Random Guitarist

The way I see it, the guy has by any reasonable standard entirely mastered bass playing. His collection of videos, taken as a whole, look like the product of a high-functioning musically aware individual. I'd think he's definitely smart enough to know what is needed for a scenario, and to decline to take part if he didn't fancy playing.. I suspect he'd be a delight to play with because he has plenty of mental capacity left over from playing to listen and create little details.

Might be a 'marital harmony' sale, unwillingly listed and priced not to sell

A guy I went to school with started a valve company many years ago, they buy NOS etc. The page is here: https://web211.secure-secure.co.uk/tube-and-valve-electronics.co.uk/wanted.asp Probably worth contacting. Thanks, Grant.

I'd second that endorsement. I bought a roasted maple tele neck from guitar anatomy perfect fit to a fender body and very nice quality

Nice, I've been looking forward to hearing how this goes.

Assuming you treat gear well and it's an investment for a few year, I'd suggest squeezing the budget up to £260 and going for Sennheiser HD650s. They are very good.

I've used them twice and had good results, especially considering the cost. Things to note: Height adjustment is limited, you may need to recess the bridge into your bass body You must disassemble and grease the internals or turning the tuning knobs is a challenge The top end string holder is a little finicky to position for good results (string break angle vs truss rod access) Good things: They are easy to get in tune Once tuned they are very stable They are cheap

Other possibility I'd suggest is that you may have a dry solder joint to the PCB and slight movements of the socket cause issues. That would be worse when the nut is removed as the socket is then more free to move

Have you tried cleaning the contacts with de-oxit? There may well be a tiny bit of corrosion/contamination in just the wrong spot, especially on a used item.

Nice, given how thin .1 is I assume you'll be making sure the existing board is super flat before uniting them in glue?

I like the chip where it is. I also need to order a couple of custom ones for myself now, thanks for sharing!

I've had very good success with homemade cutters made of tubing. I cut the teeth in the opposite direction to that video image and run the drill counter clockwise. In several instances I have had the homemade cutter bind to the broken screw and reverse it out without drilling the hole out to more then a couple of mm depth

Gear4Music have 'Mahogany' and Ash ones for £50, but no Alder https://www.gear4music.com/search/?str_search_phrase=bass+guitar+body

That reminds me of when I did some work at a flight simulator company, a lot of the engineers had started in Fortran and migrated to C. They migrated syntax, but some never mastered the new idioms, and were writing what became known as C-tran

Looking at this a bit more I think it's probably possible to do something similar with an Arduino Nano plus the multiplexer and displays? It would need to be configured via USB, not web, and would be limited in terms of capabilities, but might suit the kind of device I need more closely. Thank you, very thought provoking