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Mine doesn't bother me, it's nowhere near the pads of my fingers and I don't cradle the neck when I'm playing therefore it never touches anything except the finger it's on.

Hey, I've helped create some of that music. The unpop music, that is...

I do wonder how many people here moaning about how rubbish it all is would turn down the opportunity to appear in a playing capacity on the Hootenanny...

So quick, I hadn't even added your name to the list of participants! My bad - editing now. EDIT - ahh, you said you weren't playing at the start of the thread. Tough, I'm recording this anyway, seeing as you announced your departure

Saw it last time I was down there (start of December) so it's been hanging around for at least a month now. I didn't have a go of it because it's a shortie and I was in no position to buy it so would just be wasting their time. To be honest, while I think the slot headstock EBs are interesting and certainly pretty, they're a bit goofy in other respects - the 19 fret fingerboard makes my teeth itch a little and it's going to be mud city with the pickup jammed up at the neck heel. If was ever to get an EB, it'd have to be a later one ('73 onwards with three point bridge and pickup moved south a little) and preferably an EB4(L), just because the pickup is interesting (multi coil - one per pole piece). But would take an EB-0L. Bridge pickups be damned!

https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/487539-2024-gear-abstinence-thread/?do=findComment&comment=5107738

Four coats of lacquer on. That'll do, it's not a piano. I'll let it cure for a bit before doing velcro tape.

In that case, I think a bow is gear, the hair isn't. That's my 2p, other opinions welcome (please do - I'm not the sole arbiter of this whole charade!)

Holy effing hell, I had a look at double bass bows and nearly fainted at the price of some of them! I bloody hope they're not consumables!

I'm gonna say that I think that falls under replacing something that's broken, and seems like a reasonable like for like replacement. I reckon you're still in. Careful with those pedal dalliances though!

I guess they wear out ergo are consumables. Can you get them replenished, or do you just get another one? I have no idea - never played bowed instruments. I've seen violin bows with hairs hanging out of them before...

Faulty how? What machine heads are you replacing and what are you replacing them with?

Is that you signing up with some fighting talk?

Not really, the pickup was moved back for every EB bass post 1971 until its discontinuation in 1979. The OP's one will be late '71 - early '73 due to the two point bridge - the dreaded, much maligned three pointer was introduced in 1973.

Oh, sorry, NE Scotland colloquialism/dialect. A "rake" means a "rummage" or "look around for something". "Can I borrow your compressor pedal?" "Ach, I'm nae sure far I pit it, I'll hae a rake and let you know"

Well, I managed to get off my butt and spray a couple of coats of clear lacquer on it today. Also ordered some low profile rubber feet. I contemplated going to have a rake at B&Q but found exactly what I was wanting (18mm diameter, 5mm high, screw in rubber feet) on eBay so I just pounced on them. Pics later when the lacquer's touch dry.

That's of utterly no consequence. The only important opinion is yours, and what your ears tell you. Honestly, the amount of "tales round the campfire" "lore" that gets thrown around like fact and dogma annoys the waste water out of me. Make up your own mind when it comes to subjective matters of taste. And if I may offer advice, I'd say don't even think about modding a damn thing on a bass until you've at least played it at "war volume" in the context you intend to use it most in, be that playing live with bands or recording stuff at home on your own.

I don't think the UK has that robust a tipping culture to support a bucket pass around. We barely tolerate tipping waiting staff, taxi drivers and hairdressers BECAUSE we're paying for something at the time anyway - to cold call people who have no direct business relationship with you, who believe that all music is basically free, magically happens and you're having fun so why should you be getting paid - I can see why the bucket comes back empty sometimes.

That's a hardware store sundry household item. I'm making a pedalboard and I'll need some form of anti-slip material for the bottom. I'm not recusing myself for that, so I don't see why you should either.

Eh, paint isn't gear in my book. Crack on

Sell away, it's all about the lack of gear coming in rather than what's going out the door. Selling to someone participating in the thread would be a super wicked way of knocking out the competition

I've had a great, super grown up idea! Every time I'm tempted to buy some gear, I'll take the money I was going to spend on gear and chuck it into my mortgage as an overpayment instead. Then I can't use that cash to buy gear and it stops burning a hole in my pocket and does something actually useful...

Ahh, I see what you're driving at now. Services aren't gear as far as I'm concerned - it's a pass from me.

Did you buy it today?