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The most wondrously musical DB player i've ever heard. If anyone doesnt know the Solid Air album by John Martyn, it's worth every penny. Thompson is prolific on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_Utj4Aljc

You'd make a good pal for my goat

That's a good point

It's all cow manure till a blind test is done. Line up ten of the same bass, same pickups, same everything, maple board, except one of the ten has a different board. Choose which wood out of 1000's You play each bass behind a curtain, then ask the question. If anyone can pick out the odd one, i'll eat my pet goat

It's Hosco binding, funny enough. You can find it almost everywhere. There's black, white, cream, black/white/ black multi , white/black/white multi, which is what i have

Or as an alternative, and to be a tad different, you could do what Robin at Manton Customs did to fretless my Peavey neck There's no nasty superglue either. Smooth as a grass snake on syrup.

Wing of Bat

Eye of Newt

Oil of Snake

It's such a lottery these days. I hold my breath no matter who the delivery service is. Ordered a dual bass case from Gear4music on the 1st may, despatched on the 1st may via DHL, received on 2nd may, so it wasnt late, had delivery update from DHL via text, giving approx 2 hour window and it arrived in that window, the packaging was faultless and undamaged, and the driver rang my bell. I had to have a lay down with my crack pipe and a cuppa

I cant be sure so have ordered some definate 0.047 uf caps

I never thought of the value, just assumed that 47k was standard, and they dont always print the 0. or 0.0 on the cap This is the cap in question

Bad boy frankenpeaveyfenderfretless.

Maybe ... How many guitarists does it take to change a lightbulb? 50 – one to change it and the other 49 to say “I could have done that better” Or... What's the difference bewteen God and a guitarist ? God doesn't think he's a guitarist. ad.Inf.

F'off FFS !!

To my knowledge, John never made shoes.

Not met Clarke but my long time friend John East made him some electronics. Thats as close as i've got to the great man.

Oh my. Who said you only need one gitwrist. We have 3 of the f@ckers. To be fair , one of them also plays keys. All of us play to a decent pub / covers standard. My self and one of the gits were in a previous band , too. Strangely, we all get on well. Who wudda thort.

It's a resource when one first joins up, because you know no one, and have met no one. Then stuff happens over the years. I've been here in all 3 versions of BC, though not a prolific poster to start with, but that's 16+ years - ish, all in. The way some folk pile in with help and assisstance, with their knowledge on technical stuff, most of it way over my head, and at times to the point of surprising generosity. EG, member Deedee who knew i was looking for a vintage Trace combo, found one, paid for it, picked it up and delivered to me halfway between us, and simply wouldn't take any petrol money. If that isnt community , i dont know what is.

Go ! Walk out the door. Dont turn around now. They dont love you anymore.

Changed the cap for another new one and made no difference. One thing i have noticed that i didnt before was that when backing the tone pot off fully, there is still a tiny amount of volume. It was so quiet though, that the acoustic noise of the bass was louder, and it was masking the small amount of volume still there

Thanks Jon, yes i've checked and no part of the cap leg is touching the pot apart fron where it's solder to the pot lug. There's no shielding or foil in the cavity to touch. Maybe i should try swapping the cap - if that was dead, it would as if there was no cap at all, and would that just render the tone pot as another volume pot ?

Forgot to add, that if both pickup Vols are off, the third vol ( tone pot ) doesnt do anything at all. It only does this volume off on both pickups thing when either or both pickups are on

Hmm... well much to my surprise, i got volume out of the bass upon first connection to me amp. Plenty volume. Weirdly, instead of Vol Vol Tone, i have Vol Vol Vol. The Neck and Bridge pups vols work fine, independantly and both on. But no matter which of the pickups is on, or both, the tone control turns them both off, like another vol control. Now,..i followed Stewmacs guide to the letter Black+White twisted together and taped off (this is Series i presume ), Green + bare to ground, Red as hot. Any ideas peepsies ? Surely Stewmac isnt wrong ?

Jeeeeez .. I got as far as Here She Goes Again in post 1, and the rest is Egyptian hieroglyphics. You clever peep ! Sounds ultra cool and ultra complicated to a buffoon