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To be fair to thoman, it costs a lot of money to send parcels from Europe to the UK, and vice versa. I'm sure they will subsidise the postage, but it doesn't seem financially feasible for them to subsidise returns. I'm afraid it's the cost of doing business with a European company in a post brexit world.

I still have stuff to sort before both tops can be fitted but, even if a switch needed fitting on the bass side, there is nothing I can't do with that one glued on...so that's what I've done. And out comes the radius dish again to clamp against After a few experiments with ebony offcut, I decided that the block plane was probably the safest and most effective way of carving the ebony: But yes - it's a slow process. Lots of 'walk away and come back to it'; lots of 'resharpen the blade comprehensively b******d by the b*****ing ebony' This, I reckon is about 1/3 of the way there. By the way, I've dampened it to give a better idea of how the colours will coordinate on the finished guitar (not exclusively, but especially for Neil ) I won't fit the bottom binding until the tops - particularly the edges - are done, otherwise there is a tendency to sand down at each stage until you realise you've run out of walnut! Fretboard blank is due later today!

A Flock of Snowflakes.

Well i finally made a decision and bought this from a fellow BC'er. Quick strip down, clean and polish then refit with new D'addario nickels. Adjust string height down a bit to 1.75mm and tweaked the intonation on E string and its sounding absolutely amazing. No need to adjust the truss. I'd forgotten how much i liked a P bass tone. Its probably the tone i've been searching for.

Way to chuck the baby out with the bathwater! The DHL options will make the re import paperwork straightforward for them. Sending through the regular post would make them jump a whole extra set of hoops in order to not lose out big time on VAT. Too bad for anyone that simply changes their mind. The way I see it Thomman goes out of their way to continue to do business with the U.K. They do well to maintain competitive pricing and service across the border. Your loss if you abandon them.

You've probably thought of this already but just so I've said it, don't forget to mix down to mono. Backing tracks are likely to be stereo mixes so might sound a bit weird if you don't.

Why would you expect a shop to pay for your error? Sales via internet would grind to a halt within two months or products would increase in price with the postage factored in.

So while I have a couple of days off work, I really wanted to take a couple of hours to scratch a P Bass itch I have, I don't know where it came from as I have NEVER liked the look or the thought of a P Bass, but I've been bitten recently and the itch is too much, so got to scratch it. I popped into Guitar Guitar in Newcastle and asked them to unfurl their in stock P Basses, line them up and let me try them all in a shootout fashion to see if any of them were a suitable ointment. With that said I was presented with lots of basses highlighting Fenders highly confusing catalogue of models, with a £5000 50's custom shop propping one end and a Squier Classic Vibe at the other, sandwiched in the middle were American Pro's, Vintera's, and Players series'. What a bloody hit and miss selection of basses they are, some were good, some were awful, combinations of good / bad strings, setups and neck feel, the £800 Vintera having a much better setup than the twice the price American Pro for instance... I can quickly talk about that £5k P bass here, and this is for people who have played it... that neck... WTF... it's a tree, U profile? sheesh!... ...So for an hour I went back and forward between 5 or 6 basses until I was playing just one and didn't want to put it down... that bass was... drum roll please... a... Squier FSR (Factory / Fender Special Run?) Late 50's Custom Vibe P Bass (awful mouthful) in a two tone sunburst (never liked this colour) with a anodised gold (never ever would have wanted this) pickguard... so it's a P Bass in a colour combination that I would never have looked twice at, it's got a maple fingerboard which I have forever told myself I don't like, and it's a squier... so why did I buy it? well put simply it's one of the best basses I have ever played, ever, I couldn't put it down, I went back to it after playing US Pros and Mex Vinteras and Players Series' and for me it was just better, the neck was better, the frets were better, the feel was better, it was just better so I left with it and then played it for 2.5 hours straight when I got it home, it's tremendous. £400, was the American Pro 4 times the bass? not a bloody chance. As for P Basses I thought they could only produce a stuffy wooly thumpy jumper sound, but it knocks most basses out the park for bark and bite, volume up, tone down and it just nails everything I want to play. I'm converted! It's a wonderful instrument, and I'm definitely coming round to the two tone sunburst and gold pickguard, it's classy in a "late 50's" kind of way 🤔.

The Worst Decade The Band That Taste Forgot Agadon't 😆

I have one of these on the way from Tides guitars (TTTides officially), but it'll take a year to be finished. It's going to be 30" scale, pickups will be single coil in thunderbird housing and moved closer to the neck, with a series/parallel switch, and will either be a wood body or composite wood. It will be neck through. Can't wait! This is what the pickup positioning should look like.

Not being a fan of the size or positioning of Fender thumb rest or tug bar, especially on a Mustang, I knocked up a quick, reversible mod, thumb rest. I was so pleased with it, I even stained and sealed it.

It has finally arrived. Beautiful bass. The best I've ever played. Can't wait to actually try it out for real!

I’d advocate a white Precision with rounds and a pick a la Dee Dee and Simonon all day long, however don’t discount how good a maple necked ‘Ray can sound in this context, I give you the legendary live version of Waiting Room…

If you buy both you get a set of basschat strap locks free!! 🤪

Johnny Hates Jazz, Immigration & the Metric System.

Political comments will be removed, so please refrain from posting any. To be honest, I do think it would be unfair to expect Thomann or any retailer to cover return delivery costs if it's not a faulty item. Can you imagine how much that could cost them? However, surely you could arrange your own courier, they're not insisting on going through them, are they? You can ship to Germany for a lot less than what they're quoting.

The A Team (A Ts = eighties}

As a lot of us do, I’ve been picking up the odd bass here and another there, this pedal, that bass cab, until I’ve got a house full. Even though I have a few basses that have been long time dreams to own I’ve never actively sought them out: 1) Wal - not bought for that bit of extra cash you have lying around. 2) Brooklyn NS2- not exactly advertised daily. 3) A modulus funk unlimited, seen more often but still some money not that common in the UK. I’ve decided to thin the herd, shed some weight as far as other gear goes, streamline myself (there’s a few things I won’t sell) and make a concerned attempt at getting those 3 basses in my grubby mitts. first up modulus funk, I’ve gotten a bit obsessed lately with that trebly/snarly tone you can get with a graphite neck so look out for NBD

A few BC'ers who we know to be successful, very capable, regularly gigging and having a lot of fun, with decades of experience under their belt, have already 'fessed on this thread to not using any pedals (yup not a.... anywhere in sight! 😁). So when you say: ...that for me neatly sums up 90% of what we angst about on BC on so many gear related matters!! Once we have a "good enough" rig & bass, being a better bass player and a better sounding bass player to our audiences is then no longer about the gear but how well we play it i.e. it really is then "all in the fingers". But having said that, if it just gives you, the bass player, and no one else pleasure in hearing that difference, then why not?

Should have used two layers. Everyone knows double denim is best.

The G6, the guitard version goes for about £350 now, so I expect that price will drop quickly. I was saying to @Merton, if they get the price right, they could have a big seller on their hands, but if it's more or even the same as a Helix Stomp they may as well forget about it. Eude

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That and re-stocking, selling it to someone else as B stock at a discount.... And so on.

I wouldn't count a tuner as an effect - more of an accessory. I use a plug in tuner before each gig, then it goes back in my bag. I've had the same tuner for 16 years. I have never felt the need to add any effects to my bass playing as I am perfectly capable of sounding dreadful without any help.

We Ate E’s

What do you mean? Only 100W Actually that's my thought in terms of bass on my back and one handed carry. As to my 1x6, well that's yet to be tried, I won't be surprised either way. It's pretty loud but of course lacks deep bass, that's the trade off. Whether that deep bass is essential to accompany an acoustic guitar is the test i suppose. It'll be fun finding out. In fact playing any music live is looking like fun at the moment.

Just want to drop this track in from my all time favourite band ☝️

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Wouldn't one have been enough? P.S. is that the Warwick "Davis" signature bass?

Good work, private. I just took the thumb rest off mine all together!

Jacob miller big tune

I just put a patch over it 😂

They didn't come out of nowhere. They are standing on the shoulders of 40 years of Funk, Disco, R&B and Soul bands going back to the 60's. That's not a bad thing. I rate this band and the players. JK is pretty irritating, but he's a singer so I guess that's to be expected.

Enjoy..... https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/

I’m with him. I use the ampeg setting, with a cab effect and bit of compression plus some NR. It’s all stored away in a memory bank and no one can change the settings plus I can carry it about

Depends, the eq curves, Q's, and centre frequencies are probably different on the two eqs so they will sum to a more complex final curve than either can achieve on its own.

Much as I hate being self-serving... my website exists for this very purpose: https://freebasstranscriptions.com/transcriptions/ I struggled to find suitable songs to teach to younger students without resorting to TAB, so I started writing things out for them. There's very little in the way of books for sale in notation only-format, because it massively reduces the commercial appeal.

I was going to see Skints in Frome this Saturday. I got my tickets, it's only a 15 minute walk so I got beer money and I got covid symptoms so I can't go 😭 I've had tests which were negative but covid or not, I don't want to give this to people innocently enjoying a good bit of live music so no Skints for us.

He’s a class act, supremely talented and a nice bloke to boot. Deserves all his success. I used to hang out with him and the other guys from Rock Bottom in Croydon - he got me into their ‘house band’ Skittle Alley as he didn’t want the gig (not his kind of music at the time, it was rock/funk ironically). He also threw up in the back of my brand new car on the way back from a gig at the Lazy Toad in Beckenham. Took months for the smell to wane… Anyway, I’ll just park this here: