Jean-Luc Pickguard

I've had my eye on getting a StewMac fret kisser for a while, however I wasn't keen on the $100 + postage etc cost last time I looked, however at the moment StewMac is having a sale. I've just ordered the fret kisser plus a fret end dressing file for around £60 inc shipping. I might be surprised with additional charges when it comes in, but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.

Maybe it had tried to pick itself up by the blade.

The Importance Of Being Idle — Oasis

The Royal Institution has just made available on YouTube the 1989 Christmas Lectures series presented by Charles Taylor on the topic of music.

Your Mind Is On Vacation — Mose Allison

Bummer — Sparks

Are You Being Served — Matt Berry

Elvis Has Just Left The Building — Frank Zappa

Fortunate Son — Creedence Clearwater Revival

I never realised shopify was used by large corporations like FMIC with complex custom sites. I thought it was for smaller sites. Every day's a school day.

Fender won't be using shopify, but it is likely that G&L being much smaller were using it for their webstore, and if so it may have been reverted to default settings.

Cross-Eyed Mary — Jethro Tull

I couldn't get on with the narrow string spacing on my Classic Vibe VI at first, but I managed to persevere and eventually managed to get comfortable with it by not thinking of it as a bass but a different class of instrument it in the same way I'm able to play my strats, teles and ukuleles.

Father Cannot Yell — Can

My squier vi needed a shim as the angle of the strings behind the bridge was originally too shallow, which after fitting labella flats was causing a sitar-like sound where one string was vibrating against a screws on the trem unit.

If the blocks were factory installed inlays, there would be one at the first fret position, so they're likely stick-on junk.

Can't Nobody Hide From God(Zilla) — Blind Willie Johnson

Medicine For A Nightmare — Sun Ra

I always use card from whatever packaging I have saved for this purpose sitting amongst the pile of junk on my desk. I do not believe this can possibly cause a ski jump and have never experienced this although I've shimmed well over a dozen of my basses and guitars.

...no disrespect intended — I have been known to use a music stand & bits of paper

Just to clear up a common misconception, the bisonic pickups are actually single coils, the screws that look like a second row of pole pieces are actually just screws to adjust the height of the real pole pieces.

The Ship's A Going Down — The Residents

The Dukes of Stratosphear stuff is pretty damn good as well