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School careers officer - that looks like an easy job, doing that means you have no integrity, you must be dead inside. I've got it - OP, they got you mixed up with a school careers officer!

Maybe one is less boring than the other? Sorry but I have never been excited about Gibson TB+ pickups - overused and underwhelming to my ears.

You think a £100 gig bag is cheap? 🤨

I'm bloody glad I'm a part timer. Arts professionals get zip all respect. Quite what folk think gives them the right to pass judgements like that is beyond me. Hey, bus driver, that looks easy, I could do your "job". 🙄

Informed by whom? A school career officer?

I don't know, I don't think about it that way - I've done dozens of setups so I adjusted them until they were set correctly. If it's any help I don't remember thinking the saddles had to move a noteworthy or unusual amount. Total guess - maybe somewhere around a quarter inch that last time, but it'll be different for each scenario. Just adjust them until they're right. If you run out of adjustment room and the intonation's still not right, then start worrying

That sounds like it was a respectful exchange of opinions though.

Congrats, long may it continue!

I think I've been incredibly lucky. Only one guitarist has ever so much as tutted at my choice of bass (muttered something about Precision basses being better). He's shorter than me so I just ignored him Additional - not strictly true - I also heard that he didn't like Thunderbirds, so guess who acquired a Tokai T-bird, just to annoy him? The band is long gone but we're still friends

Welcome, fellow Scottish bassist. Not saying Aberdeen is full of suspicious yokels, but if Hutton hadn't asked "furry boot ye frae?", I probably would have

Off the top of my head the TB+ pickups are also found on the Gibson IV and V basses (80s basses), the Epiphone Classic Pro Thunderbird and found their way onto some Gibson Les Paul basses. After picking up the excellent "Gibson Bass Book" I can add EB-650 Les Paul basses LPB-1, 2 and 3 Blackbird Money/Les Paul Double Cut Grabber II EB-11 (LP Jr. Double Cut) Les Paul Oversized 2011 Flying V Midtown 2012 NR Thunderbird

Sounds reasonable to me - I recently changed all the strings on my Reverend Triad because I didn't like the feel of the stock strings. I must have ended up going up a gauge because all the strings were sharp on the intonation and all saddles had to go back a bit.

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I hope it didn't come across as "here's a glib answer to what I perceive to be a stupid question". Succinct is a much better word, thanks! I'd also like to add that while sound engineering a massive show with many instruments, full drum kit miking etc. is a serious undertaking, operating a couple of powered speakers and a small (say 8 channel) mixer for a covers band isn't rocket science. In my covers band, the drummer and I do it. We've learned as we go and refined what we do in response to audience feedback. Share our spoils with a knob twiddler? No way

Because they need paid?

Nah, only got 5, none in cupboards.

Wow, he said please.

Check for hairy feet? That was maybe a touch too geeky. Welcome, from whichever Shire you're from

I've not tried that bass technique before.

https://www.wood-database.com/sweet-chestnut/ It's pretty soft, but it's a little harder than basswood and that gets used for making solid bodies all the time. (Basswood for comparison - https://www.wood-database.com/basswood/)

The bus passes are sunburst/tort too?

Just about the time the free bus pass comes through, eh?

Depends on the type of nut on the end of the truss rod - if it's removable you could take the nut off, thread on a few washers then tighten up again to give you some more threads to work with.

This is "basses on the settee", not basses next to the settee!