Stub Mandrel

A Google reverse image search came up with a few ideas. This is a much better looking one off Amazon, but actually sold by Northwest Guitars for about £22. https://www.amazon.co.uk/String-Electric-Precision-Guitar-Bridge/dp/B00BR0O5PS

Yes some of those Amazon ones look very cheaply made (that one looked better on my phone, now it's huge on my PC...) I'm sure I've seen your 'original' bridge somewhere before in the mists of time...

I bought personalised plectrums for my band as promo items. I'm slowly giving them away. As I don't play with them, do they count?

Other options: https://www.musicstore.com/en_GB/GBP/Ibanez-2BB4ACA026-Bass-Bridge-Set-B305-Cosmo-Black/art-GIT0036582-000 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bridge-Installation-4-string-Durable-Performance/dp/B0CRJZX4D4

Bass player Pete Hurley was in Lone Star 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Just turned up at my local club for the Red Hot Pokers. They've backed lots of famous blues players and toured as van Morrison's band. That's Marco Palladino on drums (Pino's brother). Not bad for a local club, and it's packed.

It used to be that the system was somewhat loaded in favour of establishing a small company instead of being self-employed. The ideabis to encourage entrepreneurs and grow the economy. Doing this and being VAT registered has enabled me to subcontract out work I would no otherwise have taken on. The income benefit of having a personal company instead of being self-employed was eroded so much under a succession of tory governments (reductions in dividend allowances and increase in dividend tax rates) the benefit is now so small that it is questionable if it's worth the effort. The way covid support was set up excluded single person companies and forced us into covid loans we are still paying off. Quite extraordinary for the 'party of smsll business'.

Only about 11 lined up between now and September and one venue has gone worryingly quiet. Most are at venues I like playing.

There's a product called evaporust that would do a wicked job on that bridge.

In the 80s all Boss bass pedals were brown.

It is cool! The dark one actually IS daphne blue!

Most hotel bookings allow you to cancel without penalty this far out.

I think it's compression rather than limiting, it's relatively unobtrusive, not harsh at all. Keep up the Trace Elliot tradition of 'they sound best when the gain light flashes' 🙂

There was a chap who in three years went from a nervous acoustic covers to writing songs with a band.

It kind of depends. The 'Blues Dragon' nughts lean towards a true jam... the Earl Haig 'open mic/jam session' leans towards the latter. Most of the local open mics are dominated by acoustic singer/ guitarist types but often get a backing if people are available. They can all be a lot of fun, this one was memorable:

Fascinating! I've just run around with my UV torch.. one weird thing, some 'white' walls look terrible under uv! The basses all look matt under uv! Mid-80s Maya with cracked off poly. Mid 80's sunburst Fender Performer turned daphne blue! 1950s mandolin showing clear wear Nitro finished snd slightly reliced kit I made during covid shows wear not visible to naked eye (only the bright bit is visible) 1960s Kay/Teisco doesn’t show many secrets!

There's the mighty Deard Zeppelin featuring Tortelvis.

If it's a private limited company the Directors own the shares, and they are not publicly traded.

This is the 'secret' of the Trace Elliot Elf, as you push the gain compression comes in giving you extra headroom by squishing that initial peak.

We do in rehearsals! But it's done in a let's get better way and we also share what we are struggling with. The drummer and I are working on Hysteria which is causing us headaches...

If she is willing to dish it out, then I would not be afraid to tell her what you've shared with us. The occasional mention of her more egregious errors would do no harm, especially if delivered with meticulous politeness and respect in a supportive manner "I could see you were having a few minor issues with that passage, have you considered...?"

I can't relate! I have quite a few basses. If I have two similar ones I do something to make them sound or feel different- fit mutes, or flatwound strings. I like swapping between neck widths and profiles, string spacings, 4 and 5 strings, headless and normal, cheap and not so cheap, passive and active, light and not so light, aggressive and mellow. Currently getting a huge kick out of my £70 Harley Benton kit bass with a Squier neck. Very light and sounds HUGE! Before that it was my Sire P10 getting all the attention, totally different bass! So no I don't fall outof love with basses, I'm polyamorous with them!

I still have my brown GE-7B from the 1980s.

Dividends should be to distribute profits... sadly if a company is large enough it seems they can be used to distribute borrowed income.

I occasionally get a novice sent my way to find a song I can play with them. Sometimes they've not played with a bass player before and it's great to see them be part of a 'band' for the first time.