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Having played one and owned a few pre-CBS jazzes the magic of a vintage instrument is more often in your head than in your hands...

Plus one would cost you about £15,000 I think!

Quite. Wanting and owning are very different things of course!

Yeah to Bogarts! They’re excellent.

Nope - I had exactly the same problem and the search wouldn't find my thread either. Eventually had to go back through my email notifications to fine the link....bit pants....

You can use Google - 'search item - forum - basschat'. To find feedback it would be 'membername - feedback - basschat' ...not ideal, but it works.

Thanks everyone... as I approach the 'autumn years' I find absorbing new info a bit more of a challenge...

Ah, sorry to hear of such an incident
Glad to hear she stood her ground - more people need to step in, to make the perpetrators aware that their behaviour is unacceptable.....
PS. what with yourself and Les - have I logged on to "kebabchat" by mistake?

Mmmm, Kebabchat...

Have you tried having the pitta on the side so it doesn't go all soggy and you can mop up the leftover sauce with it?

The walking dead come out here too in the early hours. Nobeeds really. I don't think they would get away with victimising an Asian looking lass ( or any lass) here. Somebody would definitely step in. Besides, virtually all the takeaways are owned by Asians and all the taxi drivers that pick up on the long 'food stretch' are Asian too. Wouldn't be long before the walking dead were given the Rick Grimes treatment!

I've had one or two issues with a few couriers
Once, a passing stranger knocked on my door to say he'd picked up a small parcel with my address on it....
It was lying in the gutter some 60 or 70 yards from my house, and some kid had kicked it across the road!
It wasn't bass or music-related gear, but it was fairly delicate. Fortunately, it had been really well packed
My front garden / drive is 20 feet long - Had the courier just left it on the pavement? Grrr

Maddening. The thing that rankles is I had an email from the supplier the day before stating that ‘safe place’ delivery was not an option, and a signature was required because of the value of the item (nearly a grand). As I knew I was unlikely to be at home I logged in via the DPD app and changed the delivery to my neighbour, which was duly confirmed by email. I got the alert with the one-hour delivery window, and got another alert saying it had been delivered, complete of a photograph of the box, left sitting on my doorstep! Needless to say, no signature was obtained. I did consider whether I could just say I didn’t receive it as it wasn’t signed for, but I’m too honest... 

Royal Mail are buggers for delivering their own 'signed for' packets without even trying to get a signature too.  They clearly set the bar for how other firms behave in our country.

Yeah, I ordered on their website and the options were very comprehensive!

I always found Newtone helpful.  I had a set of five DBEs made to order.  I got them weeks quicker than the order I had placed at the same time with a major Derby shop - Cackle and Run.  For me there is a bonus in that it's nice to support a manufacturing business in my area.

I brought my Steinberger in to the old workshop and it was measured up to make perfectly tapered B and E strings.  They've gone onto better premises now.

I also started using them on my Dingwall a while back as I didn't like the standard gauges that were available, and I'm able to order a custom set to my own specs. They are great  strings and I like supporting a British company. More people definitely need to know about them!