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All the best to you Tony, loved your advice and input on here, glad to hear you'll still be sticking around 👍🏼😎

Convert the side dots. I'll not do it though @RonC I'll pass it onto a pro 👍🏼

Ordered, thanks everyone! 🙏🏼

Never fear @Gank Bass as previously said, Titebond wood glue is your friend! That is a mere scratch compared to some of the saves made on this esteemed forum, including mine below 😎 You've already shown your skills on here, now I look forward to seeing how you transform this bass into something usable 👍🏼 Oh, and remember Build Diaries golden rule....pics or it didn't happen 😉 Good luck 🤞🏼😀

More lovely work Ron 😉👍🏼

Really helpful from some top Basschat experts, thanks 😇 So, if I was to go ahead buying from here in the UK, where is the best source ? I'm thinking they have to come from abroad even if buying from Amazon. Presumably their isn't a UK distributor? 🤔

Thread hijack alert! 🤭 Proof 😆 just done some tonight 😜😎

Kudos 👏🏼 Love a well polished boot me 😉

I need to get mine out of its case and check it's still alive 😖

We do it over the end music of the last song, and we've always had a great response for each individual band member. We find that the audience love to show their appreciation for each musician after watching the band play for two hours.

Thanks for your input chaps 🙏🏼

IMO it's important to engage the audience at certain points with some craic, particularly if players have swapping around with instruments to do. I've seen too many bands missing the opportunity to connect with a crowd, appearing to be up on stage to please themselves rather than the folks who've turned out to see them. 'Dead air' - as any silence between songs is a term used on radio - can be avoided with a brief hello, how ya doing, great to be here, we're hoping to give you a good night, etc etc. whilst fellow band members are changing settings etc. It forms a bridge between band and crowd just as the music does, and as said already by some, can become integral to putting on a great show. As our bands designated front man I have to do this as our guitarist also plays sax, I have both a fretted and fretless bass onstage to swap over, I even very briefly introduce my fretless during swap over - as most folk would not realise it's any different to my fretted (apart from even more bum notes 😂) whilst our keys player changes settings on his keyboards as well as looking after the sound mix. My staple patter at some point is always 'apparently the louder you applaud and shout between songs, the better we play' and it works at many gigs. It's all part of the show, connecting the band with the audience 😎

Esteemed bass builders, what are your thoughts on the Luminlay glow in the dark fretboard side marker dot inserts? Worth the money? Do you need the torch to 'charge' them up? Bit of a faff on for me if that's the case 🤔 Convert me 😆

How amazing is PRB on drums @Norris 😲 But yes, the whole band are another level ...😎 See what I did there 🤭

I've been told it's sometimes not being picked up by the tests as it's mutated so much, who knows? 🙄🤔 What I do know is I've never ailed for anything as long as I have with this last bout 😖 That is indeed a great memory you have Dave, what a blast from your past! 👍🏼

The Crook Hotel for us last night in County Durham. It's a great bar venue, small raised area in a window which normally has dining tables during the day becomes the stage area on a night. We put the black backdrops up and front lights truss to create the illusion of a bigger stage. Always a fantastic and very appreciative crowd in here, and we finally got offstage at 11.45 😳 Finally got my voice back after 4 weeks, now thinking I've been victim of the latest Covid variant with a cough that's lasted four weeks coupled with laryngitis symptoms, not exactly ideal 😖 New strings on the Vigier sounded nice though 👌🏼

Fabulous finish that 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼

^ This ^ was definitely the right choice, great work! 😜

The Glasshouse Gateshead last night, Roachford supporting Level 42. Roachford is a superb singer and keys player, with a bass, drummer and guitarist in his band, he gave a fantastic performance and really got the crowd going, we thought he was excellent 👍🏼 This was the 40th anniversary of the World Machine Album, which we saw when it was originally toured at Newcastle City Hall back in the 80's. I've seen Level 42 many times, and this incarnation of the band is IMO the best I've seen, with a trio of brass (tenor sax, trumpet and trombone) and the incredible drumming of Pete Ray Biggin they have reinvented themselves and give a polished and entertaining performance complete with brass section dancing, playing percussion and providing backing vocals. I spent as much time watching the amazing PRB on the kit as I did Mark King, who at 67 still does what he does really well. Previously known as The Sage, this is a fabulous venue for live music of many kinds, and the crowd last night had a fantastic night watching two accomplished bands.

We played Murton Officials Club in a local colliery village 20 minutes from home last night. It's a small club with a fantastic crowd, and one of our favourite gigs, with a very easy hump in and out. After a week with a chesty cough I struggled with my singing, but keys and guitarist helped out and we really enjoyed a brilliant atmosphere. I only use my Cliff Bordwell fretless on three songs, but got sent this pic of me studying the fingerboard between verses..

Beautiful ❤️

More great advice from the BC community, I hope you get your bass fixed 🤞🏼