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I would have kept it on! Amazing that even on the rooftop Let It Be performance the bass was only 6 years old, how quickly things changed in those days.

I might be wrong about all these as my experience of Mexican and other modern variants is very limited. The tuning keys and posts are chrome. Shouldn't they be nickel plated? The pickup covers have a surface in the moulding, Fender pickup covers are smooth The writing on the neck plate doesn't...

Nice JJ style for sure but seems that little bit too predictable and doesn't sit as nicely as JJ typically does. Certainly uses flats though! You're right, difficult to say one way or another, I'd tend towards 'no'. Greg

Many people think the bass to 'My Girl' (the proper JJ one) follows the guitar. He plays very simple roots.

Which bit of the chorus of Aint too Proud to Beg has a different pattern (if the pattern is 4 bars)?

Hi Antii Sorry for being so slow, please be endowed with Jaydee Club No.3 (if godofthunder69 is no.2). Series 1 Mark King has got to be the classic Jaydee, the time must be passing very slowly before its arrival. Perhaps you could pester them for a status report to see how its going, they...

Hi Thanks, Walter. I had no intention in using a hammer(!) just wondered if they were an interference fit and could be pressed. If they're fixed in some way (glue?) this would be impossible. Good advice about the clearance, I generally have the magnets as close as possible to the string to...

I am delighted with a pre-EB Stingray, but it displays the standard weakness of the G string being slightly quieter than the rest. In fact the A and D are also louder than the E. I note that the magnets are higher for the A and D to cater for the expected variation in the height of the strings...

I remember here in the UK the H&H were one of the new and upcoming transistor amp makers, good and cheap with good quality for 100W. The dial lit up when you switched it on - very impressive. People with money used Acoustic, but the rest of us plebs used Hiwatt and the like (for some reason...

Horrible story, I thought it was just the UK insurance companies that were obnoxious.

So its now illegal to hold up the queue in a MacDonald's? Goodness. Yet they get away with so much that's illegal anyway. Greg

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Studio lighting? Camera exposure? Actually there is bound to be differences in colour of natural materials. However this seems to be at it most when its old. Some wood goes almost black. I have two '78 P bass necks. One is a war horse with fag burns and all sorts of bashes and dings and...

Getting away from sound for a minute to stability. I have a 23 year old Jaydee (funnily enough) and it has a mahogany sandwich neck. Its a crafted joint into the body (not bolt on, not straight-through) and the body is made from two matching pieces of mahogany. I did some recording in a...

Not so sure about that being true. If you're into old motorbikes you'll know that the magnetism in the flywheel deteriorates after ~50years and it needs remagnetising so it will start easily and the lights bright again. Lots of firms make this their business. IS there a reason why these...