Doctor J

A string retainer which brings some level of consistency to the break angle of all strings over the nut. Why Fender etc. persist with the A string having a substantially lesser angle over the nut than the other strings, for whatever reason, is one of the minor mysteries of life.

This is why we can be the most boring people in the world when we play people songs we love. You're playing the soundtrack to your life, the music which you associate with major moments in your history and it means nothing to them 😁

It wouldn't change the fact that Blues is their surname only 😁

I am continually amazed by how many people have learned to live with crap setups. Any instruments I've bought used usually come with ludicrously high action, starting at the nut and working all the way down the neck.

Nope, some manufacturers have both cores in one wire, others run two separate wires. Just depends on the manufacturer.

My old Hamer has an EMG humbucker in there. It growls. It growls good.

Your hot is inside the white sleeve. The earth is the currently exposed copper.

That's a very genre-dependent generalisation 🙂

If you were sent a tuner that is not 1/2" then demand the shop take it back and send you the correct one. You ordered a 1/2" tuner, you don't have a 1/2" tuner, it is up to the shop to sort it out. Do you have the packaging it came in? What does that say?

Would you not consider an Ibanez? You seem fond of the Willis bass. Ibanez have over 30 years of expertise in building 6 strings and the Japanese stuff is always toq quality.

I suspect Nilorius is thinking 34" scale B-B sixer, not a Bass VI.

Unless someone travels back in time to get them to make one in 1963, I'd say it's very unlikely.

Besides, they advertise themselves as a rhythm and blues revue... for your dancing pleasure 😁

Not all of it

This thread should be written phonetically in Geordie so Blue gets a real taste.

Don't waste your money on a neck, just get a string appropriate for that kind of pitch. I use a .145 for A and occasional dropped G on a 34" scale jazz bass. https://www.amazon.de/dp/B000OR75QQ/ref=pe_27091401_487027711_TE_SCE_dp_1

It'll be quite the logistics challenge to recall all copies of this recording and replace it with a perfect one. Still, it'll be worth the effort after allowing this to ruin people's enjoyment of the song for the last 45 years.

I'm sure somewhere there's a crestfallen civil servant asking "All I want is these bastids to pay their tax, is that too much to ask?

Not quite. The honest declaration of the final destination should be made by the sender and, in this case, any tariffs should be collected upon arrival in NI. Welcome to the complexities of the NI Protocol.

It's time to rock again. Rock > Ramp.

Later used to be fantastic. The first few series had some wonderful performances and a great mix of musical styles. They might not all be to your taste but surely that was the idea? Any time I have seen it in the last 10 years or even longer, I can't recall seeing anything which did anything for me. It might be that my tastes no longer accommodate most contemporary music... or... it could be, as I have suspected for a while, that new music is generally terrible and it's not me at all! 😁

Love KJ, there are tasty basslines through their entire career. I've a soft spot for the last three albums. The Great Cull is very enjoyable to romp through, the less subtlety you play with, the better.

I think I read here recently that 40mm is Sandberg's standard nut width. Neck depth is important, too. I have an old Ibanez Saber and a Hamer Chaparral, both have 40mm nut widths but are not alike at all. The slim Ibanez and chunkier Hamer make for very different feeling (and playing) necks.

Thin Lizzy - Live And Dangerous Rock perfection

Ibanez, if I want something which reflects that life continued after 1965, purely because they keep evolving and the Japanese stuff is always superbly built. Whatever the top 4 string SR is at the moment will do very nicely. If I want something Fendery, I'd build it myself with Warmoth bits.