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I think Jazzes had the blocks and binding officially from 1966 but there's always periods either side of dates where things have appeared and disappeared. They continued until 1980-1 when they went back to dots and no binding. they also got rid of the 3 bolt neck and bullet truss rod as well that started on these around 1975. I have a picture in a book of an original Precision bass with blocks and binding. I think that they did offer the Precision with a narrow neck option for a while just as MM did with the Stingray I enjoy writing single line statements.

I used to change my SR5 battery every year and put the old battery in my Korg pedal tuner. It would last another 2 years in there!

I think if you like Stingrays, you'll love this one. I've had about 7 but this one was the best. It had growl coming out of the wazoo due to the mahogany body on an already growly bass. Its been about a year since i sold mine but I'm pretty sure you could string it both ways, although i could be wrong. IMO [i]the[/i] best finish of any Stingray. the deep translucent red was so beautiful with matching neck and headstock. Totally stunning. Also came with matching Musicman G&G hardcase that was almost as stunning as the bass. Sold it because I wanted to go back to passive basses and the whole reason my gold warmoth has a mahogany body. Definitely head over to the EB forum. There's so much information on there and links to external stuff with all the rare and limited edition basses as well.

+ for slinkies. they are fantastic strings. I used them on just about everything including Stingrays, Rickenbackers and both my '51 reissue precisions. Nice and smooth feeling and very punchy. My current choice, and has been for the last year, are Optima strings. not too bad on the fingers, last a long time(my last set were on for 8 months) I use the gold ones on my Gold Warmoth and the Chrome ones on my newest one. I actually think i prefer the chrome ones now. They are more expensive but if you contact A Strings [url="http://www.astrings.co.uk/"]http://www.astrings.co.uk/[/url] they are the UK distributor and managed to sort me out with my first set at a reduced price. I haven't bought any more from them yet as they do last for ages. The chrome ones are also cheaper than the gold ones for obvious reasons.

One of my old bands did this recently We hadn't even seen each other, never mind played, for the best part of 12 years. All good fun though. got together to do some entertainment ( and indeed it was ) for one of the cancer research Race for Life events

You'd be hard pushed to change the pickguard on the 20th Stingray - Its glued on! I used to have a 20th & 30th

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I find that volume varies according to how many people are in a room. If the dancefloor's quiet then volume stays low but as soon as more people appear then it seems to dampen down the volume meaning that I have to turn up a bit. I'm sure someone will be able to give a more scientific explanation of this but I'm guessing most people will be at the get together today.

I think that there are a couple of ways to go with this: Keep it following the same layout but add a few extra bits here and there. How about bringing the Wiki into the main body of the forum? Have a sub forum just for these things. I think possibly that a lot of people don't see the Wiki button away up there when they are looking for information. There is also a lot of room for expansion as well: There are only a couple of players covered so far but I could probably put together something about at least 10-15 players that would provide useful information to people who may be reading about someone but not really knowing who they are. i didn't know that section existed until I looked just now. There is sometimes the case where you get people asking the same question about something every so often. It might be an idea to have FAQ sections for each of the sub forums but instead of taking the form of a thread sticky it could be a list of questions with hyperlinks to the information. I definitely agree about splitting the for sale section down a bit further as well to keep things neater and make looking for items easier. I'll probably think of more but I think this could be done without spending more, just getting some extra help. There have been a couple of offers already and I would be happy to help as well. A second option would be to open up the traders section. I think people probably just pass this without realising what is in there. Try and get more people involved. Every business put there is trying to get as much sales as they can so getting some online retailers on board as well as the smaller sole traders (such as DHA already here) would help give them more exposure in return for a small percentage. Don't charge them for advertising here as this would probably frighten them away but if someone here buys something then a certain amount goes back into the Basschat admin fund. It doesn't just have to be equipment related: how about bass related clothing, bass clinics, books and concert tickets. there are probably others as well. The third option if none of those work would be having Talkbs style adverts. I never found that they got in the way but if you look at the page you are reading just now, you have the whole screen to read stuff - on TB you miss the top and the left hand side with the adverts. I enjoy coming here, learning information, passing information on, passing out childish double entenders about 'tugbars' and so on and would hate to see something occur that could signal the demise of this fine European forum (we do have a fair few non Brits here as well). I couldn't handle going back to talkbs. One final point - Sandy Toxic - No!