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At least it doesn't seem to have affected your typing. You're going to have to wait and see what emerges - too early to know what the effect will be. You may have the good fortune to make a recovery (fingers crossed, if that's not in bad taste). If not, you've either got to not use it or find some means of ameliorating the situation - possibly some sort of thimble to fit over it. You could use the interim period with experimenting with not using it. Best of luck anyway.

Is anything here of use? https://www.steinberger.com/Steinberger-User-Manual-and-Documentation-Archive.html

Don't fret about it.

If you'd been somewhere in the Midlands I could have put you in touch with our guitarist, who helps out with dog rescues. Still, back to the bass. When you say a finger grinder, do you mean a power file, like as they will remove aluminium but not very quickly. I've used mine to square up holes in diecast boxes like below, but needed a drill and a dremel clone of much cheapness to make the initial hole.

The original post (OP) was @alyctes speculating that the image in an Ebay auction was AI generated, and it was that image I was referring to.

And the seller has 806 items for sale, the images for the item in the OP have really good detail, and there seems no reason whatsoever to generate an image of a fretless neck using AI.

D and E - it's a 3-string bass at the bridge and a 5-string (with no way of tuning the A string) at the nut.

I'd be inclined to use a liquid penetrating oil rather than a spray one like WD-40, as it's so close to the fretboard. The humble 3 in 1 is a penetrating oil that may do the job, and if that fails, you could move up to PlusGas liquid. Ideally, take the neck off. Mask off the fretboard and, if you can, form a dam around the spoke wheel.

It looks like there's a part that slides down to lock the strap onto the button - similar general concept to the D'Addario ones but a different approach. I've also got one of the Planet Waves ones, works well but I find it a bit fiddly compared to the Schallers that I have on almost everything.

I have noticed this in the Ebay and the Build Diary subforums. With two or three unread topics, I read the earliest unread and when I return to the thread list, all the unread threads are marked read. This has happened two or three times.

On shim thickness:

It's like the tan someone gets if they fall asleep reading and the book finishes up covering their stomach.

Looking at those pickup sledges, I wondered how feasible it would be to have a quick clamp lever on them so they could be moved about in a gig (like the Westone Rail and Gibson Grabber). That might be a bit gimmicky though.

I'm not sure that you've understood my post. I am saying that there will be a small amount of vibration transmission but that that will be negligible compared to the magnetic pickup output from metal strings. While a bass is being played, there is also a great big bag of dirty water acting as an aerial behind it, and that has a more significant effect than vibration.

For a valid comparison doing this, record a bass at full volume with standard strings on it, then replace the standard strings with nylon or silicone strings and repeat. Compare the amplitude of the respective recordings. That should demonstrate the contribution of body vibrations to the overall sound.

Nominally 2x45 plus 10 minutes or so encore. In practice, the 45s are more like 55s.

If it's fretted notes, it's not the nut. I think your approach of a fresh setup including relief is the best one.

A sample of one from hundreds of millions of items isn't exactly representative.

Also at https://github.com/MoeField/Riffstation (found when I was looking for a manual) - Windows and Mac.

It puzzled me for a minute when he said that the two sides of the string are travelling in opposite directions, until I realised that what he meant was that as the string moved from side to side (or up & down), with both sides of it travelling the same way, the leading side of it was causing compression and the trailing side of it was causing rarefaction. So they're travelling in the same direction but with opposite effect.

Tecamp Puma 900.

I think it's computer generated text rather than the picture.

"Twist and Shout" to "La Bamba" and back again a few times. The two guitarists swap lead vocals, the one who normally sings does "Twist and Shout" and the other takes "La Bamba". Final song of the night and we stop when either we or the audience are knackered.

Don't the band have the chords written down? I've used one in the past and I can't remember what it was, and haven't got it bookmarked, annoyingly. However, there is a review of seven free chord finders here.

James Tyler Variax, either the JTV59 (Les Paulish, twin humbuckers if not using emulation) or JTV69 (Stratish, twin single coil plus humbucker). They generally get used for acoustic emulation.