Stub Mandrel

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I choose what bass I play 🙂 Jazz bass compared to p-bass? Just crank the gain a bit and enjoy the versatility.

Hopefully this means they plan to reissue the real Performer.

I knew you had a squishy hippy progger trapped inside that crunchy punk shell :-)

Just added neodymium button magnets on top of the jazz pickup pole pieces, which I poked into their holes. Makes up the huge volume difference.

What's interesting is the frequency/loudness curve that has perceived volume dropping off rapidly below guitar frequencies. Which is why we need more powerful amps than guitarists.

Did some rough basslines this evening, using garageband for a project I'm helping out with. Relatively small room with lots of gear in so I took the Squier Jag SS. Acquitted itself well.

Slightly off that line of discussion, on Facebook today was saying they use a class D 3000W karaoke speaker for their bass at home and it sounds great. A bit of digging showed the '3000W PMPO' device as rated at 2 x 150W into 4 Ohms.

I think that if tuners have rounded ends to the notches, then they are modern ones, no matter how 'aged' they look.

I would have been impressed by Prime randomly playing me matching mole, except I wanted to hear the CCR track again...

Don't forget, the M8 screws need washers in their pockets to spread the load. The force will be equal to the load on the inside so spreading it over a greater area than those two washers is redundant.

It was all miming to 1966. After that it gets complicated as miming to a pre-recorded backing track was allowed.

In my view, your images prove the variation is down to jig settings or other variations. It now seems possible that the corners were 'clipped' one at a time. The variation could simply be down to how accurately the operator fitted the dies (and presumably some sort of guides) when switching to do bottom corners. Such small variations would be much harder to spot on the top corners because of the shape, you would have to measure them.

I agree with @Hellzero I'm sure it's a product of the manufacturing process, not intentional. If it was intentional it would be curved like in the re-issues or at the wide end of original tuners. I think I have the answer, looking at the photo that started all this off. Compare the two middle tuners: Relative to the screw holes and mechanism, the plate on the D-string tuner is 'higher up' with a bigger gap between the top edge and screws tan the A-string tuner. The A-string tuner is noticeably longer so that it contacts the E-string tuner, but the lower screw holes appear to be the same distance from the edge. The lower edge of the worm gear on the D-string appears to align with the bottom of the plate, that for the A-string overlaps considerable, despite the plate being longer. It could be a trick of the camera perspective, however. There are definite variations in the dimensions of the tuners that point to multiple operations using jigs or tooling that are not at the same settings, if not completely different. A few minutes with a pair of calipers would sort it out.

The other night I was adding new bass lines to someone else's material, much of it on the fly. We were making rough guide recordings in garageband. I aimed to get one good take of each section, which could then be cut and pasted to make the full song.