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Since assembling my first bass almost 50 years ago from a load of Hayman parts (all, fortuitously, from a 40/40) I've had sufficient confidence to adjust a truss rod, shim a neck, set action, and do intonation. Refretting I've left to an expert, but I'm just about to do my first fret level and hopefully build my first bass from scratch (it'll be a fretless though).

A nice peaceful open mic night at the Shirley British Legion, as per normal Wednesday. It's possibly the penultimate night there, as Shirley Legion might be shutting up shop due to financial difficulties. Played a couple of my songs, accompanied a couple of people on bass doing a few blues songs. The difference between country music and blues music: Blues songs all sound the same, despite the best efforts of the bass player. Country songs all sound different, despite the best efforts of the bass player. Anyroadup, talking to the barmaid, she said she was having to clean up sick and it was making her feel ill. The guilty party was being rather mouthy and towards the end of the evening he got in one elderly woman's face, a situation which bubbled along for a short while before one of the performers punched him in the face. The two participants were separated, at which point the drunken vomity punchee rang the police and very loudly complained, and said it was racially aggravated (it wasn't, he was being a total dick regardless of race). He said he'd been hit by a bald bloke, at which point I may have upset him slightly by saying "I am Spartacus!" (followed by several other bald blokes also saying "I am Spartacus!". I'm not sure what the outcome was, the performer who'd delivered the punch left before the police (one copper) arrived, the copper had a look at the CCTV, and as I was leaving somebody (I'm not sure if it was the drunken punchee, seems fairly likely) was being escorted to the police car. Well, that was an unusually eventful night.

Is this a little luxury you want for yourself and bandmates, or are you being a bit passive-aggressive to your rhythm guitarist?

What state were the contents in? PS: I don't mean New York state (although it looks like it might have done a grand tour of the other 49 first).

Every time I see this topic, I have to resist saying "seems like a reasonable swap if he's house-trained". Oh, did I actually type that?

For several years, after a first festival featuring four or five bands, there was a rock festival in Tamworth which was free entry and which the bands collectively paid for PA, insurance, and a couple of flat-bed trailers for a stage. We also got some money in from food van concessions. I think it was around £5 a member (the bands paid per member rather than per band). http://www.tamworthbands.com/rockfestival/index.htm

While you're speaking to them, there's something that's a bit annoying. It used to be that in the "Basses" section, you had to click on the title of the item rather than on the picture or description in order to go to the page for that item - I notice that's been resolved (for all of the sections). However, I just went into the "Strings" section and when I filtered on brand and selected a single brand, clicking on the picture didn't go to the item but clicking on the title did. However, once I'd clicked on a title and gone to the item, and then used Alt-< to go back to the selected brand, clicking on the picture, title, or description worked. Just experimented a bit more and it applies to the "Basses" section too. Go into "Basses", select one single brand from the Brand drop-down, then try clicking on the picture associated with any of the basses - it does nothing. Then click on the item title - the bass in question will be shown. Use the back arrow or Alt-< to go back to the page showing all the basses for that brand and click any of the pictures, and the selected bass will be shown.

I've had a couple of B-stock items from Thomann with no problems. I've also had at least one Deco instrument which I couldn't find any reason for it not to have been sold as perfect.

I wondered if the DiMarzios started out as tailors. Can't think of anyone else that would put the labels on the inside!

As it's Fender, the shaft might be 1/4" which is slightly more than 6mm (the problem with mixing a proper measuring system with a primitive one).

Looks like they've taken a retrograde step and gone to a two-piece handle - mine is one-piece, which I far prefer.

I've just bought one of these headless bridge kits: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007488329170.html with the intention of building a headless fretless bass before I die. The option I've gone for is described as Color A, and has a headpiece rather than the other option which has individual string clamps. The headpiece has a built-in nut which is adjustable height. Another alternative is a Warwick Just-A-Nut, either a JAN 1 or a JAN 3, not a JAN 2 which is good for nothing except throwing at the cat to stop it scratching your gig bag. Not cheap for the brass version, although the plasticky one isn't too bad.

Thomann premium gigbag - bought a bass-sized one a month or so ago to replace a rather inadequate Rockbass gigbag, after having had a guitar-sized one for quite a few years for a headless bass (as mentioned above, the twin strap buttons eventually wore through it as they were outside the reinforced area). As mentioned above somewhere, there's a big pocket, a little pocket, and a long thin pocket on it. The biggest pocket happily takes A4 sized paper, the little pocket in front of it takes a fabric strap, and the long thin pocket takes a MS-60B and mains power supply, a capo, some allen keys, and there's still room for a small cuddly toy.

Teddy bears flying out of the pram.

Chameleon?

Carly Simon should have called her song "Ironic", then Alanis Morissette would have had to think of a different title for hers, like "Oh bollocks".

That's what I've got - Technics amp and a pair of Wharfedale Diamond 220 speakers for the downstairs PC, Marantz amp and a pair of Kefs for upstairs.

I've had both small combos and head/cab. For your needs you could try a Gallien-Krueger combo, either the MB150 or the 200MB which preceded it. I've used one with a 5-string and it was fine, and double bass players like them.

I don't know, someone may have been wondering what a group of Eric Cantona supporters would be called.

Well, the neck certainly isn't.

I briefly wondered why it had door handles mounted each side of the headstock. The door handle on the right does give an inkling of the craftmanship of the owner of the Custom Shed Workshop in question.

Come to think of it, visit Bass Direct, then you're just by the M40 which takes you into That London (via the A40) and The Bass Gallery is quite close to Euston Station (I used to walk past Euston Station to the Royal Veterinary College when I was a student, and The Bass Gallery is only a little further along). Go back via Bass Direct if you prefer one that you tried out there.

I was just wondering if you'd done anything about those couple of little chips on the headstock near the nut on the G string side, and you've cunningly put it on a wall hanger so I can't see!

That explains their recent rise in popularity, the immigrants in Springfield, Ohio have been buying them.

I use https://www.tp-link.com/uk/home-networking/wifi-router/tl-wr902ac/ - very small and light, has been reliable so far. I use the XR18 naked so I keep meaning to put some velcro on it to hold it to the top.