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Not a very elegant solution, though, is it. Nor does it do much to cure the slight GAS build up... Maybe get a cheap Bronco and attack it with a saw! 😃

Doing some reading... calling @alyctes you still have both an Alien and a Duke? If you have the time, sir, how would you say they stacked up against each other?

Thanks for this. Looks like the Hohner is a non-starter but I will look more closely at the Alien/Duke basses. Gotta love Basschat!

Marvellous, thank you.

Never played - or even seen in the flesh - a Hondo Alien. Are they any good?

Someone please shoot me down quickly. I quite fancy the idea of a short scale headless bodiless bass a la Hohner B2A. I can see it might be easy to 'just' saw off the neck at approx. the first two frets and put the end thingamebob back on. But what about the truss rod? That I imagine makes it a no go - but does it?

Works for me now, pc with Chrome. Well done, if anyone did anything.

🤣 never heard that before. Excellent 🤣

This aligns very much with my circumstances. I'm 62 but the figures are more or less the same. Getting music back into my life after a 25-ish year hiatus felt like that bit of me that had been missing all those years was back in place. And I'm not married to Silvie of course.

Thank you! Where was that? Didn't know Joe was tarting himself around this week?

That's my exact winning combination, too - Jake 5, Delano pickup, TI flats. I have TI flats on all my basses.

I like my basses to be passive, solid black, if a scratchplate then B/W/B, maple neck and fretboard, split P type Humbucker. Either Fender shaped or double cutaway However the bass I play the most is my Gibson Les Paul Jnr DC which ticks only some of those boxes.

A lean year, just 14 gigs with three bands. One is brand new so just picking up, one band folded half-way through the year and one is never busy. Hoping for more next year.

My blues rock trio are playing at The Shamrock Inn this coming Sunday 5th Jan. Kick-off will be around 6pm. As endorsed by BBC Suffolk's Stephen 'Foz' Foster https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10221184317019862&id=1303526139&sfnsn=scwspmo&extid=qGDpiiDwGUMyWUoe

I'm enjoying one, too. I bought the 300 for home practice/small gigs but traded up to the 500 - my intention being to also use it as back up for my main gig amp, a Quilter BB800. But in reality I find myself reaching for this one at the moment.

This seems to be the case 'ereabouts, too. It was one of the deciding factors when my 'classic rock covers band' decided to morph into a Bon Jovi tribute. At least Bon Jovi don't play Mr F^cking Brightside.

Chrome and doing it on my pc.

I don't currently have one in my team but when I do have a fretless it is always unlined. Given that I am equally bad at both lined and unlined the unsullied board wins it for me

I've seen Nik Kershaw a handful of times recently. He did a tour with Go West a couple of years back which was the first time I had ever seen him - he is amazing. HUGE personality and charisma. One of the gigs, think it was IndigO2, they each did an arrangement of one of the others songs. He did 'Missing Persons' and it elevated what is already a fabulous tune to another level. Saw him do a solo acoustic gig at Union Chapel in London and it was just a brilliant night. His guitar playing isn't too shabby, either. Very talented guy.

A bit like this? https://www.jibjab.com/view/make/party_new_year_clip/2a14d8d5-86c8-4c15-8f44-f753d1694c51

Proper job. Love the adjustable spacers. I assume, Michael, you don't subscribe to the notion that all Precisions sound the same?

This reminds me of something my brother-in-law told me once. He is a huge Shadows fan and a regular visitor to a Shadows discussion group. One time they were arguing about what guitar Hank Marvin used to record a particular track, forget which now - was it the Strat or the Burns? Most people reckoned the Strat but one fellow said he had analysed the sound and it couldn't have possibly been a Strat because of x,y and z that appeared on the read out and therefore it could only have been the Burns. 'Jet' Harris, who was at the time an occasional poster said he was there when the recording was made and it was the Strat. They guy said, 'No, you are wrong, it was the Burns'. 😅

This is a little patronising, tbh. I reckon that, as a general rule, people with dodgy backs don't aggravate them when lifting heavy weights for this very reason. Certainly in my case it is those silly little movements that you don't prepare for that catch you out, usually involving a slight twisting motion. Of course it isn't the same for everyone as each back injury is different Off the top of my head I have made my back go into spasm and caused myself a lot of pain and immobility by doing the following: cutting my toe nails (I now have a chiropodist!) putting on socks tying shoe laces (now wear mainly slip-on) drying where the sun doesn't shine with a towel extending a tape measure filling a kettle with water mis-judging a dip in the pavement getting up from sitting in a low sofa I'm 62. I've gone to the gym all my life - started lifting weights when I played rugby at school and carried on. Never had a back injury through lifting weights or moving anything heavy up until the 'extending a tape measure' incident 17 years ago which came totally out of the blue. I used to be as strong as an ox but now just look like one I still go to the gym regularly but now it is all about core strength and flexibility.

You wouldn't think fret wire was so heavy, would you.