Stub Mandrel

Now why can't all musicians where nice sensible clothes like that? I note he doesn't bother to play the fills when he's singing the lyrics 🙂

It's been long enough now that it's time for a tiny truss rod tweak, 1/4 turn made a big difference. Also interesting how Fender mark the body:

Paws off! 16mm? No problem for me, but then I play fingerstyle guitar sometimes 🙂

I've measured the screws on my MIM Jazz. They are ~1/8" diameter by 32tpi which makes them #5 UNC. Put "#5 UNC pan head screw" into Google or eBay and you should find what you need easily enough. Length 40mm for the E and A strings, 45mm for D and G.

Thanks to you I've just spent fifty minutes down a rabbit hole discovering that a 'Bottom Buddy' is not what you might expect.

Good point, Stagg cables (which are silly good value) come with a velcro tag fitted.

I can make a holder out of plywood 🙂

Glurk... just about to buy a ticket... and spotted I'm seeing Saxon at Glasgow Barrowlands on the Friday!

Oh oh. I thought that one I collected off @ped was a bit heavy. @Raymondo I may need your specialist services...

I found that, but I also found this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/172796465454

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/M3-3mm-Pan-Head-Pozi-Machine-Screws-Zinc-Plated/273870352856?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649 These fit if it's metric. Bear in mind the spring is just to keep it in the right place when stringing up so anything that's roughly the right size will do (e.g. out of a biro).

Seek out a Hohner Jack Custom V 🙂

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According to another thread, all you need is switch to a valve amp... 😈

I don't know, some of us have bass instincts 🤣

Is there some magical search term that will turn up a midi foot-keyboard/pedal board without being swamped by other types of pedal board etc.

I don't have any trouble doing this, honestly.

As I recall we used to judge the 'Carlsbro sound' by comparing them with other amps 🙂 (Sorry, still smarting from 98 being referred to as 'early days...)

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The two pickups have magnets and a coil. The magents can have north on top or south on top. Rotating obviously doesn't affect this. They could be wound clockwise or anti-clockwise, again rotation doesn't affect this. Humbucking 101 in case anyone isn't up to speed: The 'hum cancelling' effect of a humbucker is normally achieved by either reversing the magnets of one pickup and connecting its coil the other way around. This means the two (magnetically induced) signals from the strings will be in-phase and add up, while any electromagnetic fields causing hum in the coils will be out of phase cancel out. As well as often having subtly different windings or pole piece spacings paired pickups (like on a Jazz bass) are normally set up like this to give a humbucking effect. If the pups are mis-wired you won't get any humbucking effect (stand near an amp with a transformer in it and don't play, just wind the pups in and out and see if the hum reduces or increases with both pups on full ) and the sound will be weak. Where it can go pear shaped is when people decide to mod an instrument without realising this and use two identical PUPS (e.g. two bridge pickups). Wired one way these will 'humbuck' but will sound weak, wired the other they will sound stronger together but hum will get worse with both of them dialled. Thinking about it, if the bass has had its pups changed, is it possible this is what has been done?

Is anyone seriously going to buy a bass called Lionel? Is that Bart, Blair or Barrymore?

The Yammy BB is outstanding for the money, no question, so not surprised you're finding it a hard bass to compete with. The PJ EMG GBs do sound awesome - I'd love to hear what they sound like in action. Any clips of you playing? @burno70 & @Frank Blank - come on boys, let's get some pics up that we can drool over (again!) Why not put the Geezer Butler PUPs in the Yamaha BadBoy?

I figured that out next... 🙂

I did once take smug pleasure in telling a guitarist his g-string was out of tune 🙂

I thought 'This guy seems to think he's Sting' ... and then I saw the last photo 🙂