tauzero

My fretted mid-70s P got a diMarzio (I'm currently trying to sell the original pickup) and there's a rout under the scratchplate where I put an active EQ and battery, which I subsequently removed. I also hacked the scratchplate around and removed the remnants of the rather battered sunburst finish. I part-exchanged it in 1988 - I occasionally wonder what happened to it. It wasn't unusual for mods to get done to them, like J bass bridge pickups. Nowadays it seems that doing anything like that is regarded as sacrilege - even a decent refin so it doesn't look like it got towed to every gig (why are Fender finishes so fragile?) is regarded as an evil deed.

Maybe you had the good taste not to slap.

TBF, it didn't say whether the chainsaw was running.

Ditto - conversely, when Mrs Zero the first and I went to see Paul Simon on the Graceland tour, Mrs Zero[0] was told to sit down despite her being 4'11.5" and us being at the back of our seating block so she couldn't see a bloody thing.

As others have said, work on the other arm in the meantime. It's not going to be load bearing for a few weeks but if you can get yourself into a position which a) isn't painful and b) involves a bass being in a playable position, you can at least do something. If you can realistically only use one arm then it depends which arm - if it's your fretting arm then practice fretting (I've seen a bassist whose right arm was useless due to a stroke, but he played very well with just his left hand) and if it's your picking hand then practice all picking forms - two fingers, plectrum, three fingers, classical guitar style.

There you go, you're working up to it. Now watch a couple of episodes of "Mrs Brown's Boys", and if you're not comatose with laughter after that, watch Spinal Tap II again and you'll appreciate it all the more.

Hadn't realised it had been so long... Tuesday night there was a triffic bunch (I'm not very good at classification of this genre, bluegrass or C&W) at the Cavern. Three part vocal harmonies, guitar, bass, fiddle, banjo (in decreasing order of importance). Thursday night was the Crown at Shard End, which is a club not a pub so finishes at midnight. I appear to have become the house bassist there - the resident Orange amp is a heap of shite so I'll be taking my own along next time. It's always a relief, when Mrs Zero can't make it, if somebody else is worse at vocals than me, and there were two vying for that crown at the start of the night. Things looked up from then though.

I left one band because the guitarist was shagging the singer, and the guitarist's wife would ring me asking where he was. I didn't want to either drop him in it or lie to her, so I left.

FTFY.

The Bass Bros website filters still don't work (I have reported that to them), while the Bass Direct website has functioning filters (including a fretted/fretless which BB lacks). I can't understand why anybody would find the Bass Direct website hard to use. The only issue with BD is that after the first search, all the items shown will only click through to the item itself if you click on the item title, not the item picture.

I shall have to get an inlay saying "HERE BE DRAGONS" on the 26th fret of my Thumb, and somewhere close to the 30th unfret on my Ibanez SRF705.

You'll want to put the orifice for the input sockets on the cab below where the head would come to, in anticipation of future developments.

Surely you'll just 3D print a sleeve for it and screw it to the back?

Ibanez did this quite a few years ago with the original Promethean, and the GR Bass Cube combos are the same idea. You'd need to stretch the side panels back a bit to accommodate the Elf and leave the rear panel reasonably exposed for the mains and speaker leads.

The blend control just made it quieter, so cab it is. I've got the materials in, just need to start making sawdust which means I need a spell of good weather.

I thought it was excellent. It would be hard to match the original, but it was a good shot at it. And the drummer was excellent, technically good and with a great ear for the music.

I wanted to make sure it was them and not me before doing that.

That's the "special" part of "special discount".

I was just having a little look at the Bass Bros website and the filters seem to have stopped working. Tried with Chrome and Firefox, and then on my phone with the Adblock browser (descended from Chrome). Oddly, on my phone the list of filters included a line saying "New filterCondition" which looks distinctly wrong. Is anyone else finding this? Did have a look at the page source but it's pretty unpleasant and I haven't done HTML or Javascript properly for a few years.

Price definitely has the decimal point two places to the right, and that's only if the strap is included. It's when you come to the second from last photo that the full horror is unleashed.

28% buyer's premium, then if you're in the UK or EU there's shipping costs, duty, and VAT to add, at least doubling the hammer price. So the main portion of the cake is going to the auction house and the exchequers of the various other countries.

Two frets too few?

Who can forget that time when they helped a log that was in trouble?

That's what I do, albeit with poncey brass shims. They have handy locating holes, so I put them on the end screws.