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A guitarist that I knew was a leftie but learnt to play right-handed. For some reason, he got it into his head that this was wrong (not because he played badly, he was very good, it was just some sort of fixation). Anyway, he bought a leftie guitar and re-learnt the other way round, and he got equally good with either orientation. And, of course, there's always John Otway.

I like light strings and use Elites 40-100 or 40-125, but Warwick's Red Label are also pretty good and cheap.

You can get hole saws the right diameter, eg https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/355897211872. Easy to use, just make sure that you've got the wood suspended otherwise you'll put a hole in your workbench. Gives a snug fit, just put some epoxy glue round it to secure it.

But apparently Leo got it right first time... 😁

I was going to mention the 200MB and its successors, the MB150S (IIRC there was an MB150E too). I used one for bass guitar but I've seen them recommended for DB several times.

We don't do many gigs compared to some here, and don't do prestigious ones, just plain pub gigs, so I rarely bother to relate the experience. This was a bit different to the normal though. We had a rather last minute booking on Friday night at the Bridge In in Worcester - I think number 2 guitarist found the request on Tuesday and arranged it (after checking with us). He sent a rather panicked message to us saying he thought he'd blown it as he had two windows open on his computer and sent a message saying he was going to chase them as he hadn't had a reply and hoped they weren't screwing us, only he sent it to them and not to us. Anyroadup, they still booked us in. Apparently the pub had a reputation as somewhat rough, so I decided to take replaceable instruments. No car park so we parked on the double yellows outside to unload. Accosted by one elderly pissed up female who wanted to know what I did and was disappointed to find out I wasn't the drummer. Then a couple of the pub denizens offered to help carrying stuff in, so (slightly reluctantly) we gave them things to carry and everything was brought in. The pub has a section with a pool table in and the main bar, which have quite a big opening between them, and we were in the pool table bit. At the other end of the room was the gaffer doing a disco and karaoke and bingo (not simultaneously). Acoustics were rather dodgy but I just leave stuff set up the same everywhere and simply adjust monitor and FOH levels. Although it was, let us say, a somewhat rough-looking crowd, they were all really friendly and the music (assorted classic rock from late 60s to early part of this century) went down well. It was a rather strange hybrid evening, disco going when we did the load in and setting up, then some karaoke, then some bingo, then our first half, a tad more disco and bingo, and our second half. The only minor glitch (other than the normal getting lost somewhere in songs which we always managed to recover from) was that (a) I'd forgotten my Helix and the Lekato WS70 but that's more for my desire to have certain sounds than being essential, (b) though I checked the batteries on my backup Zoom MS60B that I always carry, they ran out partway through the first set, and (c) I'd only got a switched jack lead with me to run from the effects to the amp and it packed up when the batteries ran flat so I finished up with the backup Lekato WS50 wireless plugged straight in to the amp. And they want us back.

Stand it on end.

Switchable.

And there's a hyperbass flute too, which looks more like a climbing frame.

If you're using a Boss WL-20 wireless, it needs ground to sleeve and battery to ring. That's about the only time that it matters. https://www.boss.info/uk/support/by_product/wl-20_wl-20l/support_documents/cf786345-1dd0-46c3-a2ac-350bfb4a8104/

Could you use something like a 12mm or so socket, or a short length (2cm or so) of pipe, something that will accommodate the top of the bush, put the screw through it, and pull the bush out with the screw? No risk of going through the body that way. Something to consider the next time you do one of these... 😁

@Boodang's Sei Flamboyant headless fretless 5.

That was when Andre Previn played John Cage's 4' 33", and stayed on for a 2' 27" encore.

At least it doesn't seem to have affected your typing. You're going to have to wait and see what emerges - too early to know what the effect will be. You may have the good fortune to make a recovery (fingers crossed, if that's not in bad taste). If not, you've either got to not use it or find some means of ameliorating the situation - possibly some sort of thimble to fit over it. You could use the interim period with experimenting with not using it. Best of luck anyway.

Is anything here of use? https://www.steinberger.com/Steinberger-User-Manual-and-Documentation-Archive.html

Don't fret about it.

If you'd been somewhere in the Midlands I could have put you in touch with our guitarist, who helps out with dog rescues. Still, back to the bass. When you say a finger grinder, do you mean a power file, like as they will remove aluminium but not very quickly. I've used mine to square up holes in diecast boxes like below, but needed a drill and a dremel clone of much cheapness to make the initial hole.

The original post (OP) was @alyctes speculating that the image in an Ebay auction was AI generated, and it was that image I was referring to.

And the seller has 806 items for sale, the images for the item in the OP have really good detail, and there seems no reason whatsoever to generate an image of a fretless neck using AI.

D and E - it's a 3-string bass at the bridge and a 5-string (with no way of tuning the A string) at the nut.

I'd be inclined to use a liquid penetrating oil rather than a spray one like WD-40, as it's so close to the fretboard. The humble 3 in 1 is a penetrating oil that may do the job, and if that fails, you could move up to PlusGas liquid. Ideally, take the neck off. Mask off the fretboard and, if you can, form a dam around the spoke wheel.

It looks like there's a part that slides down to lock the strap onto the button - similar general concept to the D'Addario ones but a different approach. I've also got one of the Planet Waves ones, works well but I find it a bit fiddly compared to the Schallers that I have on almost everything.

I have noticed this in the Ebay and the Build Diary subforums. With two or three unread topics, I read the earliest unread and when I return to the thread list, all the unread threads are marked read. This has happened two or three times.

On shim thickness:

It's like the tan someone gets if they fall asleep reading and the book finishes up covering their stomach.