Aidan63

drop John an email, he will be able to answer that/help, he's a busy man so it might take a day or two for a reply, but if he's in front of his computer he often replies within an hour

On another forum I frequent, Club80-90, one of our IT literate members posted this link a guide for small sites https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/helping-small-services-navigate-the-online-safety-act/

many thanks both

I believe this is the drawing for the Schaller BML L4, image lifted from Rockinger web site

I remember there was a Manage Followed Content option in settings, iirc it was in the three bar menu at the top of the page if I was signed in, but I can't find it now. It listed all the threads I was following just like the mail list shows all the message conversations I have participated in. Periodically I prune the lists. For example no point in following a thread in for sale once item is sold, but useful to find out if it has sold without wading through pages of listings. In this case I want to unfollow a feedback thread for someone else and couldn't see an unfollow option on the thread that I was alerted to a subsequent post in because I'm automatically following threads I have posted in which is fine, I sold that person an item and gave feedback, the notification alerts me to any response to my feedback, hopefully a thumbs up or equivalent.

My Squier Telecaster Affinity, FSR Danish Pete version from Andertons from 2019 was/is fantastic, straight out of the box, £139, metallic purple finish, pickups do the job absolutely fine, neck stable, plays and sounds great still, another excellent instrument from Cort. Couldn't justify spending the extra £200 + on a CV in the same colour when they came along, though I think quite a few peeps sold their FSR at inflated prices when they ran out and a few fomo peeps were prepared to pay an extra £100+ for a used one, and did the trade up

Looks like Precision made by Cort, Jazz made by Samick I have 2 Squier Classic Vibe mustangs, one Cort, one Samick, the Cort is better imo, the Samick maybe looks better because of the colour and the racing stripes and is lighter Phil McKnight has done reviews on both a Tele and a Strat, that particular Strat was very poor, Squier standard with a Fender badge, not CV quality

I think you will find that Evri are already way ahead of you on manipulating the algorithms, all those positive feedbacks they do legitimately receive pretty much obscure the terrible ones All the courier companies now have terrible customer service, some terrible staff and some people working hard to do the job right, and paying more doesn't seem to make a difference because they just change their practices to maintain profits; the government (all of them not just this one, they are all the same because they reflect our complete lack of interest in doing different/better and using actual common sense or a decent moral foundation as a basis for society) has absolutely no interest in managing the sector; we've sold Royal Mail to a Czech billionaire, we/they have washed their hands, got more important things to worry about like building shit we don't need and making sure the haves continue to become better off and prevent the rest from actually revolting and hoping the others don't find out about their mistakes/wrong doings, while working to/hoping the dangerous idiots don't blew us all to oblivion

Description says fan fret - err no, where are they made ?

Mk IV was a great amp in my experience mid eighties, pared with either the Peavy 2 x15 BW or a Turbosound or Martin Audio compact PA cabinet, made for a really good reggae bass rig - but you needed a transit van, though in those days parking was easy and fuel wasn't too bad and used transits were cheap to buy and run

I'm guessing you don't mean one of these

I had written (and rewritten/edited several times) my post and was about to hit submit reply just as Ped posted up 'play nice', so just in case anyone got upset I thought it might be politic to post as a separate thread rather than further muddy the waters on this one, I did consider not posting it but having spent a good deal of time on writing it I wanted to validify the time spent writing it to myself at least - perhaps I shouldn't have posted it, my bad☹️

just a FYI, in the VW car world, model year production generally starts on 1st August, when their summer shutdown finishes (they do the bigger mods and upgrades to the production line during shutdown, and obviously plan and agree changes with suppliers a long time before that) so a 2000 model year (i.e. built to 2000 specification) could be built and sold and on the road long before the beginning of the model year, depending on the sales and stock of the different countries' importer/dealer network. You'd have to talk (or have talked to a long time ago when they were alive and had reliable memory) to people who worked at Fender on the sales and production (production scheduling particularly) side to understand what their lead times and schedules and 'year' break points were back then, chances are they weren't as cast in stone as VWs, as it would depend on the tax and sales cycles, when are the brochures released, when are stock sales agreed etc....these days we partly have the 2 NAMM cycle which will influence that quite a lot, I don't know how that was done 60 plus years ago, but I bet it wasn't quite as regimented as now when the accountants pretty much run the businesses, and everyone else is secondary. Ref the Jazz bass, I always thought swap to VVT was mid (whatever that means) 61 from several (fairly common and cheap) books and many articles I have read but I haven't been down the whole vintage rabbit hole, but likely the articles were written from research based often on the same books and oft told and repeated 'facts'. Does anyone know how many Jazz basses were built between the 1st one and the end of 1961 ? How many were stack, how many VVT, how many changed by factory at the time or subsequently (Fender was tight with musicians/dealers who were effectively development testers), how many changed by dealers ? Is that openly available information, did Fender (and especially the dealers) even record that accurately, was there a serial number register back then, did they actually build c.17000 instruments of all models in 1961 or was that figure just the max possible (planned i.e. 70/day based on 5 day week and 10 days annual holiday) production and serial number allocation, is the data set still intact or has it been lost to fire or thrown away or stolen at some point ? Without definitive primary source information like that we'll never really know, it is just by observation that we can make 'informed' conclusions and build a narrative around that - as Hellzero, AndyB, Norms, ATB many other etc.. have all done, but no one will ever know for sure, so assertions can only be made qualified by 'as far as we can estimate based on the available information both past and current'. Even now Fender's online digital database isn't exhaustive, and doesn't go that far back, has lots of gaps especially for short run instruments and overseas production, and I bet even any Fender in house published history account isn't absolutely accurate, as there will be stuff they didn't want to reveal/admit to, and a little obfuscation is good for the myth and increases the mystery, the potential that one day you could possibly find under your great grandparents' bed a unique instrument that is worth even more that the rest of the extremely expensive instruments already in circulation, a lottery win 😃

easiest to just ring GigGear and ask them surely ?