Hellzero

£2740.40 GBP... Some people have more money than common sense.

It's all about noise, not what you're trying to make me say as it was absolutely not my point. Let me put it another way. You come to this place once in a while, enjoy the noise or even make it yourself, then you go away. It happens to you, as I wrote, once in a while, but the neighbours have to live with this each and every day with other people doing exactly the same as you, so this noise becomes a medical issue for them. This could be avoided if the noise is limited to the place mentioned, by simply using dampening or limiting the PA to what's legal, which is NEVER the case. It's not because it was there first that this is not a nuisance, and your b and c points are pure bullshìt trying to make me say what I didn't. What I'm saying is that if you want to make noise, go on, but respect the neighbourhood without annoying them and if this noise is coming from a pub or a venue, it's their obligation to tame it. Of course, I would never decide to live nearby some known noise makers, being it a pub, a venue, an airport or anything else and then starting to complain as I knew it would be a real nightmare from the start. But some people have not my choice or sometimes discover afterwards that there's a noise maker nearby that was closed for a period, but reopened and then the escalation starts. You know Angles and Saxons were Germanic tribes: Does this make U.K. a German property?

Great job, congratulations!

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Of course you have the right to complain, noise above a certain dB level is a nuisance and is simply not allowed. And noise is a health problem as it can lead to serious health issues, stress being the first, leading itself to cardiac problems and neurological disorders. If you like noise, go and start living in a factory with 24/24 7/7 permanent noise, you'll certainly appreciate being in such an environment. Stop thinking you can make as much noise as you want without caring for the neighbours, it's so selfish.

This is the stupidest law project ever. Noise is a health problem, period. So noise makers must contain it within their properties and limits, so they are the ones to build the soundproof barrier, not the neighbourhood. It's also based on respecting the others. If you understand this, you'll live in total harmony with everyone. The freedom of one ends where that of another begins.

For £130 GBP delivered to you in the U.K., you won't find a better combo and it ticks all your boxes @sshorepunk ... it also has a tilting handle on the underside to use it as a wedge. Really the best buy for you. I toured with just this and a fretless in a fusion band (two electric guitarists and a light touch drummer/percussionist) for a year, and was always complemented for my tone by everyone including the sound engineers.

Not very small at all, but it's a great choice for what you want and really cheap:

Here is the link to the mod for the TC Electronic BG250-208 with the speakers I used ... 9 years ago:

This was my mod explained here back then. 😉

I used to own a few GR Bass combos, but all were fitted with 12 inches speakers, they sound quite neutral with loads of power and their ful carbon is certainly the lightest 12 inches combo on the market. That said, the most amazing sound wise combo I have ever played was the Hevos Midget 10, not cheap at all, but simply amazing: https://www.public-peace.de/hevos-midget10-combo.html And it can even handle a double bass without any issue.

... with Japanese pots and mixed American and Japanese wires, mixed parts pre and post 1969 bridge (longer intonation G string screw at the ... E string), totally wrong knobs, really bad refret job with non Brazilian rosewood fingerboard as it's definitely not that wood (maybe already replaced once), questionable stamped neck plate, possibly warped neck, black screws for the control plate, and certainly more surprises under the pickguard and tuners : AVOID THIS!

I guess you meant how much would I pay for this? Hard to tell has I would need more data, more detailed photos and check this neck a lot more.

Everything above is correct. The pots are 80's Japanase models, wires are a mix of American and Japanese. The decal over the nitrocellulosic varnish is period correct, but is missing the model name and patent numbers look like gone... The stamp on the neck has the right font for that period with the larger bar on the right part of the A. The fingerboard wood must be Brazilian rosewood, but it really looks like Indian rosewood, which was used later. The pickups are period correct (wire type, grey bottom, no stamp). I won't repeat what others already said, so read it again as everything is right. I definitely need more high definition photos to go further...

Sometimes, these parcels show up, it happened to me a (very) few times, so 🤞🏻 !

Fast and easy solution, but not very conventional would be SuperGlue with an accelerator, called activator. Just slightly sand and clean both surfaces, apply the SuperGlue, then spray the activator: Within the next seconds, it will be as hard as stone. Make this in an opened space as the vapours are not that good to breathe, and wear a mask.

There is a bias in your system, it comes from the USA, where, for example, maple and walnut are local, but China has to import almost every wood they are using for manufacturing instruments, so the prices will be quite the same for maple or wenge, furthermore if they used wenge, it's because it was cheaper than the usual walnut for that skunk stripe as the politics of the Chinese factories is to always use what is the cheapest option. Check this supplier prices for a more accurate representation of the value of current woods used in luthiery and you'll see that wenge is a non expensive wood, in the lower range: https://luthierssupplies.co.uk/product-category/electric/electric-neck-blanks/through-neck-splices/bass-through-neck-splices/?orderby=price

Wenge is not an expensive wood at all...

That's the magic of Wenge.

On a record I used two Leduc basses: a fretless Masterpiece MP 628 SF and a fretted U-Basse 6 MM. Exactly these very two: When the CD was released, everyone listening to it complimented me for my fretless playing on all titles, ... when half of them were played on a fretted bass. So the opposite is also possible. 😉

You can do the same as this with an Allen wrench of 1.5mm (or whatever reference string height you use). Simply put the Allen wrench under the highest pitched (G or C) string of your bass and raise or lower the saddle until the action is at the desired height. Repeat this for all other strings and set the intonation. And then simply add a fourth of turn to each of the two height saddle screws on the next lower string, then half turn for the next one, then 3/4th of turn on the following one, then a full turn for the other and a full and a fourth turn for the B if you own a sixer bass: This will make exactly the same as this radius gauge at a deliriously low cost... I've been setting up all my basses this way since more than 3 decades. Adding 1/4th turn more than the previous ones simply perfectly raises the height according to the exact radius of your instrument's neck.

Put magnets instead as the lifting hole is already there.

A Stratocaster neck at the octave is 52mm wide and a Precision is 56mm wide, so according to the overlap I see on the photo, it will work for both with the progressive radius height.