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Show's over - DHL picked up the bass this afternoon. I really don't understand why Thomann couldn't have let me keep the bass for like £100 or something - it's barely worth that now. It must have cost them to send DHL to my door. There's an invoice in there for around £30 for my time, mileage and packing materials I had to buy to make up for their utter lack of them in the original packaging. Oh well. Hopefully get my refund in the next couple of weeks.

Bought a Digitech Bass Synth Wah from Mike. Smooth transaction with good, clear comms. Pedal nicely packaged and arrived promptly. It's a yes from me!

Not any more - moved to Newcastle. Which I'll accept - has been Scottish a few times over the course of history... I just ordered a guard from Brian for my Jaguar H, and he did a pickguard for my G&L Tribute LB-100 a while back - top notch stuff.

I reamed out the holes and fit standard 1/2" tuners. Absolutely no help to you whatsoever, but have some free Bronco pron.

Bloody traumatised, min!

A half hour of fettling with files and sandpaper and the original pickguard can now fit over the new pickup... I couldn't find my round file so had to improvise in the corners - they're maybe a tad square but TL:DR, it's on.

Random Reddit image, I'm bringing it here second hand, sorry I've got nothing else.

Whoops, thread derailment/sidebar, sorry!

I'm still on the same roll of solder I had when I was a kid, I think I'll be fine, frequency-wise

Once bitten, twice shy. I'll just keep using my cored leaded solder, I'm happy with my soldering life.

You don't have to understand it. If it's working great for you then happy days. I didn't find it easy at all, I found lead free solder useless - it just balled up and fell off my tip, couldn't even tin with it. Leaded solder all the way for me.

Any ideas, BC hive mind? (the middle, amber coloured one)

Nah, I've been looking at it sans pickguard and it looks wrong. Control plate in isolation looks so lonely and a bit bereft.

Some early adopter blues, it seems

Hee hee, 10 weeks to go...

Do they think we don't talk to each other?

Better bloody not! Tight gits only offered me £25 off to keep it!

Bought an Ibanez ATK pickup from Dave, arrived today safe and well. Top man, good comms, deal with confidence.

Some of you might recall I bought a Squier Jag H from Thomann, and it got bashed in transit, followed by a massive hoo-ha about whether or not I could keep it for a discount, discount offer was unacceptable, couldn't get a DHL "service"point to accept a parcel that size, currently waiting on a courier to come to the house to collect it. In the meantime, I managed to snag another one on eBag and here it is (next to the ill-fated charcoal one) So, I took it to a gig, and it played quite well, stock pickup is a little muddy/vague so I thought I could make it a little better. I acquired a fine replacement pickup - the Ibanez CAP dual humbucker out of an ATK810, thanks to @TheDaivisch of this very parish (arrived today, thanks mate, over and above). Today I fitted the pickup: Unfortunately, it's a chunky bugger so the pickguard doesn't quite fit over it. Gonna have to attack the pickguard with a file. Sounds good though, it's a mighty fine sounding, punchy, articulate pickup. Just wired it in series just now with the stock electronics, it will get treated to a full rewire with new pots and probably will fit a 3 way switch for series/single/parallel options, because why not. Earlier, before the pickup arrived, I did some idle scheming in the GIMP: So as you can see, I'm thinking black pickguard and some black "blocks" ie. stickers just to make it a little fancier.

Yup, you called it - they're going to send a courier to fetch it. They are going to such lengths to repatriate a damaged £180 bass... oh well, up to them I guess.

It's mostly a weight thing, which probably leads to increased confidence in their turning action. Plus they're solid, these John East knobs, not this aluminium shell pressed onto a plastic insert which is in turn pressed onto the pot shaft. Those alu stock knobs felt cheap as hell to me - if it weren't for the fact they were cold to the touch in a cold room, I would have confused them with plastic, and super cheap plastic at that. I also wasn't keen on them being black - I thought the chrome knobs on the Z3 looked way nicer so that was another factor in my decision.

I've got two spare black John East stack knobs, if that helps get you started...

Sorry about that 😇

I call it "snotburst"

Jesus, heard of Google? I've given you the product names, what more do you want? Don't be so "insta"