Aidan63

Given talkbass' vast membership there must be people who work at Fender on there I would have thought, so I just thought there might be some cross over of members on here who know more about what goes on across the pond, like happened with the what's going on with MESA thread last year. I haven't been on here for over a month I had forgotten it can be just a place to pommy whinge and or be sarcastic/clever/amusing/show off

So does anybody know if they changed the machines at Corona or if they actually now make a lot of the body blanks in Mexico and reverse Highway1 them; as they have changed to no longer saying made in America, just have Corona California on them instead, ostensibly because of the difficulty in backing that up to satisfy the state's legal definition, so they are just assembled in America for the large part ? Surely some of the Americans who hang out here occasionally have an friend in the factory who will tell it how it is ?

£400-600 seems to be the range on Ebay recently, I think including some or all of the above, odd one a bit cheaper

Ubass ? very short scale and light, don't seem to hold value so often cheap s/h

Just a suggestion but I would contact John East and ask him the ebst way to wire it, he'll tell you

chances are that an update of the os for the phone means that the older bluetooth unit though still compliant isn't quite of the same generation, especially from a security point of view, remember when we had to pair by sending 4 digit codes from both sides, that's done away with now for the most part. I have the same issue with my two old cheapo bluetooth dongles, and the old bluetooth speaker (nokia) doesn't always connect without me forcing the connection from windowsPC, a bit of a pain but as with you a simple thing to work around; it could be an issue if it was something you needed to be always on always reliable though, but I think the pace of change is such that hardware becomes almost obsolete as soon as it is sold

it was the becoming less flexible I didn't like, I didn't use it enough to damage the finish - I dropped it on a floor which was dusty so I washed it, left it to dry and found it had curled slightly, shrunk slightly and become less flexible. I tried it after watching a video where Scott SBL was chatting about muting materials and he 'raided' the cupboard under the kitchen sink to show what one could use that you had lying around

those minky wipes have some chemical coating in/on them I think, if you get them wet they dry stiffer and don't return to original state i.e. they change properties just from contact with water. It could just be release agent from manufacture. I tried them a while ago and wouldn't recommend

nice colour

I've a couple of Nordy style ones I made myself using neoprene foam and wood, the thin one is for the mustang as a thick one just killed the tone too much, and I will make another half way between the two for Jazz/P thick is roughly 12mm wide, thin is roughly 5mm, foam is 12mm deep slit to about 8/9mm

squished fly eater

Might it be by Chris Eccleshall ? Very renowned British luthier of the era ?

cheers Dave, shame it's not on terrestrial

what channel is it on ?

mexican made jazz body with bottom of neck truss rod adjustment so ? Highway1

@Andyjr1515

If it was me I'd contact Adrian and see what his take is, expecting nothing, and then contact Andy about a repair They, I believe, build each instrument individually so neck pockets and screw positions are not standardised, so a new neck won't be straightforward as whoever does it will have to have the body too, repairing the original neck may be the easiest option

Probably worth contacting Status, they seem to have some records of the necks made and changing bdies/correcting mistakes will something they have experience of

the fact that only guitarguitar is updated shows who's across other youtube channels and that FMC/Gretsch haven't possibly sent out a mail to their dealers clarifying matters, or their web teams are so busy they haven't actioned it

late to the party, just come across this via Premier Guitar; good to see something different, it would be great to have one at a bass bash to hear and play

Why was it locked; because it was a nasty bun fight or because FMC applied pressure behind the scenes ?

All of them are fine with the 99.999% of parcels that just get collected, trunked and delivered, and all of them are bad at handling the 0.001% where it doesn't go according to plan, but UPS are now the biggest bunch of lying, useless, impossible to contact and culturally f'd up of the lot in my experience, whereas 3 years ag they were the most easily contacted and helpful who worked to resolve issues and took ownership, but not anymore, humans replaced by AI and mechanical handling. DHL seem to be the best on imports sorting the duty etc..fairly efficiently, but they, like most of them, want you to do their reconciliation work for them. DPD are great shipping into Ireland and the paperwork works on parcel2go, but into other countries it doesn't so I end up using UPS into France and Holland and crossing everything in case it goes tits up. Fedex are slow on import paperwork, UPS are awful a lot of the time, stuff sitting around LondonHub or EastMidlands for days and days, just being bounced onto the next shift constantly, and even when you've paid the duty it takes a few shifts for it to get trunked to depot for final delivery, gone are the days when they cleared and processed the inbound each day everyday. All our local drivers are great, most have worked the area for years fortunately and despite lack of support from the staff at the depots and ridiculous workloads and mileage they do a fantastic job in a huge rural area many miles from the depots The investment made in IT by Hermes has had a positive outcome, I'm guessing Amazon provided a lot of that behind the scenes. YMMV

The canadian who makes the violin stick on fretted board makes a viola one too, probably not the same scale length as the shorties though

I saw a video on youtube of a stick on fretted board for violin, so a bass version may possibly exist the violin version didn't really seem to help get good intonation interestingly