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Use this 'setback' to further build upon your relationship by demonstrating a wish to share your partner's interests. For example: Beauticians are sharply divided about the merits of nail buffing e.g. "You risk wearing away the surface of your nails, making nails thinner and thinner, more and more weak. Extensive buffing causes heat as well which makes the nail surface brittle and prone to chipping. "If you have healthy, moisturised nails, they’ll have a pretty natural shine without mechanical buffing". Explain to your spouse that you were thinking only in her best interests by rendering her nail buffer inoperable and that it is your intention to purchase some nail moisturiser for her. Better still, book her an appointment at a local nail bar and bank the brownie points against your next incoming bass.

Spreading disaster wherever I go.

Oh, absolutely. The nail-buffing stick-thing is a cheap and inferior option to Crinson's task-specific fret rubbers.

Gretsch certainly used to offer snap-on pads to protect the backs of their guitars. Like this: The only problem is one has to attach a set of snap fasteners to the body: Back in the day Gretsch used to be quite the ones for mad ideas.

The cheap alternative to the Fret Rubbers mentioned by @Grangur above is a Ladies 3-way nail buffing block. One surface is a very fine abrasive, the second is for buffing the nails and the last is a sort of soft rubber for shining. They're good for getting out the really baked-on corrosion or for getting tiny scratches out of the frets after dressing. Sainsburys do these for a couple of quid but I nicked mine from the wife.

Good luck with the gig @Jack_Stroud_Bass - knock 'em off their feet

Dursol Shine - marvellous stuff. It's like a sort of creamy paste in a fetching shade of pink. Put a tiny dab on a clean cloth and polish away. Done in seconds. Tip: get two post-it notes and butt the sticky edges up either side of the fret. Replace with clean post-it notes every so often as you work up the neck. Much less faff than a full masking tape job, though less durable so no good for wire wool or fret-dressing.

Doesn't everyone? Anyway, if I'm scraping stuff off the fretboard I might polish the frets if they're going a bit dull and green. But I'll only adjust the geometry if there's an issue (fret buzz, high action / relief, seriously dodgy intonation).

None, unless something's off. Every couple of years I might scrape the gunk off the fretboard. That's if there's nothing on the telly.

It's interesting just how many people know about this yet continue to pretend it doesn't happen. I think we're all in a state of denial. Some interesting work has been done on this by a guy from the Ballistics Studies department of the University of Southern California. He suggests - with certain caveats - that the perpetrator may have been Gibson's friend Paddy Voorman. At his trial Gibson said 'I was present at the shooting but I wasn't involved'. Dorothy Ford herself said that she wasn't entirely sure who pulled the trigger, only that it was "a European with a pudding-basin haircut" and that "he was wearing ankle boots with a Cuban heel". For myself, I am inclined to agree with the 'Gibson Shot Mary Ford's Mother' theory until someone presents contradictory evidence of a more robust nature than that advanced by some dope-smoking, pencil-necked Californian academic.

True dat, and a sequence of events familiar to many of us. Faker > real Ric > P

Indeed so. Anecdote: One time, me and a pal had a sort-of guitar amp shoot-out evening. A couple of beers, a Les Paul, a Strat, an Orange Tiny Terror, a Marshall JMP Mk2, a 1966 Fender Bassman, a Rivera R55, an SF Princeton, an 80's Pro Reverb and a Mk1 Peavey Bandit. Of course, you can see what's coming a mile off. The Bandit won.

It's funny you put that particular vid up because it's the very one where Weller is stood in front of a Marshall half stack but is actually playing through a little Peavey Backstage 30 stood on a flight case off to one side.

Good point. Didn't know that.

Do it in D. Your guitarist will thank you and so will your left hand.

Sounds fun. Good luck! PS: I just checked 4 versions of P I P on YT and they're all about 2-3 cents sharp of D (They probably recorded in D and vari-speeded it up a bit to reduce 'plod'. Or recorded in Eb and slowed it down because they were all speeding off their faces. Who can say?)

A penetrating observation by the Stubmeister.

Outstanding work, Inspector Skinnyman. I'd not thought of the golf connection.

It's really very simple. Eurovision is not about the music. Basically it's the epicentre of over-the-top, glitzy campness and we just haven't been building our entries to spec. Want to win Eurovision? Here's how: * The performer is more important than the song so choose someone with an intriguing back story, a willingness to wear heavily perforated bondage gear and the ability to weep like Niagara Falls without the aid of a freshly peeled onion * Come up with a dance routine that would scare your mum, possibly involving near-naked people juggling blazing chainsaws * Select 'basic EDM 4/4' on your drum software. Turn down the snare, turn up the kick. Switch off cymbals. * Choose two chords. Any two chords will do. * Write lyrics which detail the performer's urgent desire to 'be themselves' and not 'anyone else'. Ker-ching!

Disappointing, isn't it? I hope that's not a euphemism.

Was he crafty? Was he cockney? Do tell.

Sounds like a plan I would imagine so, yes. The question of who made the first approach is an interesting one. I suppose it might also depend on whether Mr Hall was already coming over here on other business or whether this is a trip designed especially to promote those new Rics with the Toblerone-shaped pickups to the bass-playing population of West Lancashire.

Or because the UK retailers drew straws for who would host the event and Sound Affects of Ormskirk lost? Or because the venue is Hurlston Hall Golf Club and includes the word 'Hall' in its name? Or because it's easier to put a security perimeter round the club house for when the BassChat Massive turn up, swearing vengeance? The possibilities are literally endless

We should all buy a ticket, show up and ask him why he doesn't launch a range of Chinese Rics seeing as they'd be cheaper and better made. Then ask him to sign the Rickenfakers we've brought along. Just saying.

Jimmy Fallon and The Who play Won't Get Fooled Again on toy instruments