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"Hello police, this is FMIC. Someone has raided the dumpsters that we were using to carefully store our newly acquired inventory and made off with lots of stuff".

Same as you, when I was working in the office I took lunch in with me, and a copy of Private Eye, so I didn't buy anything form a newsagent either. The I was WFH from the start of lockdown until I retired at the end of 2022. It saves companies money because they can get shot of their offices, and saves employees money because they no longer have to pay to commute. So that means more available money to spend in other ways than on petrol, and for companies the possibility of either better pay rises or other investment.

Procell. If the clip is loose, it can be gently squeezed with a pair of pliers to make it tighter.

If you can hold out till December, Gardiner Houlgate have a left-handed Wal Mk 3 five-string with both fretted and fretless necks in their next auction - https://www.guitar-auctions.co.uk/sale/249/161/1989-Wal-Mark-3-frettedfretless-lefthanded-bass-guitar-made-in-England. That give you time to save up.

It's also not a standard scratchplate and the routing on the OLP bodies is just massive trenches (shame, a clear scratchplate would be nice otherwise) so the previous owner might just have decided to relocate the controls. Although I would associate a diamond layout more with a two-pickup bass.

If you've got an airing cupboard, put the heads in there to help them dry out. Might be worth doing a bit of a strip down to the soldering station to see what's happened in there.

I had one - it couldn't keep up with a quite quiet band which didn't have a drummer, just a cajon.

I'm halfway to making a circular saw sled inspired by @Bill Fitzmaurice's sled as outlined in his subwoofer plans - I've screwed a length of batten the same length as the width of the ply sheet to the end of the ply sheet. Next stage, when I've got a decent blade for my (t)rusty Black & Decker [1][2], is to cut across the sheet with the batten as a guide, and then all I have to do is put the edge of the sled along the line I want to cut and it will cut along it. That's the plan, anyway. [1] Whose sister Carol did such a magnificent job of singing for T'Pau [2] That should double its value

The finish is lovely. Or at least it is on mine. Photoflame? Seems to be quilted maple according to every description I've found. Neck is chunkier than I like, but it would be a good donor body for a graphite neck. Just deciding whether to order one off @Kiwi.

Mine are both fabric backed over the neoprene so no more grippy than the average strap. Can't answer for the squeaky end tag, mine are all Schaller straplock equipped and don't make any nasty noises. I have one each of the ones above, no problems.

Electronics or pickup issue then. You could try connecting the pickup(s) direct to the jack socket and see what happens to the volume.

That has just reawakened my PTSD.

Could be the pickup height.

Funnily enough, a 10cc lyric popped into my head half an hour ago, and I realised where Trump had got the idea for the White House ballroom from. The very first line of the song...

If it's making the right noise at the moment and your only concern is removing the push/pull, I'd just go with the values of whatever is currently in there.

Decide which capacitor gives you the tone range you want and swap in a pot of the same value and the capacitor, which would be wired up the same way as a P.

Should really go into "acrimonious band break-ups".

GR Bass AT800 Cube, 9.5kg. Must put mine up for sale.

Tried the PiPedal on a Pi 5 with a Hifiberry DAC+ but it didn't want to know - not sure why, as I did the correct config amendments and it shows up in aplay. However, from the discussion forum it looks like USB interfaces are the recommended way forward, so I've decided not to waste any more of my life on that - it'll get put to other purposes. I've got a Presonus Studio 24c incoming to play with so I don't have to start unwiring the other USB interfaces I have littering the house. More news next week sometime.

That's exactly the reason I sold mine, many years ago - I was used to the weight of a Thumb and there was this featherweight thing, great to play but felt so insubstantial. I'd rather like a 5-string now, decades later.

Ditto. Tell them you have commitments with your new band.

At the moment, the simultaneous best and worst is a Shuker Uberhorn 5 fretless - beautiful bass with an unplayably high action, bought at long range in a Gardiner Houlgate auction. The problem with the action is due to a mullered truss rod, so it is currently with Jon for a complete rebuild and conversion to 34" scale from 35".

I'm sure that the original NTB 4 BXP, with the scooped lower horn, was 34" scale. I remember looking at the specs at the time and noticing the difference in scale length (something that stuck in my head). There's also a Talkbass thread (that I can't link to) with a couple of people who own scoop-fronted Grind BXP 4s which are 34".

I think that 4-string NT Peaveys are generally 34" while 5 and 6-strings are 35", although the predecessor to the Cirrus, the Zephyr (or C5) had a 34" 5-string neck.