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Ordered online, there's a right to a full refund with no reason being given up to 14 days. Then during the first six months, if there's a fault which can't be repaired and the item can't be replaced, there's a right to a full refund. So if it's returned in perfect working order, there's no right of refund.

A minor quibble with the new website is the title for each bass. For some, the year comes first, for others the make and model. I think make and model should always come first, including number of strings and whether it's fretless, then year, then colour, then if it's pre-owned.

I think (ICBW) that commuting, in insurance terms, means travel between home and a fixed place of work. For my last job, I had to have business insurance (Direct Line, zero extra cost) so I could drive to a different office.

Heft should be available as an optional extra for all amplifiers.

Indeed. We want BBOT high mass bridges, 4, 5, and 6 strings, headless with nice headstocks, made with acrylic aluminium tonewoods, and with Precision Jazz Musicman Nordstrand Aguilar Bartolini pickups. In fretted, lined fretless, unlined fretless, and left-hand versions of all.

Focus - Moving Waves and Hamburger Concerto on one cassette, Focus 3 on another Tyrannosaurus Rex - Beard of Stars/Unicorn and My People were Fair/Prophets, Seers and Sages The first four Queen albums Meat Loaf - Bat out of Hell 1985 was when I stopped listening to Radio 1 because the new music coming out was overwhelmingly shite.

I like that. You could do with an opaque pickguard (just the be unusual, maybe veneer the current one). After a little consideration, I realised that it put me in mind of G-Plan - this is not meant to be derogatory, incidentally. It's the gently curving lines, I think.

Isn't it actually the other way round? The great big wobbly bag of dirty water that is you acts as an aerial and retransmits all sorts of gubbins from the environment which is picked up by the pickups and electronics, and when you touch the strings or the bridge you're earthing yourself.

I'd like Martin Petersen at Sei to make a 5-string headless unlined fretless Flamboyant and give it to me.

All output jack sockets on basses to be labelled "output".

They desperately need replacing but for some reason some people prefer them to rounds.

So, did any of you notice that there were images of Keef, Mick, and Ronnie on the billboards? I must say they looked young. I wonder if they'll use CGI to the big screens when they tour next.

Yes.

I haven't looked at the circuitry yet - are the neck LEDs in parallel with the body ones? Putting a 1k (educated guess) trimmer in series with them would let you adjust the brightness level.

I've got a shim coming - set of three from Ebay for £7 (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/166313960606). The 0.5 degree one should be right (carefully calculated with what I remember of trigonometry from 50 years ago). Fret ends are fine. All seems pretty good apart from the neck angle. There's a replacement neck with all of the LEDs working coming at some point too.

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.