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thanks - will see how the troops feel about doing without me. it may coincide with a kids party or somesuch

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1421321005' post='2659755'] Welcome Al - there are a fair number of Basschatters in the Nottingham area. Look out for details of a Midlands Bass Bash later in the year and come have play with lots of basses and eat lots of cake [/quote] yes me too, didnt know about the bass bash, although I've been to some past ones. Any idea when or where?

Are those the original pups ? The one I saw last had exposed pole pieces

[quote name='phaty' timestamp='1423100795' post='2680864'] Did you bring a beach towel? [/quote] heh heh nice one ! Gruss Gott, Phaty. I worked on Vienna for two years so have a working knowledge of both High German and Wienerisch

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1423096422' post='2680846'] Classic 50, no question!!!! [/quote] Yep agree

She's right And if her drawing is anything to go by, cute as well Result

Interesting - going in August although probably too late to bag a bargain

Steinberger copy ?

You can buy travel basses

[quote name='MarkW' timestamp='1422829984' post='2677381'] We played in the Black Sheep Brewery tent for the three days of the Great Yorkshire Show the year before last. Complete carnage as you'd expect. At one point a paralytic Irish woman staggered up to the stage, looked straight at me and said "Jeez, but you've got nice tits. Can I have a feel?" [/quote] Should have said it back to her

Ask for a referral to s specialist hand unit - do your homework and find one first - sone doctors don't know they are thee I was lucky there was one in Derby

[quote name='UglyDog' timestamp='1422864542' post='2677568'] I have had problems in both wrists. Cortisone injections in both, it worked in the left but not the right, so I elected to have the surgery on the right and have not looked back since. Sorted it 100%. If the problem returns in the left I will not hesitate to get it hacked about. Yes it's several weeks of inaction but frankly that's a small price to pay. YMMV, of course. [/quote] The injection in the right probably wasn't in quite the right spot

[quote name='Delberthot' timestamp='1422843431' post='2677521'] It's quite hard to get used to but I sleep on my side with my arms straight kind of like a seal for want of a better description (as I found having my arms bent for long periods can aggrevate it). I still move during the night and get the numbness but I just stick my arm out of the bed pointing to the floor and make fists and it soon eases off. I came across [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTxQqu9USC4#t=178"]these exercises[/url] and they seem to help when it starts to bother me. Plus I can do them when at work sat at my desk. I drink a lot of water, use low sodium salt and take multivitamins + iron and a cod liver oil capsule daily I badly want to avoid the surgery as it's 6 weeks where you can't do anything with that particular hand and from what I've heard from others and read, it's no guarantee that it won't come back. [/quote] Nope, mine was gone within a week

Do what I did and fit a fender "no-load" tone pot- the pot gets bypassed at 10, and is active below 10. There is a very slight bump as it comes out of circuit

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1422614105' post='2674568'] On most Precisions, the first thing to go when you start to roll off the volume is a bit of top end. So yes, you can alter the tone with just the volume knob. [/quote] indeed, I find the tone knob useful, the volume knob less so other than an as a mute for unplugging or somesuch

i tried tying them, but only where I have stupidly cut them too short at the headstock (and arguably,where it matters less) - it worked well enough

Pull silly faces at the guitard to try and put him off?

I went to Ivor mairants and they had no basses at all; chap said people just don't ask for them

I don't have many or need many and they cost less than the Swarovski collection did and does, so I'm keeping that one fact ready should I ever need it Right now I have a precision, a stingray copy and an acoustic bass so it's pretty much all bases covered