Jean-Luc Pickguard

I've successfully used poundland superglue as an infill for finish chips like this. That was on a black instrument so I used black permanent marker to touch up the missing colour first.

I'm the opposite. I like that buying secondhand means that *if* I ever do sell on a bass (or guitar) I will probably be able to recoup the initial investment. I recently bought a secondhand Fender vintera mustang (guitar not bass) in mint condition for a little over half the cost of a new one. When it arrived it did feel like I was playing someone else's guitar as the strings were heavier than the Fender 09s I prefer and the action was a bit higher than I like. I changed the strings & gave it a full setup to get the action as low as it would go without buzzing, and also added a tiny disc of leather to the end of the trem arm's grubscrew to prevent metal on metal contact which caused it to gradually work loose. Now the guitar definitely feels like mine and—my telecasters are probably feeling a bit neglected.

Nothing to do with noise, but in the mid 80s when I was living with my parents, a neighbour accosted me as I was leaving for work to complain that our cat had been 'going' in her garden. I didn't know how to respond to this so I said I would "have a word with her." The neighbour seemed to be happy with this response and never mentioned it again, even though I never actually discussed the matter with the cat.

I'm pretty sure the green 'vintage overdrive' one will be a tube screamer clone, but I'm not so sure about the black 'ultimate overdrive.' I might consider getting one of these instead of a mosky 'black rat' if I can find confirmation that it is a Rat clone. This chap who posted this review seems to be pleased with his pink pocket metal pedal, but he issues a valuable warning about the rough edges of the aluminium housing.

nice one! & the dice knob looks great.

An added bonus of using the copper tape is that it also discourages slugs from entering the control cavity via the jack socket and making a slimey mess of your pots.

Yeah, I bought that. Instead of sending it via a courier, they’re getting the Queen to deliver it on foot.

I had a Goldtone Irish tenor banjo for a while, along with a Warren Ellis electric tenor guitar and an Ozark acoustic tenor guitar. I experimented with a few tunings on these instruments and settled on D G B E - the equivalent to the top four strings of a regular guitar, also known as Chicago tuning, and the same tuning most often used on a baritone ukulele. The chords in this tuning were very straightforward for my clumsy fingers to learn and play. I no longer have these instruments as I rekindled my relationship with my six string guitars which had been neglected, as well as my tenor ukuleles (G-C-E-A), and I reached the limit of my brain's capacity to learn and compartmentalise three different sets of chords without getting confused.

The diamond hard apples of the moon - the nice

Lucifer Sam - Pink Floyd

Cold & Wet - Bonnie 'Prince' Billy

Is he working at PMT now?

That looks suspiciously like the wee-wee dance. He really should have voided his bladder before getting up on stage.

Eyeball kid - Tom Waits

From a whisper to a scream - Allen Toussaint

A 1977 Fender won't have an original nitro paintjob. Check inside the neck pocket for any clues that indicate whether it has been refinished already. If you can determine that the current finish is not original, stripping it off and redoing it won't lose any value. I'd probably leave the bridge alone, but I have had success improving old hardware with peek metal polish and elbow grease. The chip in the pickguard is very common with musicmasters - I have a couple of 1972 musicmasters and the original pickguards both have cracks in this area. You can get a replacement pickguard made fairly inexpensively. earlpilanz on ebay should be able to sort you out if you send him the original guard or a tracing. You can always put the original one back on later so it won't affect the resale value. I would replace the non-original screws with Fender vintage-style ones. You may need to wedge a bit of wooden cocktail stick in the holes to get the new screws to bite if the existing screws were oversized. I don't know about filling the checking with superglue. It might work; maybe try a small area on the back first.

Keep on Running - Spencer Davis Group

I think one of the pieces of this £4 meccano set should do the same job: https://www.argos.co.uk/product/5651801

Big River - Bob Dylan

One of these fixed with a bit of double-sided tape should do it: https://www.htsspares.com/catalogue/plant/access-platform-parts/access-platform-electrical-parts/show/toggle-switch-guard

Ice in the sun - status quo

Shipbuilding - Robert Wyatt

aged pearl would be my first choice, but the tort looks good to me

Heaven knows I'm miserable now - the Smiths