NancyJohnson

I wouldn't see why not so long as you find a decent colour match. I'm not sure if the base water colour coat would darken/lighten when you apply clear varnish. Test on a piece of wood first or inside the control cavity if there's bare wood in there. End of the day, if you varnish something (like a table), you're always going to sand back between coats and any sandpaper damage disappears on the next coat.

I've got a red flamed Euro LT4 too, Barts and Darkglass circuit. I think one of the selling points is that it's got a chambered body so it's a bit lighter. I like it, but I don't use it at all. If you're interested check the for sale ads. Hard case! Drop-D tuner! Dunlop Straploks! Minty fresh! What what!

I remember recent discussions about shielding control cavities with copper tape. The 'genuine' stuff was something like £20.00 a roll or something, whereas the the same product was also available as slug tape for £3.99 a roll (the same stuff you can put round flower pots to keep slugs off your strawberries). People were literally trying to justify spending more because the slug tape 'doesn't work'. (My father worked in research at the Physics department a Holloway University, Surrey for over 40 years; he was an off the scale boffin. His opinion on the slug tape was of course it would work, why wouldn't it? You're just shielding the cavity from exterior interference - dimmers, microwave cookers etc. - and trying to stop that from bleeding into the circuitry and pushing it out to the amp.)

Brother Toboggan. We thought that was hilarious.

Someone might find this interesting. Nancy Johnson. Came from a photograph by Gregory Crewdson. The name was on a little pile of prescription canisters. The Irvines Are Back. On the Kongfrontation ride at Universal, there was a wall with a load of graffiti on it (I think Universal encouraged visitors to add their own). About ten feet above the general stuff someone had written The Irvines Are Back. The Dags. School band, late 70s Guitarist was watching documentary on Aussie sheep farming. Pre-shearing, guy de-dags the sheep by running the clippers round the animals rear end. Last Three Standing. We were originally a five piece punky band. Two left. Oh, there's been tons of others. 96 Decibels (from a Mott the Hoople song). The Skirts. Individual Cheese Portions. Punctual If Nothing Else. Another band late addition to a bill, same name. Somewhere in Basingstoke. We got there early, soundchecked and one of the staff said we were terrible, but punctual if nothing else.

I'm not certain how big the area is, but using several coats of nail varnish would also be a good call. Just build up coats, rub back, repeat. Given the amount of colour choice and finishes out there (gloss/matte), I wouldn't think it would be too difficult to get a decent colour/finish match. As mentioned above, straight PVA will always have a sticky/rubbery feel to it; it might be different if you make up a paste of glue and wood dust, but it isn't suitable for filling any surface areas. It is after all primarily a wood glue or used for sealing walls for plaster.

Sugar - Copper Blue (deluxe)

When I left my junior school, I used to have to take a bus to school. Fare was 4p each way. With a pocket of change and we'd hit up the sweet shop at 8.00am, buy two Mars bars for 8p and start walking.

Are you using the active circuit? Fully charged?

I'd never really given much thought to the actual value of money if you factor in inflation, something else to keep me awake at night I suppose. Thing is, unless you took the risk and either invested in* something that is now magically worth a fortune, you're always sliding in the wrong direction. (*Didn't someone sell his 10% in Apple for $800 about 30 years ago?). Fender Precision basses aren't the way to make a fortune. The only way to make a decent investment return is to go into retail, but you're reliant on there being a ready market for what you're selling I'm sure the more specialist guitar retailers would says it's hard work and a struggle.

I'd be incredibly cautious about buying instruments as an investment, certainly where the instrument is mass produced. I'm not currently on the market for something I can flip for profit, but I do have c.£30k in premium bonds that my wife has said I can draw from if something came up. I follow Hamer... specifically three digit serial# Standards. Gibson. Hmm. I nearly pulled the trigger on a Gibson Theodore (could have almost doubled my investment in under a year), missed the Slash 4 Les Paul. Suspect that if the Gibson Kirk Hammett Flying V happens - and it's a limited one - I'll buy one (or two) of those and just stick it/them under the bed.

Blimey. I have one six string guitar hanging on the wall in the room I record in, my basses stay in their cases. It's only there because floorspace is limited. Again, I'll refer to a friend who has this gallery of guitars hanging in his front room. They never get played, they're just hanging there, unplayed, covered in dust and other grime. There's an Ace Freshly Budokan Les Paul (£8-10k), an EVH Masterbuilt Frankenstein (£15-20k), a Wolfgang (£3k). It makes me want to cry.

It's quite brilliant, eh?

I have a Joe E Lee playlist playing. Sitting in the garden. Glass of red. This is joy.

Technically, I'm bringing the sideburned one...

I couldn't warrant spending stupid money on the Radial, so pulled the trigger on a Palmer PAN-04, which got great reviews and was under half the price of the Radial. It's built like a tank...1/4" jacks from the Focusrite, XLRs to the monitors. Hiss free.

I've been as guilty as many here in being of the belief that all these expensive/ridiculous tweaks we do will somehow make a ton of difference to how we sound; tonally, there's so many facets in play - everything within the entire signal path, from string choice (and freshness thereof) through to the speakers in your rig - will have an effect, plus you need to factor in the tone you create from you hands. (A couple of years back, I used flats for the first time in about 40 years...they didn't sound that different to rounds once I'd tinkered with things.) I'd wager Geddy Lee would sound different from me if I simply gave him a bass I'd just been using. In my entire journey, I've only played one bass that seemed to sound different from everything else and that was a Rickenbacker 4003, everything else? All a bit meh and samey, irrespective of cost point/claims. The pursuit of tone is personal and subjective. It's well documented on this site what my desired tone is and I can get this easily enough from any bass I own. The most important element of my set up is the Geddy/dUg stomps that sit between the bass and my amp. That's it. I wish people could just grasp that pickups, nut widths, hi-mass bridges, etc etc mean nothing. We just love to tweak things!

Is the bridge aged or something? The finish looks a bit bobbly/skanky.

From my limited exposure to the format - I own all the available Tears For Fears and XTC/Dukes 5.1 reissues plus a smattering of others (Night At The Opera, some Dream Theater), I adore listening to the reinterpretation of the audio, with instrumentation coming at you from every direction. One album I'm very familiar with is Destroyer by Kiss...Steven Wilson mixed that for 5.1, but it's not available as a standalone disc and I'm certainly not forking out 200 British pounds for a full boxset. @cetera you bought this?

I'm not certain whether there's any fans of listening to audio in 5.1/Atmos - the work Steven Wilson has done for his own stuff and the Tears For Fears and XTC/Dukes of Stratosphear back catalogue is pretty spectacular. Blu-Ray is just the perfect source for this content (if you can't cope with Blu-Ray, there's ways and means to rip the disc content and convert to a format that plays off a NAS to a receiver). Just as a heads up (if this is your thing), there's a Dolby Atmos/DTS HD 5.1 version of Shakespears Sister's Hormonally Yours coming in September. The mix has been done by Caesar Edmunds (https://www.caesaredmunds.com/) and Alan Moulder (who produced the original version). If you want it, be quick; once the pre-order closes (29/7/22), that's it. If you're interested, link here: https://www.thesdeshop.com/products/shakespears-sister-hormonally-yours-sde-exclusive-blu-ray-audio

This morning is going to be the deluxe-edition triumvirate of Fleetwood Mac, Rumours and Tusk.

Most of his kit (there's loads) just suffers from the usual TLC issues, bowed necks, intonation, dead strings, high/low/indifferent action; I'm not saying it's all junk or anything, but he keeps everything in a drafty garage attached to his house and the temperature is generally a few degrees off of what's going on outside, so you can probably imagine what that's doing to the wood! I did the intonation on one guitar and he said it wasn't in tune going up the neck. Next time I saw him, the saddles were in a straight line across the bridge as opposed to (the regular) visual for EAD & GBE strings. He explained he thought I'd forgotten to line them up straight - the way he preferred it - so he'd done it himself. D'oh!

The guy is obsessed with cheap but usable kit. To be honest he owns a lot of gear but for me a lot of it is so poorly set up it's unplayable. I've suggested just bringing everything over here so I can set it up, but he's not interested! He's got a really sweet Gibson Melody Maker that's in desperate need for a set up!

A mate of mine just acquired this IGB-50 off eBay. £250 I think. I'll admit I'm a tad envious.