Stub Mandrel

I've got a Mitutoyo and a Moore and Wright. I've also got Aldi and have and have had various other cheap ones. The Mitutoyo is a joy to use, beautifully finished and the batteries last longer and it remembers its setting when turned off for months. As for accuracy, as long as you have one that reads to the precision you require and you remember to zero it before use (cheap ones drift with temperature) they all work well enough for woodwork! <Edit> I wrote a review - I've found it online: https://www.model-engineer.co.uk/sites/7/documents/digital_caliper_review.pdf

" I have only ever seen one other ‘active’ Jaguar (VM) for sale, it was a few months ago from Japan for £650 plus of course import tax. " What about this one currently at £64... "dodgy electrics": https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Squier-Jaguar-Bass-Wiring-Issues/254621131780?hash=item3b489a2404:g:j~sAAOSwmIJe37Q6

Flat battery?

Try brilliantine...

I kept my little finger on the string near the bridge to damp it, needs something like slow phase or chorus too 🙂

Just played along to Faith Healer by the Sensational Alex Harvey Band. Great stuff.

Assuming a real badger's derriere is as rough as a stuffed one's we are talking 60-grit.

The memory is so traumatic my brain edited the name to protect my sanity...

Stainless steel is generally pretty difficult to work fro all sorts of reasons. Back in the days nickel was probably a more practical material. Today people think anything 'old' like alnico magnets instead of neodymium or ceramic must be better. Actually it's just different. That said I'm still loving the nickle strings that my Fender Jazz came with and I'll replace with the same. For my other basses stainless Rotos (the marmite strings) or Elites.

Black Ash ... how very 1990s ...

One word explains all... 'spaff'.

One of them's a bass!

If they are better than Watney's Red Label I might give them a try...

I was quite pleased with myself...

Sussed it B5, E4,A3,D2,G1 Are meant for a 5-stringer. Rather then make up 6-string bags, they just used the E6 from a guitar set. Low B goes in the E6 bag and the others all shuffle along one so the numbers are right. The could have put the high C in the E6 bag, but then the numbers would be wrong.

Let joy be unconfined! 🤪🙂🤡🍻😆

OoH! Nice! I've never seen a square bodied one in natural wood before.

A legendary session bass player; I saw him with Sky ('Toccata', John Williams ) a couple of times.

Darren just played this on Planet Rock: More than a passing resemblance to Deep Purple's Fireball?

The passive ones sound really good and have such a high output. I was asked if mine was active several times.

I got a new mesh-back 8-hour chair a couple of months ago, as the previous chair was worn out. Even though mine was only about £110, it's really worth investing if you work sitting down. (Incidently I ordered it without arms, it came witha rms so i fitted them, discovered I couldn't play bass with them on and took them off again 🙂

Don't sell it. Keep your Aeron.

Yes, but they come in many different specs. Some people have seven Stratchwangler Fritzblasters, all with the same specs and nothing different but the colours.

My acoustic next to my brother's lefty. Even allowing for perspective the Tanglewood is bigger. Note K3WL Chowny strap won at last year's Midlands Bass Bash!

A bit of a dig shows they're made in Korea, Cheap strings probably means less QC although there's always the possibility/likelihood the factory gets an order for X,000 sets from <name redacted> buys in the materials, find itself with 2 * X,000 sets of strings, bags them up and sells them cheap as as a tax write off.