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I think your English teacher deserves an honourable mention too.

I should have updated this. I tightened the friction adjuster and that improved things a lot.

Just watching a TOTP from 1992 and Julia Fordham was on it. Her bassist was playing what I'm pretty sure was a headless 6-string (well, I'm sure about the headless bit). Didn't seem to be any particularly good shots of it though. Any ideas on identification?

I found it really funny when one sent a message to me which said something like "I would like to buy your {Oki Microline printer}. I will send you a cheque for £2000 for the {Oki Microline printer} and you can send me the printer and the money after taking out the price of the {Oko Microline printer}". Please, if you're using a template, take the sodding brackets out that surround {item name here}.

I'm in a couple which are in indefinite hiatus, and possibly in another one which I departed from the offshoot of.

"David only needed 8 strings"

That headstock is missing a "PCsGC".

There's a simple non-paying bidder process. I've used it on a couple of occasions when selling a car which the "buyers" never turned up for.

Fender. Well, someone had to say it.

Reminds me of one of the Doctor books by Richard Gordon, when he asks for references and one says "Dr Gordon has worked for me for six months, during which time he has discharged his duties entirely to his own satisfaction".

Isn't it blasphemy to presume to have knowledge of what God finds an abomination?

I can't make out the one starting with a V under D.R.U.G.S. (column 1), the one above Fugitive in column 2, (it seems to start with an L so presumably that's Lorna Shore), the one under Judas Priest and the one under architects in column 4, and I'm not sure if there's a short word before Nino in column 3.

Aliexpress this time, but I feel it deserves an airing. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005455484199.html "Classic bass guitar, tasteless bass". Well, it is a Precision copy.

E - sand all the rest of the finish off and go natural.

Tagging would be great if everybody did it, or even if 50% of people did it. It's more like 5%. Auto-generation of tags would be brilliant but, I suspect, unlikely.

At the risk of provoking another series of allegations about elitism and snobbery, I'd be in favour of a split between 4-strings and 5+ strings. Alternatively, some means of categorising and filtering like Bass Direct/BassBros/Bass Gallery have on their websites - number of strings, fretted/fretless, brand, etc.

Maybe the CNC machines to make them are gold plated.

Hooks on the bottoms of pedals, loops on the board. I think that's the general way.

They produce rather nice guitars for the money. I have an electroacoustic classical, a 5-string fretless electroacoustic bass, and a (now discontinued, I think) Dullahan: which did need a neck shim to sort the action out but was otherwise great.

There's also the output impedance of the power amp to take into account. While it will be a fraction of an ohm, it still forms a potential divider with the speaker, and as the impedance of the speaker is halved by putting two in parallel, so the proportion of the voltage across the speakers relative to the output voltage is reduced correspondingly.

Evidently someone either splashed out or did a successful negotiation.

Well, I can tell you that among the lots was what was described as a Variax 700, but I knew it was a 500 and let them know, and they have adjusted the title accordingly. So I would think that if anyone could show it wasn't authentic, they'd put something to that effect in the description, although I have no idea how much checking they'd do into the genuineness of the item themselves.

The low B on my Kala U-Bass Sub 5 is fine - scale length 20.5 inches.

Despite a visit to Bass Direct today, I have emerged with my abstinence intact.

I've found fishing tackle bags useful for LED PAR cans and for a little handbag (wireless, short leads, MS-60B, A-B switch, capo, allen keys). Might be worth having a look in the fishing tackle section on Ebay.