Velarian

5 Drawers 2 Cupboards The Shed The Garage All full of crap. Oh, I almost forgot, I’ve got a load of stuff stashed in my mother’s loft from when I moved house 4 years ago 😳 At some point I’ll have to face it and clear something out. Will probably start with the smallest drawer 😉

Looking good now.

Unconscious competence? I’m currently at the conscious incompetent stage i.e. I’m crap and I know I am 😂

I lived in Dewsbury for a good number of years. I miss calling in at The West Riding for a cheeky pint whenever I picked the wife up at the station.

A stereo jack for input/output with a splitter perhaps? What are the other two smaller sockets for? I see these are in the existing model too.

It makes sense to me if it prevents the jack plug from pulling out. Presumably a right-angled jack plug will allow the cable to route in the usual way?

Oh, that’s such a great job! I reckon you’ve pulled a rabbit out of a hat with that. A couple of mil here or there can make or break something like this. Glad you worked it out 👍

A bit of T-Cut should sort that out.

That’s a bit unfortunate. Hopefully a bit of fettling will get it sorted 👍

Still interested 😉

I tried one of those but it doesn’t really work unfortunately.

On reflection I think the strip is actually brass rather than copper. From I’ve been able to find out it was in use up to around ‘62 and presumably discontinued after that in favour of a ground wire routed through a hole. Jazz basses of that era were supplied with the huge ‘ashtray’ bridge cover which extended up to the bridge pickup and covered the strip so, aesthetically it wasn’t a problem and presumably easier to implement from a manufacturing point of view.

I don’t know the history but I have a MIJ 62 reissue Jazz bass which has a copper strip so that would suggest it’s a feature of that era (along with the threaded saddles on the bridge).

A bit of a long shot but I had something similar on my old MacBook Pro. I seem to remember increasing the I/O buffer size cured the problem.

That’s quite an upgrade! I couldn’t bring my self to stretch to the cost of the new Pro/Max models but from what I’ve read the M1 Air will be more than adequate for my modest needs.

So, I pulled the trigger and got an M1 MacBook Air. Great value for the power and I love the fanless design. Cool bit of kit 😎

I expect the Eagles’ copyright control freaks will end up taking it down 🙁 Meanies.

That amp/cab on the left looks like a Peavey rig I had in the early eighties. It was a bit of lump to lug around and probably contributed to me stopping gigging at that time. After that, I loaned it to a “friend” who’d joined a band but didn’t have his own gear. I never saw it, or him again 😡

Thanks, I didn’t know that. That track is my favourite on the album. Her voice is outstanding!

Her own album “I Used to Be” is worth a listen too.

I just used a fret saw and then a flat file around the edges to add a bevel to match the existing one (well, when I say ‘match’ it’s an approximation. It doesn’t bear close scrutiny 😂 )

BTW this bass is strung with Adagio flats and now I’ve got it set up properly it plays flawlessly all the way up the neck. Coupled with a wiring loom from @KiOgon it sounds excellent. 🙂

That’s what I’m thinking too. I wonder how well it would actually fit a Precision because the mounting holes are not in the same place as a standard pick guard. This is the one I made out of a mirrored pick guard:

That’s the sort of thing I had in mind but it would still need trimming to fit a standard p bass with all the associated risk of messing it up.

Are you talking about a metal control plate à la jazz bass style but in a p shape? I just went through this conundrum with my P-bass bitsa build but gave up trying to source one and ended up getting a mirrored pick guard and trimming it down. It wasn’t entirely successful as I’m a bit cack-handed when it comes to craft skills but it will do until a better alternative comes along. So, I can’t answer your question but I’m interested in the outcome. I did think about contacting these guys but haven’t got around to it yet. https://tinytone.co.uk/custom-scratchplates/ They seem oriented to normal plastic/acrylic/celluloid versions but might be able to do a metal one at a price.