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For the books, or for changing it from blue? It's nice in green, I thought the blue was more striking though.

Looking forward to this with interest.

You could search for tailors or invisible menders, they'd probably know what to do. In fact, Timpson say they can do zips - https://www.timpson.co.uk/repairs/clothing

PM'd.

I have an 87 and a 2000 hanging on the wall opposite me. Identical bodies - the neck on the 2000 was much thicker than that on the 87, and the rear of the headstock on the 87 is carved to thin it either side of a central spine, unlike the 2000, so the neck on the 2000 was heavier relative to the body than that on the 87 (I had the neck on the 2000 reprofiled to the same dimensions as the 87).

I thought my Status Series 2 was rather nice.

TBH, I've always associated him with Gibson basses, due to that being the only bass I'd seen him with in photos from the first few albums.

From the headstock and the shape of the horns, it looks like a Hohner and a Peavey have got together and had a baby. Doesn't quite tickle my GAS but a nice looker.

Everybody should have a hobby.

That depends on what sort of neck you like. The late 80s and (I think) early 90s had lovely slim shallow necks that had me spending five times what I'd ever spent before on a JD Thumb. Later ones had great thick club-like necks (my 2000 one was like that before I had it reprofiled to be the same as the JD). I think Warwick later went back to a thinner neck profile.

It's a long time ago, but IIRC I brought one of my 4-string Thumbs to a previous bash in Derby so you could compare proportions to your Thumb unclone and make sure you'd got it right.

Ibanez EHB - 1265MS, 1505, 1505MS. Then you're not lumbered with a poxy headstock with all the additional weight and lack of balance that that implies.

Natural wood is lovely. Paint is hideous.

I've fallen foul of that - I've got an assortment of original Schallers, three different Boston Schaller-compatibles, and Schaller S-locks. My S-lock straps go on everything, my old Schaller strap goes on my S-Lock basses, my Boston straps (all three) go on my original Schallers but not on the S-locks. The strap buttons of the S-locks are 0.1mm greater in diameter and 0.1mm further from the top to the channel that the straplock slots into, and that's enough for the Bostons to jam short of engaging. I shall just have to ensure that the straps that I take out are compatible with the bass - at least I have very few S-lock equipped basses.

There's a few. Mrs Zero has a Digitech Vocalist 4 that you plug a guitar into as well as the vocal mike and it detects what key the song is in and harmonises accordingly.

But those who do have an issue with a company seem to think that the company's customer service is uniformly bad. I haven't had any problems with BD, and will continue to use them should the occasion arise, but it's quite obvious that some people haven't has as good an experience. With a small, self-selecting sample, it's difficult to tell whether those who haven't had problems outnumber those who have significantly, and whether what is acceptable but not perfect for one person is unacceptable for another.

I have done lead vocals and bass, but that was pretty terrible. I now do backing vocals, with lead vocals on one song. Annoyingly, I can't break away from singing unison with the lead vocalist (who is also 50% of the guitarists) - better than nothing but not what I'd like to do.

I'm another phone-averse person, although if I wanted to see a particular instrument, I would be inclined to ring up first just to make sure that the 45 minute trip wouldn't be a waste of time.

Normal ethernet cable (well, Cat5e cable) isn't intended to be used as a fully flexible cable, as the individual wires are single core conductors which will work harden and fatigue with continual flexing.

I had a dig around and found a strap with original Schallers on it (I'm sure there is some mysterious being that hides my straps, I should have about 20 knocking around). That fits the S-locks OK. I have arrived at a tentative theory, that one of the improvements made to the originals was to reduce their rattling, and this was done by making the strap buttons very slightly bigger - .1mm wider and .1mm more from the top of the button to the channel that the lock goes into. If the Bostons were made with the original strap button dimensions and the strap locks a tiny bit smaller than original Schallers, that would have reduced the rattle but meant that the tighter tolerance locks wouldn't fit the larger S-lock buttons.

I encountered a rather puzzling issue on Monday at rehearsal - the strap I'd taken, equipped with Schaller-compatible straplocks by Boston, wouldn't fit onto the Schaller-equipped Ibanez EHB I'd taken. Once home, I checked, and the Boston straplocks fitted happily onto my Warwicks which were equipped with Schallers. The difference is that the Warwicks have original Schallers on, the Ibanez has Schaller S-locks on. I got the trusty digital calipers out and checked the diameters. The original Schallers are 11.95-12mm, the new ones are 12.1-12.15mm. I have several basses fitted with original Schallers or Bostons, and two or three with S-locks, so I have taken a sample. I feel an email to Schaller coming on.

I prefer neck-through basses so it's unlikely I'd buy one.

Do you mean the one for the Dwarf? Just get a 5.5/2.1 right-angle connector off Ebay, cut the old end off and solder it on with the right polarity. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/261536704983

That happened to me once, but I've had no problems since I stopped wrapping the lead round the PSU and just wrapped it up in its own little loop, secured with a velcro cable tie. I don't want a mains lead coming onto the stage - I secure a single DC extension lead to the jack-jack lead running from pedalboard to amp and put the wall wart in the socket next to the one I use for the amp. Then again, I'm mounting the multifx (HX Stomp, possibly to be replaced by the MOD Dwarf) on a pedalboard with wireless, volume pedal, power supply, MIDI switchbox, and Squishbox (if needed) so the DC power leads are all in stable positions.

Now I know someone who's got me on their ignore list. Page 2.