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It was a small and sharp fork @alyctes. Have to admit I'm surprised/amazes/shocked at how easy and quick it was. I've been meaning to do it for a while and last night had the time and space so cracked on. I used a BBQ spatula to retrieve the post, then grabbed it between my first two fingertips through the F-hole, allowing me to get it vaguely into position albeit at a precipitous angle, and then used the fork to push it vertical and to them manoeuvre into place under the foot. I don't know if i was just very lucky or whether aluminium basses are easier to work with in this respect, but sitting down with a beer afterwards I couldn't hep thinking that like so many other technical aspects of instrument setup and repair, it's a whole lot easier than you think 👍 Thanks for your help above, that was going to be my next approach had the fork failed!

What you can't do with the common kitchen fork eh

I looked at it and assumed flat nut in curved slot

And most players need to play quite a few to find those that work on their instrument.....

Tell me about it, I'm going to be installing my set of Eudoxas this weekend, I'm more nervous about the install than I was about my driving test

Ah OK, thanks @3below, I think I'll be a little more careful going forwards 👍

OK, two questions to which I would really appreciate simple answers (hey, I'm a plug and play Precision player, I like simplicity).... 1. In real terms - and irrespective of the madness of ticking/unticking thousands of boxes if we so desired - what is the fuss actually about? 2. How the hell does this thread work, posts keep moving? Thanks all 👍

That is lovely @Owen 👍

Something tells me it probably means the opposite mate

I can never hear the band name without hearing the wonderful Samuel L Jackson........

Resulting in it becoming a £150-£200 bass

I think what most whizzed me off about this particular guy was his 100% resolve to tell a complete lie in the face of all evidence to the contrary, and to treat me like a complete idiot by doing so. If he'd at east had the self-respect to simply say "OK, my apologies I must have made an error" it would be forgivable to a degree (a degree determined by whether or not he re-lists the item with the same or a revised description). But the implication that I must be an idiot for not recognising that what was a pretty much unused and poor quality likely Chinese manufacture maple fretless neck was in fact a high quality Allparts unit that had been played consistently by him since the late 1980s got under my skin. Interesting that he still has 100% feedback despite the neg I left him?

Can't help thinking that we need a list of dodgy eBay sellers here, any who felt they'd been misrepresented would be welcome to come and argue their case of course, but the same guys just keep selling tack on eBay and clearly eBay do nothing, as is the case with the cheap wombler who's the subject of this thread. And before anyone suggests it potentially a problem for the forum to identify eBay sellers, the proliferation of threads about one particular eBay seller over the years suggests that boat has sailed?

And BTW, that was the polite version

Ah, THIS eBay seller, bassitup2010, complete and total fraudster, sold me a fretless bass making all sorts of claims that I could establish were clearly 100% untrue when I opened the box, yet still he persisted, "It's an original Allparts neck that i bought new for several hundred pounds in the 1980s and have been playing it since then" of a cheap Chinese made neck that was pretty much brand new and clearly unplayed. He plays on this "I'm a bass player these are my basses I'm selling" bull, he just buys cheap tack and presents them as quality instruments. Complete derrière, avoid like the plague

Bronze strings are the devil's work

Tell me about it! It resisted for a while - I was using nail clippers to avoid applying too much leverage - but I followed @Manton Customs advice on moving slightly back and forth and it popped out a good'un! There's a little glue residue in there as you can see from the pic, but a little gentle action with a craft blade and it's coming away nicely. Relief for me was that the nut hadn't adhered to the binding 👍

Phew

Thanks so much @Manton Customs, I'll take. a look ASAP Assuming I can get the old nout out OK does anyone know whether I'm going to need to file down a standard Jazz nut or whether shorter nuts for bound instruments available, haven't found any yet?

Agreed @3below, might be nothing but don't want to pull that nut out only for find half the board comes with it 👍

Many thanks @3below, looks like either a long and tortuous process or a pro repair! Annoyingly it still plays fine, at least with heavy flats, as there's just enough of the groove left, but I suspect one these things start to go further degradation is never far away