Baxlin

Ouch! Have you tried straightening? The reason I ask is that if bending it didn’t crack the chrome...... Alternatively could it be dismantled, straightened, and rechromed? (Possibly not, though, as it seems to be riveted together.)

I bought a Westfield bass via eBay for less than £30, with the express intention of removing the frets. I’ve always been happy using hand tools, I just used a small bradawl as a ‘drift’ to tap the end of each fret, then carefully eased them out of their slots. If I was to do it again, I would definitely heat the frets to soften the glue, as I did have one wood flake. Not being confident enough in my playing, I didn’t try to remove all traces of the fret lines, but filled them with plastic wood, and sanding down carefully. I didn’t worry about the marker dots on the face, as the bass also had side markers. To finish it off, I masked it up well, and sprayed the face with primer and then two coats of satin black from a rattle can. Sorry I don’t have a better pic - I didn’t really get on with having no frets, so I sold it, again on eBay, for more than twice what I’d paid.......

Forgive my ignorance of basses from that era, but does the absence of a truss rod cover at the headstock mean there wasn’t one? Unfortunately I didn’t see the bridge end of the neck. Either way, how would the action be adjusted? By shims? As I said, forgive my ignorance!

Not seen it yet, but from this ^^^^^ do I want to?

Apparently tonight's episode is as they say ‘a second opportunity to see’ the repair of a bass guitar owned by Hot Chocolate’s original bassist.

Take these chains (Ray Charles)

Take a chance on me (ABBA) just for the member who wanted none of theirs........

Too slow? never mind Black is Black (Los Bravos)

Little things (Dave Berry)

If only because there are, to my mind at least, too many unfathomable ‘links’. And the number of repeats. Otherwise, no, I’m enjoying it. next one Who’s sorry now? (Connie Francis)

Down down (Quo)

^^^^ looks good, thanks for the link. I just searched on YouTube for bass backing tracks, and it came up with some I enjoyed, eg Fly me to the moon, Georgia on my Mind, Sunny, plus quite a few unnamed progressions in various keys and styles.

My guy (Mary Wells)

Walkin’ the dog (Stones covered it)

Captain of your ship (Reparata and the Delrons)

Nights in white satin (Bludy Moos)

Do you mean the ‘lovely old 1960’s Kay’, which he then describes as having been built in Taiwan in the 70’s?

Lay down your arms (Anne Shelton)

The clapping song (Shirley Ellis) almost as good a link as the above.....😇

Girl (Beatles yet again)

Boys (Beatles again)

O Lonesome Me (Don Gibson)

Killing me softly (Roberta Flack)

Don’t go breaking my heart (Elton John and Kiki Dee)

If you like, only more so....