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I notice that "nato" now has a couple of extra letters. Is this to avoid offending Russian oligarchs who might fancy buying the odd thousand guitars from Thomann?

I'm sure I remember that it used to be possible to edit an attachment in place - so if you had a large picture (generally an image.png generated by pasting a picture), you could take that attachment, reduce its size (eg by converting to a jpg) and then replacing the attachment with the new file. This mean that any existing posts with references to that attachment would still show the picture, but it would take less storage space. I suspect that this changed with the big update to forum software some years ago. The current functionality is limited to deleting attachments. Might there be any way of implementing an attachment edit?

No, they came to mind because I've got them for a fretless 6 as they were the right gauge (40 rather than 45 in my case) and nickels.

Warwick Red Label?

For decades I thought that the lyrics to "Another Brick in the Wall" included "no dark star chasms in our classrooms", not "dark sarcasm".

Sorry, switch should be https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255261863410 - that other one is 4 pole 3 way.

Having once owned an original Burns Bison, I agree that you can't have a Bison without a Wild Dog tone.

You need a 3 pole 4 way switch. Schematics: Example switch: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/265436631199

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003033892489.html

DIY Effects was even depinned for a while - a few of us made a sufficient case for it to be repinned.

Hydrated or ethanolated?

If they were made out of wood, they'd sound different.

I should really address the main point in this post. There seem to be three main schools of thought in BC (it's something of a spectrum). There's the "wood is all" group who think that the type of wood determines the sound of a bass, and that the sound of a bass can be predicted from the wood type. There's the "wood is nothing" group who don't think that wood has any effect at all. And there's the "there's a bit" group, to which I belong, that thinks that there is some slight effect from the wood, but that the effect can't be predicted from wood type.

Somebody on TB was asking about making one from clay, which as you know is dried mud. Don't think he actually did though because of various practical reasons.

I've found the slightly taller stand that worked for me (for a while) - https://www.gak.co.uk/en/ultimate-support-gs-1000-guitar-stand/54625 - the Ultimate Support GS-1000, named after a Suzuki. The reviews on Amazon are mostly positive with a few people having the same experience as me.

Strangely, I thought that too, but I thought it for both the part where the sounds were swapped with their instruments and when they were with the correct instrument. I haven't been back to recheck though.

Don't forget the growth years that the cut of timber spans, as the density of each growth ring will vary year by year depending on weather.

Tamworth hasn't done too badly. http://www.tamworthbands.com/bands/index.htm Most famous are Magnum, Wolfsbane, and Julian Cope.

So, would you claim that you can identify the wood that a bass is made from by sound alone? The wood will affect the sound to some minor degree because it will damp some frequencies more than others, but there are so many factors in that (not just the wood itself but the body shape, the routings, etc) that it's unlikely that any one piece of wood will affect the sound in exactly the same way as any other piece of wood from the same type of tree - in fact, even from the same tree. The effect that the wood has will be dwarfed by the effect of the strings, the pickups, the preamp or tone stack, plectrum or fingers, whether fingernails have been clipped for the fingers players, thickness of plectrum for the plectrum players, even the cable.

Prior to this, it was spread among at least three other subforums of Gear, plus General Discussion.

I had a Warwick Buzzard which has the same problem as I suspect you will find with this - you can't get a stand for it. The Hercules grabber stands aren't quite tall enough. I did find a stand eventually, another grabber type one, but despite being quite expensive it was poor quality and disintegrated after a few months.

The same way that they know that an expensive HDMI cable will give a more vibrant picture with better colours than a cheap one? Has anyone carried out an experiment to find out whether those claiming to discern the sounds of different woods can accurately identify the wood?

Like they used to say of Parcelfarce, "we can lose an elephant and break an anvil".

I mostly use Elites but as I needed a 6-string set of nickels and the only ones in the gauges I wanted were Warwick Red Label, I've gone even cheaper.

It's perfect if you live in a one-dimensional universe.