Stub Mandrel

This is very true. If I start repeating a mistake I either stop or slow down.

You end up with the side dots in what, to me, are the wrong places. Plus unlined necks look nicer 🙂

You need a bradawl. Or file a point on an old beat up small crosshead. Actually better than a drill for small holes as the screw has more to grip, and less likely to wander if drilling a pugged hole where the plug may be much harder/softer than the surrounding material. (Often, I use my pillar drill - I put a sheet on the table to prevent scratches).

+1 on the Rumbles in terms of weight, performance and cost. They sound good, if lacking a strong character.

More seriously we are exhorted to put compressors before distortion/overdrive pedals. This can help make sure the effect is balanced as you go up the neck as such effects tend to fade out otherwise. But the cost is you lose a lot of the subtlety of changing tone you get as notes attack and fade that guitarists revel in.

And your point is? 🤣

I get fed up with sellers who list 'samples' as a con to get listed at the top of the 'lowest price inc. P&P list'. This may be genuine of course, if they are making the scratchplates themselves and sending offcuts

I've made a few comments about over-ornateness of many Alembics, but I think to be fair I should be more specific as there's really only one feature that puts me right off, and ironically here's a peach of an example: I really don't want a dual function bass/pickle fork.

If a Squier is out of reach, I don't think you can go far wrong with either of those.

Fonky. IMHO it would be great if music shops provided backing tracks (or even just drum tracks) for when you try out a bass. At the very least it might stop some of the slapmeisters in their tracks 🙂

AC/DC All of them (except Angus) sacked 2017. Re-hired 2020.

For me Hold Out Your Hand makes the cut 🙂

No love for Fish out of Water?

Launderette and roast chicken noted...

All the best pedals are brown.

Even my mate who was Yes's greatest fan warned me that Tales from Topo should only be approached with care, once you had acclimatised to their other albums (this was back in the 80s...)

I have the Murder Ballads, cheerful soul our Nick.

Bleach my ears!

Shame on you. I am Greenslade's fan!

Fender Nickel?

Probably the worst album cover, ever. Worse than Born Again, even. Even after allowing for the fact the album was going to be called War Pigs.

It fooled me... I'd believe anything on one of those 🙂

Hmm. Tiny pedalboards risk looking pretentious ('I have all the ingredients required for perfect tone') while huge ones suggest a paralysing inability to prioritise or make decisions (oops I fit into that category...) So is there a sweet spot and how many pedals is that (multi-fx users excluded as they want to have their cake and eat it 🙂 )

I love the Nice's treatment of Bernstein's song of the same name:

This could be helpful but he seems to have ahead and behind the wrong way round 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 It;''s instructive to listen without watching. It's not to hard to spot the changes but as he says in his comment it's easier to judge when the drums are behind.