Jean-Luc Pickguard

One of mine is Daphne blue but neither has a gash or fag burn.

There's nothing on that website that convinces me that it is/was an official EMG site. It appears to be running on WordPress 3.4.1 meaning it hasn't been updated since 2012. The ecommerce plugin it is using is one which was last updated four years ago, is no longer available to download from WordPress.org, and is no longer maintained or supported.

Thanks for all the replies - to make it as flexible as possible and as an accidental tribute to Spinal Tap I will make it go to eleven. its unlikely to be used much at the higher numbers, but there's always that one person who will need it.

You're not supposed to eat the urinal cakes Douglas - despite the name they're not actually cakes 😉

...with a capo A question for anyone who uses a capo with a guitar - what is the highest fret you've been able to use a capo without it sounding terrible? The reason I'm asking is that I'm building a WordPress plugin to display song lyrics with chord diagrams - like exhibit 'A' in the wonderful sketch below. I am building in options to show chords for guitar, ukulele or my current favourite, chicago tuned tenor guitar, to transpose the song, optionally show chords for southpaws, and also apply a capo (which is different to transposing as the chord name will change without the diagram changing when you add in the capo). The transpose range will be from minus eleven to plus eleven semitones and I am considering to also allow for using a capo up to the seventh fret but I'm not sure whether this is enough - should it go higher? If so how far? My Ozark tenor guitar has the neck join the body at the twelth fret and my (banjo) capo can be fitted as far as the ninth fret but the neck heel is in the way up there making chords difficult in that position.

Those grooves have got to be a fertile breeding ground for all kinds of bacteria and other nasties. Ugh

Definitely lighter fluid. I used to have a bottle of something expensive called 'sticky stuff remover' for this kind of job but I suspect it was just orange scented lighter fluid

I'm going to list my squier SS Jaguar on ebay for one billion pounds - then I will be the owner of the most expensive bass. mwah ha ha ha (rubs hands together as if applying hand sanitizer)

I don't own any basses formerly owned by anyone well known. As the old saying goes, "If its not good enough for [insert name here] its not good enough for me!"

I really like the Fender hi-mass bridge that looks a bit like a badass but with chromed brass saddles. It almost seems wrong that it only costs £30.

I have a couple of '71-72 musicmasters I bought quite a few years ago. One cost me £100 from a seller on gumtree and the other was £400 from Denmark Street. They have a certain charm and the sound can be vastly improved by putting in a cool rails strat pickup. Both of mine are fairly lightweight and the necks feel at least as comfy to play as my JMJ mustang.

I’m the bass player so punters aren’t allowed to speak to me even if they were inclined to do so.

I've wanted one of the EMG ones since I first saw them, but $41 for shipping is a little excessive for a $5 item This thing looks like a good alternative https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Music-Nomad-The-Octopus-8-n-1-Tech-Tool/372627233479

I really liked Thomastik JF-324s on my MIJ mustang, but when I got my JMJ, the stock fender 9050L stainless steel long scale flats on it were so good that I bought a set for the MIJ as well. They're higher tension than the TIs and are deep and punchy without sounding wooly or dull.

t'ain't natural

Handcrafted? I wonder whether this means that the cheapest and crappiest mass produced components available were screwed together by hand and the headstock was hand shaped with a butter knife.

In the words of Joe Meek, "if it sounds right, it is right"

I once had a club biscuit that didn't actually have any biscuit in it - was all solid chocolate.

I have a can of the WD40 brand contact cleaner (not to be confused with WD40 the product). I've used it to clean up scratchy pots and noisy jack sockets and it works well.

round the corners but leave it otherwise uncut - then if anyone asks, tell them its an Alleva Coppolo

If your main reason to be looking at a semi-acoustic is for unplugged practice, you will probably be disappointed as in my experience the difference in unplugged volume between a solid bodied bass and a semiacoustic is only slightly above negligable. A solid bodied bass played through a decent practice amp such as the Roland micro cube bass RX, or a blackstar amPlug2 bass headphone amp will offer a much more satisfying and inspiring sound for practice.

I can confirm that milliput does indeed work well for repairing a nut or in my case partially filling nut slots to refile. I used the white superfine milliput. It was a fairly uneventful process - I just cut off enough make a ball the size of a pea from each of the two component parts of the milliput, mixed them together well after rolling each ball into a long sausage. Once it was in the slots and tidy I left it overnight and attacked it with the files the next day. Here's the nut after filling - it doesn't look particularly neat, but that doesn't matter - it looked tidier after filing, and now the nut is back on the guitar the strings are covering my handiwork and there's not much to see. To cut the slots I used cheap files made for cleaning welding nozzles, which were perfect for this nut.