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I've just looked it up. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Well, drilling for the string through went well didn't it.

Hang a Magic Tree on the upper strap button. It should waggle about nicely whilst playing and mask the vanilla scent. But don't buy the yellow one. 😄

I had to go back through the pictures but I see what you mean about the bridge plate now, and yes I agree as long as the bridge sits within the plate area it probably won't make any difference. It was only because I've always wondered about those big Gibson moustache bridges and whether they aid or inhibit top vibrations. As the top and bracing is kept as thin as possible to allow it to resonate and then slapping a huge thick bridge on seems counterintuitive. Whether they are to help tone or just for cosmetics.

The bridge has just enough emphasis on the lower curve to tip its hat to the soundhole. Perfect! Just a quick question on bridges shapes if I may. Is a larger surface area of bridge better to help transfer string vibrations to the top board, or will a larger bridge inhibit the top vibrating by stiffening it too much? I guess a careful compromise of the two.

Hurrumph!! Germ Free Adolescents is a great song. Ps. On reflection 'Hurrumph' isn't the most punk exclamation of discontent.

I knew you were going to say that 😁. I'd like to think of it not as predictable, but rather a willingness to declare your loves to the world.

It looks like it will be having a volute though @SpondonBassed so anything else on the neck is just gravy, as those loveable Americans would say. 🙂

Oh, I see the headstock now. I thought we were looking at that sock and shoe combo with the shorts.

Did that blue man band do 'I feel love' on a load of pipes or did I dream that?

So that's what Uma Thurman did after Kill Bill!

I've a stick. But it's a wonky stick with a crack at the top, a scratch on the back and it's far too shiny.

I'll add three that I don't have think have been mentioned and have voices I can listen to all day. Marlena Shaw, her voice up there with Aretha Franklin and Dionne Warwick. Then Tanya Donelly from Throwing Muses, Breeders and Belly. Just a beautiful voice. And finally the Wonderful Tori Amos, such a great songwriter and conveys such feeling in her voice and playing.

Well it's just going around in circles now so I thought I'd lighten the mood 😄. I did make a serious point before that 🙂.

Surely the best possible outcome, for everyone involved, would now be for Adrian (that seems over familiar but I can't write his surname) to come on and resolve this situation in public. He's been viewing this thread anyway. I don't think things would get nasty as the OP knows and admits his faults in dealing with this situation, and Adrian appears to want to clear this up and not appear the bad guy. Also everyone on this thread so far appears fairly level headed to act as mediators to help cross the language barrier. We are only getting one side of this debate and Adrian asking for this thread to be deleted is not, I feel, the best outcome for his business. Mistakes have been made on both sides which could easily be rectified in public, thus the OP getting a solution and Adrian's company regaining its credibility. Going back and forwards like this isn't helping anyone.

We've just taken a booking for mid October, indoors at a pub. Just before lockdown we got a new drummer and had had two rehearsals with him. He's a great drummer but not familiar at all with our music but he wanted to do it as a challenge to himself to expand into new territories, so will take a while to get up to speed. He has been learning our set from CDs but obviously it's not like playing with us. I emailed everyone this morning to see how we all feel about starting rehearsals but one guitarist doesn't want to to as he has three very vulnerable people living with him, he hasn't actually left his house since March, and that's fair enough, we all have to be happy. We don't really want to get a dep in as, with the new drummer we'd like to get back to being a proper 'band' again, a gang of friends, how it used to be. I'd like to see at least a months worth of serious rehearsals (one a week) before we gig. In all honesty I don't see indoor pub gigs back on the cards before next year anyway, so this booking is probably irrelevant anyway.

You'll need some skyhooks for outdoor gigs at the moment.

I recently fitted an old, but unopened, set of Fender nickel round strings to a bass I've just sold. The B and E were tapered and they were really quite nice. Unfortunately I can't remember what they were.

I'm in. I've had to fit Schaller locks to my gigging straps to fit the Ricky buttons. But I'll wear these over my nipples. 👍

I don't think I'm going to run out 😁. Only one Yamaha now though, but that's my never to be sold Bex4. I love that bass. 😊 Weirdly I've just realised that the only three basses I've ever sold have all been Yamahas, yet I love Yamahas. 🤔

Exactly that. I just don't play fives anymore, even had a quick half an hour play on it and it kept tripping my fingers up not knowing what string I'm on. Muscle memory is a strange thing. That's me done with selling for the decade though. I've let one a decade go for the last thirty years 😁.

I've just my sold my BBG5s, not very interesting I know but I've had it for over twenty years and it feels a bit weird not having it sat there in the rack.

I really like that natural stripe in the side wood, it really goes well with the darker wood in the soundhole rosette. Lovely 👍

My Precision bodied, Jazz necked Stingray (eh?) will be reverse headstock, but it's not finished yet. I just tapped out the nut gently and fitted it back in the other way around, a little filing to get the bottom of the slots sloping the right way and it's fine. In this thread if your interested. 🙂

Bean juice!!! Arghhhhh, it's on my fingers. IT'S ON MY FINGERS!! 😄