Shaggy

Much as above; tuning to piano at home (I had to keep asking my piano-playing sister which was the right key), and lucky enough to have keys in my first band. I trained on violin, so well used to using pitch pipes. For many years I owned a mid-1960's Vox Special Mk.VI teardrop 6 string guitar which had wacky onboard active electronics, including a feature that if you pulled a switch on one of the tone controls you'd hear an audible top E tone to tune to. British engineering way ahead of its time.....

Mad I think WS and Leonard Nimoy must have had a bet on for who could be musically most bizarre Make Captain Kirk President, I say......

Pics needed for @Bassassin I'd say, could be almost anything!

Lovely - bit of Harmony / Ric vibe going on there......

Beautiful. About the only bass left on my bucket / GAS list

Blimey that takes me back - Eric's was such a small intimate venue, it was being in someone's living room! (a very dark, very sweaty one...) I was right at the front of the stage but don't recognise the back of my head. Amazing gig; the energy of the band and the raw angst coming off Ian Curtis was absolutely electrifying. Nice to see the old members notice too: OMD were pretty much the "house band" at the Uni Students Union back then - Echo & the Bunnymen, Wah Heat! and The Teardrop Explodes were frequently there too. Great days. Funnily enough was clearing out some stuff the other day and found my old membership card. Sorry for going off topic - I've never personally had great experiences with Hondos, but this is clearly a pretty special one to have.

Good score! I was lucky enough to see Joy Division live (Eric's Liverpool Dec '79) and am ashamed to say I can't remember what bass PH was playing......

Bass-wise I've only bought Luminlay inlays from Japan, but have bought a fair bit of vintage camera gear from there with very positive experiences every time; they seem to take communication and customer satisfaction very seriously

Had a FREE set of DR strings off Kim; I can only confirm the comments above - great guy, great communications, posted super-fast. Thanks fella!

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Stunning bass, congrats to all concerned Beautiful grain & figuring on that body (Claro walnut?) - too nice to put a pickguard on IMHO!

Apologies @BassTool - I'd completely missed this - I post so rarely these days that I inevitably forget about it when I do! That does look like a potentially neat solution, and as you say, is probably the only one there is.