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Through The Mists Of Time - AC/DC

It's Indonesian built, but the same applies. This is on the back of the headstock if anyone's interested... Probably not 😁 The good thing is Rivolta QC and set them up in Nashville, so a second set eyes once it's left the factory. The fret work is rather lovely, ends all nicely rounded and polished. These eastern factories can really produce quality work if the budget is there. This is easily on par with (I'd say better than) Yamaha's Indonesian builds, and I'm a big Yamaha fan.

That would be my hope.

Tapes are a surprisingly lively string, I have them on both Precisions and a Jazz and they are awesome, La Bellas especially

I have to say I disagree. I’ve met too many people who have completed grade 8 in an instrument and can play a piece note for note but do little else. In the gigging world, there’s lots of trips and hazards where you need to be agile and able to improvise. Learning a bass part is 10% of the gig.

I have a lot of respect for all the folks who post in this forum, sometimes things get lost in translation I suspect Steve 👍

Hi Folks. Never tried Nylon tapewounds. Thinking to put La Bella 50-105's on it but I read they're flimsy, floppy and weak in output compared with the 60-1115's (and other brands). Small guage wire inside the 50-105's I read. Is this the consensus view? Looking for the conventional sound one gets out of tapewounds (not upright-like). I won't under any circumstances alter my original '63 P-Bass (eg. widening nut etc.) so seems 60-115's are out, leaving me w 50-105 if I stick w La Bella. Am I going to regret it?

As someone who has bought a stolen bass from a used products shop before, I get you

I have never seen a 450B like that either. Mine has the chunky heel also. @alyctes is probably right, and the design change (maybe when they started making the DMZ so they can use the same necks). On that particular bass though, there is a lot of damage to the body right where it joins the neck, indeed. It may or may not be related. The neck plate is also much shorter than on mine (again like @briansbrew DMZ).

I believe the request was information, not have someone imply they think you're an idiot. Surely experts can share their impressive and useful knowledge without appearing to denigrate someone seeking that information. The information preceding the opinion was useful. I just thought the final sentence was unnecessary, especially from someone who had enough knowledge to make such a decision based on that knowledge.

The red 5 string? If so I demoed it when The Gallery had it.

I get where you're at Lawrie, but at £1650 for a bass the buyer likes and preferred over others that were more expensive, I've seen worse deals from shops, in fact I've bought worse deals from shops 🤔

fade to grey - Visage

Hi, I have a 1983 lefty Stingray, do you offer a lefty neck for that bass?

I get that. What they’ve probably done is accepted it on commission and simply taken as gospel what the seller has told them. Thats plausible deniability. Of course, they may have taken it all apart and meticulously verified it. If they have, then all good. As for shops swindling people, I’m cynical I’m afraid.

Crikey man! You're worse than Nigella!

Here's a list of Tutors in the North West. Any good..? North West Bass Guitar Teachers ...

Mine up close

Both of @Hellzero's suggestions seems good to me.

Antibiotics are amazing. @Matt P is better now. The filthy infection has gone and he treads the path of the righteous man and woman by sticking to a great instrument and ditching the weedy things. If it were me, I’d take a few months of lessons to get confident. Online makes you sound great to you. As someone above noted, you have to sound good to other people to make tangible progress. when you can confidently tell strings apart, find notes and not think about which fingers to use, then consider online. think about it like this- if you were starting to drive cars, would online/only be a good option ? However once youre changing gear without thinking or looking down, you might want to consider hazard observation training or motorway skills but only a human teacher could get you there to that point

your XL25 was narrow string spacing eh (?) your fretless Pedulla 5 - jeepers that is an instrument did you keep the custom headless (Shuker?)

Ah yes, I do agree with that from a shop owner's point of view. They have to be honest about what they're selling. And as far as I can see, they're not [i]dishonest[/i], just not...sufficient. From what I can see in the photos, description and @Belka's post, they never said the body was fully original, or the hardware. You bought a bass built from (among other things) a '72 body and a '77 neck, with Dimarzio pickups and modded electronics. I don't imagine the people at the Gallery leaving info behind on purpose. The bass player's universe is relatively tiny. If they would be swindling people, half of UK bassists would know within an instant.

I disagree as the shop has sold you something it isn’t at a huge premium. If you go back 70 odd pages, you’ll see one of my old basses was being sold by a shop and the description was incorrect. It was a parts bass that was built in Bristol by someone I know. I bought it and sold it with clear description of what it was and, crucially, what it wasn’t. Through the sale and resale this got lost. Someone ended up paying over the odds for a parts bass that had lots of changes and damage to it. Another example, I sold a 70s Precision bass body on here. It would have been super easy to stick a 70d neck on it and claim it was all original. Thankfully, it’s been sold to BC royalty and this won’t happen.

That's good advice 👍

I've got the "the t.bone" IEM 75 system too, having bought it around the same time as the OP, but mine was 2nd hand and seems a few years old. What I can't seem to shake is the permanet "hiss" background noise that makes it unfomfortable to use. Anyone else had this? Ideally it's a problem that can be fixed (I've tried all available channels, used new high quality batteries, etc). Found myself looking again at the Mipro MI-59RT but it's a lot to shell out.