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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.

He keeps refusing to apply a wealth tax or to tax the huge profits that energy companies have made in the last few years, instead choosing to go for pensioners, poor families with more then two children, overseas aid, and raised the cost of employment. I long for a left wing government. We haven't had one since 1979.

By the politicians, or about them?

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?

The best equipped in that respect are the Russians, and why should Putin get rid of the man who is completely under his control?

So, further to this experiment - using a splitter to current share didn't work. However, I used one of these: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/365214653909 with the output set to 9V (move the jumper from 12V to 9V). Works with variable voltage USB-C supplies. Connected it to the power bank. Using a 5.5/2.1 DC plug, connected + to the power outer and - to the power inner (important, that bit), checked I was getting 9V and the right polarity, then connected this to a daisy chain, using a 5.5/2.1 to 5.5/2.5 right-angle adaptor to connect it to the Stomp and also connected up an EHX C9 organ synth and a Line 6 G50 receiver. It all worked, which was nice. So, in conclusion: the AliExpress power supply works for the average low or mid powered pedal but just about runs out of puff for the extremely thirsty ones. The USB decoy board set to 9V works for high drain devices and can be used for multiple devices by daisy chaining as long as they don't need isolated supplies.

He said: As one A. Hitler once said "How many divisions has the Pope?" The Court CAN find the Administration to be in contempt and then can impose daily fines, or if the right sort of civil contempt, can jail the malefactor (whoever it might be) until they obey. How do they jail someone? Who's gonna clap the darbies on him? These are scary times.

Just tried to listen to the Peggy Seeger original. Managed 51 seconds. The phrasing on the Elvis version is weird.

No hit on the serial number. Not sure if that's significant or not. If it was really valuable, wouldn't the seller have managed to do more of a description than three generated sentences?

It's the infamous German seller. He tends to inflate prices by a factor of ten.

In all of this, there may be good news for Tbilisi - Putin may consider that having two Georgias in the United Soviet-American Republic is too complicated and just stick with the western one under Governor Trump.

Won't that be handling stolen goods and receiving stolen goods?

I'm not sure that there are. He considers his executive orders to be above the legislature and judiciary. This article sums it up very well. I'm unsure what sanctions might be available to the Supreme Court if they rule against Trump on something and he ignores them - I've asked an American lawyer (and fellow bassist) about that. More news as it arrives.

Not really, JJ's bass tone doesn't stop me listening to the Stranglers.

I have a couple of examples of 5-string headed J basses here. The Squier has stock tuners, the top horn is at fret 12, and it's on the verge of neck dive. The Sei has a slightly lighter body, lightweight tuners, a slightly slimmed down headstock, and is nicely balanced. Given the level of minimalism you are aiming at with the body, you'd probably need to stretch the top horn to fret 10 or so.

That doesn't seem to have bothered U2 or Level 42.

While a Precision is ideal for use as a mallet to drive in tent pegs, the slightly more sophisticated Jazz is better used as a mallet with which to strike chisels to cut out holes in Precisions to accommodate a Jazz pickup in the bridge position.

Won't do much to alter the trade surplus - it's to make servers for the Apple Intelligence AI system. iPhones etc are still going to be made in China.

The way you were looking at the ceiling, I wondered if you were channelling the Duke of Gloucester and were about to ask if it was insulated.

Seeing as I had ten bearings and used five on the Space, I had another five left over so I put them on the Hohner B2AV. Another improvement, this time on a licensed Steinberger bridge, so B2s and Jacks can be made better too.

And I did do it to the Cort Space. An absolute revelation, the tuning action is now wonderfully smooth. I used F4-10M bearings (4mm I/D, 10mm O/D, 4mm depth) from Ebay at £8 for ten. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/387669381702?var=654905178691 - item has ended now but search for "thrust ball bearing f4-10m" including the description. Searching for "miniature thrust ball bearing" will also work but need some digging through.

I said it was a sample, maybe should have been more explicit. And you're just going to have to start saving...

To be sung by a choir of frog unicorns.