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NikNik

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  1. If so, let me know which courier you used.
  2. Anyone recommend a payments transfer system that doesn't charge me the £30 mu bank charges me to pay a European recipient??
  3. On an aside, check the Mad Max side-car in the auction.....
  4. 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!
  5. 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.
  6. Here's one of the Wyman ones. 21 frets.
  7. 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?
  8. Well, the saddles are quite far forward. That might make your 2nd harmonic be in tune but what about the other frets??
  9. That cutting off is sure to mess with the intonation.
  10. 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.
  11. 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?
  12. 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
  13. ...and possibly a heat gun. One for PCGC to try out his refin skills on? Poor Jazz
  14. 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!👌
  15. A bunch of Merlin squibs aimed at a certain Santa Ana location would be a dream come true for me.
  16. 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!
  17. Different control layout. Very Gretschy
  18. If it looked like this, and had the F-holes, I'd be all over it like a tramp on chips!!
  19. Oh, yeh, I remember that one, now that you mention it. I'd love the dark, two-tone sunburst job, but I wouldn't spunk the prices they go for on Dearverb. The one I've linked to needs a bit of TLC. But that G string is niggling me so I'm going to give it a by.
  20. It's original, all right. Not many made.
  21. I've been after one of these for years but something about this one says 'No!'. Possible dodgy varnish re-fin and that G string doesn't have much wiggle room before sliding off the neck. Hayman 5050
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