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Thanks both, super helpful and certainly food for thought - keen to get my teeth into a project but always good to know what I might be getting into. I've also got a '79 neck without a body, so potentially sourcing a shell pink body for it might be the way forward. @Jono BoltonThat's a beaut, exact look I've got in my head!

I've got a mid-80s MIJ P that I want to refinish in Shell Pink nitro. The original finish was stripped before I got it and I'm 99% sure the body is alder, but unfortunately I can't work out what's on there now - it almost looks like a brushed-on brown stain, but it's very consistently satin in feel/sheen. My first question is will nitro stick to anything? Or do I need to put some time into removing what's already on there to be on the safe side? Happy to put in the hours to get it right. Second question is how best to do it given I don't have a workshop or garage available to spray in. Can I get decent results waiting until summer and doing it outside? Final question is, does anyone have experience with how Manchester Guitar Tech, Northwest and Dartfords aerosols compare? Thanks!

Hi all, I've picked up a mid-70s Fender neck, and the back of it has been sanded to a satin finish (looks like with wire wool or maybe light sandpaper). However, I'd like to restore it back to its original gloss finish. It doesn't look like it's been taken down to the wood and Googling suggests I'll be able to polish it back, but I'm not really sure where to start! What sort of products should I be looking at? Any help would be great!

I've got a vintage bitsa P ('79 neck/'73 body/heaps of mods) with a dead pickup. It was working but after a few months in its case it's now not. One of the coils is reading 5.5k, the other's at 0 which makes me think it's cooked and needs rewinding. I've tried reflowing the solder at the contact points but no joy. Anything else I could try? The pickup came with the body, and it looks to be 70s Fender to my untrained eye (grey bobbins, decent age to them) except for the fact neither could has a date stamp. Any ideas on what it might be? I love the sound of it so will likely get it rewound unless it's something I could pick up used for cheap! Cheers

Hi all, A new baby means I'm doing a lot more headphone practice than I used to, mostly playing along to songs using an aux input. I originally used a Vox Amplug, but it only lasted a couple of months before falling apart. I've since been using a Pandora Stomp, but I find it's a faff to set up and results in a nest of wires on the floor. I've thought about getting a small head I can leave more permanently set up on one of my cabs, while also doubling as a backup to my TH500 - maybe one of these: GK MB200 TC BH250 TC BQ250 Any I'm missing? Looks like most of the truly tiny heads (ELF, BAM200 etc) don't have an aux-in, and the Ampeg PF350 doesn't have speakon connectors so I'd be getting new cables to use my cabs with it. Also read the aux-in on TC amps can be really quiet, any users found this? How about the GK? Cheers for any help!

I bought Karl's MM SUB - he got it posted quickly and it arrived the next day really well-packed. One of the nicest guys I've dealt with on here too! Cheers

I bought a Jazz body from Tony. Couldn't have been a smoother transaction - very happy!

Ace, thanks everyone!

Hi all, Hopefully a quick one - I'm looking at buying a fretless VM Jazz (the one I'm eyeing is an earlier Jaco-lookalike with Duncan Designed pickups) to use as a basis for a project. Are the pickups in these standard sizing, with the bridge pickup being slightly wider than the one at the neck, or are they both neck-width? I've already got the pickups I want to drop in there, so want to make sure they'll fit! Cheers

Tim sold me one of his Couch straps - couldn't have been a smoother transaction, and some good chat to boot. Thanks Tim!

Bought a set of Wizard 84s from Danny - all as-described and he got them to me really quickly. Would happily deal with him again!

Here are mine - Brown: '86 MIJ. This one's got a Wizard 84 at the bridge, and the paint had been stripped before it came to me. It's my number one when gigging - it's lovely. Black: only just picked this up - bista using an S9 neck and an early '70s body (the bridge is mounted further back than usual which I think places it as a '69-'72). The neck's in good shape but the body's lived a life, including having a DiMarzio Ultra J added and the thumbrest moved above the strings late-70s style. It's not quite where I want it to be in how it plays, but it sounds wonderful. White: largely original '77. I've owned it for about 15 years and will never sell it. Sounds immense and plays well but it's not light!