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Bought a Hercules stand from John. Sadly the aircraft had sold the day before but the stand is very nice. Great communication, rapid arrival, excellent all round!

Stating the obvious and borrowing a song title, careful with that spindle sander @Beedster. Ferocious beast, all too easy to convert vast amounts of wood into sawdust :).

My tactic on these is G clamp them into the hole, making the hole as tight as possible. If you could start again, speaker chassis would have better clamping arrangement(s)....

@Dad3353 A good night out makes it all worthwhile. Sound quality is most impressive.

Chowny swb-1, ebony board, dots in the correct place, no dot at first fret position. Took me ages to find one then it appeared on bc £300 iirc. Another good option is the Warwick Corvette, ebony board, dots at 1,3 5,7 etc. My ash bodied one is very light weight, a pleasure to play. One went on ebay last week £500 ish from memory. You may be searching for a long time.

Bought a Schaller bridge from @Fionn. Excellent communications, very rapid arrival and really, really well packed. Top BCer, deal with confidence. Thanks.

Much good advice in the above posts One thing I have found is the need to sometimes adjust the treble side height depending on what the situation the bass is being used for. A balanced string to string setup for recording may require changing for live 'war' volume playing. Obviously this all depends on the bass and kit you are playing through and what you want to achieve.

I would go for the small notch at the ends of the nut (in the same way that frets are cut for a bound neck). Fiddly but less chance of serious damage when trying to slot the binding. More skilled (than me) operators may have other solutions. Quickly looking at jazz bass necks, they seem to be done like yours.

Inadvertently (stupidly) I consented to some cookies on another website whilst using non Adblocked device. The subsequent deluge of adverts and flooding of my email spam box were clearly related. Wasted some time unsubscribing from shi*e unwanted email ads. My fuss is about personal privacy and my data. Who knows what social media manipulation may follow from the organisations. Through choice the only social media I use is bc.

Mobile Android, I have installed the Adblock plus browser on my devices. Problems no longer apparent. Probably available for IOS as well.

I have now installed the Adblock plus browser on all of my Android mobile devices (my laptop and desktop were already setup with this). No popups or other tracking nonsense. I will happily subscribe if this will prevent excessive trackers). How many subscribers at what price to render ezoic not worthwhile? Apparently they pay 40 - 60 USD per 1000 views.

I am enlightened, just need to determine how to remove the menu entry.

As an added bonus (not) note the extra takeover that has appeared in Chrome. working on a fix

Poor web scripting! However by installing Adblock Plus and using the block element feature I have stopped the b*****d thing appearing.

Adblocking browser shows me 222 trackers and a similar number of ads blocked on bc now.

Prevarication is a generous assessment. It is design to negate any user choice.

As per @binky_bass "What do our yearly subscriptions need to be in order for Basschat to not need to partner with the devil?" If subscribing can prevent this I will subscribe (as I stated in a post sometime ago). However the situation is still unknown.

Just encountered the pop up and thought I would use the manage the cookies option. The options and language used is either intentionally designed to confuse, not describe or is just amateurish. Given two choices: legitimate interest or consent. Both imply consent, no choice and no description of what is being consented too. Not a happy bunny on this development.

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Probably need to file standard to fit, the bonus is they are easy to file.

This thread had got me thinking about the nuances of language and what we do. For many years in my youth I played in ceilidh bands playing trad tunes - passed on by tradition, played as we interpreted them. Was / is this a covers band? or was / is it a living tradition? The same could apply to a blues band I have recently stepped into, at what point does a song become a living tradition e.g. dust my broom, nothing like the Robert Johnson original but heavily influenced by many blues players along the line. For that matter the prog jazz rock band I am in playing all originals is influenced by what has gone before (even though we try to avoid obviously doing it)- is that elements of covering? Probably time to stop overthinking it and just enjoy playing music.

In 50 years of playing live, only ever been asked once. It proved somewhat difficult as it was a ceilidh band playing trad tunes. We named the English Folk Dance Society as the copyright holder. Hope they got some royalties.