Stub Mandrel

Worst thing about nut work is the smell of bone dust... especially as a vegetarian!

Sunny Afternoon and Saturday Night's All Right for Fighting are both fun to play.

I have an enormous collection of files. I have diamond ordinary swiss files of various qualities. I always rough slots with a junior hacksaw. I then widen out with files. I finish to depth with a scalpel or other very sharp blade.

You can get VERY cheap digital oscilloscopes these days. Plenty good enough for detecting hum on power rails.

No, no, no! Coil over your hand putting a half twist into each loop so they are all completely limp. Thus is how I was taught to hank a rope. Minimises tangles, as used by seamen for generations. Then velcro, rather than securing with a loop round and through.

We have a winner?

😁 not an exaggeration! They tend to stick after a few years of inaction ...

Wild!

I haven't played that HB, but I have an HB MB5 and an HB Marquess and they are both excellent.

I wonder if they use cheap hardware? I had to trim 1mm off the end of the speaker jack socket on my Elf head as jacks wouldn't engage properly and vibrated out when I played it! They now 'click' in place.

It sounds remarkably like my Westone Thunder 1 - which is a compliment, I always say it sounds more like a Precision than a Precision.

I am surprised but the fact is I have to tune it evry couple of weeks instead of a few times a year! I think they are now vulnerable to being knocked, or to temperature cycling. This is mainly the B2 I keep at my partner's home.

I'm intrigued by these markings: I assume the holes were to adjust presets. Overall gain is obvious. The other could say 'shape depth', if so did someone have it adjusted for maximum scoop? Or have I grabbed the wrong end of the monkey?