Paul S

First time I saw Bonnie Raitt. Her voice, her guitar playing, both used to such devastatingly emotional effect. Never heard anyone play slide guitar like that. The control and subtlety, timing, note choices just blew me away. The way she slowly increased the vibrato in the note, the light and shade. But mainly her singing - it just made me cry. Only during the sad bits, obvs.

Probably the same sort of places and conditions that everything we all use, every day, comes from. Clothes, electronics - you name it, all cheap labour. I stopped wondering a long time ago 'cos it is a situation that has gone too far to be fixed.

Muchas gracias!

Could a proud owner please weigh one of these? Ta.

my ex band toyed with the idea of this but we never got round to it in the end:

I've used Essex Amp Repairs a couple of times and, tbh, wasn't that pleased with what they did. I can say the same for some repairs they have recently done on a couple of amps I know of that clearly had faults they were unable or reluctant to spend time identifying. I would unhesitatingly recommend Electronic Music Services They sorted out my Mesa Boogie prodigy 4:88 when it blew a fuse and took half the pcb with it. Cost me an arm and a leg, mind you, but that wasn't their fault. But recently I have become more acquainted with a chap called Leighton Jennings and he is now my go-to guy for everything. He is a one man band working out of his garage, makes guitars and amps, repairs them, top bloke. Also vintage record players! Both are nearer than Witham, too!

.... bridges, strap pins, sandpaper, masking tape, nice paint finishes.... What a mess!

Yup. Absolutely beautiful. Moved on a few times since now.

Maybe I have been very unlucky with Fenders and very lucky with Squiers but I have handled many, many Precision basses and the best three were Squiers. Two of them JVs, one a Fender logo one, the one I have kept (below) a bit later in '82. The other one was a medium scale A series. I have no agenda, no shares in Squier basses, no axe to grind with Fender - I just wanted to keep the ones I liked best. And they were Squiers. I would say to anyone who reckons JV Squiers are ordinary, just pop round here and have a go on this gorgeous thing

A new craft knife! How exciting. 😄 Be really interested in the weight of this one. Basswood, according to specs?

Extremely good, thanks - you?

I think the logo is great. But I look at that and think 'it is a gorilla, not a monkey' Sorry.

Not sure if this is a good example or not? A damned fine choon, either way

Lost the lid, obvs.

So that's where my missing jig-saw piece went!

Couple of pics nicked off t'net, same idea, different approach.

Worth another mention for baking powder. I acquired an upholstered 60s chair that absolutely reeked of that special 'charity shop blend' of aromas. Flushed with the success of deodorising my old slippers the chair was treated to a sprinkling of baking powder, brushed in, left for a day, vacuumed off. Had to do it 3 times but it has worked.

Matron! I said remove his spectacles!

The Real Me is a good shout, I'd forgotten that. Ditto Mercy a couple of posts up. Seeing 'Blinded By The Light' up there reminds me that I generally prefer Springsteen songs when they are performed by other people. 'Fire' by The Pointer Sisters', 'Born To Run' by Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

They are different beasts in a lot of ways. Both give a Precision bass tone, but with different flavours. The Entwistle Neo is a more aggressive, harder sound. But roll off the tone and it still does vintage - but perhaps not so lush and rich. Similar to my ears to a Seymour Duncan quarterpounder, which was industry standard replacement for rock for some while but a good deal more expensive. I did actually put a CS '62 set in that Honcore bass to replace the PBXN that I initially fitted. 'Give it a treat' I thought. Tried it, put the PBXN back in again. For the job I needed - a slightly edgier rockier tone for a blues rock trio - the PBXN was a better fit. For me that is one of the absolute joys of fiddling about, trying different pickups, which ones match the sound in my head. etc. A Ki0gon loom has a screw terminal fixing so you don't even need to worry about soldering. Speaking of a better fit - one thing with the PBXN is the pole pieces are very long so you'll need to make sure you have a fairly generous cavity, So to speak.

Just found the pic I was looking for. Bit out of focus but you get the idea. A 3.1kg rawk machine