Waddo Soqable

Faggotts used to be bundles of sticks too.. I had Brain's Faggotts last week as it happens, very nice too, though you have to eat the whole half dozen in the packet I find..

If its a solid electric bass, and it sounds good plugged in.. that'd do for me ! 😁

Only to excess..

Yep that's the same body carcass and scale as the "ex bass Vl" " baritone" the headstock is even the same shape by the looks ( tho the latest version bari has a little skinny HS) I'd safely bet that's got the same regular single truss rod arrangement.

In all seriousness (for a change) I did mention a couple of times in the past that the forum could have an "ignore topic" button, there have been a bunch of politics and similar type threads I'd have gladly "ignored". I have seen an ignore topic button on other forums, so it's obviously an option on the whole forum template thing. When I suggested it in the past a mod or two replied with some rationale as to why they couldn't or wouldn't do it, can't remember why it was now. Obviously the simple solution is to scroll past stuff you don't fancy and ignore it.

Into the Valley, Skids

Of course it does, you'll approach the task obsessively until its done, and then some...

I do take your point about the fretting hand, you're doing more complex stuff with it than you're doing with your "master" RH, esp with something 6 stringed. When I've flipped a bass the other way as an experiment my otherwise dextrous right hand becomes fairly hopeless! No doubt you can train or condition people particularly if you start young, but I'd agree with the post earlier that it's very wrong to force right handedness on people.

Well greatest respect to them then, I can do absolutely nothing left handed, even write in the crudest fashion. Difficult to say though if you'd been conditioned from an early age who knows..

Hmm.. I'd say there's likely more female musicians in "classical" orchestras than men, certainly that's the impression I've always had since I first witnessed those kind of "gigs" many decades ago.. So you reckon the left handers have to learn right handed in this kind of sphere then?

As its on the face of the HS, you could take the tuners etc off and sand the whole HS face flat again and refinish/ respray just that bit, it's probably the easiest part to re do independently of the rest, and if you did the original finish yourself when you built it you might even have a bit left of whatever you used. It's clearly bugging you so might be the way ahead you'd be happiest with?

Lighter fluid is always a good one, and less savage than Acetone for sure.

Soaking knob in surgical spirit? 😳 Acetone is v. good for removing gunk, but can attack some plastics so needs to be done rapidly

The only dual ones I've had were in the rickenbackers and that was long ago. I don't recall any significant difference at all versus anything that had the regular single one though.

Only very (very) occasionally, if I get one o' them special offers from evilbay "80% off fees" 😁 (and none of the stuff has ever been orange)

I'd think it'd be a normal single truss rod, the one in my Gretsch is.. BTW mine is a Jet type "baritone guitar" with 30" scale and they were originally supplied as a bass Vl but it would as far as I know share a basic body shape and scale with the 4 string Bass version.

Sounds more like a satanic cult...

Kind of like a hammered dulcimer with thick "strings".. We messed about with making odd stuff like that from junk back in the 80s, good fun 😁

I imagine it's a bit of a cheapo "asda's own brand" quality type liquid..

I Got Your Number etc.. The Jags

Having looked around a bit, orange does seem to be a bit of a thing with guitars at the mo.

Well I'll have to give one a try if I see a can anywhere, purely on a research basis.. 😁

Not tempted to paint the back Tigger stripes on it then? 😁