Jean-Luc Pickguard

Dust In My Pants — The Birds

Rock 'n' Roll Dalmatian — AC/DC

Its not quite the same as I no longer own a double bass, but the stock strings that came on my NS-design CR5-M when I bought in 2006 are still going strong.

The Thomastik 324h set are the hofner-specific set, so this will be a manufacturing defect. I'd suggest contacting Thomastik-Infeld: https://www.thomastik-infeld.com/en/contact

I don't think I'll be able to put my guild gigbag in the washing machine as it is well padded and more rigid than a typical freebie case. The bicarb seems to have reduced the odour, so I'll keep it like that for a few more days.

Bargain!

That will certainly be worth a try if we get a sunny day soon, otherwise I could stash it in the loft until summer arrives

I saw this Guild M-240E Troubadour on the cash converters website when they seemed to be doing a Dutch auction as the price was dropping by £20 every few days. It got to a price where it would have been rude not to press the 'buy now' button, so I did that. It arrived the next day very well wrapped but on unpacking it there was a definite odour. After a wipedown with kitchen roll slightly dampened with febreze and then a piece dampened with water, the guitar is no longer malodourous, but the gigbag is taking a bit longer to destink. I've used approximately half a bottle of febreze so far on it inside and out, and it is currently sitting zipped up with an open tub of bicarbonate of soda inside. It only has a trace of the smell now if I get my nose right up against it but any other tips to get rid of a weird smoky smell from a gigbag will be gratefully received. If it was a tatty old gigbag I'd put it in the bin, but apart from the smell it could pass for brand new, and its a good quality well-padded bag with embroidered Guild logo. The guitar itself it lovely. It is parlour sized and has a solid sitka spruce top and a DeArmond Tone Boss passive soundhole magnetic pickup which sounds surpringly good. There was a bit of rattle on the low E string as the fingerboard was almost dead flat. I had to remove the pickup to get to the truss rod adjustment, but after a tweak and refitting the pickup I now have a little relief in the neck and the guitar plays very well with a good lively feel and bright tone.

The Sad Bag Of Shaky Jake — Humble Pie

Brake My Body — Pixies

Sit Down — James

Senses Working Overtime — XTC

William Hill It Was Really Nothing — The Smiths

Rise — PIL

Ridiculous! if a squier topped the list they could at least spell it correctly.

A Walk in the Black Forest (Gateau) — Horst Jankowski

Short and Curlies — Rolling Stones

Diggin' My Potatoes — Leadbelly

Not available in the UK yet, but I've just installed Mullvad VPN on my iPad so I can pretend to be in the US & watch it on netflix.

I prefer flatwounds so I put a short scale set of status hotwires on mine, as I had a spare set, but as they are no longer available, I would probably use ECB81S Chromes if I got another mini P.

Hot Poop — Frank Zappa

Good job!

I wonder whether the tail lift issue has been fixed with the v2 bridge on my 2024 4003? I suppose I'll know in a few years, but it would be daft if this has not been addressed in the design.

Can you post a pic to show how the string is wound around the string post of the A tuner?

In October I bought this one -> https://amzn.to/423AdgY . For £15 it was a massive upgrade from my previous crappy one from Maplins. When making up a loom, I can now use lead-free solder for back of the pot connections without needing to worry so much about effing up the pot.