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Bloody Hell !! Simple yet genius , cheers Paul I'll be using that 🙂

Sometimes less than that. Put mine on FB last Friday at £50, had just one interested party. Sadly I had to refund the boy's cash last night, spotted a split in the fretboard when doing the pre-shipping clean and set up. Don't know who took the news worse, him or me 🙁

Aye decent basses. Lighter than the US Furys and not a blatant Fender copy, unlike the US Furys 😄 Skinny jazz neck for those that like that sort of thing. 7.5 - 8 lbs with little chance of neck dive thanks the longer top horn, strap button lands at 11th fret.

Glue dots. £1.50 to £2 for 64 dots, available in ASDA, Morrisons etc.

@BCH Congratulations on both finding relief from the wrist strain and a new bass 🙂 Those Torzal necks caught my attention a few years back, brilliant idea .

That Jet looks a lot like a Harley Benton 25th anniversary Firemist but they've changed the peghead slightly, sharpened the horns a wee bit then omitted the gigbag while adding £100 to the price. You're right we don't need another jazz bass 🤣

To tell you what exactly ? The fella can't accept visitors, it starts and ends there; BC opinions won't change a thing. I doubt you'll buy that bass now but if you did you wouldn't be 'buying blindly', online purchases are covered by DSR; two weeks make your mind up time. Instore purchases don't come with the same protection.

No, sounds like visits are off the cards for the time being. "He told me that i could only try for 10 mins, the basses are not set up, his workshop is small and his feeling unwell." His health and the workshop size should be clue enough, even 10 minutes in a confined space can be dangerous if your immune system is weak.

Mate wants to see The Hu in Glasgow end of this month. I don't fancy it but he rode shotgun on last week's trip for NOFX in Leeds so only fair I make an effort.

Dave. Bent Bit of Tin, it's shorthand for the Fender style bridges 👍

So far. Wilkinson BBOT bridges, fitted them for myself and others; no problems / decent bit of kit. Wilkinson swivel 2 saddle bridge, bloody marvellous bit of kit 🙂 Tuners. Mini Gotoh type, 7 years on the 5 string, again no problems. Careful thought needed for the vintage type, mounting plate is big; tight fit on a 51 P-bass peghead but 5 years hassle free service. Pickups. No complaints regarding the alnico 5 jazz singles. 51 style single was a fantastic pickup, Duncan SCPB-1 but with more output; always keep an eye out for them in the for sale ads. Far as 'overrated' goes, I've bits and pieces from brand name folks that's definitely overrated and overpriced but the Wilkinson IMO is decent enough gear which serves it's intended purpose.

Some place in this bloody tip of a house is a compass, if I could find it you'd know what way the magnets should be in no time 🤬

I dug a set of JBXN out the drawer last night, the magnets meet in the middle. Another thing was the polarity is reversed, neck and bridge will snap together so watch your fingers 😁 I wonder if you might have the split coil the same polarity as the single coil and that's causing the phase issue.

Afraid it matters. Good news is it's easy fixed 🙂 Just look at the magnet, there should be signs of glue or sticky label. Either match the sticky label or put it on glue face down 👍

Nae good to me, I was after mud 👍

There was no such thing. The Model One was intended to be a drop-in replacement for EB models but that was all. Clue is given in the first sentence. The name Sentell gave to their version makes no bones about it's purpose 😃

Blanking grommets, cheap and reversible 👍

Speak to Brian Pillans for a one, contact him through his eBay store 'earlpilanz' https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/earlpilanz

Just back from a fantastic Half Man Half Biscuit gig in Edinburgh 🙂 No endless guitar w*nk, no drum solos just a great job done by Neil, Nigel and the 2 Karls; bit awkward typing that since one spells his name with a C 😃

Had a bass I thought would interest Steve. The man wasted no time in confirming, yes he was interested but concerned about couriers. Once I allayed the courier concern with promises of bomb-proof packing and multiple labels, it was just a case of getting the Tune to Romford 🙂 Steve was an absolute pleasure to deal with , our wee bit business conducted in a relaxed manner from start to finish. Thank again Steve, you're a Top Man 👍

I've saw Kyle from The View do that 😄 Pre T in the Park warm up gig, him and a boy in the crowd had a wee set to during the show then had a rematch outside after the gig ended 🤣

@Rayman I was around the same time but remember the late 70's/ early 80's when Japanese companies changed track, Americans were quaking in their boots. The toy trade is a good example of the West importing crap. While our shops were full of basic fake Action Man things, Japanese kids had really cool robots.

How much of that was down to distributors only ordering instruments which cost buttons to build ?

Or tape them to the end of your strap 👍

@crazycloud It wasn't worth doing for me. Only did it because I'd a few of them and the body/neck was rough as get out on one. There was the 5 string, another got active EQ; 3rd had humbucker red wires snipped but I left the 4th stock. Rough as the neck was I got lucky, took a hefty 5 string set of La Bella Jamerson's for 18 months without issue 👍 Don't recall much drop out though I never really played it much, since you're going with a tighter spacing you'll be sound 🙂