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A woman I know has incontinence pants - if they haven't got any XL in, they substitute with S. I'm not sure why they think she's gone down 8 dress sizes in a couple of hours.

It should say "Paul's letter to the Epiphanies", the lesser-known one after Paul's letter to the Corinthians.

Would there be this amount of whinging if it was a FSO instead of a Status-alike that nobody would take for a genuine Status? If not, why not?

That's more down to the sensitivity of the human ear to different frequencies. A guitar is playing in the range of frequencies that the human ear is most sensitive to, and the bass in the range that it's least sensitive to. Edit: I'm catching up at the moment, I see this has been addressed.

For many years I had a Gallien Krueger 200MB combo, the predecessor to the MB150 E and S. Used it for a load of club gigs. Light and only slightly larger than the 12" speaker in it.

Earth, Wine and Fire Darth, Wind and Fire Earth, Wind and Dire

Is that neck actually recessed into the body at all, or is it just resting on top with some screws to hold it in place and a suitable dark area printed on the paper scratchplate?

I'm not upset. Haven't had any import tax problems either - I did have to pay VAT on one bass from Vietnam once, about 20 years ago, but buying from AliExpress or Ebay that is all handled for you.

The shim might have been to tilt the neck forward rather than back, in which case the shim would be at the front of the neck pocket. Or it's simply crap.

I've got both the CT100 and the CT200. The CT200 is fine for TS too, you just have to remember it will show shorts between R and S (not exactly a difficult thing to remember) - after all, it can't tell whether you've plugged in a TS lead or a TRS one with a frayed ring or sleeve connection. For gigging needs, the CT100 is fine, except for Speakons which it doesn't do.

I don't see the problem. Nowhere in the description does it say that it's graphite. Those tuners, incidentally, have their pros and cons. Stringing is dead easy, you just put the string through the middle of the knob. Saddle height adjustment is more awkward, you have to screw the actual saddles up and down, like a Warwick Just-A-Nut I. Intonation is also awkward, as the anchor screw is under the string so you have to move the string out of the way to adjust it.

Don't fret.

Go headless.

Why, what's wrong with it?

Active bass? You probably want https://www.guitarmania.co.uk/product/neutrik-barrel-jack-socket-nys2203/ but do a search on the part number NYS2203 to see if you can get it cheaper. Also worth posting the the "Repairs and Technical" sub-forum.

A couple of us did anti-war songs last night - one did "If I had a rocket launcher" and "Come away Melinda", and Mrs Zero and I did "Zombie" and one of mine, "Newborn" - first time it's been played in public although I wrote it at the time of the Bosnian war, about a woman taking her newly born child that died after a few hours to bury it. All very cheerful.

Very sad to read that.

I saw them in 2006, they were great.

That's a real shame about Sam. I messaged her a week or two ago to see how she was - that explains why there was no answer.

Tring me the horizon

Does anyone know if Stubz Thumbs is transmissible by touch?

One gig in May, then a hiatus until August and five more gigs till the end of the year - but that's partly because one or other of us is away through June and July. Another two or three are coming in, we should get to our target of 20 or so for the year.

Apparently the neck has been shimmed to improve the action. With that thicknessof shim, I think a judicious bit of filing would have been a better approach and might have increased the value to somewhere above the £50 mark.

Where do you think all the Made in China instruments in music shops come from? I've had quite a few instruments from China and Vietnam over the years, no problems.

The body looks very Strat too, but without the pickup cutouts. That was what was puzzling me.