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Me too. Got a couple of cracking tort 51 scratchplates from a seller in China and 6 clip on tuners from a promo Reverb were doing. Clip-ons were £3 each so I wasn't too fussed that 2 were faulty.

Both the same bloke, Willie Mac 🙂

Can't be, quote from the Digital Music article "Notwithstanding the buyers’ Fender holdings, Reverb went ahead and pledged not to provide preferential treatment to the instruments giant." Of course they may well be lying 🤣 Serious note though, if Servco/Creative have dropped $3-400 million just bolster FMIC then, even after dumping 300 staff to lower production numbers, sales must be really pi$$ poor.

Anyone read the replies ? Post #1 says Reverb bought by Fender's owner's Servco r. What follows is a whole load of waffle where folk think Servco buying Reverb means they have FMIC running it, one eejit even says he's glad no generic private equity firms are in control. Guess joined up thinking is a thing of the past 🤣

It's a "couldn't make this up" moment. 9 Polynesian countries have higher rates than the USA. Of those 9, American Samoa holds first place with 70.29% of folks classed as obese 😲

Judging by the size of the average American, you be safer eating at Greggs. WHO data from 2022 places the USA in 13th place for high obesity rates, 42.87% of adults are classed as obese. Global Obesity Observatory has them in 10th place on 41.64%. WHO has the UK at 66th place with 28.71%, it's 55th with the GOO at 26.94%..

Not if my idea comes to pass. Told the lad in the local takeaway to send a letter home suggesting they convert their held treasuries, 760bn USD, into brick and mortar then build a wall around Trumpland. The orange BAM may talk but let's face it China perfected wall building centuries ago.

Browsing GC's site, finally a Brexit bonus. In the years before GC blocked browsing from IPs in EU countries, that way they'd avoid rather hefty fines for selling your details to 3rd parties without permission.

Fine and dandy. Shortly afterwards I picked up a Chi-Sonic along with a Modern Player PG Later still I nabbed a Fender WRHB. Think I should return it to the Variax look 😎

I cheated 😃 Dropped a fairly high output Warman JazzBar in place. Then cut a PG to hide it.

@NancyJohnson Wago connectors are great, I've a box of them. Trouble I had using them for guitar wiring is no-one uses a heavy enough gauge hook up wire to guarantee the Wago makes a secure connection. Wago excel with 1.5mm and up, most guitars are a mere 0.3mm.

I've been sticking PCB terminal blocks to pots for a good few years now, makes swapping caps or pickups a doddle 🙂 Photos are mock ups at the request from a Talkbass fella last week.

Christ, this has jogged a memory. Had to learn "3 boats down from the candy" for one of the first bands I was in. Bit out of the norm for me, Anti-Nowhere League's So What being more my style 🤣

If we're expanding the list to the rest of Europe, it'll get lengthy 😀 There's Hepcat over in France, Heaussel in Germany and Lundgren in Sweden. Spain had Jess Loueiro but I'm nit sure if he's still trading. Reckon I can add a few more when on lunch time break 👍

Bloodstone Guitarworks Herrick Pickups. Fletcher Pickups. Armstrong Pickups. Fife Pickups. There's also a lad called Martin Harmer, I've an alnico 2 spilt coil from him along with a 51 alnico 2 single coil and a pair of 51 singles for a Tele jazz bass. For the latter Martin cut me custom bobbins to match my string spacing at neck/bridge positions, wound the bridge pickup hotter (to hold it's own against the neck position) and RWRP for hum-cancelling. Turnaround for the pair was 1 week and they were under £100 with postage.

Aye, they were short lived; two years tops.

Spectacular @cetera, keep up the good work 🙂

Brilliant, you're the first I've heard from owning a bolt on BXP 5'er 😎

Right, unless it's not as old as you think or it's a Zephyr/C-5 you've got me confused there. Timeline for the Grinds went like this. 2001 the Grind is launched. Assembled in the USA, the 4 string is an active 34" scale PJ with a bolt on neck/ 5 string is 35" scale bolt on with active JJ pickups. 2002 saw the BXP versions arrive, again 34" active bolt on PJ 4 string/ 35" active bolt on JJ. Late 2003 all 4 models are discontinued. 2004 the Grind BXP NTB comes out of Vietnam, 4 & 5 string models are 35" scale passive basses with soapbars. Few years later production moves to China, briefly, then Indonesia. In order of appearance. US Grind 5 BXP Grind 4 Grind BXP NTB Vietnam Scooped out area at lower horn had disappeared by 2008 Indonesian builds.

That's my go-to 🙂

Spent about a year playing my Grind, completely unaware it was 35" scale length 😁

Nor me. I'm thinking it's a repeat of the 2017 Cirrus reissue. Then the Cirrus was a couple hundred more expensive than folk were paying for 2nd hand US models, this time it's a $2k difference. Real killer though is the market. In 2017 none of the distributors ordered any reissue basses, Peavey had just the US market to sell them in. The line was dropped by 2018. Same is happening this time, distributors outside the US have no interest in them.

It is when you have a dual action TR, single action is just wound on the threaded rod. The G&W wheel I linked could work quite easily. Remove the neck, slip the hex shaft of the TR wheel into the base of the neck then lower the neck back into the pocket. You'd then mark the Allen key slot where it fouls the wheel and remove the offending material. Much depends on the wheel's hex shaft matching the Sire's TR nut. As for locking the wheel in place, you don't have to. Once the wheel is engaged and the neck back in the pocket the bottom of the slot cut will keep the wheel snuggly in place. Shown here by the black arrow in red circle.

This any good ? https://guitarsandwoods.com/Tool/Type-of-Tools/Truss-Rod-Tools/spoke-wheel-for-truss-rod-1940991554.html