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Honestly, I have no idea what was going on with it. I've never done any tuning other than standard G - B. Checking it over the last few days after giving it 24hrs for the neck to settle it seems to be stable enough. I do appear to need new strings, but otherwise all seems good. Mark

I have my Washburn AB-35 hanging on the wall above the desk where I WFH. Over the last couple of nights I've heard pings and pops coming from it, so I thought I'd get it down the next time I was off shift (tonight) and have a quick session on it as I haven't played it in some time, favouring the Ashdown bass as it's just in the living room on a stand because it takes up less physical space than the Washburn. I take the Washburn down from the wall, give it a dusting off and just holding the neck I can tell the strings need tuning properly. Plug it into my tuner, hit the G string and I'm a bit surprised to see it's hitting the C 😂, and it's quite a sharp C at that. In fact, it's so sharp the needle won't physically move any further to the right of the meter. Every damn string was tuned so high, it took about 15mins of tuning and re-tuning to get it to where it should be. It's back on the hanger now but I'll need to keep an eye on it because I suspect when the neck settles back into a more relaxed position, I'll need to retune once more. Anyway, that's my night so far, hope you're all having a good one. Mark

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A large portion of the the inclusion these days incorporates the fan vote, so it's not solely about the faceless committee or self congratulatory importance of those making the decision of which inductees to select. Mark

My wife was the one that bought me the Washburn AB-35 that I got a few years ago. I bought it from eBay and when it arrived she transferred money into my account and said it's yours for Christmas. Bass wives FTW! Mark

… here's the buzzstrings? Mark

I think they are there to stop the saddles sliding side-to-side. Mark

😂 Mark

🤯 I love this solution. Mark

This isn't really Apple's fault though. Yes, it's a pain that you had to run the update, but this clearly fixed the boot issue you had, it's the App developers that no longer updated their apps to support the newer version of the OS that are at fault here, IMO. Mark

If you have the time and materials and the power tools, why not? Some of us only have a workbench and an idea to carry us through. hahaha Mark

Aye, following. 👍🏼 Mark

You might wanna ask your question in the dedicated Sandberg thread we have going here … Mark

My last set of Rotosound I needed to trim the silk back a bit because I had the same issue this dude did on the first bass where the silk stopped the string going through the bridge hole. In my case it was a 130 B string that caused the issue. Mark

Poor chap. 😅 Mark

So the one I linked to above sold for £370. I got mine at the beginning of Dec., 2021 for £141, and mine's better looking. Just an indication of how prices are going up across the board. @tom1946 did you get anywhere with your search yet? Mark

What a wonderful turn of phrase. 😂 Mark

Came here to say this hahaha. Mark

A 3d printed piano might be pushing things I suspect. Mark

I've found through experience (very early in my life) that it's good to be wary of electricity, for exactly the reason you state. Good luck with the build. Mark

There's a Washburn AB-35 going on eBay at the moment. I have one of these (I have no affiliation to this seller) and I love it. If my house was on fire and I could only save one of my basses, this would be the one. It doesn't appear to have met reserve yet, so I've no idea if it'll fall within whatever budget you may have, but it's absolutely worth a punt I'd say. These don't come up that often, and AFAIC, there's good reason for this. Mark

I did not know this was on Netflix, so thanks for that, added to my list now. Mark

You don't need code, just the image URL, that'll automatically embed the image in your post. Mark

I'm really liking this new tune from Bruce Dickinson … Rain on the Graves. It's interesting I like this because for the most part I'm not an Iron Maiden fan, but I do like the Tattooed Millionaire album (excluding that All the Young Dudes cover, which I thought was awful) that Bruce did in the '90s. Mark