Jean-Luc Pickguard

Man With The Horn — Nina Simone

I Don't Feel Sorry — Sugar Pie DeSanto

The Strap was delivered this morning and I've put it away safe with the other bits including the grolsch washer strapblocks. The bass arrived at the DHL delivery facility London this morning, and it will sit there until Tuesday due to the bank holiday. I have decided to use the Fender hi-mass bridge as the Badass II looks a bit ratty as it is a nickel plated base with chrome plated saddles for some reason. When I ordered the strings I mistaken thought that EB only made one set of short scale cobalt flats, but it turns out the set I have on one of my squier jag shorties is the regular slinky set with green details on the packaging: 45-65-85-105, and the new set I have is the power slinky set, with purple: 50, 70, 90, 110. I prefer low tension strings, and usually only buy the lightest gauge available of any type, so it'll be interesting to see how I get on with the slightly higher tension of this set. I'm hoping that there won't be too much of a difference in feel.

Bar-B-Queue — ZZ Top

Listed as: "Unknown Jazz Bass Neck Possibly 1965 Fender" https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/285999703235?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=AjBvTEwfQ5i&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=OzMzAukVTDS&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY It could equally be listed as 'unknown object possibly hippopotimus scrotum' as it is as likely to be one of those as a fender of any date. The dimensions of that logo! When did Fender ever use this style of truss rod nut?

I'm getting twinges in my back just looking at the pics in this thread.

New bass incoming. The tracking says it left Glasgow Yesterday and ETA at my address in London is by end of day today, but the latest entry on the tracking page is that it arrived at the DHL Sort Facility, East Midlands at 2:37AM, and with no later updates, so I assume it's still there at Castle Donington. I ordered a couple of bits for it which arrived today, and I had a rummage in my bits box. When I found the Fender Hi Mass Bridge in my bits box, I also found a Badass II I'd forgotten about, so I'll have to decide on which one to fit. Also I needn't have ordered the new thumbrest as I already had a spare one in the bits box. I got a set of EB short scale cobalt flats from amazon warehouse - unused but missing the outer packaging. A new colour co-ordinated suede strap should be delivered tomorrow, and a set of grolsch-style strap blocks is sitting here at the ready.

I use mostly Leathergraft comfy suede straps or Perri's suede with sheepskin pad on my basses/guitars and these help a lot to prevent slippage/neckdive

Soul Finger — The Bar-Kays

Gotta Serve Somebody — Bob Dylan

Given the choice I'd go for the 1x12 combo plus 1x12 cab for the flexibility. Given a wider choice I'd buy Ashdown so the amp could actually be repaired if it ever fails.

Nice! I have my eye on the new version of the epiphone mandobird. I'm not in a hurry for one so I'll probably wait until they start cropping up secondhand or epi bring out an eight string version, however I'll probably have to use ukulele tuning.

Thief — Can

Cold Revolver Click — Obviously 5 Believers

My trigger finger has bypassed the rational part of my brain again, and I have a Sienna Sunburst player mustang bass incoming. This comes with PJ pickups with a master volume and master tone on the control plate, and a three way switch on the pickguard by the lower horn. In addition to fitting a Fender hi-mass bridge I am planning to improve the wiring. Initially the idea was to simply swap the switch for a blend pot, but it has struck me that I could just wire it as a Jazz bass with a volume for each pickup on the control plate, and a master tone on the pickguard. Has anyone already done this? Any other ideas?

I have three vintage pro thunderbirds, and the stock bridge & tailpiece work perfectly for me without any issues on all of them — eg: no intonation problems or unwanted lateral string movement, and I like the styling. What issue were you addressing by swapping out the bridge?

One Show Lost — Pure Retribution

Leaving Here — Motörhead It blew my mind when I discovered this was a cover of a Holland-Dozier-Holland song originally released by the Isley Brothers on Motown, but I suspect Lemmy based this version off the cover by the Ronnie Wood's old band, The Birds

Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba — Handel

Pop Muzik — M

If I do get around to trying this, I'll probably do it to my telecaster bitzer, so there should be fewer sticky-outy bits to worry about, and the join could possibly around the outline of the back. There's a rig rundown of ZZ Top when Elwood was the guitar & bass tech, and he showed Billy & Dusty's 'Peelers' which look like they were left in a barn, but they're actually a custom bolin tele & precision with a custom printed vinyl wrap.

The Razor Song — Puss N Boots

Rice In The Sun — Status Quo

Aloo Dolly — Louis Armstrong

I am sure it is a coincidence that the recommendation for sellers to use postit notes comes in the same week that Ped bought shares in 3M.