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Stub Mandrel

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  1. I almost want to buy this and get my brother to swap it for my old one...
  2. It's not "late sixties/early seventies" or "fifty-year old"
  3. My signature bass would have four ounces of lead in the headstock, slightly misaligned pickups just to annoy people. The protective film on the pickguard would be slightly damaged but bonded in place to9 prevent removal, just to annoy me.
  4. Speed up T-cut by fitting one of these in a hand drill. Haven't tried the polishing bars, just the mop : https://www.toolstation.com/polishing-set/p58727?store=MJ&utm_source=googleshopping&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=googleshoppingfeed&mkwid=s_dc&pcrid=515847200309&pkw=&pmt=&gclid=Cj0KCQjw_fiLBhDOARIsAF4khR2Ekji3rAefGFLzcQH9umTrQ96q81MkafJmYZTjQdKIoT9vAG2SwfwaAu_YEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds
  5. I know it’s Halloween - but seriously, that bass appears to be possessed... 🙂
  6. Well most of us have enough mercury in our teeth to kill a horse, if t was in a mobile form.
  7. It's quite funny looking at Within You Without you on UG to see how earnestly people defend their fingering as being 'how Adam Clayton' does it because they can 'tell by the sound'. I notice that on the live at BBC video he plays it a semitone down and uses both the A and E strings (and looks completely bored). And that's probably one of the simplest basslines of all time...
  8. Heres a nice blues we cover, with some unusual changes that make it interesting. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fxMe8o5K5h0
  9. My brother has mine, bought new, and it has keyhole slots in the bridge for the string ends, giving the appearance of through stringing from the front. In the pic above you can just see the recess is unvarnished.
  10. 18V can compensate for poor design, allowing you to be careless about gain levels during processing. In theory, you don't need that headroom even if processing signals for line level inputs.
  11. Here's a good one... bolt and shackle. Where's the nut? 🙂
  12. If we really want to have fun... Should you use a plain washer under a nut? When using a thin lock nut, should it go on top of or beneath the full nut? What is the optimum thickness of a full nut? and... What is the optimum size of hole for tapping a thread? (Don't answer these, as any of them could fill a forum...)
  13. The basic problem is a 'bolt' was originally a cylindrical object that secures something by fitting into a hole. Fixings with a thread on the end and a head at the other with a shank that fits a hole become known as bolts. A screw thread, is, well, a thread. By extension, the term 'screw' applies to any threaded fixing. So all screws are screws. Most screws can serve as bolts but usage is a poor definition as something can be classified differently depending on how it's used. Only self-cutting screws are definitely not bolts, and even then it is possible to get 'wood bolts' with a self-cutting thread and a plain shank for fixing metal to wood. One thing that is interesting is that it is fairly easy to make machine screws and bolts. Making self tapping or taper screw threads is much more tricky.
  14. Greta to see real music being appreciated with an explanation of why it's real.
  15. But there are so many ways to split it... this one deprecates my definition. https://www.accu.co.uk/en/p/131-difference-between-screws-and-bolts
  16. I have some no more than 20 feet away... but you can just go to boltworld... https://boltworld.co.uk/collections/m8-bolts Most of these are screws. The 'roofing bolts' are like coach bolts, they have a square shank to fit a matching hole. The cap screws have a section of plain shank, which allows them to be used as bolts, but they are not primarily used as such.
  17. The definition is vague and contested. I stand by mine as the most usual British usage 🙂 I use a fixing with an unthreaded section of shank to locate and fix an unthreaded part to a threaded one. It's both a bolt and a screw by your definition, a bolt by mine. 😈
  18. I know, I said as much. Acorns are nuts. Conkers and almonds aren't. Whether something is a nut is not a good guide to what's in a bag of mixed nuts. Same with screws. What most people call bolts are screws; bolts have a plain shank, usually fitted to a hole.
  19. A peanut is a nut. I said I'd seen 'may contain peanuts' on a bag of peanuts. But I didn't say peanut allergy is the same as a tree nut allergy. A walnut isn't a nut, by the way. It is the seed of a large fleshy green fruit - if you haven't ever seen one, rather like a conker (which isn't a nut either).
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