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I shall watch for ongoing updates with interest, and I do hope your back improves, and better still, resoves ASAP 👍

Phoenix.. Perfect!... I'll be interested to see how it evolves, hopefully you'll do a build thread..

Erm, well I'm sure certain frequencies might be, hmm 'stimulating' if applied in the right direction .

Unbelievably tragic that after all that they were burnt, such a waste..

What's this "cleaning kit" you speak of? 😁

Go on.. You know you want to... 👍

I'd additionally have to confess to having played the bass with an e-bow.... One "thing" we did, I hesitate to call it a song, involved me self making "interesting" low noises on the bass (rickenbacker of course) with the above little gizmo, whilst the singer recited a load of Aliester Crowley malarkey, from an olde leather covered book naturally...

Pimp.? . Hmm Maybe wear one o' them leopard skin trilbys when playing it..

For full disclosure.. Quite some while ago myself and a guitarist / singer decided to look for a drummer, we hired a rehearsal room and a drummer we'd arranged to try out arrived, set up etc.. Anyway we play him some of the stuff we'd devised, with the view to just having a bit of a jam with him and see how it went.. .. as soon as we introduced our material his eyes lit up.. "Ah.. Prog Rock!" he exclaimed... 😁 Anyway, I feel better having got that out in the open...

With a straight multi fx pedal tho, he can still use it for silent practice by plugging h/phones in, but he can also use it "out loud" with his amp

A multi effects pedal..?

We always refer to him as Bodybag Darrell these days...

Always! 👍

Thanks for the Intel 👍 I was only concerned that a downward force behind the nut might, on the thicker strings, create a somewhat vague bend in the string affecting how it seats in the slot. That said there's a fair old pull on them once tensioned so they'd likely seat as intended. I'll try "as is" then, and can always file and fettle later if there's an issue.

When I saw the title I thought it was going to be a Fender jazz finished in erm.. Shiny gold foil.. Doh.!

Yep, I was wearing dark glasses and a tatty overcoat, someone was convinced I was Jarvis Cocker 🤣

... Just say "No"

A Squier PJ bass is the only one at the mo that's not completely disassembled and lying about in bits..

The old Eko acoustic gits had a 4 screw bolt on neck, and quite a large body as I recall... sticking a bass neck on an acoustic body was one of the notions I toyed with at one point.

Ah fair enough.. Pity these aren't just regular forums rather than attached to the 'orrible fizzogg thing

I was worrying about all that before I tried it loosely together, but having had a good look it will work I think, it's the string holes in the block that need to be just below the slots in the nut, or where the strings break over I should say, I'll prob have to do a bit of filing to the nut slots to get it to be happy. I've tried poking the strings thru just loose to ensure that there is sufficient "path way" and it looks like a goer.. As mentioned I've got a zero fret thing stashed in my junk which I could call into play if the regular nut doesn't want to co-operate, I can bully that in place if I need to 😁

OK, interesting to know of anyway, the little bit I could see by clicking the link seemed to be saying "no fakers" but poss different once you're "in"

There was a trumpet player who's band mates, as a gag, put a well 'gone off' fish down his trumpet, which (in it's case) lived in the boot of his car, by the time he discovered this aparrently it was so bad that nothing would shift it, he threw the trumpet & case in the bin in the end..

OK thanks for that, so it's another Fb thing then, there's prob a few areas that'd interest me over there but can't really bring myself to get involved with Facebook! From what I can see on the link they seem to be anti "faker" too... 🤨

Have you got a link or something to rickenhackers? I can't seem to find anything obvious on 'tinternet (tho I'm pretty rubbish with all that malarkey)