond what he already knew (and his intro to Paranoid was the most truly awful I've ever heard, though everything else was OK), so he got dumped and singer got to do more git. Songlist expanded, some songs got added to it because we jammed them a bit at one session and decided to give them a proper go next time out. A couple of songs have faded away. We all have occasional suggestions, and responses vary from "I don't want to do that" through "We'll give it a bash" to "I'd really like to do that". We've never decided on an official way to select songs, or whether there should be a veto, we just achieve consensus somehow. As it's classic rock, there's not many complicated and iconic bass lines, they tend to be one or the other, and I've probably learnt half of them at some point in the past.

Limelight might get a bit sniffy at the use of a rather similar name as a competitor. I'm not a fan of either Fenders or relics, but I do think you've done a good job there and achieved what you set out to do.

I prefer the pearl. Makes a nice contrast against the purple.

Surely it should have been a Limiting Addition, not a Limited Addition.

Insert joke about 404 being not found here. Nice bass BTW.

Have you tried connecting something to the AUX input and seeing if that comes out in stereo? I'd expect sound out of both earphones. The right earphone would go to the ring connection on the socket and the left would go to the tip, so it sound like either the tip isn't connected or you haven't pushed the earphones plug in fully.

Sadly can't make it as I'll be away that weekend.

Right, I was going by the claims on the Arduino website.

From arduino.cc: "If you used Arduino Nano in your projects in the past, the Nano Every is a pin-equivalent substitute. Your code will still work, and you will NOT need to re-wire those motors you planned in your original design. The main differences are: a better processor, and a micro-USB connector."

I understand now. I think the only times I've used them have been with softwood or MDF/chipboard, so that explains why I haven't had problems.

Rather belatedly - I've used inserts a couple of times and always used an allen key to insert them. What's the logic behind using a locked bolt instead? Does the allen key expand the insert slightly or something like that?

Looks really good. Headless is so much better than headed. On the practical side, can you stand it up without the tuners touching the floor?

It'll be quite tricky making it a headless though.

I think if I was going to use a certain set of effects all the time with the same settings every time, just switching the effects on and off as required, my inclination would be to go for separates. But as I want to experiment with different effects and different settings, a multifx makes more sense for me.

Is the pickup in the Stingray position? It may be that given a choice between a Music Man Stingray and a Squier Stingray, people opted for the former.

Possibly, but the body shapes aren't that similar - the top and bottom horns are quite different. They curve in towards the neck much more on the HB than on the Kala. IMNSHO the HB horns are better looking, but HB don't make a 5-string solid bass uke - yet. Come to that, Kala have abandoned the SUB. The HB does look very like another bass uke though - https://www.basscentre.com/bass-centre-ashbory-bass.html although I'm not sure if stocks of that will ever be replenished, and they're not doing a 5-string version (I asked them a few years ago).

Mine too. I'd have preferred a Cali as you can get them in fretless, unlike the SUB, and I prefer fretless for rubber-string basses.

"both necks are straight /no truss rods fitted" - translates to "Both necks are straight until you get it finished and put some strings on".

Oh good, a YOB bass for me. I think I may be able to resist.