Stub Mandrel

I'd forgotten just how awesome Annie Lennox was with the Tourists.

I have a Squier jazz that showed the same symptoms, altough it took a few days to bow. I realised the end ancor of the rod was moving, crushing the wood. It is, luckily, headstock end adjustment. I took the neck off expecting to have to drill into the back of the heel to find the anchor, but the skunk stripe was about 5mm short and i could see the anchor in the gap. My kill or cure remedy was a cc or two of cyano acrylate into the hole (with truss rod slacked right off). The idea was to strengthen the wood where it was being crushed, not to glue the truss rod in place. I also added a washer under the nut to restore the full range of adjustment. I gave it a day to set and readjusted after a week. Since then over two years I have made a couple of minor adjustments, including slacking off so it seems to have worked. Not sure how you would do this with heel adjustment. Drill a hole and then plug it? Its pretty drastic, but as a last resort?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EAhcFUYZUGw

Looks like that's it. The pups are different on this one, bridge missing but the awful 'stop' tailpiece would appear to be original.

Lacquered and polished up...

I've made a few mods to the Harley Benton P-Bass. Original parts are neck, neck plate, jack socket, tone control and many screws. I have a custom engraved nickel neck plate on order... (I also have a s/h neck on order so soon I will rebuild the original bass but with a different neck) ... it seemed daft not to leave it as a pile of bits for the sake of £30.

I find Joyo XVI and Voodoo Octave get in the ballpark.

Vibration can cause controls to move.

Experience suggests they are always too long, except when they are too short.

This is unusual... looks like the bridge is missing! Hybrid between a hofner and a Fender 51? @Bassassind you have any clues? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/144217930017?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D1110006%26algo%3DHOMESPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20191002094254%26meid%3D503aa88a042e4d41a3533d066b3ebbc3%26pid%3D100891%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D255159113873%26itm%3D144217930017%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2332490%26algv%3DDefaultOrganicWeb&_trksid=p2332490.c100891.m5206 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/393518449755?hash=item5b9f87045b:g:bPoAAOSwcjlhHkn8

Weird yes. Wonderful? You decide... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/154401709430?hash=item23f30f1d76%3Ag%3AxxYAAOSwpHxgaW~0&LH_BIN=1&LH_ItemCondition=3000

Gordon and the Geckoes

Spandex in the City

Blues Power with Bernard.

Some grest names mentioned. What about Boz Burrell and Ronnie Lane. Or Jack Bruce.

+1 even though he used a plectrum, 🙂

Well they worked... Electrolytic aren't meant to fail, but if they do they are designed to split like that to minimise collateral damage. Could mean a fault in the PSU supplying too many volts, in which case new caps may not revive, but worth trying.

But will you have "15-inch woofers for bass you can really feel!"?

I'd be most worried if Phil picked up a dose.

The Walkmen

Richard Thompson.