Stub Mandrel

Looks like spots of paint or tippex on the neck dots. Clay side dots are very hard to see... I have vinyl dots stuck on mine.

Interesting. If the body and neck are original.

It's only 140W into 8R from memory, true, but the built in compression makes up for a fair bit of lost headroom.

Cool. White decals are so hard to source.

Fuses checked?

I'd buy a Trace Elliot Elf as a stopgap - if budget allows. Cheap and it gives you a genuine emergency amp you can keep hidden in the car. Perfectly gig-worthy and gives you the time to try things before you decide on what should be your main amp.

If you expect to change pickups, get a Squier 40th Anniversary (if you can find one). If you want a vintage 60s sound you won't need to change a thing.

A few relatively straightforward classics to get down ready for a rehearsal on Tuesday. Knock on Wood - Duck Dunn's simple figure using the sixth where most people would use the seventh or octave is sublime 🙂

I've had this a couple of times. Not mains shock, but a lip tingle - being moist and crammed with receptor cells the lips are very sensitive to static and fairly low potentials. These days a cause can be double-insulated gear 'floating' above ground, one cause can be both ends of a signal chain with a ground lift perhaps made worse by leakage across ans SMPSU. Double insulated chargers can do this. So perhaps start by checking the mic's ground is continuous with earth.

Some of my upcoming gigs...

Finally watched my Chronicle of the Black Sword DVD - after years! I was at the original gig and I have the studio and live albums, and it's still awesome.

My first gig, probably 1987. My most recent gig photo: Inspired by @Wombat and his replica pose/playing style, it seems my left hand technique hasn't changed much in nearly four decades! Another shot from the recent gig:

I set my car stereo volume to 11, 17 or 23 just to annoy people like you 🤣

You still think 'I wonder where they came from?'

Well Woody gets the tick, it seems.

Have you tried WinISD as mentioned above? It's a bit non-intuitive if you don't know all the terms but I've managed to get it to work, so if you've used other cab software you should find it easy enough.

For anyone as confused as @tauzero:

I once orded from Farnell, a single microprocessor about 20mm. It arrived in a plastic frame for 100 chips about ten inches square, sandwiched under another one. In an anti-electrostatic bag. In a standard plastic bag. Surrounded by bubble wrap. In a cardboard box. Surrounded by cardboard packing. Inside a cardboard box over two feet square. Someone must have been having a very borjng afternoon. 😁

Whomsoever can answer the question, will get their answer ticked and a credit towards obtaining the rare and only slightly less mysterious Third Badge.

So what's the mysterious fourth badge?

It's possible, but not common, to make your posts a poll question. I wonder if the poster is able to mark an answer as 'best'?

I learned a new word today.

I play fingerstyle quite hard but don't get blisters or callouses. Is it a technique thing?

£7 🤣

Typically, this sort of thing... cheap enough not to worry about being ripped off, but I haven't been (yet). https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005008052686848.html?algo_exp_id=f349a06c-7271-443d-8abd-ed25e12716bd-2&pdp_ext_f={"order"%3A"14"%2C"eval"%3A"1"}&utparam-url=scene%3Asearch|query_from%3A|x_object_id%3A1005008052686848|_p_origin_prod%3A