kodiakblair

Oh the US has some options left to drag that even lower. Florida is looking at changing labour laws to allow kids of 14 to work nightshifts, this is in preparation for undocumented migrants being deported. Those proposed mass deportations cause a problem for the US economy but also offer a solution. Federal law states all prisoners must have jobs to pay for their keep, liberal California had a vote last year to stop the practise but decided "naw, lets keep the free labour"; they were also the second state to go the "3 strikes" route, how's that for worker retention 👍 Deportation won't happen overnight, court cases/appeals etc, so pretty soon there'll be camps holding large numbers. Won't be long before those camps become interment work camps. It'll be like the 1800's all over again

Aye, they were short lived; two years tops.

Spectacular @cetera, keep up the good work 🙂

Brilliant, you're the first I've heard from owning a bolt on BXP 5'er 😎

Right, unless it's not as old as you think or it's a Zephyr/C-5 you've got me confused there. Timeline for the Grinds went like this. 2001 the Grind is launched. Assembled in the USA, the 4 string is an active 34" scale PJ with a bolt on neck/ 5 string is 35" scale bolt on with active JJ pickups. 2002 saw the BXP versions arrive, again 34" active bolt on PJ 4 string/ 35" active bolt on JJ. Late 2003 all 4 models are discontinued. 2004 the Grind BXP NTB comes out of Vietnam, 4 & 5 string models are 35" scale passive basses with soapbars. Few years later production moves to China, briefly, then Indonesia. In order of appearance. US Grind 5 BXP Grind 4 Grind BXP NTB Vietnam Scooped out area at lower horn had disappeared by 2008 Indonesian builds.

That's my go-to 🙂

Spent about a year playing my Grind, completely unaware it was 35" scale length 😁

I hear this a lot and while it's true with respect to changes in manufacturing, no iron foundries or shipyards, few brick works etc, apprenticeships still happen. Coming out of lockdown I started with a joinery firm, fair sized job in Edinburgh. They had 14 young lads in their 1st/2nd year and 32 tradesmen. Sparks were a Glasgow outfit so just sent a couple of squads through, no more than 8 tradesmen but 2 young apprentices and 2 fellas on the adult apprentice scheme. Their trainee engineer was a young lass 👍 Painters had 4 apprentices, lead workers only carried 2. The plumber onsite took a slightly different route, they would start labourers then take the keen laddies on as adult apprentices. Stone masons had a couple of apprentices too. Still plenty of jobs for commis chefs, junior hair dressers. Some jobs are mostly redundant, place along the road from me hires porta-cabin offices/canteens. They don't employ any welders, no need when they can stick a boy a short course.

Nor me. I'm thinking it's a repeat of the 2017 Cirrus reissue. Then the Cirrus was a couple hundred more expensive than folk were paying for 2nd hand US models, this time it's a $2k difference. Real killer though is the market. In 2017 none of the distributors ordered any reissue basses, Peavey had just the US market to sell them in. The line was dropped by 2018. Same is happening this time, distributors outside the US have no interest in them.

It is when you have a dual action TR, single action is just wound on the threaded rod. The G&W wheel I linked could work quite easily. Remove the neck, slip the hex shaft of the TR wheel into the base of the neck then lower the neck back into the pocket. You'd then mark the Allen key slot where it fouls the wheel and remove the offending material. Much depends on the wheel's hex shaft matching the Sire's TR nut. As for locking the wheel in place, you don't have to. Once the wheel is engaged and the neck back in the pocket the bottom of the slot cut will keep the wheel snuggly in place. Shown here by the black arrow in red circle.

This any good ? https://guitarsandwoods.com/Tool/Type-of-Tools/Truss-Rod-Tools/spoke-wheel-for-truss-rod-1940991554.html

They said that 2 or 3 NAMM back but these won't be US builds, those days are over since they've no factory, staff or materials. New Cirrus are coming out of the NBE. Corp place in the Czech republic.

Aye. You measure the difference using wee kitchen scales marked for grams not bathroom scales marked for lbs/Kg.

Brand identity. Milestone I & II were Peavey in name only. Company was looking at overseas production but didn't want to invest too much money so got their peghead and logo put on basses already being built. Sales were good so the changes were made to stamp Milestone III & IV as actual Peaveys with the skinny horn G-Bass/Millennium body shape.