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January 25, 2022

WordPress 5.9

January 25, 2022

WordPress 5.9 just dropped. A 0.1 release like this always makes me nervous, but you can't hold back the tide, so I tested it on another site, and nothing broke. At least I haven't found anything yet. So I updated this site, and everything still works, at least at a glance.

Looks like, as usual, they just crammed a lot of new crayons in the box, nothing that I would use. Honestly, I am light-years ahead of them, and don't expect them to ever catch up. I just worry that their sideways upgrades will break something.

Web Stuff, 01/25/22

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Stratocaster Bass 2

This Strat bass is another of my early projects, an evolution of the first one. It uses basically the same neck, but mounted in the stock guitar neck pocket. This moves the bridge position adjacent to the old tremolo hole, but the expansive Mustang bridge plate covers it nicely. The pickguard looks stock, but is actually custom-made to cover the six stock bridge screw holes. If you can't get a Mustang bridge ( and you can't any more, ) you could extend the pickguard to cover all the guitar holes, or use a stock pickguard and just make a small bridge-sized cover. Or just leave the tremolo hole and keep your stash in it.

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