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Surely it's living proof of evolution that I adapted as a child to enjoy the coffee creams.

So, another month begins. Another scheme to make do and mend instead of buying stuff. I don't care much for dome top knobs, I think they look a bit cheap. Had some spare flat tops in the shed. Even though they're meant for solid shaft pots they gripped the split shafts on my Tribute LB-100 fine and I think they look a lot better. I located the grub screws so they act as a visual cue at 100%. I think that looks much better. Subtle change for sure but the crucial thing is that I didn't buy anything to effect this change

Never say never. The only reason I'm GAS free at the moment is the Gear Abstinence thread which I am determined to win. Stubbornness and an aversion to the walk of shame trumps GAS, it would seem. But next year, I'll probably buy something, having learned nothing

Vaccines make you and your gear waterproof?

Hey, how did you know my entire approach to clothes shopping? Bit generous to call it "shopping" really, it's more a grudging cross between "purchasing" and "procurement"

And you're entitled to it, just as you're entitled to have a negative opinion of how I went about countering your argument, in exactly the same way as I'm entitled to disagree with you and use an obviously ridiculously amped up example to reinforce both my point and how much I disagree with yours - so ridiculously amped up it was I didn't think I needed to suffix it with a winky smiley. I still disagree with your opinion of this matter. If you can get over the fact that you don't like how I went about disagreeing with you want to discuss the matter at hand instead of attempting to shut it down, I'm all ears.

I disagree. In my opinion, both aspects are important. Of course it needs to be functional. But if it doesn't look good, you won't be inspired to pick it up, you won't want to be seen performing with it. Maybe we should buy our clothes blindfolded too? As long as it feels good and fits you well, who cares if your shirt has got the C word printed in massive letters on it?

I see what you did there.

That's why I scratched that itch with a G&L Tribute LB-100... When they came out with that metallic blue/green with tort and blocks combo, yum! Also it's (just) different enough from a Fender/Squier P to be interesting.

So close to 3 months, ahh well. I'm still in. Been laid low with COVID but got back to band rehearsals this week and took my JC (thinking I might get tired so take the lightest bass I own). And I fell in love with it all over again. I'm confident I can make it a little longer, even with the cooncil's "gift" of £150 off the council tax next month...

I'll buck the trend and say no, I don't see the point in having multiples of the same bass. Also, I can't afford variety and redundancy.

Yup, many times. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't.

Pictures would help. Also - what are you doing to them that they "keep falling apart" on you? Even the cheapest tuners tend to stay in one piece, even if they're not very good at tuning.

Ripper, not Grabber. Definitely was available as a factory fretless back in the day.

Isn't that just how genres work? I found your generalisation to be a bit too dismissive - seemed to me like you were dismissing songwriting as an exercise in putting musical lego bricks together which I'm sure you can appreciate is like a red rag to someone who puts a lot of time and effort into writing songs because they aren't a genius at it. Having said that, sorry for the rather bombastic approach of addressing an exaggerated generalisation with an exaggerated response.

Go and listen to my band's stuff and tell me who I've copied, I'd be really interested to know.

Looks more like Capri-Sun Orange to me!

Since I got all the modding for modding's sake out of my system, I've only changed tuners twice. One was a direct replacement of a broken one and the other was the tuners on an Epiphone Embassy. They were cheap and nasty with a lot of play in the rotation of them. They held tune ok but I didn't like how they felt at all so replaced them with some second hand Hipshot Licensed Ultralites I managed to score, but would have happily dropped in Gotoh GB707 or any other quality equivalent. "More tone" by replacing tuners? No.

Me. Only kidding, I'm rubbish.

It's harder to make money with originals. I do both, FWIW.

You can either have it cheap or in a myriad of colours. Not both. Economies of scale, even when buying lacquer.

Even if it was free, sure, just bolt on a sales portal. 5 minute job with zero potential consequences and no ongoing maintenance. I've had more trouble falling off of logs before. No worries!

Honestly, I'd say get an old pot and get practicing so that you get better at doing it properly instead of trying to find workarounds. The fact that you yourself referred to them as "cheat methods" implies that you know you should be doing it the correct way. +1 for roughing up the casing at the solder point before starting. Also, lead free solder is (in my experience) awful. I still have a stash of old skool leaded solder and it works great.

+1 for the Yamaha Sessioncake. My only gripe about it is that it's battery only - yes, one can use rechargables but I would have liked a DC in option, especially seeing as it's so low voltage they could have used USB in and dialled it down internally from 5V to 3V.

"Frothing"? Charming. Unless in this context it means "people not saying what I want to hear".