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That's a very conformist attitude.

ISTR (from reading, I don't know Rickenbackers) there's an issue with the routing for the neck pickup weakening the body and the neck pivoting upwards as a result.

Someone wanted a medium scale headless?

ABBA - I can't stand "Dancing Queen". And that was even before this:

Easily found at any decent Bulgarian Halfords equivalent. I would suggest stripping down each of the tuners, and using some Scotchbrite or wire wool to clean up the tuning posts and worm gear threads, plus applying some grease (moly or copper grease). Edit: As I happen to have an Eko Ranger 6 to hand, I've just had a look, and I'd also clean up the outer face of the main frame of the tuner, where the tuning key passes through. The tuners on mine aren't too bad and they haven't had any maintenance in about 40 years.

There's also Cort and Ibanez to consider.

Just try an EHB1005, they've got the Bart BH2s in.

Looks like "A night in Langney" has competition.

I thought facts might be useful here. Leatherette is somewhere round 530gsm. Taking the BC 112 v3 cab (because I've built one and I know the measurements), you need a bit under 1kg of Tuffcab for it, whereas it's about .84m² to be covered (sides, top & bottom, back) which works out as .45kg. So maybe half a kilo difference between Tuffcab and Tolex for a 1x12.

Tolex did come unglued from BF cabs, I think they changed the glue and that stopped it. Tuffcab isn't zero weight, but Tolex is also subject to gravity. You'd have to ask @alexclaber why he uses Tolex.

This is the primary function of a Fender Precision, the secondary function being to hammer in tent pegs. As I don't possess one, I am defenceless.

Plus an idea of the sort of neck profile you like.

But would it hold up if the G is level with the E or the A? The TM registration for the 4+2 has specific placement with the top E between bottom E and A, and top B between A and D, and the 3+1 would have the same with the G above the E and below the A. And I still think that it's a ludicrous thing to be able to trademark. The TM registration also shows that Big Copper Nanotube has indeed turned to the law on occasion.

Well, if they're now making the big horn version and you prefer the little horn, it can be reshaped. In fact, Bo Diddley pioneered the reshaping concept but it never properly caught on. Here he is with some before and after examples.

I was wondering about this - it seems to be regularly asserted without evidence. I had a little hunt and I found something on the Telecaster forum which I can't embed here. However, the contributor had found a US trademark https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=74044289&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch for 4+2 placement on a guitar (but the contributor didn't find a 3+1 equivalent). This, however, strikes me as perverse. Extending this, if Fender trademarked 4 in a line and Warwick trademarked 2+2, then nobody could make a 4-string without infringing a trademark. So, should it be possible to trademark a tuner layout? Also, if the layout is trademarked, then it would have to be the specific layout - so the G would be staggered so it's between the E and A. Placing the G on the same level as the E or the A would bypass the trademark.

Nominally four - I gig with a GR Bass combo, but I also have a Tecamp Puma 900 and three different cabs (BC Micro Jam 6", BC 112 mk3, and my own Plenty 10") so that makes three different combinations.

Well, I gig mine in a soft cover (just for the travelling, I remove it for the actual playing, no matter how many times people beg me to leave it on). I also carry an acoustic guitar to open mic nights in a soft case. I make a point of not attacking either the GR Bass combo or the acoustic guitar with hard pointy objects, and so far both have survived.

Is it time to revive this thread for @Dad3353 (or @GranDad3353)?

I decided that 10kg was the maximum weight for any one item. GR Bass Cube AT800, Alto TS series 8" speakers. I think the leads bag may be getting up to 10kg.

It's not lag, it's me. I'm probably mildly dyspraxic, I have dodgy fine motor skills.

That looks really good. I wish I could do cab covering as well as that.

With the XR18 and a 10" Android tablet, even in fine adjustment mode I'm much better off using the BCF2000 for volume sliders. It's very handy having the mutes on the tablet in front of me though.

That should sort out the neck dive. A good candidate for being converted to headless.

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.