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Note to self: don't leave Tuffcab sitting in the pot for three years waiting to b applied. Still mostly liquid but some bits have turned semi-hard. Basically, I got as far as assembling the cab but didn't get round to rounding off the edges, then other things got in the way, and then Covid and no gigs, and then I got a really lightweight combo... So I finally decided that I should get it done, and now it's sitting outside with its bottom Tuffcabbed and the first coat on for the rest of it. And I'll soon be able to get rid of the cardboard box with the woofer in and the other cardboard box with all the other bits in which are sitting on the coffee table, so I can find something else to put on the coffee table and annoy Mrs Zero.

A quick look at sold Thunder IIIs shows a couple (one fretted and one fretless) going for about £300 and one fretless going for £1000. Insanity.

Any Alan in particular?

I've decided to give https://www.pedalpcb.com/product/pcb553/ a shot. More news when it arrives.

14 years, eh? And I only had 9 basses back then. More than double that now.

Nice, except for the pointless headstock which it costs 350 euros for them to cut off and which you get lumbered with if you have a 4 or a 5.

I made one. Bastard thing doesn't work and I haven't had much help from the designer.

I did also regret that despite the rather meh tone I got from it, I still bought another TE amp (not a combo this time) after selling it.

While generally I go with the learning experience aspect, there was one piece of gear I regretted buying. It was a Trace Elliot 4x10 combo. As is the case with all TE gear, it was made of depleted uranium, and the first gig I played with it was at a social club up two flights of stairs with no lift.

I found it, in a thread in that forum about what the answer to the captcha is, and for anyone who'd like to know, it's "low b". Mind you, from going through that thread, I'm not sure that it's that great a forum...

Just thought I'd register on there and I'm buggered if I can work out the answer to the Captcha question, "Our guitars are frequently tuned in...". I've tried the obvious, B standard, B, E, BEADGBE, Drop D, Drop A, and I haven't a bloody clue what the answer is. Can anyone tell me?

It could be that something in the environment became more electrically noisy - fluorescent light, fridge, dishwasher - there's quite a lot of stuff that can create interference.

Almost invariably, the dots are where the frets would be (3, 5, 7, etc) for unlined instruments and where the fretted dots are for lined ones. So any unlined one should meet that criterion.

Perhaps you should have defined that when you started the thread.

Because Leo.

This looks like a case of buyer's remorse:

"after being in store for fifty-four years his widow has decided it is time for his guitar to be sold". Why was his widow being kept in storage?

I can see Mrs Zero telling me to bring down 90% of what I own. If I remember to bring it all: Korg AX1500G guitar multieffects Korg AX3000G bass multieffects Tascam US428 USB recording interface & DAW control surface Tascam 788 recorder and HP SCSI CD burner Tascam FW-1082 firewire recording interface & DAW control surface and a couple of TC Helicon effects units

Overrated: Trace Elliot amps - meh sound in a depleted uranium casing. Spector basses - unpleasant necks.

I've got a WAV-4 that doesn't get used much, and I find the profusion of dots confusing. I've had assorted other EUBs (BSX, Palatino, Ergo) and they've all gone with the 3, 5, 7 dots.

Hayman used the same system at around the same time. Much better than taking the neck off to adjust it.

U OK hun?

An old friend of mine, known as Edward Ian Armchair, was fronting a band at a local gig soon after his father had died. He was rather disgruntled at the fact his dad's ashes had been sent back to him in a plastic urn, and held it aloft, complaining about it. Another couple of friends had a contact who had moved from the Tamworth Herald to the Sun's showbiz pages, and they rather overhyped the story, so it appeared in the Sun as Eddie having thrown his father's ashes over screaming girls in the audience. Incidentally, Eddie (aka Kevin Knowles) was on TV a little while back, in Joe Lycett - Summer Exhibitionist, with his array of creepy plastic dolls.

My band has only done three or four gigs so far, so I have yet to fully train them, but at least they're eager to learn and to help. I've just got two monitors and two mains for a vocals-only PA (one main and two backing), orange leads for FOH (XLR-XLR) and green leads for monitors (TRS jack-XLR), but I must get round to telling them that for each I have one lead longer than the other (so the XR12 can go one side or the other of the stage without miles of surplus cable). I've also got to get the vocalist to put the speaker stands up right (he keeps pulling them through so the bottom of the pole is above the inner strut pivot points). Still, everyone is good at helping load and unload.

My preference on an unlined board is dots at fret positions 3, 5, etc. I have three two unlined fretlesses like that and one lined fretless that I had the in-between dots removed and markers put in at the fret positions instead. Added: I also have one unlined fretless with little position markers at the fret positions and dots where they'd be on a fretted bass. I prefer it without the little markers and with the dots on fret positions 3, 5, etc.