Aidan63

Have they got a Callan ? Is that wide necked too ?

Here's my two classicvibe60s Mustangs, the one on the left has had the board darkened I bought it on here used and I'm pretty sure it had already been darkened, it had been messed with a bit (sorry, upgraded 😉) - I admit the darker looking board was part of the reason I bought it, as was the lightness, but actually the green one is a better instrument imho and the mods I did to that make it sound even better. I did a full 24 hour montys treatment and it did look even darker, such that you could see the contrast between the fingerboard surface and the edge under the neck lacquer but now a few months later that contrast is much less evident. The board is oiled but still has that dry texture that laurel can exhibit, but wood varies (and these are different years, different factories, cort for surf green earlier year and samick for the racing stripes version). I am happy to send you the montys if you want to try it out, no point in spending £20+ on a tub to use just a few grams of it. I'm not sure I'll use it again and will eventually list it for sale

nope, Windows10 pc Edge browser, here's a screenshot of what I now see, which is different to how it was say a week ago

I wonder if this is down to the recent change which means we can only scroll through pages by using next, there is no shortcut to page 2, 3, 4 etc.. visible I have commented on the post being discussed so now it is at the top..

fify it might have a warped neck, a broken trussrod, knackered electrics, worn frets and play and sound like cr4p, just because it's a bit road worn doesn't mean it's a nice bass surely

if less than a year old take it back to shop in first instance, if a manufacturing fault then still under warranty, but you will need the shop to go into bat for you, otherwise the warranty is effectively only 6 months and the onus is on buyer to prove fault is manfacturer's You might have been down this road already hence your post I realise

are there no machine shops near you who could do the cutting, drilling and tapping work for you, as long as you have an accurate measurement set and a drawing it's simple for a professional to do it, the smaller guys who do anything aren't always expensive

just needs a lid for your stash

audio pots can vary a lot in the taper, and availability does vary so it maybe the manufacturer fitted a less than ideal pot as that was all they could get at the time, or the supplier sent the wrong spec ones and they used them anyway; one of my Squiers has similar lack of sweep, but another has pretty much the best of all my instruments, both have stock 250kOhm pots, which look the same externally, same capacitors, nominally same pickups; and I've found some CTS pots great, some less so, even though same size and value, because they are different models with different tapers: noticeably when stock dried up during Covid choice was limited and deliveries sometimes fulfilled with what was on the shelf

are the original pickups epoxied into the covers or are the covers just 'glued' on top, usually with a little hot melt glue ? If the latter then you may be able to remove the covers and use them to install replacement pickups if they fit inside the covers - apart from some fancy pickups that are encapsulated in epoxy mostly P covers are just covers. I bought a used set of aftermarket alnico pickups with the bigger eared covers fitted but was able to separate them and then use stock sized covers so they would fit in the cut out in the pickguard without modifying it as the pickups themselves were normal size - I don't know if the pickup winder had just bought cheap covers and hadn't realised they were slightly different, maybe that's why they were sold on because they didn't fit buyers pickguard

replacement board is cheap LINK

Probably worth sending a pic to Nichicon UK - trouble is it could be a special made for the ps board manufacturer, but their tech boys should be able to identify it

Alain sold me a set of new lollipop hipshot tuners, posted out special delivery super priced - great seller, thank you

not quite like this please it's actually more functional than the board index menu top left as all the sub-forums are listed, but obviously its a big scrollable drop down menu

I tried a set of Status flats on my Lionel VS4 fretless, they were awful, lifeless, toneless and quiet, I've put the LaBella tapewounds it came to me with back on, I do have a set of Chromes to try. I liked D'Addario half rounds much more than the Status flats. Passive bass with Sandberg pickup.

take a look at Driftwood guitars yt channel, they use cnc for making the basic necks and other things, they have a clever heel joint, the dogbone, which is cnc, they make acoustics and also a tele solid body which they developed the neck to be cnc made Most guitars that are mass produced use cnc for the basic cutting and shaping, can be seen in many yt videos of factory tours, Keisel is pretty open about what they do, I think Warwick have shown their set up, even Gibson now use cnc

Daisy Tempest, Tempest guitars, she is on all the socials @daisy_tempest and has a YT channel

surely it depends on neck width and profile and actual spring spacing, the nut could be shortened if it's just a tad wider in profile or swapped for a bone one that is cut to suit the players preference - Leo designed the instruments to be serviceable

one of the alibaba boys will be able to make you a cheap short scale 5 string neck , or try making friends with Daisy, she might be up for broadening her portfolio, making just necks a lot easier and quicker than making acoustics and she's in a shared workspace place where there might be a cnc woodworker or she might know one, and she could make a YT video or two and it all snowball.....

I guess its a case of what one is used to, club80-90 was the first forum I joined back in 2002, the layout was good (ie it was a big upgrade on the barely gui stuff that came before) and logical and has remained pretty much the same with slight incremental improvements, its a bit of a dinosaur being on Ezboard platform but we couldn't afford Invision ( I did suggest it when the last upgrade was done having seen this) as it's a free, occasional donations requested forum, very much of its own ethos. I don't use the next unread thread question button, I like to see the title of the threads, and use the hover preview to see if I want to read on....

The other forum I spend most of my online life on, built on the Ezboard platform has the forum control at the top, where you navigate between sections, like a normal windows layout just as on here, BUT also has a drop down menu box bottom right of the page so when you have scrolled to the bottom of a page when scanning a section, or imprtantly when reading a thread you can immediately navigate to another section from there without having to scroll back up to the top of the page as we do on here, it's a really good ergonomic design. Yes I know you can use back button, but that isn't always where you want to go. I use a pc and mouse, but if I was on a phone constantly having to scroll up to get to change sections or constantly going back it would really discourage me from browsing the forum - its part of the reason I don't use a phone for internet (screen size and interface method being main ones) except in an emergency away from my desk situation, navigating websites isn't as easy, just blindly scrolling trying to find the correct thing to progress is a frustrating waste of time. I know most people have moved to doing everything on a phone, or on a tablet like device, but I am happy doing it 90s style. On the other forum I use I log straight into main menu, where I can see a brief overall view of what's new, go to the first section that catches my eye, and after that I go through all the sections I check in, read, post, and move on without ever coming back to the home page main menu. Thanks for looking.