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Disturbingly, we seem to be nearing a consensus.

Maybe I’m a Leo…

Incidentally, the pcb does look rather close to the metal case - is there insulation on the underside?

Something sprung up!

...following up from that, I bought a piece of Hi-Fi kit last week. The seller listed collection as an option, but eBay instructed him to post it. Fortunately, we worked it out: he cancelled, I got an immediate refund to PayPal, then he re-listed as collection-only, I did the offer, he accepted, and then I went and collected it.

I wandered in to Steve's Guitar Centre (Cosham, nr. Portsmouth), spotted an EBS Reidmar 250 amp in a corner, had a play, now it's home with me. Nice!

On previous occastions it's been held the day before the Kempton Park guitar show (Sun 26th October this year).

On the 5-string debate, years ago I used to have a set of Dewtron bass pedals which I used to take me down to a C when I ran out of notes on my 4-string. Now I've got some 5-strings but I still gravitate back to my Ric 4-strings. I did try a Ric 5-string (the triangle pickup one)(curious they did the pickups but then changed the neck position markers to dots), but the neck was much wider.

I've settled on 40-60-80-100. FYI, I also had a V2 bridge fitted to one of my Rics; it completely eliminates tail-lift, but the action wouldn't go low enough so I reverted back to the original V1.

I wouldn’t put 45’s onto a Ric.

What gauge strings? HW will typically have used real Ric bridges, unless told otherwise; now that they are discontinued, it'll probably be Allparts. Some like the Hipshot bridges, but I've found an apt location for one of mine (and that's an Allparts on the Hondo, which now has strings and screws in the Treble pickup). ...

Mid-cut on the amp. If you want to sound like Geddy Lee, push the Treble Tone knob in (Modern). If you want to sound like Chris Squire, pull the Treble Tone knob out (Vintage). A touch of distortion is good. If you want to lose the pickup Vol controls interaction, go for Rick-O-Sound and run them competely separate. A low enough action to get a touch of fret buzz helps too.

My fretless (Licensed Mighty Mite neck).

The problem is when someone who doesn't know gets it, maybe someone isn't as honest or they shuffle off this mortal coil and the estate gets sold.

Only 6 strings - pah!