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It seems to have been pivoted about the centre point so the bridge end is lower and the neck end higher. Seems a strange thing to do.

34" four strings are the commonest and therefore the easiest to sell, though the flip side of that is that there will be a lot of buyers competing in the marketplace. Do they have any 4-string 32" basses that you would like to keep? And what about doing some research on Ebay and Reverb, and in shops selling second-hand instruments, to get an idea of prices?

A badge that Mrs Zero would wear with pride.

Something I wasn't expecting last night at the Cavern was for one of my old drummers to turn up. We were in a band together in 2010, he had to move away with work, initially to Exeter which was a bit far and then to North Yorkshire, so he left. It turns out he moved to Sutton Coldfield a couple of years ago and joined a band last year which is just starting on the hunt for gigs. They did half a dozen numbers last night and were really excellent. If you see Poppy Jam playing a gig in your neighbourhood, I recommend going to watch them.

Good. Love isn't always on time.

Boss SY-200. I was considering getting one, then one cropped up for a price it would have been rude to refuse. Have been doing some experimenting and finding sounds I can definitely make use of, which is nice.

There's a lesson for you right there. Warwick necks vary enormously - you may simply not have yet met the Warwick neck that suits you.

Bought a Boss SY-200 from @0175westwood29. All went well, slight delay in posting but I didn't have urgent need for it so no matter. Thanks Andy.

They look dirty to me rather than rusty. If I wanted a painted 4-string that was far too expensive simply for the name on the headstock, I'd consider this.

Two minutes was enough for me.

To make the most of one of those, I'd need Charles Berthoud's hands.

Played at the Half Moon in Littleover, Derby last night. It's a rather odd shaped room, we're down in the bit with the pool table which sort of protrudes rearwards from the main body of the pub. @SpondonBassed lives nearby and dropped in to watch us for a while. Singer was unsure how well his voice would hold out so we dropped a couple of songs which most strain it. I managed to make more mistakes on "Make me smile" (the only song that I sing) than I have on any previous performance. And I forgot my massive floor fan. Otherwise it was all good.

I think the word everyone is looking for is "prolapsed".

The UMC204HD is good too, and has MIDI and two XLR/jack inputs rather than the one XLR and one jack of the UMC22.

Sounds like the finish that was stripped wasn't original. Maybe it started life natural. Looks like a nice bit of wood.

It's the missing link, the stage in evolution before

Thanks, yes, it was only the middle position that was puzzling me. I've ordered an on-on-on switch, must check it and see which type it is before using it.

I know you've now got it sorted, but for future reference, if you have a drill (ideally in a stand or a pillar drill) that will run in reverse, a small left-handed drill bit would be worth using to drill the head off as it can loosen up the screw.

Looks as if it's been sweated on a lot and put away for a few years with those rusted up bridge springs and screws and the spotty pickup poles and strings. Machine heads look in pretty good order, don't think there's an issue with where it's been stored. Whoever strung it up has no idea about how to deal with string ends though. And I would guess that it ought to be half that price.

I have occasionally cited the examples of U2 and Level 42. My old band Spiral Six did indeed start with six members, but we were down to four by the second gig, and remained four until we disbanded a few years later.

A funny thing happened on my way to Ebay... I just bid on and won something on Ebay, which I'm sure was priced at £63.15 so the seller had priced it at £60 (£60 + 75p + (£60 * .04). I won it via a sniper app so I didn't see what it was priced at when I won it, but I was billed for and paid £60. Other items on my watch list have also mysteriously dropped by what appears to be the amount of the buyer protection fee. Have Ebay given up on it? Haven't had any email about it but maybe they were losing business due to it. Edit: Correction, it was priced at £63.12, and on the auction itself it says "incl. £3.12 for Buyer Protection", but I wasn't charged the £3.12.

Rosewood or maple fretboard? Which tonewood? 😁

Nor "Can you see what it is yet?"

My Squier Vintage Modified Modified was modified by replacing the bridge pickup with an MM pickup, which has a 3-way toggle switch for switching series, parallel, and single coil. I wasn't entirely clear on how this was accomplished with a DPDT switch, so went in search of wiring diagrams, and that just puzzled me some more. 4-wire MM pickups are all going to be similar so I found a wiring diagram for a Nordstrand MM4. The switches are DPDT on-on-on ones (this is specified in a PDF on Nordstrand's website). Series and parallel are easily worked out. Parallel (the bottom contacts are made): ground-green-white live-black-red Series (the top contacts are made): red-white green-ground black-live But how does single coil work? On-on-on toggles connect both throws to their individual poles AIUI (unless I'm mistaken in my belief) so the resulting connections on the bridge pickup are ground-green-white live-black-red-white-green-ground because of that diagonal connection of the white lead. So that seems to short out both coils. I must be missing something because it works on the Squier, which is wired up to that pattern (albeit with the colours in a different order but still with a red-green coil and a black-white coil). Can anyone enlighten me?