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Also meant to add in that comment a few months ago, based on a lot of my reading: Part of the problem with aging is literally not having the same power production as you used to for your brain. So connections have to go in order to be able to supply power to the most critical parts of your...

Depends on if they're straight Ps or not. I'm mostly a short-scale player, but have two Ps: one of the early single coil style and a current model. That plus a Ric 4003/5 are my only long scale. I prefer 5 strings, but that's hard to find in short scale.

Curiosity: is that a walnut body with a clear finish or an alder body with a transparent one? (Or...?)

There's been a lot of research that ties hearing loss to dementia (though harder to know which is causative). Regardless, hearing protection may help you far longer term than just hearing. As someone who's already had a younger former coworker die of dementia-related side effects, plus as...

For the reasons you mention later, I'm not a wenge lover, but it falls into the class of woods (along with red oak, etc.) that are like working shrapnel. I'd rather work teak, which is saying something (having seen a teak board take a chunk out of a hand plane blade).

Thanks for all these. I did a setup class last year. I did try putting a finger on the bridge, which neither stopped the buzz, nor felt like that was the place it was buzzing. No frets that felt high, and the string itself didn’t seem to be the issue. If it were the truss rod, wouldn’t it be...

That’s a good point, and I can’t discount the strings. I hadn’t ordered different ones for it because I hadn’t decided whether I wanted flats on it or not.

Mostly, I don't care what's on the fretboard (except for aesthetic reasons), but for a P-bass, I prefer the sound of maple. It just makes it sound that teensy bit more P-bassy.

This really isn't a G&L specific question. Got a Fallout Bass (US) recently and there's a slight buzz on my #1 string. Catch is, I just had eye surgery this week, and what's not working yet eye-wise is focusing on close fine detail, so I can't see what's going on. I'm expecting it's most likely...

Music Theory for Guitar goes way beyond the normal modes and scales to explain lots of more interesting scales, etc. This is one on the Byzantine scale.

I'm in a position where I can afford to buy new gear, though not go too wild. In October, I took a bass and a guitar down to my local store, and then upgraded both. The first to go, an Epiphone Studio, was one I bought out of sentimentality. My first electric was a 50s Junior, and I missed it...

G&L's LB-100 is very similarly priced ($1,840-$1955). If you go on Guitar Center's site and filter on American-made (and Canadian-made) basses then sort from lowest to highest, you'll see that most of the least expensive American-made basses are Fender.

Ha, no, more worried about my own (lack of) precision, especially as a former viola player. After woodwinds, learning fretless strings was quite a challenge. A friend recently asked if I had a fretless, and I said I didn't: partly because I just don't have many songs to play that I think would...

I just can't get past the irony of a fretless p-bass, given the history of the name. I think it's worth it, given the current costs in the modern environment (I remember it being just under $2k less than 2 years ago). I'd be more inclined to do a Warmoth build, personally as there are more...

What’s really changed is the availability of large hunks from old-growth trees, though. Wood is an organic material, which is why the same bass can vary by a pound (~ half a kilo) or more even with modern manufacturing. I’m not saying modern basses can’t sound good, just that there can be a...