pete.young

Common as muck those white ones. Baz, are you absolutely sure you're doing the right thing?

Another reason not to use wire wool on strings is that if the strings are stainless steel, contact with mild steel wire wool can contaminate the stainless and lead to the formation of rust spots. As for 2 years being a long time, I put a set of used Ernie Ball flats on my fretless at least 10 years ago and they're still going strong, although it doesn't get played much!

Something isn't quite right - CIJ didnt appear until 1997, it's hard to tell from the photo but this looks like an 'O' so 1997 - 2000. Still an excellent bass, but this puts a few question marks against the seller. £650 with a US Pickup already fitted seems like a good price to me, but I'm a bit out of touch and used Fender prices have been going up recently.

He's never been away!

Really? And here's me thinking it was about Claudia Lennear. I think a better reason to drop it is that most guitarists attempt to play it on a 6-string in standard tuning, and it sounds pants as a result. One that makes me uncomfortable is seeing 50-something blokes singing 'I saw her standing there'.

You dont. Assuming that the 2 sockets in the 2x10 are wired in parallel, the 4Ohm load will draw twice as much current as the 8Ohm load, so 2/3 of the total power will go to the 4Ohm speaker and 1/3 to the 8Ohm speaker.

I hope he gets it - it'll mean the value of my 465 has quadrupled! The machine head spacing is the same on my 465 - the idea is that the tuning pegs are the same distance apart, and the 'B' machine head is the other way round so that it turns the right way with the string round the wrong side of the peg.

I would describe those as soapbars. If you want a humbucker in a Jazz shell, you'll usually end up with split coils. Lots of people make these, I have a set of Delanos that I really like, but there are lots of options from the likes of Nordstrand, Seymour Duncan, Dimarzio, ...

I've got one of those trolleys too but wouldn't contemplate using it for the double bass. It's OK with something really heavy on it such as a cabinet but can only be pushed, if you try and pull it the wheels fold in and up.

I bought a second-hand golf bag trolley and a longer bit of webbing. £15. That said, it is slightly more bulky than the bass buggie and would be an interesting challenge to get into your average tube train. I tend to use mine more for crossing expanses of fields at folk festivals, or wheeling it round town centres. A bass wheel would probably be a better proposition for you.

Colin Hodgkinson plays a lot of chords, and he uses a Precision with fairly light strings.

That's not a cricket bat bass. This is a cricket bat bass https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/154401709430?hash=item23f30f1d76:g:xxYAAOSwpHxgaW~0

Quick Nurse, he's gone full Trav again!

Shame about that bridge pickup, it looks hideous. Norfolk ' n ' good if you ask me.

Excellent, thanks for the update - they need to sort thier Wikipedia entry out. The guy's real name is Drew Sexsmith? Bizarre.

Annoying isnt it.

A Caravan album from the '70s, probably why you've never heard of it! The excellent Dreadnoughts are currently made up by: The Fang, Guitar and Vocals Wormley Wangersnitch, Violin Leroy "Slow Ride" McBride, Accordion and Vocals Drew Sexsmith, Mandolin, Banjo and Vocals (sometimes known as the Dread Pirate Druzil) Squid Vicious, Bass The Stupid Swedish Bastard, Drums

There's a band somewhere near me called 'Oldplay', not sure if they're a tribute but if not they ought to be. The Jimmy Shandrix Experience .

I was once entered into an Irish music competition under the name Sean O'Sullivan, by a branch secretary who couldnt' remember my name and had lost the beermat with it written on!

It looks as though Norton Safe Web has erroneously blacklisted the guitar chat site. Some discussion and explanation here: https://www.redkitecreative.com/security/norton-safe-web-blacklisting/ It seems that Norton has been doing this and getting it wrong for some time now, and their process for getting sites un-blocked doesn't seem to be very efficient. Yet more evidence to support my contention that Norton is a worthless heap of junk. I certainly wouldn't pay money for it when there are many better free alternatives.

Bilbo has a double bass - why would he need to do that?

Any cheap precision + 1 pair of Jazz pickups + 1 new scratchplate + 15 minutes with a router? Expect the Bass Doc could knock one of those together for you in quick time.

I have a Fylde electric from the '70s which has EMG active pickups. It offers another variation on the theme - the bridge pickup actually contains a set of single coils and a humbucker. I thought for many years the switch was a coil split, but when I was able to contact EMG one of the founders told me how the pickup was actually designed. I do wish I hadn't lost that email. No on-board EQ though, just a single volume and tone control, a 3-way selector switch and the coil-set switch for the bridge pickup. Anyhoo, that Westone looks like a very nice instrument and deserves a bit of TLC.

Congratulations. That's the most patronising post I've ever seen on this forum. I'm done.