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GAK have one listed at 2.2K, might be some wiggle room with that

Bought a nice price Hipshot xtender from Owen, all good of course, kept me in the loop on the day he couldn't get to the post office and sent it 1st class, many thanks

it was the one about the Wal rebuild I think a very special save

Thanks for these, now we can see it's a fender type single action truss rod with bottom of neck adjustment. Adding washer(s) under the adjusting nut hasn't helped ? Unless the nut has seized on the rod or the rod pulled out of the end fixture I think that would be usual course of action, unless the wood is compressing or breaking up up at the adjusting end nut, then a repair to that would be necessary; there's a good thread where Andy @Andyjr1515 does such a repair, you might need to search his posts to find it, but iirc it was in this section and in the last year

some pictures would help, so we can see how the adjustment is made and how the neck is constructed Have you had to make a lot of minor adjustments in the first 4 years, is it a single or double acting truss rod, is it reverse operation ?

The muted slap tone on the G&L seems to complement the rest of the sound of the bass best for me, after 3 listens, eyes closed, the other two have a slap tone our ears are more familiar with but overall the G&L tone works best for me in these examples, it's more striking, maybe because it is less often heard

Link to other thread

Mike sold me a nice dark tort P bass scratchplate, well packed of course and nice price, many thanks

Alan sold me a lovely PJ bare body, quickly dispatched and very well packed, bargainous, many thanks, looking forward to building it up this winter

Which model is that, some sort of Dean Exotica ? Probably not ever sold in the UK

weird that, I have emailed them twice in last year, once to ask if they built the Windmill basses (they did not) and once enquiring about the run of of mini basses they were doing, both times I had a proper detailed reply inside 24 hours I had a play of one of their basses in BassDirect and it was very very good, stunning looks, well built, great feel and great sound from Aquilar pickups

JAH50 😎

Steampunk festival held here in Llanfyllin for a couple of years before the pandemic great to see characterfully dressed peeps on the street 👍 'a bit like Hawkwind' was how somebody I knew who went described some of the bands

check your spam filter, John replies very promptly to enquiries through his website, 30 minutes to reply at 7 in the evening was my experience a couple of weeks back

both wood types are available as veneers so 0.6mm is certainly possible

Chris sold me a set of used DR Legends, quickly dispatched well packed, all good; I thank you

sold me a nicely priced excellent condition copperstand for my gid bag, wll packaged and quickly dispatched, top man, thank you

Richard sold me a couple of super priced genuine Schaller straplock sets, super service quickly delivered with FedEx, many thanks

couple of years ago bought a very cheap used Rockwood guitar, it had a great neck, solid maple, but a mdf body that was soft and heavy and easily damaged, didn't hold screws well and the fixtures and fittings were as nasty cheap as they ever could be, I still have the neck and the super thick cast neck plate

bought a strap from them too, top service

Good luck with it all 👍

how did a post on a mains free battery power solution for pedals turn into a post about mains powered supplies isolation and ground loops ? 😲

Just to share this design from Premier Guitar, some may have seen it, I am sure it will have been done before but I couldn't find an example on here with a quick search. The Premier Guitar mag article was the first time I have come across the idea. LINK to article I find using battery power for effects useful, as I am often only using a couple, and I can power my PJ double4 by battery, so saves having to have power supply and extra cables to get tangled up and can be mains free, so I was interested in this design enough to build myself one. I have a couple of Makita 18V power tools for use at work and a couple of batteries so it works for me 😀 Bought the bits on Ebay, £32 all in , plus a bit of wire and solder, with a couple of stomp switches and some pcb stand offs left over for other things I have planned It works well and can power a few pedals as I used a 2A buck module, you could use a higher rated one, but you might need a bigger enclosure, the one I used was only just big enough really. I might paint it at some point

something as a levelling beam (I used an new alloy beam type spirit level, checked against a straight edge) and wet and dry paper (400 and double sided tape) and a file with a safe edge (you can make your own) and some finer grit papers, and maybe some rubbing compound (or 0000 steel wool) is all you need plus a marker pen and a board protector; a fret rocker can be helpful but sometimes it can confuse the issue I found but if there's only spot levelingl of a couple of frets required then it does identify them accurately. I like the rolling the frets (dressing) once levelled with a file method rather than using a concave dressing file; you can also use a piece of wood suitably cut to an angle and paper, that is quite a neat trick see guns and guitars on you tube for a video demonstration of that method

434 centre of 12th fret to centre of P pickup 291mm, compared to 295.5mm for my Fender P bass and the J pickup is roughly in the 70s J position at 374mm