Maude

Lovely looking bass 😎👍

Always sad when a kindred spirit passes, and too young. Condolences to his family. Rest in peace MB1 😎

Then when Ticketmaster has sold out, their sister company, 'Get me in', has them for four times what Ticketmaster were selling for. Legalised ticket touting.

Spanish Flea - Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Let's cheer this thread up a bit 😁

Naked in the Rain - RHCP

I don't know know why, if just assumed it would dry rubbery. 👍

Woodpecker From Mars - Faith No More

Working In A Coal Mine - Lee Dorsey

Mutton 😁

Does that Gorilla glue set hard like a resin then, I always assumed it was like PVA wood glue? All this talk of speed clips and a Snap On rachet screwdriver, in the motor trade?

I'd like to put a strap button on the upper horn of my Jack Casady, but I'm not convinced there's enough strength there not to split the side away from the top and bottom. If I did I'd try and glue a block inside to screw the button into. How long has yours been there and do you gig with it?

@Telebass, I'm sure you've gone down every avenue to find a way of continuing, but is sitting with something like a Hofner Club or Danelectro, DI'd to the desk completely out of the question? I'm only asking because, although you don't know me, I've seen you play several times when you were with the Rock'n'Roll Outlaws, in Tavi and Callington (yes every venue in Callington is shite 😉) and can see how much it means to you. If there really is no way to continue then you have my sincere sympathies.

If we're talking bass driven Cure tracks then this has to be the winner, Shirley? The Cure have been a massive part of my life since first hearing Charlotte Sometimes, and they still are to this day.

The Same Deep Water As You - The Cure

Remove the B string and install a series of pressure sensors to trigger sound effects with your thumb. You too can then make music like Ross in Friends.

D'oh, of course they're string spreaders. Senior moment. 😆 The blue tool being a fret clamp makes if, like you say, there's different size attachments. Sadly I don't have the attachments. 🙄 Although the mole grip type one looks to be a must better tool to use than the blue one.

Thanks the help folks. Annoyingly I've just bought a block of white 'Tusq' of identical size to the large piece with the tools. That was a tenner wasted 😁. Can't grumble, he only wanted £40 for the lot, the nut slotting files are Hosco, as are the fret erasers and one of the fret files, other fret file is StewMac. Oh yeah, another question, what are the pair of red curved 'bicycle clip' things for? I know I've seen them but for the life of me can't think what they are now.

Yes, they're a fret press clamp, there are four different nylon blocks that go in them for different radius necks. The blue, similar tool is the puzzle, as the slot that a fret would sit in seems to large and deep to press a fret in.

The two files in the red bags are fret files of differing sizes.

Yes the black block makes perfect sense now, the flat file thing has corresponding circular marks on the other side from being clamped in the block. The block holds it at 45 degrees so you're right, it's for bevelling fret ends. The yellow, red, blue and green blocks are 'fret erasers', kind of like a rubber impregnated with sanding grit. They're different grades for dressing frets.

Ain't Necessarily So - Bronski Beat

No Time To Cry - Sisters of Mercy

I've actually just ordered a sheet of black but gone for single ply rather than B/W/B, but I might do a tort one as well. It'll need to be a very dark vintage brown, not red at all if poss. So who does a nice dark tort? The usual from ebay all are too naff looking.

That's exactly how I feel about tort, although for some perverse reason I like it on a teal sort of blue. You could do a reverse P on a non X, just make the scratchplate and don't have the chrome control plate. Didn't @AndyTravisorange one only have the scratchplate. I actually really like the BB without the control plate.

I just want to get it put back together but I've got to order some black scratchplate material and make that.