Aidan63

Absolutely it can be repaired Maybe take the string tension off slightly to help ease the crack and keep it clean so there's no contaminants to interfere with the glue up All things being equal it should be stronger than ever after repair Plenty of Gibson guitars with repaired headstocks following complete breaks out there so skills are well established

is that oak/walnut/maple neck ?

if you wanted non standard string spacing Jazz pickups it wouldn't be that expensive to have them made, and you could use closed covers to mask the fact - or in this case use them to prevent ocd triggering

have you not read over the last 8+ years why Scott wears a glove ? I wonder if a playing style with lots of hammer ons and pull offs, bends, vibrato and fretting hand tapping might exacerbate it or if there is a genetic component that makes some more susceptible ? Even diet may have a role, Scott has stated being on atkins style diet seemed to reduce his symptoms so he could shed, record and gig more

went private earlier today, I hadn't finished watching it 😲 ☹️

Brian sold me an electric sabre saw from the sell anything listings; Evri were their usual slow (it was a bhol weekend) and awkward at his end accepting it but all good left in my safe space, but witjhout letting me know it was out for delivery or had been delivered so it was the next day before I found it. Top man, thank you

Initial Response Acceleration (I.R.A.) treatment basically they vibrate it to give it better 'vibe', like some do with acoustics, put a speaker on it and play the instrument different frequencies to simulate the effect of hours of play as with tone wood its a thing or hookum depending on your point of view

How different are the pickups in the BB434 and the BBP34 ? Other than the pickups and country of manufacture and the IRA treatment they are pretty similar aren't they ?

5kg would be the packed weight with gig bag, ie what is on their system for shipping weight, which probably explains the reply

Bass Gallery have a 55-02 in stock, none of the UK dealers seem to have any 5 strings in stock

Had a look at some of the picture's in Geddy's book, obviously not many close up shots of the backs of the headstocks and rarely shot square on but you can see notches on at least one of the 50s Ps and a '63 Jazz quite clearly, treble or bass side, and also evident on quite a few Reverb listings of original tuners using google search, and they vary in how pronounced they are, and often visible from the back but barely evident on the hidden front face which suggests to me the tools worked loose during the stamping runs so didn't always make properly square contact

or you could use a plug cutter to cut the wood around the screw and then dowel the hole once you have broken off the plug with the screw still inside, cheap set about £12, smallest diameter 6mm can cut something like 25-30mm deep Last weeks twoodford yt video showed him using a home made plug cutter to extract a headless 3" screw from a previously 'repaired' guitar neck joint

Marc sold me a very tidy used Flyte peli-a-like case, nice price, quickly shipped and received, all good, thank you

Bass Direct/Bass Bros are a reasonable driving distance from you, maybe give them a call and ask for recommendations

Lets face it most of us don't need ai's help to make us look like muppets, I know I don't

and likely for sale once fettled, at a loss or just breaking even, eh Andy ?

No red in the 434 Tobacco burst, painted headstock but not painted on the back of the maple neck, this one maybe a little lighter than those made now though

I don't know, I asked the Q on here a couple of years ago when I bought my Lionel s/h, and no one knew, you seem to need to interact with sandberg on facebook or twitter, they do come on here but not routinely, some of the members on here are tight with them, some maybe endorsees or sponsored by them. Maybe ask BassDirect they are a dealer/agent

especially as they fit one to the Ida Nielsen signature model

my bad I thought he was Canadian 🙃 he certainly comes across like a Canadian

Neither Scott or Ian are 'merican, so they maybe don't pander quite so much to the whole MAGA boutique builders thing that some from the US would; they've had them, but maybe prefer things with a bit more character/flaws - they also have personal relationships with Lull and Overwater and others; by the same token they are probably not reciprocally on Spector/Warwick or Sadowsky's radar much themselves so aren't likely to be leveraged by those brands in order to increase those companies' sales. Surely it's a good thing to have a variety of builders and products, better than a choice of only FMC and Gibson and their subsidiaries Buy British, Buy Canadian, buy European even, especially now. The UK is a big enough market to support a number of mass produced and boutique manufacturers, but if peeps keep buying from the states (and from US owned businesses) then we'll never expand those small companies here and they'll remain for the most part 1 man and a few workshop staff businesses. Crimson, Gordon Smith etc.. are growing (were growing ?) but most of the money is be made making guitars not basses. Importing instruments is bad for the local manufacturing base.

If peeps are interested in having a hang with Janek and IMA and others then you need to post in comments on Janek's YT vid I linked to a couple of posts back, as he responded to my suggestion he and Ian come on here saying he doesn't do socials and no longer has login on here or TB

Janek Gwizdala has posted this on YT - BassHang anyone..... Bass Day Europe Cancelled! | The Janek Gwizdala Podcast #325 Linky

is the original truss rod made of left hand thread bar ? Is it straight or curved ? Was the slot flat top and bottom or curved ? What's the tpi or thread pitch ? Just trying to get my head around how it worked compared to say the original Fender truss rod design, as opposed to the more modern design type Martin is using to replace it. I traded my Maruszczyk back through BD a good few years ago, never had any problems but it was incredibly sensitive to adjustment, forget your 1/4 turn adjustment, you'd move it just 5' and the neck relief would move by 5 thou

most companies use 22Awg I believe which is 0.34mm, or 20Awg which is 0.5mm and very commonly available one way to increase contact with the bridge is to fan the strands and then sandwich with copper foil to increase contact area and stop the wire being pushed into the finish/wood like is sometimes seen