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"both necks are straight /no truss rods fitted" - translates to "Both necks are straight until you get it finished and put some strings on".

Oh good, a YOB bass for me. I think I may be able to resist.

If Jaco was alive, he'd be turning in his grave.

Peavey Cirrus 5 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266086577602 Nice all-caps description, ending "THE GUITAR HASN’T BEEN USED IN ABOUT A YEAR AND NEEDS TUNING.".

The slivers of paint may be re-attachable with a drop of glue. Better check whether you get on with it first. If you keep it and decide to refinish it, it looks as if the old finish will just chip off, which would be handy.

I find the mandolin a bit cramped on my left hand - I got an Irish bouzouki which is more comfortable, tuned to GDAE rather than GDAD.

Experimenting with the Dwarf and Duo is something on my to-do list, after some other projects are completed.

No, decided I'd got enough half-finished projects and fretless 5s.

My own fairly pointy instrument: Warwick 5-string Buzzard (the headstock is the normal Warwick paddle). Now gone but it was good fun and balanced well despite that short top horn.

Refin. That would halve the value.

I had a Rosetti Bass 7 - my first bass. From my experience of that, I'd say that the body and the electrics deserve each other.

Most of these are Precisions with a beak though.

I'm just not going to change the strings on mine. Ever. The Ibanez EHB1265MS comes with D'Addario EXL170-5SL on it - £38 from Thomann. The standard length strings are £33. Measuring up the B string on the Ibanez, it's about 37" from the ball end to where the taper is. That seems to be the same distance as ball end to silk on the Elites on a headed Warwick Thumb. So a standard set of Elites may fit on the Ibanez. I'll check it out when I next do a string change on one of the others.

So the battery can be attached at either end of the strip?

The Smooth Hound is fine, but one thing that niggles me is the choice of a centre-positive power supply. Would it really have been so difficult to go centre-negative like every[1] other pedal? [1] Hyperbole, before the pedants[2] charge in [2] Like me

Brian May doesn't play his signature bass. Or his signature guitar either, come to that. U2 have to play sets at least two hours long so Adam Clayton can play all his signature basses.

When they first came out, they were generally referred to as droopy headstocks. If there's no point on the body, it's pointless.

"And if you don't sort out this fret wear issue, it's the garotte for you".

FTFY.

Maybe, but the alternative is 2-strokes.

I've made the comparison between Fender and Harley for many years. Both produce variants on products originally introduced decades before, making occasional forays into new areas which peter out after a while, as their adherents stick rigidly to the antiquated designs rather than embracing any sort of progress.

Most of the bands I've been in have been democracies, though they do tend to have members who will tend to lead and others who will tend to follow. I think I've only been in two bands with self-appointed leaders. No problems with playing what I wanted to play but there was a degree of personal friction with one (who sacked me) and the most recent one I decided I'd had enough of supplying the PA (mutually agreed separation). I prefer the democratic model as long as there aren't any rogue members - with one band, the guitarist simply didn't learn any songs that he didn't particularly fancy doing, even though they'd been agreed. Plus there should be a limited ability to veto a song. I don't really want to play "All Right Now" but the others do, so I simply refuse to play during the verse.

You can get one with an oscilloscope included for fifty quid. https://manuals.plus/fnds/dso-tc2-oscilloscope-transistor-tester-manual