Stub Mandrel

I'm not very good at judging things liek tah, I think it made it more 'meaty' but that might just have been more output.

All that rally matters is that you test and make sure the magnets are the same way around as the existing pole pieces. The physics is that, whatever type of magnet your pickup has what matters is the strength of the magnetic field around the strings. The existing poles will help direct the field towards the strings but its strength will be dominated by the sheer strength of small neodymium magnets. One issue I found when I 'supercharged' my Squier Jazz was that the magnets were strong enough to cause the signal to 'wow' at a low frequency. This suggests they are powerful enough to drive other strings and generate beats through intermodulation. The cure is simple - move the pickups away from the strings - you will probably want to do this anyway. My magnets (a quid or two off ebay) are 3mm thick, 5mm diameter.

Ah Basshopper. Follow this path to wisdom: Supercharge the Squier Jaguar Short Scale's J-Pickup

Push your pole pieces down and stick 5mm neodymium magnets on top. Make even the most feeble pickups into weapons of mass destruction.

Not in this thread! Heresy!

They just played Always the Sun on R4.

I flatted the necks of some guitars/basses with gloss varnish necks. I prefer the feel of a satin finished or low gloss neck. My Tokai SG has a painted neck, but its well worn in so the high gloss was lost by the time I got it.

Skype has them. My camera no longer works with Skype, but functions fine with M$ Teams and everything else. You'd think they would use the same interfaces.

I'm not a fan of painted necks at all, to me they look cheap, I'm afraid, even if they aren't. My B2 has one and I had to sand it to stop it feeling sticky. I suspect painted bodies originated to cover up cheap wood or block construction, then the potential for different solid finishes evolved. The need was never really there to disguise neck woods so most neck finishes are clear or the occasional deep stain or sunburst.

Well I've found the legendary 'Teebscaster build thread'. Curiously I have some cans of Plasti-Kote that are exactly the same shade. Curiously I only used one of the the cans I bought... can't think what I bought them for? Butt congratulations master Teebs, a remarkable achievement for one still moist au vers the pinnae*. Got me wondering if I could get one. Thing is the dominatrix will claim its worth >£500 even if I have the receipt 😞 *Impressed myself with that one.

Right now? Nubiles 🙂

Oops... forgot about his, but I just signed in, all on my tod... anyway looks like it works in Firefox.

I thought that was there.

Sounds pretty professional. Reminds me of rolling in the deep, not really my sort of music but Jools Holland would go for it.

The body looks like a smiley face... you can't unsee that now, can you?

Here's what Eminence say, my bold: https://www.eminence.com/speaker-break-in/

Schwing! My one rather feeble attempt at a home produced solo album* went by the name of 'Full On Robot Chubby'. I think 'Limp Biscuit'; might have been a more apt choice 🤣 *OK, tape of songs I recorded on my four track with add ins from my brother... but I did get a mate to digitise it for CD (advanced tech back in 1996!)

If you made 18" scale 10-string instruments to suit teddy bears, would they be Pooh Sticks?

Hardly a unique property...

Cripes! You can buy a headless bass for what they charge for a neck headpiece.

It's entertaining and well played, but like a lot of jazz-funk it falls down in the 'solid tunage' department. Vulfpeck would never pass the Old Grey Whistle Test.

Is there anything special about 'jetglo' or is it just marketingspeak for 'black'?

I don't think you can criticise the band for being commodified in that way after the fact. Their impact was huge and at the time I felt they had saved music from dissolving into a mush of mediocrity.

No, Ashley Hutchings is Fairport, Albion Band, Steeleye Span etc. Pretty much set the mould for traditional UK folk-rock bass if Dave Pegg set that for bass as a melodic instrument in folk rock.