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I just gave the direct route from Tamworth. You could always copy the Beatles and their Magical Mystery Tour 🙂

Would have been better with the basses playing to a blank screen. That way there'd be no chance of confirmation bias creeping in.

From Tamworth you need folk near the M42 and M5. Brimingham Airport/NEC area ,Worcester, down to Cheltenham/Gloucester, on to Bristol etc

Babicz bridge just arrived from Dave. The man's an absolute Star, the fact we speak the same lingo made it so much easier.

Stew It's not whimsy , it's sensible 🙂 I've done the collecting/sending of goodies in Scotland needed by folks in England and the favour has been returned 👍 Afraid I can't help with this but if you spot something up here give me a shout. That's an offer open to everyone.

One Sunday afternoon some old fella jumped a junction and rammed me off the A1. You can see by the damage I was right in front of him. Police never even asked for roadside breath tests.

The restoration thread gave me a kick up the backside ,now with a set of NOS Picato tapes 🙂

Of course,happy to oblige. https://www.talkbass.com/threads/incoming-resurrection-project-67-wem-watkins-rapier-sapphire-short-scale.1467988/

I've been following an American lad's restoration thread and he's no idea what model he has. The Wilson catalogue list both models but,apart from £20 in price ,they appear almost identical. Can anyone clear this up ? Also the 4 way switch, can anybody remember the function ? Mine goes Bridge pickup/both pickups/Neck pickup/ Bridge pickup with, I suspect, the cap working. Another lad has a different set up, on his it's the neck pickup appearing twice.

Judging by the 2 holes top of the headstock ,measuring the strings was an after thought 👍 Lad gets the thumbs up for trying 🙂 £200 is way too high but I'd say it's easy to tidy up. £1.50 of veneer would hide the extra holes in the headstock, 5 minutes would see it reshaped . £3.50 tremolo cover hides the string through mess.

They don't care. We had 2 work's van emptied outside the digs. Took 4 days for the police to turn up,even that was under duress. Never asked for a list of missing tools (everything) nor did they pay more than a passing glance to the CCTV footage.

If you think they'll sell it before the polis get there, can't you stick a deposit on it ?

No, grey pearl and Rickenbackers are the Devil's work 👍

https://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_pb_20_sbk_standard_series.htm

I know a fella in Glasgow who will do it. His is an ebay only business. Have 5 of Brian's plates myself, top notch goodies 🙂 https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/earlpilanz

So average weight then 🙂

The slabs I build are Fender spec and I've stuck PB-50 necks on them with no problems. Slightly rounded heel vs square ? Fit a scratchplate and forget about it 👍

Aye. That's me signed up too 👍

I wouldn't say that, I find standard 4 in a line much easier. Thing is , reverse headstock on a Tele or 51 looks very cool so I'll bear the burden of awkward to reach tuners 😃

Check which speaker output is selected on your PC. It might be using USB Audio Codex and your PC is set to something else.

My latest slab body has a reverse headstock because I like the look.

Sad news Stew. 12 steps is right,no point getting worked up over stuff out of your control 👍

Quite happy with naming 2.

They don't look that purple to me. La Bella Jamerson's were purple but it's more a dark blue purple .