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In English, 8/64" = 3.175mm, 7/64" = 2.778mm, 6/64" = 2.38mm. CBA with these ludicrous foreign measurements.

Possibly not very legal. And they look very very vulnerable, with being so long and rigid - there are some things for which this would be a Good Thing, but a wireless bug that appears to have taken Viagra seems destined to have quite a short life.

Just to add - the switch on the return is actually one bent bit of metal in the jack socket resting on another bent bit of metal in the jack socket. When a plug is inserted, the top BBOM is lifted off the bottom one and the circuit broken. The surfaces that touch each other will gradually oxidise and eventually break the circuit. Inserting a plug will disturb the contact patch enough to start things going again but if you can easily get into the amp then contact cleaner on the return jack is the best way to go.

Not even strings?

I just lifted my Jamstik off the stand (it was hidden behind something else) and the reason for the familiarity of that flourish round the strap button becomes clear. I'd done some research when I first got this, and it's based on an Asmuse Leaf. However, although they make basses, they're all headless, which is a Good Thing in some ways but doesn't help with an ID on the subject at hand.

My mistake, I've just never used it.

At the going down of the sun we will remember it.

Not novation, Ovation. There's more of the six-string ones floating around (as @Mykesbass says, the Breadwinner), can't remember ever seeing a bass one before. The seller really doesn't deserve to get much for it, using the AnotveryI description rather than writing one him/herself, which could include words like "rare" and "almost unique", and perhaps L@@K in the auction title like every truly informed seller does.

I've known managers to take the diary with them too. Last time was a long time ago, can't remember if we actually turned up and found we were double booked with the replacement manager's selection of band or whether we found it out before turning up.

I take it you don't want to just swap the necks?

On the battery life front, as an experiment I didn't recharge my Lekato WS-90 after doing the last gig (2.5 hours left switched on), and since then they've done three open mic nights (2 hours left switched on every time) and managed an hour of rehearsal before the transmitter threw up its little hands. About 9.5 hours then.

Mine was fine - I did buy it from PMT Birmingham and they did have an in-house guitar tech so it's possible it had been adjusted.

"Cut the kids" was right, it's an emo band.

Do you buy Xmas gifts for all your musical equipment?

An app (and website) that I discovered recently when tracking something from AliExpress has proved extremely useful for, well, everything. 17Track (https://www.17track.net/en) takes tracking numbers from hundreds of different courier companies, including Royal Mail, Evri, Yodel, DPD, DHL, etc and provides the tracking information for them. It does autodetection of the carrier from the tracking number format, which is almost always successful. It means you can have all your incoming items tracked in one place rather than going from app to app. As I sometimes have half a dozen things coming, it's very handy.

Tube/microphone emulation with clean tone. It's been a very long time since I used mine, must have another play with it. See https://mediadl.musictribe.com/media/PLM/data/docs/P0293/M_BE_0709-AAK_ADI21_WW.pdf

I've had a Crafter DE6 for nearly 20 years - I tried it out in PMT and it compared favourably with guitars three or four times its price.

I've definitely seen that flourish around the rear strap button before - probably AliExpress as I do go roaming there fairly often.

Do you still have the CNC machine? That would be another way of cutting out a pickguard. Despite angle grinders being my favourite tool, I don't think they'd be ideally suited to the task.

It just needs that extra P pickup, then change those three volume controls to three blends - neck P/neck J, bridge P/bridge J, then blend between the neck blend and the bridge blend. No, of course I'm not going to do it. It's a 4-string.

Can you replace the print head with a laser? Or get a tame shark with a frickin' laser beam on its head, of course.

Or go for something 10% of the price that does just as well. Or go somewhere in the middle. I haven't noticed any difference in my wirelesses (Lekato WS-50, Lekato WS-90, Line 6 G50, Smoothhound, Harley Benton AirBorne Pro 5.8GHz).

I had a 2000 Warwick Thumb reprofiled to 1987 JD Thumb dimensions, which was a vast improvement. I suppose it's going to be the question of whether to keep it (almost) original or whether to improve it as a working instrument.

The fact that it's truly unusable hasn't stopped me using it a few times. I do normally use an external router. I did get caught out moving from an XR12 to an XR18 as there's a USB socket that can be used to power the router on the XR12 which isn't there on the XR18.

Neither the Harley Benton, the Line 6 G50, nor the Smoothhound have built in tuners. Power requirements are rather less than that, mine all happily run off 100mA outlets. The Smoothhound is slightly awkward as it's reverse polarity but that's not a huge hurdle. The HB is 5.8GHz and, as previously mentioned, will charge the transmitter off the cradle on the receiver (which is on top rather than on the side). The others are 2.4GHz and the transmitters run off batteries - rechargeables can be used.