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My 5yo has a cheapo uke she gets out every now and then, and I also share my u-bass with her. At this age she doesn't really care about fretting, but the right hand rhythm is already starting to show as she's trying to mimic the music. I guess it builds a foundation!

Look I am pretty far away from being a luthier, but sounds like those frets might need a bit of grinding, they're possibly fractions of millimeters higher than they should be. I had buzzy frets around the 16th-17th where you can't really set the neck, AND I had high action. A luthier grinding them a bit fixed them completely.

Scribd.com has a free trial, where you can legally download Brian's (and of course other) books in PDF. I am about to read it on the train.

Just the average egoguitarist approach to mixing. Nothing new under the sun 😁 OF COURSE everyone wants to hear his crunchy tones and nothing else, that's why they're there for on the wedding!

Of course I have to ask, what does the one-knob red star do?

I know HOW to do it, I just don't know how to do it PROPERLY! 😁 There must be a way, someone must have learned a lesson, etc... does it even make sense on a wider neck?

Has anyone ever changed the string spacing on the magical Sandber bridge? I am thinking about bringing the strings just a bit closer together, but I really don't want to mess up the rather professional factory setup, and I'm worried I wouldn't be able to undo it 😅

Finally had the chance to measure my BB Lionel, ash body. 3.8kg / 8.4 lbs Was stepping on and off with it on the crappy digital scale, so might be a bit off, but ballparkwise should be good, I measured multiple times

Don't quote me on THIS as I only have 2nd hand experience and I myself have never used international options (only some of my buds), but for that purpose there should be other similar solutions that are also instant and save you more money on fees & conversions. Also, I am going crazy offtopic here, sorry 😅 Scammy conversion fees trigger me.

I bought some b-stock Novation / Focusrite stuff before, no issues, good prices. I also found a Startouch ABY pedal for like £60, amazing catch! But there were a couple years ago, nowdays I could never see a decently priced pedal there whenever I checked.

The very business model of PP is to scam out some sizeable pocket change from all parties involved. Google "Honey browser extension scandal", owned by PP... literally everyone involved lost money, except PP. Sorry, I am a very passionate PP hater. 😁

That's a pretty bad USD conversion rate, be careful if you ever spend more in another currency with that card! I got only £34.45 deducted, more than 10% difference...

Great news! See you guys there!

No, no, I am serious, I swear! I am in the GAS abstinence thread now and everything! It... needs... to stop...

Alright, it's almost final! The Notaklon will likely be soon replaced by a 4th DIY pedal in a 1590B enclosure, a 3-band Rat. I built one for friend and I like it SO much better than the Klon clone! I am also a "compressor goes last" offender. The multiband BC-1X just cleans up the various digital volume swings from the C4, the envelope and the Tera Echo so nicely.

remember that (not sure if real) story where some guy got an actual octopus delivered by Tesco, as they did not have the specific brand of bread the customer asked for? 😁

I'd check these: https://shop.pedalparts.co.uk/product/klbm3 https://www.rapidonline.com/catalogue/search?Query=lumberg&Size=60 https://www.bitsboxuk.com/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&search_in_description=1&keyword=dc+socket

Thanks so much @Desbass, lovely doing business with you. I bought a few items here in the past, and as I am trying to sell now, let me try to get some more feedback to build up my resume 😁 I got a Source Audio C4 from @pineweasel I got a Source Audio Pro Bass Envelope Filter from @jay-syncro And I got the very Sterling I am trying to sell from @ash Hope some of you can drop a line here, thanks in advance!

Very true, just like the fact that the same measurements will feel very different on two basses. The Sterling shortie I am trying to sell has a very similar string height to the Sandberg, and while the Sterling feels very hard to play for me, the Sandberg feels like butter!

It's not like I set it to a certain height, I just measure it at the end. Why wouldn't I measure what I have done? To me, not measuring anything that's measurable is like... I don't know, wearing a watch with a dead battery 😁 I might want to reconfigure at some point in the future, and if I don't like it, it will be nice to know where to go back to, without playing back and forth with these fussy bridges until I get that right feel I know already had before...

I mostly play fingerstyle as well these days, and yeah this one started at 2.5mm at 12th, I got it down to almost ~2mm. No buzz, even after I straightened the neck a bit, still leaving a very light bow. I prefer even lower action as well (1.6mm - 1.8mm) for soft home playing, but the Sandberg feels so smooth even on ~2mm, I can't even explain it. Consistent tension on all strings and everything, impossible not to love!

Augh, I finally managed to decrease the action by almost 0.5mm, while keeping the intonation correct. The bridge config is fussy but not terrible once one understands which of the many screws does what exactly. I feel like a true Sandberg owner now 😁

Good stuff, really love your shortie, was not familiar with this little Jim Deacon prec!