NancyJohnson

That is just the ticket! Bit expensive, but does the trick. Do the internal measurements shape up against the official ones? The bass is 132cm long...that's the main thing. Internal Length 1384 mm Width 254 mm Depth 152 mm Lid Depth 51 mm Base Depth102 mm

Bought from Ishibashi a couple of times. No issues. First bass I didn't pay any duties on, the second one I did. No idea why as values of each exceeded £800.00. Comms were good, however I'd say that they Ishibashi do/did employ the services of someone with a decent grasp of English. I wouldn't buy anything where there's a broker type thing going on, you know, those adverts on eBay where there's dozens of people in Japan 'selling' the same thing, even though this process is all supposed to be above board there (gawd knows how they navigate the minefield of multiple purchases),

Try fresh boxers or slips, my friend.

I need a case for my NS NXTa. Anyone using a rifle case? Been doing some searching, doesn't seem to be much issue in finding a case with a long enough interior measurement (160cm will give me some wiggle room).

I'm struggling to find a decent vanity shot of the bass before I dyed the board, but the first shot below should suffice. The board was quite light brown and (for me) didn't really fulfill the all-black look I was after.

Yup, Fiebings Leather Dye. Black. Mask off your nut/binding, make sure the fingerboard is finish/varnish-free and clean (I'd already been using lemon oil, the board wasn't grimy). Oh, wear gloves. Apply the dye with a Q-Tip, and do smallish areas, let the dye set up for about 30 seconds and wipe off any excess. I was a little concerned about the inlay dots on the neck as it's almost impossible to go round them...i was easily able to clean off the dye on top of the dots with a Q-Tip dipped in some methylated spirit. Obviously I was concerned. Christ, it was a £4.5k bass. The results were very much what I wanted and there's been little dulling of the board since I did it. Good luck!

I had a deadish/dullish spot on a '79 Precision Bass - it was centred around the 2nd fret/F# on the E. It just sounded ponky and the F and G were just less dull. The notes just went quieter, too. Other strings weren't affected. Didn't seem to matter what I did new/old strings etc. nothing made any difference. All I really did was to subconsciously dig in harder when I was on those three notes. The was no recourse with Fender, I just put up with it until I sold on the bass and bought a Thunderbird and it became someone else's problem. It's the only bass I've had that had the issue.

We had a song about Dee-Dee, but changed a few of lyrics and it became 'Supermodel in Cocaine Shocker!'. Go figure. 1-2-3-4!

Oh my. I'm going through a bit of a Steven Wilson crush at the moment. I feel the guy seems to have invented a machine that does 72 hour, ten day weeks. Just staggered at his output. That said, Headphone Dust, his online store. Just seems to be a great opportunity for SW to bypass whatever label he's on and just issue audio. I bought his The Raven... album; £15 buys the ATMOS/5.1, stereo versions, videos, demos and artwork. He's also going to be issuing live stuff in spatial audio as well. The spatial audio is in MKV format (essentially a digital container similar to that you'd get if you ripped a Blu-ray or DVD) and will just play back through a home cinema system. Just push it up to a NAS and use Plex. Easy! Part of me genuinely hopes he expands this store to include other artists that he works with as well.

Television - Marquee Moon

My session (four days ago), was good. It was nice to just be creating after a period of not really playing so much because of health/hand related issues. Hopefully back in on Wednesday.

China. eBay I bought Jazz and Precision profiled necks last year, blocks, binding. £70-80 shipped.

Tiny upgrade. Popped in a pair of P94s and changed the knobs to amber coloured ones (only because I shattered one of the originals getting one of the potentiometers out). From a visual aesthetic, I'm of the opinion the 90s look better than the humbuckers. I'm still staggered how good this is.