Maude

Blackeyed Blonde - RHCP

If I understand what you mean, and I think I do, then no the thread should not protrude out of the bridge. If the thread is sticking out then the bridge contact to the body is only the tip of the threads (unless it pushes into the wood as yours sounds to have done). The bridge to body contact should be at its maximum by having the entire bottom of the bridge sitting firmly on the body. The phasing is probably from the kink in the string, where it was sitting on the bridge previously.

Union City Blue - Blondie

Ibanez Talman TMB30, and stick the £465 change in the your piggyback, or upgrade the pickups if so inclined. So much better than the price would suggest. https://m.thomann.de/gb/ibanez_tmb30_mgr_talman_short_scale.htm?glp=1

Big Balls - AC⚡DC

I've got LaBella flats on my Club. They're the set designed for the Violin bass so will definitely fit. Not too high tension but definitely not low either. I really like the feel but I do prefer a stiff flat to a flexible round. They sound great though. https://www.labella.com/products/760fhbb-beatle-bass-stainless-flats-50-100/

100 Mile High City - Billy Ocean Colour Scene

The Hills Have Eyes - The Meteors

Great little basses. I like how they 'encourage' me to play differently than a standard bass. Enjoy the your bass, and France. BTW, that fizzy pop you spoke of, if that's the empty box in the outdoor picture then you might want to go easy on it. 😉

Love Missile F1-11 (Sigue Sigue Sputnik)

Stick one if these in there and wire it through a three way switch to give single coil and a humbucker in series and parallel. Warman make absolutely fantastic pickups for very little money, and this should have plenty of power for less than twenty quid. https://www.warmanguitars.co.uk/product/jazzbar-bass-humbucker-13-31k-8-56-h-4-wire-overwound/

On My Radio - The Selecter

See my posts earlier in the thread. 🙂👍

Down in the Tube Station at Midnight - The Jam

Happy Birthday 🙂👍

On A Rope - Rocket From The Crypt

I got my copy before Christmas but as it was to be a present it went straight to the gifter for wrapping. I then got six books for Christmas so as with Ped, it's in the queue. Although I haven't started any yet and it might well be first. 🙂👍

I took the bridge and tailpiece apart today to give them a little clean. When the string holder part was separated from the baseplate I found, possibly, initials etched into it. It might be M. G. Quality Control? More mysteries never to be solved. The string saddle and its baseplate appear to be cut from sheets/slabs of brass which are chromed before the parts are cut out as, on the baseplate, the edges are brass and the faces chrome, and the saddle the opposite way around with chrome edges and brass faces.The brass surfaces are too clean to just be worn away chrome. Presumably they use large pre-chromed slabs of brass and cut/stamp out the pieces before machining. They've cleaned up nicely, even the brass screws.

Whilst I've no idea how this sort of thing works, a thought relating to that had crossed my mind. All these separate reports to Action Fraud need to be linked to the case. I'd worried that they might all get treated as very small individual cases and somehow slip through the net. Hopefully they'll all be linked as this is clearly bigger than individual cases would suggest.

I thought the same when the saw the ad on Facebook. It just seemed odd that he had many top end guitars for sale but claimed to know nothing about them. It seems he's in bands, is a promoter and has been in the papers a bit. It was starting to sound like friend of Basschat, Mr. Mason. But faith restored, he seems like one the good ones. Sang in an incarnation of The Animals for a decade, whilst absolutely no one could replace the vocals of Eric Burdon, that's not a bad gig to have. The feature in the papers is for setting up a charity to put on concerts to try and raise £1m for a hospital where his grandson was treated. Maybe he's cajoled these guitars from friends and celebs in bands to sell to raise money for the charity, or maybe they are his and he really doesn't know a lot about them, who knows. I'd still love the bass but can't justify that sort of money. Maybe if I told him we do a version of We Gotta Get Out Of This Place and several Jam tracks then he'd give me a discount. I know, I doubt it too 😁. https://m.facebook.com/groups/167660810099231/permalink/1610510605814237/ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009091483962 https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/15018795.miracles-happen---promoter-using-music-stars-play-lancashire-gigs-hospital-saved-grandson/

@Happy Jack, yes I'm well aware I'm probably fretting far to much about the details of this bass, but I was just trying to decipher the historical mods and pin down, as close as possible, what it originally was. It's just to satisfy my personal curiosity and it passes the time while waiting for suppliers to open up again to get the parts I need. I'm happy that we've narrowed it down to the model and the year, give or take a year either side. Also just a point I've read when researching, as you mentioned The Beatles explosion, apparently these were all red in the UK due to the popularity of The Shadows so it seems odd that they all had black scratchplates and not white. So much for cream body and copper pearl scratchplate then 🙄 😁

Bye Bye Baby - Bay City Rollers

There She Goes - The La's

From being in the automotive refinishing trade all my working life I can say that every 3M product I've used has been excellent and does exactly what it's intended for, they're just one of those manufacturers you can rely on. I've not come across this cutting tape though as it's probably relatively new. Whilst not being into wrapping I have wrapped a few panels and it's easier than you'd imagine, as long as your pretty good with your hands. It's surprisingly tough and will happily take to being reapplied a few times while lifting, heating and smoothing it into awkward areas. A bass should be fairly simple as it's mainly flat and then just heat to shrink or stretch it into the curves. It would need joining around the perimeter of the bass which I assume is why you're looking at this tape, which being 3M I would imagine would do the job as intended. Wrap isn't expensive and can be taken off with no damage, as long as your original paint is good and you're careful around the cavity edges, so I'd just get some and try it. A plain colour would be easier to start with than a pattern or picture due to distorting it around the curves. Hopefully someone who actual does wrapping can advise further though.

Colours appear as colours to us due to which frequencies of the visable light spectrum they absorb. Red has the longest wavelength through to violet which has the shortest. If a material absorbs the longer wavelengths and reflects only the shortest it will appear red (turn the light off so there's none to reflect and everything loses its colour). For something to appear red it has to absorb all the other wavelengths of light, getting progressively shorter as you move up the spectrum. Shorter wavelengths have more energy and destroy the pigments in paint quicker than the less energetic long wavelengths, causing red pigments to lose their 'colour' the quickest.