I, for one, am really pleased this story has had a (more than) happy ending.
So much so, I've even broken my own self-imposed posting break to say as much.
Most chuffed for you mate.
I just read the OT, can’t see why your comments would have upset, well put I thought. Had similar feelings myself though when in OT, ain’t got the stomach for it most days!
Oh my quote had nothing to do with him - I saw "What if I..." and heard "Why don't you.." and made up an amusing (not) quip about youtube persona in general.
You credit me with far more intelligence than I have.
Or, Why don't I... just switch off this laptop set, go out and do something less boring instead. Sitting at home, watching Youtube, turn it off, it makes you crude..
Why don't I.... etc.
Of course, if Laura Ashley or Orla Kiely did wallpaper with pictures of basses on it... I'd be insistent
Edited as spellchecker changed Orla to Oral - lol
Yep - that's it. People grumbled at Fender for those noisy pickups in the original Tele, Precision etc. and so they made ones that bucked the hum (by the two coils overlapping in frequency and effectively cancelling that bit out...
You can blame Mrs B for the wallpaper. For me its very simple
"You can have whatever basses you want dear, as long as I can have whatever wallpaper I want"
"You can stick naked pictures of Rick Astley up if I can have whatever basses I want, love..."
Yep. Usually from transformers in stuff in your house, or from fluorescent tubes etc in venues.
Single coils pick it up - humbuckers are designed to buck (cancel) it
Don't want to say it too loudly for fear of upsetting the Precision Gods, but I think Fender missed a trick by not doing a semi-hollow version of the classic 51P Bass....