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It's marginal but needs the strings to be aligned correctly to the pickup. Just slightly out and they'll go off the pickup. So the not-quite-wide-enough pickup has helped to highlight the fault with the string/bridge/neck alignment.

Truss rod adjustment by taking the neck off is a dreadful idea - I don't know why Fender kept it going into the 70s, let alone to the present day. If they were desperate to have the adjustment at the heel, they could have done it with a wheel with holes in, like they have on another model just to prove it can be done.

He quite liked one of the basses that I've got - in fact, he suggested the mod that the owner before the owner before me had done to it, and liked it more then.

The E string is also very close to the edge of the fretboard, the G string isn't. Putting the E string into the right place would bring it over the pickup, so it's either the bridge in the wrong place or the neck is on the wonk.

Very art deco. If the 30s had had electric guitars, this would have been one of them. The exact reverse of being ahead of its time.

Master of some.

I didn't say they'd got a commitment to an artist but that someone buying a CD has to decide which to buy, which isn't quite the same thing. There's no metric, everybody who decides to book you or come to one of your gigs or buy your CD or sign you up to a record label has judged the competition for themselves and decided you are one of the winners.

Your pointer is on the wrong side of the knob. If it points vertically up at the mid-point, clockwise goes P-wards and anti-clockwise goes J-wards. If it points down, you'll get what you see.

I would expect clockwise to put more P pickup through - if it had a pointer knob with the pointer towards you, you'd see the pointer pointing more at the P pickup as you turn the knob clockwise.

I know the feeling - I've tried Spectors a few times (four and five strings) but never got on with the neck. At least Spector necks seem fairly consistent over the years, Warwicks have had several different neck profiles in the last four decades.

If there are any other bands who could play the gigs that you do, you have competed with them to get those gigs. You may not view it that way, but it's what's happened.

The great Protestant movement of the 16th century was led by those who wanted the Bible written in tab.

Presumably Boss also sold power supplies that were centre negative, which nobody else did for a while - that would have helped their profits. OTOH, it is more expensive to use a centre-negative jack in a pedal, because you have to insulate the jack from the pedal body, so I'm surprised the bean-counters didn't point that out.

Everything got rather put on one side for a while but I've removed the screws, filled the holes, and I've just been sanding everything down and rounding the corners over somewhat. I have just bought a palm router (for anyone who's looking for one, the highly recommended Makita is available from Alan Wadkins for £60 plus postage - https://www.alanwadkinstoolstore.co.uk/power-tools-c17/routers-c22/makita-rt0700cx4-router-trimmer-110v-or-240v-p24171) but I want to practice with it before destroying any painstakingly constructed object so the rest of the rounding will also be by hand. A bit of sanding of filler required round the battens on the back too.

Out looking for gigs? Competition - you and many other bands are competing for the chance to gig somewhere. Playing a gig? Competition for at least two reasons - competing with the bands that played last week and will play next week so you'll get more gigs there, and competing with any other attractions that night (including people staying at home to watch Jools Holland). Doing a recording to sell? Competition - people don't have unlimited resources so they've got to decide which CDs or MP3s they want to buy. Doing a recording to send off as a demo? Competition - lots of other bands are too.

Alain Caron. Jaco only needed four strings.

Just planning the restring for my 4-string Thumbs: I think that's quite pleasing.

And it's gone, so someone got a good buy. Nice basses - the neck on the 5-string is a bit on the chunky side but the 4-string is fine. I like the Hohner headlesses enough to have a B2AV as a backup bass - takes up very little room, doesn't need a stand, makes a pretty good noise and reasonably playable.

How twisted is the neck? The headstock looks as if it's at 90 degrees to the camera, the body doesn't.

At this point you will be advised to get a Zoom MS-60B and get rid of at least two pedals.

SMIDSY. I nearly managed to get that Jayne Middlemiss on the back of my bike.

If it's right at the front, it means it's getting rid of the subsonics before they hit the compressor and potentially push it into compressing when it shouldn't. For effects further down the chain, it prevents them getting driven into clipping by the subsonics.

And also swap the compressor out for the MS60B, so you've got two free slots.

So he set the bar low then. 😁😁

Looking at their Ebay store, they have one with more advanced Guyker-like tuners (for three times the price), but most of them have the same setup as mine has. A couple have more sophisticated bridges, one with a BBOT, another with individual bridge pieces. It looks quite a feasible upgrade but it all seems to work OK as it is. The extra leverage of the allen key and the fact that (like most headlesses) it's a screw thread rather than a worm gear means that it is the easiest and most accurate tuning of any bass, headed or headless, that I've used.