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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.

I sold my BF BB2 recently as I was going even more lightweight, but I was happily using that with a 5-string and a Tecamp Puma 900, which I think is the same as the Eich 900. Plenty of volume, good sound (as you will realise from your own BF experience), and a second-hand one should be in budget.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgaria_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest You'd better move to the Orient, Africa, or the Americas, they seem fairly safe.

Second-hand Tecamp Puma 500 or 900.

I know what you mean. I play only what self-identify as notes on the fretless.

There is indeed an Android Wifi analyser which I use, called Wifi Analyzer. There's another two as well and it look like I use the worst scoring one (it was the only one when I installed it years ago).

Presumably the screw/bolt [1] ends rotate freely in the string end holders but are fixed so they can't move forwards or back, and the holes in the carrier are threaded, so the blocks will move backwards and forwards but the ends of the screws won't go into the holes that hold the string ends. [1] Please $DEITY let us not have a repeat of the screw/bolt debate

I don't see the problem. Ivory comes from critically endangered elephants, bone for nuts comes from anything with a big enough internal skeleton - generally cows (not currently endangered), so maybe it would be an issue in Hindu countries.

I've just watched this - it's an interesting build, finishing up with an intriguing and quite attractive (except it's not headless), not to mention good sounding, instrument. It seems a bit on the thick side at 2.5"/6.2cm, so probably a bit heavy. I would guess at a P-width but J-depth neck, from what I could see of it and the male bassist who was playing it at the end (and seemed genuinely impressed).

So presumably as you have a 5-string, you don't have a problem with needing drop tuning? Just sell the 4-strings and go to 5-string for everything.

Conventionally, the dots on unlined are on the fret positions and the dots on lined are between the unfrets. I had my Sei lined fretless re-dotted so the dots are on the unfrets.

Coincidentally, that's also the weight (if you're using medieval measurements).