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  1. NikNik
    Same here. Never again. Despite all puff about Ben holding the reins, that rude little megalomaniac is still overseeing the company.
  2. NikNik
    Stupidly high price for what it actually is. I could have three or four cracking Lowden acoustics for that price.
  3. NikNik
    I remember an '80s article on Mark King where her stated that he was going through through three sets of his Funkmaster custom set per gig. I eventually discovered Warwick Reds around ten, twelve years back, and have stuck with them ever since. Flats are handled by Dunlop.
  4. NikNik
    That was the main reason I stopped using them.
  5. NikNik
    Hold on...that sidecar has a nacelle. An air intake nacelle. That thing is a one-man jet engine. I can see him and his significant other roaring along the A26 and the sidecar separates, engine ignites, and he flies off to do some James Bond-like skullduggery for HM Govt.
  6. NikNik
    If so, let me know which courier you used.
  7. NikNik
    Sweet. Transferwise it is, then
  8. NikNik
    Thank you. Just looked at it!
  9. NikNik
    Anyone recommend a payments transfer system that doesn't charge me the £30 mu bank charges me to pay a European recipient??
  10. NikNik
    Nice. I had one of them back in the late '90s.
  11. NikNik
    On an aside, check the Mad Max side-car in the auction.....
  12. NikNik
    Right, I'm seeing it now. No damage and 1st fret is the zero-fret. I was spending to much time at teh retainer end instead of lookign at the bleeding obvious!
  13. NikNik
    I get that, but why not put a zero-fret in? So they removed the zero and the first fret? Excuse my eyes if I'm missing it.
  14. NikNik
    Here's one of the Wyman ones. 21 frets.
  15. NikNik
    Yes, they've obviously measured accurately. I still don't get why the didn't use a zero-fret. The edge of the retainer would barely do the job, no?
  16. NikNik
    Well, the saddles are quite far forward. That might make your 2nd harmonic be in tune but what about the other frets??
  17. NikNik
    Excellenté !!
  18. NikNik
    That cutting off is sure to mess with the intonation.
  19. NikNik
    Seriously? I also recall from that time that he did use an L2 that he commissioned, a shorter-scale model, before he moved onto the XM2 model. But this one is odd.
  20. NikNik
    That's how the old L2s were made. You had the option of using the new (then) double ball-end strings or conventional ones that you snipped off to the length required, inserted the string into the holes visible then inserted a grub-screw to clamp the string in place. Is that what you are asking about?
  21. NikNik
    A 'special order' with a shorter scale and no zero-fret? Never heard of such. My guess is that neck has suffered serious damage at one point and has been reworked. So, nothing to intonate on bar the lip of the string retainer. Thoughts? https://reverb.com/item/27124809-steinberger-l2-bass-1983-vintage
  22. NikNik
    ...and possibly a heat gun. One for PCGC to try out his refin skills on? Poor Jazz
  23. NikNik
    Is that an extra screw he's fired in there on that neck/body join? And is there a crack in the neck, up near the headstock? I wonder if he cut that Ripper-style 'plate himself? '....soaking away the static...' - Indeed, Sir!👌
  24. NikNik
    A bunch of Merlin squibs aimed at a certain Santa Ana location would be a dream come true for me.
  25. NikNik
    I saw the Yeggles in, what, 1979? I thought that they were shee-eyt. As much as I admired TH, he wasn't a frontman and he did admit it. Finally saw the AWWHS line-up in '98(?) at Edinburgh Playhouse. They were awesome. I watched Wakemam most of the time, making it look all so effortless. What a band!
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