Stub Mandrel

Can anyone suggest a 17" rack case that could hold a Trace Elliot preamp/poweramp out of a combo that would allow the ventilation at the top of the power amp to be clear? Or any suggestions for an alternative approach - could I stick in a 1U effects module that is only shallow front to back that doesn't need access from behind and then fit a plate at the back with ventilation slots or a fan?

Mornington Crescent!

My technique is pretty much up to it, it's memorising all those damn frilly bits! I've been working on The Real Me since early December and I'm only about 3/4 of the way through! Oh well, man cannot live by ZZ Top alone! <edit> I'll probably have a shot at Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City - that's my favourite Whitesnake song. Plus it's good just to be able to jam along to songs like Fool for your Loving. 🙂

That out of time foot tapping has triggered me!!!!!

I'm sure it looks better when it's transformed back into a fitted kitchen.

Has anyone mentioned that lime wood is generally thought of as the premium timber for woodcarving and turning. It is light but strong and takes a clean cut in any direction.

I made the mistake of registering my phone, landline, and email with floodline. Every time there's an alert (which doesn't take a lot here as it comes if the local agricultural land gets flooded) I get a text, two phone calls = usually two voicemails an email and another 'new call' message on the landline handset, plus a text to tell me I have a voicemail on my mobile.

It controls you? 😆 In Russia, pedal controls you 🙂

Wow 🙂 Are there any easy ones? 😬

I feel for that guy! And who says the devil has all the best funk?

Brian Jones shaking a mean pair of maracas...

I remember the only album I ever returned - Willie Nelson. I thought I was buying a Bill Nelson/Red Noise album!

Yes, I read about a cheese maker who has dropped plans for a new UK distribution centre and 20 jobs and is going to build one in France instead. That means he only needs one set of paperwork per lorry, instead of paying for one for each individual customer order. On Any Questions today a lady who used to live in NI said she has found out she needs her two dogs to have rabies shots etc. plus paper work @ £270 per dog in order to take them to NI with her. New paperwork needed every visit and IIRC rabies shots need to be redone every year. No border in the Irish Sea? Frictionless travel? To me it really feels like NI has effectively been ceded from the UK.

I had a Marina in legendary Morris 'limeflower'...

Maturing to beige 🤣

What's the nut like? Poorly cut nut so high action at the low frets often leads to too much truss rod tension leading to neck too flat leads to buzz.

A 'kettle' lead has a notch in the bottom of the connector, you'll see a matching oojit inside the socket on your kettle. Leads with this are suited for higher temperatures (e.g. kettles, heaters) but also fit the ordinary sockets. Betch didn't know that 🙂

I bought one of these new for, I think, about £180 with a shop discount. I'm surprised one can make £395 already, but I suspect that in 10-20 years they will be very desirable. The build quality is spot on. The candy apple red is flawless, the fretboard is really nicely finished with rolled edges. The shop said that they were selling as fast as they could put them on the racks. <edit> perhaps not that extreme a price: https://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Squier_Jaguar.html £350 https://reverb.com/uk/p/squier-vintage-modified-jaguar-bass-special-ss £305 Black one in Japan: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Squier-by-Fender-Vintage-Modified-Jaguar-Bass-Black-Electric-Bass-Guitar/224237487303?hash=item34359884c7:g:92oAAOSw6DBfsyib $652 (!) (there's another for just over $400 and another at just over $600) I could find cheaper silver and black ones for about £150 - but these were sold without a clear indication of the date. Well I never thought of this bass as an investment!

You've only got to look at the green 'daphne blue' basses on Fender's website to appreciate that photos on a computer are generally meaningless. I emailed them to check: If Fender can't get the colour of their own instrument right, what chance have we got? I have photo editing programs that show the same image quite differently despite much fiddling with ICC profiles. Then there are monitor settings. Then was the photo taken under natural light or artificial. If the former what time of day and weather, if the latter what type of lighting? What brand of camera and sensor chip? What colour settings? What processing applied to the image? Believe me, working in publishing it's a right pain. Especially when sent a batch of photos half of which have been taken under one type of lighting with the camera set for another... even with neutral tones in the image it can be impossible to get a decent colour balance in a sensible amount of time. And then you get cheerful readers emailing in to complain... The most accurate is a DSLR that has had its colour balancing set using a proper neutral grey car under the same lights used to photograph the subject, but it's still going to depend on the program, settings and monitor it's displayed on.

I agree, it does seem that 'Pearl Jamm' crossed a line. Their name sounds exactly the same and that means it could potentially be used to argue it's a 'generic' term as has been an expensive problem for companies like Hoover and Xerox in the past. You could also argue that 'Alexa play pearl jam(m)' could lead to lost royalties. There's little doubt in my mind the merch is closer to real Pearl Jam stuff than the recent 'designer' gear that was done for ripping off Nirvana's logo. It could be very difficult for them not to be falling foul of 'passing off' under UK law. The consequences of these things are not just financial - I had a whole load of grief when someone produced a report for their dad to support a planning application under a name that was the same as my consultancy (less the 'limited' on the end). Sorted amicably in the end, but I had to field a fair few emails from individuals, local groups and even the local authority. There was real potential for reputational damage.

Last night the NI Secretary said that Northern Ireland had the advantage of being in a free trade area with Europe. If the government see that as an advantage, I wonder if they think the rest of the UK should join a free trade area with Europe?

As it is over £135 the prices don't include VAT £200 + £40 VAT + ~£30 import duty + UPS handling charge ~£12