tauzero

It looks like the jack socket ground isn't connected, but the black wire is going to the join between socket and control plate instead. If that's the case, I'd move the black wire from where it currently is and solder it to the jack socket terminal for the sleeve - the terminal on the left of the socket in your first photo.

No, my Lekato WS-90 is quite happy if I go walkabout with a few bags of dirty water (ie people) and a brick pillar intervening between Tx and Rx.

Oh, so you're not committed to the receiver being on the pedalboard powered by the pedalboard PSU? In that case, I can also suggest the Lekato WS-50 and WS-90. I use them both, the WS-90 is a bit bigger but has a longer battery life, a long enough reach to cope with Ibanez sockets, and you can also select which channel (of four) you want to use.

But what's the point in having a digital multiFX if you don't use the one thing that sets it aside from a pedalboard of analogue effects?

Although Brexit and the Windsor Framework have muddied these waters, so NI is both part of the UK and part of the EU. See the flag of the Duchy of Grand Fenwick for clarification.

Of the ones I have personal experience of, the Smoothhound and the Harley Benton Airborne Pro would meet your requirements (dongle transmitter, pedalboard resident receiver). The transmitter on the HB is somewhat bigger than that on the Smoothhound. The HB has an internal rechargeable battery that recharges from a cradle in the receiver (can also be recharged via USB) whereas the Smoothhound uses AAAs, and will happily use rechargeables.

"I know - we'll put the neck at that end and the body at that end!"

"Differently costed"? "Budget"?

Both were basses. Best was a Sei Jazz 5, the Basschat Bike - I think I'm the 10th owner. Worst (and this is most definitely a relative term) was a Cort GB5 Custom - I'd had a GB4 Custom which had a neck comparably as slender as an early Warwick Thumb, but the GB5 has a slightly thicker neck. Great bass, looks good, sounds good, balances well, but I wanted a slimmer neck, and so it got PXed for the Sei.

For open mic nights & rehearsals, a small fishing tackle bag which holds Lekato wireless, A-B box, Zoom MS-60B, spare batteries, Allen keys, capo, screwdriver with swappable ends, short jack-jack leads. For gigs, PA leads (XLR & IEC & mains extensions) in a suitcase with wheels and tablets, tablet holder, microphone, towel, spare T-shirt, USB charger in a Spada messenger bag.

Not that I'm in the market for one anyway, but Fender appear to have ignored 5-string players.

Ibanez EHB, Cort Space?

If I were ever to hit my head and find myself wanting a P, the amount of fakes would completely put me off as I wouldn't be confident of spotting a fake. However, in this case, wouldn't one expect to see a serial number somewhere if it was genuine - neckplate or headstock?

I've bought a couple of these, but to use in Variaxes which take 6xAA batteries when on open mic nights, so high consumption but short duration. I haven't yet assessed how long they last for. It would be a bit tricky adding a charging cable when there's a separate battery compartment as there wouldn't be room for the plug in the battery compartment, or for the socket in the lid, and generally the hole between control cavity and battery compartment would be too small to pass the plug through so that solution is also precluded. Single compartments (eg later Warwicks) would be more feasible. But if the battery lasts a few months, it's not exactly onerous to take it out for a recharge now and again.

24 this year (our first year of gigging, started a bit slowly and gathered momentum). Our ideal is 20-30 gigs per year.

Could at least have cleaned the fretboard.

In the policarbonate shed? A policarbonate shed yesterday.

What you can do for the large ones is find which posts each is in, then resize the photo, edit the post, delete the existing attachment, and substitute the new photo.

There's an awful lot of Americans who think otherwise. They also seem to have some sort of aversion to Hull.

Just the thing for playing in your super shed.

I have a lined fretless bass that I had to have the dots moved to where the fretlines were as I didn't get on with them between the lines (and I don't look at the fingerboard when playing). I also have an SRF705 fretless which has small edge markings for each fret position and dot markers between the edge markings. I get on with that fine. The assistant to the runner of the open mic I go to has a Squier bass which was originally fretless but which he had fretted, so the fret markers are at the frets, like the OP's. I've played it a few times and, like the OP, the dots rather confuse me.

Now @police squad has had the botox and fillers done, it would be a shame to waste it. 😁

Maybe the answer is for Fender to spin off a subsidiary called something else to produce properly innovative designs.

Don't worry about it.