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The photos are a little blurry from being too close to the lens, but I think I'm seeing a few scuffs, a couple small dents on the back corner, and a small black dot that I can't identify but could be part of the wood. All of this on what looks like a satin finish. Please let me know if I'm...

It might be possible for you to repair yourself or you may need to take it to a professional. It would be easier to tell if you posted a few photos.

It's not going to look anything like new at all if you do this. It will just look like a much bigger messed up area.

It's really hard to tell from a photo, but it doesn't seem to be warped to me. The nut is supposed to be higher for the lower strings. You have to ignore the nut and focus on the frets when you look down the neck from the nut.

One of the first things you should do when you buy an instrument, new or used, is check if the neck is straight and if the frets are level. If either of those is off then you're going to have problems that normal adjustments can't fix. You can check if the neck is straight by sighting down the...

It sounds like you're talking about the finish aging differently under the sticker then in places that were exposed. With something like this usually it just takes some time to even out on its own. Depending on how long the stickers were on there it could take a very long time. If you just leave...

Basically any of them will. Those frequencies below 60Hz or so are not important to the sound of the bass. They just sound like a rumbling noise and the only time you don't want to cut them out is if you want your music to sound muddy or extremely quiet.

I think it's more a case of two devices trying to do the exact same thing.

Also make sure to set the bass on a soft surface that won't scratch it, just in case since you didn't mention it. And when you put the screws back into the neck make sure to find the threads that are already cut into the wood with the screw so that you're not cutting new threads into the neck...

I can't find any measurements of their performance besides a frequency response graph (not very helpful) but I can tell you that they do have a very flat response. They would at least be provably very good for most mixing and mastering type things. I don't think that they can outperform a...

Nice work on that wrench! If you don't have a grinder you can buy a tool that's very similar called a flare nut wrench. Probably going to cost more, but also probably less than buying or renting a grinder.

It's looks it's just a mixture of two different types of paraffin they decided to use. C13H28 and C14H30 it seems like. C13 comes from allspice essential oil, C14 is also an essential oil but it must have a variety of sources because I can't tell what plant it comes from. Alkanes are very...

You can totally just stick a bit of business card in the neck pocket and be good to go. Won't do any harm at all as many of the people on this board who have done it many times will attest. If you bottom out your saddles the break angle probably won't be optimum, but it doesn't matter so long...

When you're recording you should be prepared enough to not even be thinking about making mistakes. But the emotion of the performance is by far the most important thing in a take. If I had to choose between one technically perfect take with inferior emotive force and a take that has a minor...

Oh I misread you, my bad. You were referring to the plating as "show chrome". Not asking me to show you. The plating can be and usually is much thinner for other applications. It can be as little as a few atoms thin. I guess that's not the case here. Although references are saying that...