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I'll be about £5 for a pre-cut pack of 24 but I'm pretty sure I can scrounge a 2" offcut from Mark at Bonnywood. Was fixing a butchered Concord started me off building and repairing basses 🙂

There are others, nut is broken and it's been shimmed with cardboard 😎

There's that much corrosion at the selector switch the casing has a fur coat 😀 Could just be the switch but there's a stray Vol pot ground too, might as well replace the lot. Nope, anywhere near that high and I get a nosebleed 🤣

Guitar player friend messaged me on Xmas Day, said he'd got his hands on a mutual friend's bass 🙂 Seeing as our pal hung himself in 1999, I was both glad and surprised to hear a bit of his gear was still about. Was even more surprised when I was told it should be with me 😲 Got another message yesterday telling me to collect it 🙂 Old Japanese Gibson copy, think it may be a Sakai Mokko. @Bassassin care to give an opinion ? Neck is straight but it's missing a fret. No sound bar a loud hum, pickup selector switch is goosed, I see one failed solder joint in the cavity. Won't be doing any fault finding, it's easier to replace the electrics. Can't see the pickups failing but I've a replacement set in a drawer. Nice wee fixer up job but I'd rather my pal was still with us 🙁

My God, add Bat out of Hell, 2112 and it's a repeat of the Tommy Vance New Year show from 4 decades back 😁 Longer the track the more folk vote for it.

Aye, that was my thoughts too. Couple of year back some 'singer' from the early 90's got in touch, said he'd found a tape and if convert to MP3 would I like a copy. Out of politeness I said OK. Wished I hadn't , awful fails to describe how bad it was🤣 Crazy thing, by the early 90's I'd a serious alcohol problem. OK my playing on the tape wasn't great, pretty shite, but compared to the hash head guitars and drums it was acceptable 😀

@Mrbigstuff I don't see that happening, there's no real parallel between China and Japan in this respect. Post-war Japan had crippling poverty coupled with a heavy US military presence, folk grew up with a culture they wanted but couldn't afford. When their economy picked up folk bought American. China had decades of crippling poverty but almost zero experience of US culture. Now things have improved, when they want nice things they buy domestic 🙂 One of the Zheng'an luthiers, Zhang Weiyi, charges between $26,000 and $52,200 for his guitars; man has a waiting list 😎

Still some way off but it could happen. Zheng'an county has a big fancy guitar info centre, brochure/handout leaflet says 30 million Chinese folks have taken up guitar playing in the last 10 years 🙂

B&Q flat bar. 1m aluminium 30mm wide, 2mm thick £7.60 https://www.diy.com/departments/aluminium-flat-bar-l-1000mm-w-30mm-t-2mm/253985_BQ.prd Also comes in 2.5m length for £15.20. https://www.diy.com/departments/aluminium-flat-bar-l-1000mm-w-30mm-t-2mm/253985_BQ.prd 1m anodised £10.33. https://www.diy.com/departments/anodised-aluminium-flat-bar-l-1000mm-w-30mm-t-2mm/254149_BQ.prd They also sell steel flat bar.

Also Pub bands in their 60's playing 50 year old songs to punters pushing 70 🤣

Peavey's B-Quad was most technically advanced bass they ever built. They went OTT with electronic, designed new pickups for it, bought the necks from Modulus. Had a $2k price tag and that was 30 years ago. B-Quads, both 4 and 5 string models, were fitted with the Wilkinson bridge. £20 !!! You won a watch 😎

Sad bastard me left the upright in the basket until the price changed 🤣

Got rid of some, still far too many 😀 Happy Birthday when it comes lads. Must have been something in the water, I'm pretty sure you both have the same first name too 🙂

The Tobacco burst was once owned by Dave Swift 😎

Steve I've edited my reply. Can you give me the dimensions ?