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Jamiroquai - The Return of The Space Cowboy. Stuart Zender is magical on this, easily my favourite Jamiroquai album. All killer, no filler.

The guitarist impressed me the most. Plays like the secret love child of Nile Rogers and Edward Van Halen… 😁

High Fade last night @ Strings Bar and Venue, I.O.W. Ridiculously good. So much so that I’m off to sell all my gear in the For Sale forum. Bastards. 😁

@Happy Jack same day but 2 years after you. 😎

It’s a 1st gen Squier Affinity so I can’t imagine it has something as fancy as a compound radius, but thank you for the heads up. 😊

Hi all, Thinking of ripping the frets out of my Squier Affinity jazz, I’m pretty sure some of you have done this too, so please share any hints/tips/do’s/don’t’s. Also looking for recommendations for somewhere to purchase wood veneer for the fret slots. Ta very much in advance. 😎

Apple Music for me. For no other reason than I have an iPhone, unlimited data on my contract (so I can stream in the car and at work without worrying about data usage) and I’d never subscribed to a streaming service before. I like it. Sound quality is excellent, and have had zero issues trying to find an album/artist. 😊

Level 42 - True Colours MK at his most creative RHCP - BSSM Flea’s Wal tone and joyous lines Brad - Shame Jeremy Toback’s sublime playing on this - one of Seattle’s lost gems Crash Test Dummies - God Shuffled His Feet Dan Roberts high in the mix and so melodic Stone Temple Pilots - Purple or Tiny Music - Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop Robert DeLeo is an absolute beast on these two albums 😊

Levelling Up 42

***cough*** I have a Rockbass Streamer LX5 in the for sale section…. ***cough*** 😁

You’ll have someone’s eye out with that…😊

The expense probably comes from the disposal of waste from the manufacturing processes. I’m assuming the necks are made using resin infusion, so there will be leftover resin and hardeners to dispose of - these products are harmful to the environment and as such require specialist disposal. There is usually a fair amount of plastic waste (vacuum bags, peel ply etc) which would also be classed as hazardous waste due to contamination. The charges for disposal of these materials can be astronomical so they have to be offset against the retail price of the finished items. If these manufacturers are using autoclaves to cure products then that in itself will be expensive. It removes the need to dispose of resins and hardeners but the cost of running them (gas, electric and water) will also be high.

That top line bugs the $h1t out of me 😂

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If they bring the butterscotch Model T back (without the horrible inlays they currently sport) i.e the Robert DeLeo model, then I’m in.

My first ‘Ray. Been playing 30 years, always wanted one, only ever tried one full fat US model and a couple of SUBs. Landmark birthday in a couple of months so treated myself. 😊

Received my Stingray from BB on Friday. Very pleased with my purchase, arrived well packed in one of their own boxes, the bass is a beast and very well presented for a 15 year old instrument. Hats off to Will, top man. 🫶

Some thoughts: Maybe by making F branded product in Indonesia Fender are considering phasing out the Squier brand. Someone mentioned it earlier and if they’re going to go the far east route with western branding then it actually makes a lot of sense I wouldn’t be surprised if they go back to the OG branding first - the very early Squiers were stamped with a large Fender logo with a small Squier stamp underneath. Fender regularly proclaim that they’re innovating with this that and the other, but other than different body shapes (Dimension, Meteora) their innovations are few and far between. I’d be far more interested in new instruments from them if they adopted some of the ideas they’ve had when building signature models and made them standard across all their ranges. For example, giving us more frets, downsizing the headstock, making the necks shallower, as you’d find on the Flea active jazz and the long forgotten Stu Hamm sig basses. Hell, even reintroducing the Lyte range as a permanent model. I honestly believe Squier’s days are numbered with this move to making Fender branded models in the far east.