Doctor J

I'm unsure what you're trying here. Relief is the amount of forward bow, as in, the direction the headstock is pulled with string tension applied, relative to the straight line of the string. If you have too much relief, surely you need to apply back-bow? Either way, as you're trying to manipulate the wood into a shape here, make sure you do it with the truss rod fully slack. The truss rod is (usually) a tool to counteract the pull of the strings. If there's no string tension, there shouldn't be any truss rod tension either. The nut shouldn't be putting any tension into the rod so it shouldn't be making contact with anything.

Give Ohm a go, great band. Extraction by Howe, Wooten and Chambers will challenge you, but is quality No talk of fusion is complete without Mahavishnu Orchestra. Although they were a five-piece, I think there are songs which could be adapted for a trio

No love for Searchb*stard?

There was an early 80's Japanese Tokai on there for several months, last year, at the same price. You'll get much better bargains if you're not too pushed on having the big F on the headstock, as they're all that seem to sell regularly on Adverts. Did you see a guy selling the Thompson Stingray for €550? It's mental that it wasn't snapped up immediately before the usual lowballer infestation. Keep an eye on here, too. Not every seller is in the UK.

Yeah, it looks perfectly well put together. I'd guess the neck is Mighty-Mite, I have one and it looks very similar - looks like quite a flat fretboard and the black plastic sleeve access to the truss-rod is consistent with them, too. Although, to me, it looks like a slightly wider nut, possibly a Precision neck?

Ahh, the eternal optimism of the parts-bass seller, who will never get even close to covering the cost of parts bought separately.

Thanks everyone, that was a particularly strong selection of compositions, I thought. Well done, all 👍

Yesterday, I bought tickets to see Cory Wong next April. Ironically enough, Cory Wong was the last gig I went to at the end of February last year. I imagine I'll go to other gigs before April, but it's a nice feeling to have one marked in the calendar for definite.

He says this Fender has 24 frets, too.

He is also waging a war on punctuation.

The problem is precision musicians.

Now that is how you do a snug fitting neck pocket! Very nice.

I'm not sure I'd agree being crudely misinformed is any better than being entirely oblivious on any topic, to be honest. If anyone cares enough to get over the hype, understanding digital representation of music is fairly basic stuff. https://www.izotope.com/en/learn/digital-audio-basics-sample-rate-and-bit-depth.html https://www.headphonesty.com/2019/07/sample-rate-bit-depth-bit-rate/

The Tucker Carlson reporting of sound wave analytics 😂

There is a way but it isn't pretty. Just graft part of another string on to make the length you need. Fold a cm or two from the end of of each part so you have two sharp Vs. Obviously, this needs to be where you won't hit the string tree or be wrapped around the machine head post. Link them together, then use some thread to close the Vs, locking the two parts together. Just wrap the thread around, you don't need to do anything fancy. It'll hold in tune, no problem at all.

Tony Choy's blue Ibanez SR800 Ron Bruder's Zon Scepter Tom Araya's BC Rich Wave Johnny Rod's yellow Ironbird

That's the one 😍

13th of February, 1970. Everything else is a footnote in history compared to it 😉

There's a satisfying thump to that suitcase 👍

I lost a good few hours to "Warehouse guy reacts to unboxing video" videos.

Darling, I love it when you smell of P!

Yeah, any kind of vibration transfer is not ideal. It's just another chunk of the lifestyle merchandising that they and Gibson have leapt onto and market hard. That logo is worth a lot to some people, regardless of whatever tat it's stuck onto. I don't think they will have any trouble shifting these to the countless brand junkies out there. Coming soon, offset Jazz turntables made from heavy northern ash with a superfluous battery box (because somebody in the 80's thought it was a good idea to make it active) for that authentic 70's experience! Buy the pair!

For 3.5k each, they'd be idiots not to exploit that market.

If there's an opportunity for a fish pun, you know somebody will fillet.

Billy's the reason I picked up this 😁