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Oh I know, pictures or it didn't happen.

Well, yesterday to be strictly accurate. Went down to visit @lowregisterhead and have a little chat and a try of the instrument in question, then headed home. It's got a neck which I immediately got on with - I'm not sure what the best description of the profile is, if I say "oil tanker hull" then people may get the idea. Fan frets are fine, this is the first I've owned but I have played them in the past and knew they wouldn't be an issue. I'm a fan of headless basses too. This particular one has been updated with Aguilar pickups. The demos I've heard with the original Bartolinis didn't seem as clear and crisp as the Aguilars do. The annoying bloke with the lobster hand did the same upgrade on the base model EHB1005 which was a noticeable improvement. The preamp is very flexible with not just stacked bass and treble but also mid cut/boost and mid sweep, and playing with that showed it to be very effective. All in all, a very impressive instrument. Thanks to Dave for the hospitality and the bass.

There's 5-string Seis coming up now and again, both the Original/Flamboyant and the Jazz style. Well worth looking at.

That's it, it's curtains for you.

It's a bit irritating that they don't give an idea of the weight of whatever they'll be building. I assume it'll be heavier than CF but lighter than wood, but I could be wildly wrong.

Another Variax bass would be nice. I currently have a Variax 300, JTV59, 700 acoustic, and 705 bass. I'm sure there's more that Line 6 could do in the Variax line...

Line 6 Variax bass (second-hand). Models vintage Jazz, modern Jazz, Precision, Stingray, Flea bass, Rickenbacker, Danelectro, Hofner violin bass, Gibson Thunderbird & EB-2D, MTD 535, Warwick Thumb, Alembic, Steinberger, Hagstrom 8-string, Hamer 12-string, a couple of acoustics and a couple of synths.

Make bogroll with it. https://uk.whogivesacrap.org/ Very nice it is too.

What is the objective, and what is the issue that you are looking to correct?

B3n has more computing power, so you can have more effects in a chain. It also has a different way of patch switching so you don't have to do a tapdance to switch it and get back to stompbox mode. The B3 has an XLR out, the B3n just has two mono jacks. They're the same width but the B3n is a little taller and thicker.

Using a small angle grinder or a Dremel, take most of the length off the toggle, leaving just enough to be able to use a screwdriver or similar to operate the switch.

It's a bit different to a truss rod as the truss rod acts along its whole length to provide a bending pressure (forwards or backwards for a dual-action one), whereas this is more akin to a bowstring, which only provides a bending tension at each end of its run.

That reminds me, must start using my H2n at rehearsals with the new band...

He seems to have had Hendrix in his head but not his fingers.

I found this https://sawview.com/what-is-pva-glue/ which says it takes 24 hours to dry perfectly.

I'll be very interested to see how this turns out as I have a Hohner cricket bat with a bit of chipping around the bridge end corners. The fix that was mentioned to me (but I can't remember who by) was superglue and colouring, I think the PVA looks a good way to go.

Well, you do have to look for "chalkboard paint". Mind you, our blackboards at school (55 years ago) were green.

Just ha a quick go with three fingers. I've got hands which are a little larger than Donald Trump's but not that large - motorcycle gloves can be problematic, the width of my hand means I need to take a large as I can't get my hand into a medium but the fingers tend to be a little long on the large. Most things I tried just needed a small movement of the left hand, "Sunshine of your love" was easier with revised fingering so I wasn't going from fret 5 to fret 8 but to fret 3 on the next string.

Don't be silly, there's still floor space surely?

Is that the Woodies hanger, and is there a bracket on each of the three strap pegs? I've got eight headed basses hanging up but no way to hold the headlesseseses. Incidentally, three of the hanging ones are Warwick Thumbs, one of them being a 5, so Hercules hangers pass the strength test. Dammit, should have read to the end...

Although part 3 of the Hawaiian guitar build features something similar and can be found in https://vintage-radio.net/forum/showthread.php?t=80378.

You're certainly embracing the DIY ethos for your basses. You could have a look at https://www.electricherald.com/pickup-winding-guide-part-i-approach/. I'm sure I've seen something about DIY pickups that was a practical guide but I can't remember where (although ISTR it was quite frustrating due to the tendency to break the wire). If you happen to have a few 45 year old copies of Everyday Electronics hanging around, there was a DIY guitar in that for which there were directions on winding the pickups (which were incredibly low impedance). Aha, this Usenet thread points the way: https://groups.google.com/g/uk.d-i-y/c/wvkqLMGZ1Ow?pli=1 except that the articles on vintage-radio.net aren't there.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/324706979045 ? Or is the threaded part too short?

"Bass players have always been more open than six-string players." Bwahahahahahahahaha. "I've gone back to a P", "You can't beat a P with flats", "All you need is a P". 50% of bass players are more open than six-string players, the others are far less.

I've sold both of mine (a One10 and a BB2) but that's not because I was unhappy with them. I found the One10 couldn't get up to the volume I needed to gig (and I wasn't competing with anything really loud) and didn't have any other use for it after the band I was using it for in rehearsals went to headphones, and although the BB2 is pretty light, I went even lighter with a GR Bass combo.