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I've got a feeling that I had one of those knocking about in the garage a while ago, and I chucked it. Looks like something from the Audition range - I had the semiacoustic one a very long time ago.

A shame it was already routed at the front, rear routing would have concealed those wires. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/364041779794 The strings seem a bit oddly spaced at the nut.

Originally intended to open very small bottles of beer?

I made one.

I think I could have coped with that until I saw the top horn, which reverses the dildo trend and goes for the "flaccid and just emerging from a very cold sea" look.

Cabaret is less obviously Irish though.

Sei Flamboyant or Original. Or an Ibanez EHB, maybe the multiscale.

You can get cranked ones for that. Can be found in the more specialist pages of the Ann Summers catalogue.

Headless basses are a thing of beauty. All headstocks are dreadful.

If they were exactly the same height, you'd just need a solid male-male thingie to connect them. See an Ann Summers catalogue for examples. Or, indeed, Ebay:

For use in setups, maybe live, but not a pedal - Korg GA Custom, another strobe tuner which is rather considerably cheaper than a Peterson.

A capo is an almost indispensable device to help with setup. A set of feeler gauges will also help. Put the capo at the first fret and then push the E string down around the neck pickup, ie. beyond the last fret. Then check the height of the string at the 7th fret. Depending on your feeler gauges, it should be somewhere round 8-14 thou if you're primitive, or .2 to .35mm if you're using proper units. If it's a lot bigger, slacken tighten the truss rod. You can probably guess what to do if it's a lot smaller. Leave it all to settle. Look along the neck and see if you've got a pretty uniform curve.

If you happen to come anywhere near Tamworth any time, you're welcome to the pink ukulele that someone gave me a few years ago.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/325432077499 Decent photos too. I'm vaguely tempted, although it might result in my premature demise.

Looking at that AliExpress link, I spotted this old friend in the "Recommended for you" column on the right: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001826130302.html

What I like is that, unfettered by convention, he's put 75% of the tuners pointing down (for some values of "down") instead of the far more boring up. The long heel gives additional strength while the short unmatched neck pocket keeps flexibility for pickup positioning. And the bridge is so obviously a product of thinking outside the box, or, indeed, the body. And Steve Wishnevsky will be envious of those skills that meant his tools only slipped a couple of times.

I've been singing for 50 years, including being lead vocalist with one band for a while, and no, I can't sing beyond a few slightly dodgy backing vocals. I was, however, gigging standard with a bass in a month or two.

Ibanez do that for at least some of their basses on the published specs. What's on my wee certificate is confidential between me and my GP.

But what can the cat use as a scratching post then?

Warwicks have that, and it's fine as long as you and all the preceding owners are reasonably careful, but the clips can break and getting replacements then isn't always easy. I'd vote for magnets.

@Ashdown Engineering - revive the brilliant graphic preamp from the Superfly/Superduperfly and make it a stand-alone pedal. All bass manufacturers - make more headless basses. As evidence that this is required, see the endless whingeing on the previous five pages about headstocks.

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