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Thanks buddy, didn’t want to derail your thread!!! you can go a little more subtle too - this one had judicious blow torching Here they are side by side finished articles For a quick ref. @Jimothey yours looks pucker 💪🏾👍🏾

@ChunkyMunky another way to get the grain to pop on a natural type finish is to use a blow torch, and scorch as much or as little as you want, I did a couple listed on this forum so you can see it’s effect (didn’t post a link so not to derail the OP’s fine work)

I suppose they can’t be bothered to queue

You always wear a hat, bassists get the cast off groupies.....

Yep Thing to remember is that the body holes are glide holes, the screws should only bite in the neck to allow the 2 to compress and be tight, it’s why it also looks easy

That’s cool - the wiring is tight but well done in there on the Delano preamp, but I would argue no less radical than changing the pre-amp!

Thrown out of court, falsified evidence and copious post posting editing revealed I own neither Gibson or Fenders

Not a gift to bass players, to women maybe. Go to the light, it’s calling you, don’t fight it.

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Yep, I like chatting with @AndyTravis and @bigsmokebass, they crack me up, so far as yammies go, always liked an Attitude Ltd Billy Sheehan, and prob looked at them before you got your Yammy. Drop D tuning rules, took you a while to understand the difference between that and D tuning the whole bass, but I think you are there now. Had a 5, sold it, wondered about all that chaff about transitioning between a 4 and a 5, not really an issue, was good fun, prefer 4’s but who knows may get a 5 if the need requires. Not my fault that 12 strings are too much for you to cope with physically and conceptually, but after me getting a 12, you did get an 8 and can see the benefit of a multi string octave bass. So far as dUg goes, that’s cool, you don’t have to like him or his music, but considering you can’t even spell his name correctly I doubt you know a whole heap about him or the genre, so yeah assume the reputation is bloated, same with his products if you want that bass magazines vote as top products in all their reviews last year I did suggest both the NNE2 and a bass Vi to you as possibly suiting you a while back - seems like I may have been correct............ Hope you have fun with it, they are great for tic tac playing, but I am sure you know that anyway.

Lindy’s Are great, esp for a more vintage sound, you can’t go wrong with them

Is it a standard jazz plate on the TM bass? if so there are more options than J East - which I did not like. New pups and change of strings will defo bring extra to the table, Sandberg black labels are the nuts

Always hand tighten neck bolts

@Al Krow so it appears that eventually my advice filters through, you should know now not to reject at the start, you come round in the end......!

Not sure why the VT would be hard to shift? It’s a fairly recent model and I am pretty sure it’s extendable. Tecamp is also good

VT is a great head to get some overdriven tones out as well as clean. Tech21 have been killing it for years, quality made stuff

I love a bit of Tech21, great stuff

I must say, so far as a compression thread goes, this has been pretty appropriate and @Jus Lukin @51m0n bringing clarity to the matter contemporaneously is always appreciated. With quality drip feed like this more people may begin to understand.

Recommend Jon willis - He is a top bloke

I often arrive in a 3 piece suit, well preened hair, occasional beard or moustache wax and neatly polished shoes, those pointy ones like Winkle pickers but better, my style can never be doubted

I am definitely more minging than most so I bring a greater opportunity for the rest of the band to score

Normally me mam to drive me there, some home baked cookies

Love a bit of compression me

Slow 👏🏿