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I don't think so - look at the A strings on the rear view. The tuners for the octave strings are pointing at each other, so at their closes approach, and there's still a bit of space between them. Fiddly but not impossible.

I had a Quantum - like that one but in a sort of red-brown. I took it on the back of the bike, along with a GK 200MB combo, a bag of leads, and a sleeping bag, down to Kent for a mate's party. Sadly, I have no photos of the loaded bike, but I do have some of the Quantum.

Just seeing how far out we can get before the ice starts cracking...

Oh dear. Penned by the writers of numerous Paper Lace records and identifiable as an inferior "Billy, don't be a hero" clone. They had far more potential than that.

It wasn't me who originally said what you've attributed to me - in fact, I said the opposite.

In nearly 50 years things haven't changed much. I've played a few Midlands WMCs and it's the social secretary and the committee, who due to gradually tightening finances (generally due to the committee's 75 year old attitude to attracting new members and young people in general) will try to insist that the social secretary books singers with backing music. The audiences tend to the older end of the spectrum and the rooms themselves seem sterile and unwelcoming. We played one New Year's Eve gig at a WMC where no children were allowed in. Mrs Zero couldn't come as Sub Zero was a child and there was no chance of a babysitter, and the upstairs room we were playing in was maybe a quarter full. At least we won two of the three raffle prizes.

Conversely, if there weren't a few posts like that, the only things said about BD would be negative. Like if there was a lot of criticism of the website being old-fashioned and not reflecting the actual stock situation, and they updated it, and all that happened was the new website got slagged off...

Continuing on this tangent, prior to my retirement I was working for a pharmaceutical wholesaler with depots in both GB and NI. The consequence of the WA was that NI was no longer to be supplied from GB but from the EU instead. I was having a little look at the regulations, as you do when it's possible that some system changes might come your way, and there are hundreds if not thousands of codes to categorise items, and we had 36,000 different product lines. That would have been fun for someone to do the admin. It was rather simpler prior to then, when staff at one of the GB depots would simply load up the lorry and send it to NI.

@Downunderwonder only quoted the first sentence. The second sentence was "Originals bands play venues with in-house PAs and engineers." That sounds pretty absolutist to me (who used to play in originals bands with our own PA).

Yebbut Norn Iron is still in the EU, at least for trading purposes. I've just had the one Musikding order which was post-Brexit and painless. As it was less than £135, presumably Musikding arranged the VAT. I assume that with goods worth more than £135 from a big seller like Thomann, they'd charge the VAT and pre-pay it to the delivery company.

You could try https://www.crimsonguitars.com/

The Neutrik website does have the discontinued ones marked as discontinued, but for extra confusion there's only one range that's fully discontinued and marked as such, the other two (IIRC) ranges which are partially discontinued still have the 8-pole plugs, so you have to delve into the range to find out that most of it is discontinued.

Could you take the frets out and plane the fretboard off, then put a new fretboard on and fret it? Jon Shuker did the planing the board off and replacing it part of that exercise for me to get the original defretted fretboard off my Thumb now-fretless and put an unlined ebony fingerboard onto it.

Is there an internet forum or even email list that behaves differently to this?

NL2s are 2 pole, NL4s are 4 pole. FC has a latch lock (locking ring for the NL2FC). The NL4FX has been discontinued, and so has the NL4FC, so those plugs will become collectors' items. Looks like the ones to get now are the NLT4FXX or NL4FXX.

Makes me sad too. My grandfather had a baby grand in the living room - I suspect that got sold when there was still a market for them. There must have been half a dozen grands in the music building at my old school - no idea whether they got transplanted to the new building when Sir Paul Ruddock decided to splash out some of his earnings on his alma mater and pay for a new performance centre.

Oh, I thought you wanted a dog mating. So, not a sire, a Sire.

I was in a pub band - I replaced the original bassist, then the vocalist went AWOL and Mrs Zero replaced him, then the drummer left and we replaced him, then finally the guitarist (the only original member) left and we replaced him. We subsequently got through another couple of drummers before Mrs Zero decided to call it a day and the rest of us decided that we'd fold the band.

No, just pay a fine. To me.

Not buying a Shure system has already saved me a fortune.

Agreed. Now I've splashed out £12.50 and a packet of wine gums on a PA system, I'd like to know how to use it.

Well, it's the law that you must like Prince and hate Coldplay, and that you should know who Jaco Pastorius is.

Might be worth posting in your 3D printing thread. Looking at it, @YouMa has an Ender 3 v2. I think they're slightly the wrong size for the CR6 SE that I have.

A bit of inspiration for when we do get them:

Baloney and balderdash.