Aidan63

I bought a fretless unlined PBass rosewood one, that turned out to be simply a poly coated unfretted board so had the side dots as per a fretted, nut cut as fretted and the rosewood is probably technical wood or Richlite or the like, but it works fine, plays fine once the nut was filed right, sounds okay and looks okay. And was super packaged in custom moulded polystyrene box and arrived in about 10 days with no extra customs hit. It was iirc £67

I hadn't come across him before but wow groove and tone, and the usual Scary Pockets production sorry I still can't embed YouTube vids, don't know why, PC using Edge, doesn't work for me, copy, link, code... YouTube link

Maybe talk to Armstrong pickups in the UK ?

Brain bought my PJB 2x7 cab which I offered to him in response to his wanted ad, easy peasy transaction; asked the questions, looked at the photos and the answers I supplied, agreed, paid, received, let me know when it arrived, great comms all the way, many thanks

but what if they are able to beat Andertons on price because they take Sire's 2nds or batches with more 2nds in to get a better price from Sire ? We don't know what goes on in the supply chain. I know that places like Richard's Guitars stopped dealing with many big names because of the quality issues and the distributors putting the onus on the store to rectify issues. There have been times in my industry when I have questioned the quality of the supply line when it seemed to me the Germans were sending the 2nds to the UK, and that was before the B word made it harder to return stuff

tbh I tried that but used the embed link on the video which just pasted a load of code, I'll try to remember it's share next time, thanks for doing it for me

needs to get the nut off the end of the truss rod and fit a new one; shouldn't be too difficult, I'd try forcing a torx bit of suitable size into the remains of the hex and once purchase has been acheived unwind the nut BUT I haven't withdrawn the nut on a squier, I have done done it on a MIM and it came out okay. With the tuners and string tree off access is pretty good, piece of cardboard or the like to protect the face of the headstock while hitting the torx bit, you might have to grind down the bit a little on the sides to ensure sufficient length to get properly into the hex head Others will have better advice I am sure

Where are you, what sort of music do you play/want to play ?

as always Gregor likes them both, of course but the praise for the MV 4JB Gotoh BM is off the scale sorry I can't figure out how to embed youtube linky

Bass direct have stock/Cort UK distributor has stock and nice price on the NJS, please do the 4, many of us can't cope with the extra string, and really how many 5s are sold compared to 4 string overall.

also available in petrol 😎

mine is Volkswagen Medium Blue, LH5G paint code, paints can be matched by any good auto paint supplier

blue and white rules, but not just any blue

Shame they don't sell the external bag separately, mono one is so ridiculously overpriced

@Hacksawbobdoes 3D printing

How many were there in the end ? I wanted to go but there was no return train after 9pm back to here and I couldn't afford to spend a night in Manchester. Train would have more than doubled cost of gig, cheap hotel would have more than quadrupled it ☹️

Given talkbass' vast membership there must be people who work at Fender on there I would have thought, so I just thought there might be some cross over of members on here who know more about what goes on across the pond, like happened with the what's going on with MESA thread last year. I haven't been on here for over a month I had forgotten it can be just a place to pommy whinge and or be sarcastic/clever/amusing/show off

So does anybody know if they changed the machines at Corona or if they actually now make a lot of the body blanks in Mexico and reverse Highway1 them; as they have changed to no longer saying made in America, just have Corona California on them instead, ostensibly because of the difficulty in backing that up to satisfy the state's legal definition, so they are just assembled in America for the large part ? Surely some of the Americans who hang out here occasionally have an friend in the factory who will tell it how it is ?

£400-600 seems to be the range on Ebay recently, I think including some or all of the above, odd one a bit cheaper

Ubass ? very short scale and light, don't seem to hold value so often cheap s/h

Just a suggestion but I would contact John East and ask him the ebst way to wire it, he'll tell you

chances are that an update of the os for the phone means that the older bluetooth unit though still compliant isn't quite of the same generation, especially from a security point of view, remember when we had to pair by sending 4 digit codes from both sides, that's done away with now for the most part. I have the same issue with my two old cheapo bluetooth dongles, and the old bluetooth speaker (nokia) doesn't always connect without me forcing the connection from windowsPC, a bit of a pain but as with you a simple thing to work around; it could be an issue if it was something you needed to be always on always reliable though, but I think the pace of change is such that hardware becomes almost obsolete as soon as it is sold

it was the becoming less flexible I didn't like, I didn't use it enough to damage the finish - I dropped it on a floor which was dusty so I washed it, left it to dry and found it had curled slightly, shrunk slightly and become less flexible. I tried it after watching a video where Scott SBL was chatting about muting materials and he 'raided' the cupboard under the kitchen sink to show what one could use that you had lying around

those minky wipes have some chemical coating in/on them I think, if you get them wet they dry stiffer and don't return to original state i.e. they change properties just from contact with water. It could just be release agent from manufacture. I tried them a while ago and wouldn't recommend