Aidan63

750 series in stock at Guitar Guitar £2k, but maybe not the colour you want ? guitar guitar

196 basses listed for sale on here in January, is that a record ? A tightening of the belt collectively ? A realisation 'we' bought too freely, egged on by each other 😲 More 5 strings over a grand listed here than on Ebay, this is definitely a place to buy a 5 string, though it's the cheaper ones that sell quickly/generally it seems to me It seems like a few of the prolific posters have gone quiet over the last year too , busier working or playing ? plus ca change

String spacing is slightly less on Mustang so I'm not sure how that would effect fitment into a P and how the strings would interact with the pickup, one could probably add a simple overlay to the pickguard to mount them to try it out. It maybe the narrowness of the pickup magnetic field is what makes them sound different.

Have a look at twoodfrd's latest video for a good methodology for routing a flat platform using simple bish-bosh bang it up jig to support the router allowing you to 'inch up' on the required depth and maintain a level surface with the minimum of hand tool work

Dunlop make/sell a short scale 5 string stainless flatwound set but they are eye wateringly expensive, even more than the Galli strings. The strings Squier fit to the mustang bass have the winding on the post, I reckon maybe just standard scale strings cut down to length after fitting, I do wonder if LaBella and co are overly fussy about windings on the post to be honest, you could try the cheapest set of 5 string flats you can find and see how they go. When I had the J&D short 4 strings, same 762mm scale length I put standard short scale flats/tapes on them which had windings on the post on the E strings at least with no issues that I found, though ymmv

Did you get it, do you like it, can we hear it ? 😉

Sweetwater have comprehensive description, it's listed as 12" radius

The Epiphone is listed as flat radius fingerboard, that's illogical it is either flat or radiused, can't be both I've messaged Peach to ask for clarification

I've found Ebay contactseller , item not as described to work well if no returns permitted, upload some pics and a concise description of the problem, but it may depend on your feedback rating, I've had afew problem sellers in the past couple of years but process has always sided with me. If you try and go around the proces then Ebay won't help. I've never had to take up an issue with PayPal so can't comment but I find them very helpful and responsive generally.

YouTube thought I would like Blue Oyster Cult after listening to your tracks 🙂 Weirdly I have never listened to BOC on you tube before

a rather fitting tribute Tombeau for Jeff Beck

Not all UPS drivers work directly for UPS and drive the brown vans, many are working for sub-contracters and are driving unmarked white vans, as per the general race to the bottom model that prevails in the parcel business. UPS closed the UK customer support team and calls are now handled in the first instance abroad, my guess is in the Phillipines. They now play by the usual customer support play book, sympathise, apologise but do not take ownership and do not do anything proactive to help; even if you get through to UK customer support (or what looks like UK customer support) by email they do diddly squat to help until you lodge a claim then it goes into the investigation stream, which can take ages and rarely results in a positive outcome. Just been through this with a package to Holland that was held up for 2 weeks unnecessarily. They have instead invested in mechanical handling and AI solutions to replace humans as they all are doing, rather than retaining staff and paying well and charging accordingly, increased margins, little cost implication to end user and a lot less satisfaction for the 0.1% of instances where it doesn't work as designed. Efficiency : )

Surely there are ways of making 'Gold-Foil' style pickups that are robust whilst looking nice, just using some gold foil on paper seems, well, a bit cheap, after all they will get sprayed with skin and sweat and pick flakes in the course of their life. Leo added the plastic covers to the P pickup ver. 2.0 to help them from premature degradation so maybe gold 'chromed' plastic would be a more suitable capping for such a pickup ? A case of style over substance me thinks

Have you tried your less than satisfactory pickups at different heights or with different strings, these things can make a difference too Manufacturers of instruments do R&D playing around with all the variables to arrive at a suitable compromise, the more high end companies hopefully don't factor cost into the mix too much but as we know there are plenty of budget instruments that sound just fine so there are ways of adjusting the variables (wire, magnet types, winding, pole pieces etc...) to arrive at reasonable sound and output when used with any particular mix of wood, build method, bridge, nut and strings mix Aftermarket pickups are always advertised as better, louder, clearer, vintage, modern etc...but don't take into account the actual instrument they will be used with and how that will be set up, so are a bit of a lottery and why perhaps so many of them get sold on after being in fact no 'better' than the manufacturuers' fitted ones despite being so much (and so much £) 'better'er

There were a few acoustic guitars that had bolt on necks in the past, I'm sure Ted Woodford showed one in his weekly youtube videos in the last year Fender did some in the 60s list

in what way less than ideal, in your opinion ?

Isn't the melody a rip off/sample of something from the 80s in the first place

Are you using strings designed for tuning down ? I think they exist for bass, I know they do for guitars

definitely depends on the roller and how many and how thick the coats are, with a smooth foam roller slightly thinned and not overworked you could get a finish a bit like the US MM Subs

NorthWest guitars sell Hosco files, but they aren't cheap, but they are good, like everything though about 20-30% more expensive now than a couple of years ago; they do sell on amazon and ebay too but often the stuff you want is only on their website and they don't price match themselves on other platforms; prebrexit the Spanish and Portuguese sites were a useful alternative to StewMac too There are several independent luthiers tool suppliers who used to trade on Ebay and on their own sites, I bought some stuff from ChrisAlsop, nice files and the like

I prefer the black, it appears to makes the purple stand out more in the pic, but that may just be a variation in the exposure if the metering was centred mostly on the pickguard hence the fabric and body of bass are slightly more exposed in the pic with the black guard and underexposed with the white one

Irish customs seem to have chilled out a lot in the last 12 months, doubt they are bothered about collecting a bit of vat on individual used goods, they probably realised being heavy handed was slowing traffic clearing the ports and airports, wasting staff time and reducing visitors, better to have visitors paying however many euros a pint of the black stuff is now than not. Mind they are on the ball for VAT scamming men in vans and throw the book at them and heaven help you if you run foul of the revenue in any meaningful way, they are way more powerful than the police over there. Charging vat on used goods is wrong, and costs so much work and grief, and quite probably doesn't pay for itself, I would love to see the figures, but the collection fees being charged by the shipping companies will be making for a nice bonus for the top management I bet. It would be really interesting to go over the books of the parcel companies and work out the full impact on revenue and costs, and work out the cost of the delays, and the difference it's making to the balance of payments and gdp, a nice bit of forensic accounting for someone at the Treasury's Phd no doubt.