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Will do Sir.

Thank you 👍. The cream one is an 80s Hohner Arbor fretless P. It's got an unlined rosewood board and a partially finished mint scratchplate. Another one that's not finished, ha ha. BTW, you do realise you're on a bass forum and saying the Kay is definitely your favourite? 😂

Thank you. 😊 Yes that's the D'addario set, I think that's the only gauge of half rounds they do. I usually go for the enr72 which are 50 70 85 105 in long scale as I like a reasonable bit of tension being a bit of a gorilla when playing, so would've liked a higher gauge, but these are actually really nice. I haven't noticed any irregularities in tension between strings, but to be honest I don't tend to anyway, I just get on and play the thing. But nothing has stood out to me about them as being odd.

As an oil oxidises (dries in the atmosphere) it produces heat, not very much but if rags are left screwed up on top of one another then the heat can build up, combined with the air trapped between the layers of rag you have the recipe for fire. The build up of heat can reach the temperature needed for combustion. The wood dust is dangerous purely because it's flammable. it can't spontaneously combust though, it needs a source of ignition. But again, because of the air trapped between particles it's very easily ignited. If it's suspended in the air then it can exploded with an ignition source as the dust covers a large area with lots of oxygen between the particles. Lots of dust that you wouldn't normally think dangerous can explode.

It looks a very fiddly job, but looks great 👍.

I have actually finished this now. It was stringless for a while as I was undecided on what I wanted on there, and what will fit the stupid guitar tuners. My strings of choice are D'addario half rounds so after some checking on where the windings end, the outer winding needs to go past the nut but finish fairly quickly as it won't go through the tuner and you can't have to many winds on the tuner post as they are so small, I found they'd fit so ordered a set. Now on they feel and sound great, good tension for a short scale. I like a thumbrest and the pickups weren't doing it for me so I toyed with getting a chrome one to match the hardware but wasn't sure. The black one I had didn't look good and then I thought, why not just paint it the same green, so I did. Then I couldn't find a suitable place as the design of theses basses means the strings are very close to the body so the standard plastic thumbrests actually sit higher than the strings, and to get enough clearance to play properly you need the thumbrest to far away from the strings to be comfy, well for me anyway. So I sanded the thumbrest down on an angle to lower the height in total and to get the string side lower still. Plenty of string clearance and comfy to play, perfect. In fact the strings and thumbrest, coupled with the slim neck and featherweight body make this a super comfortable bass to play. Finished pictures. The vacuum cleaner drive belt hanging system (pat pending). Ooh sparkles 😁 I've plugged and drilled the holes for the old strap pins as they were just taper fit and prone to coming loose, fitted a similar style but they are held on with screws like normal strap pins so are secure. The following two photos are in normal light so better represent the true colour, it's hard to capture it properly. The picture with the flowers reflected in the scratchplate is the best likeness of the colour. I've painted the bottom part of the control knobs black and have decided to leave the top yellowed plastic as the match the tuners. The only thing left to do is wire in a pickup series switch, but that's nothing exciting to look at. So there you go, my minty Longhorn. 🙂

Is that a pee take performance or is that meant to be a serious cover? Either way it's pretty shocking.

I'd better put on a nice heavy knit cardigan then! 😄

It's too early to remember exactly but from memery there was quite a bit of Rick for looks P for sound, as in Top of the Pops, videos, etc got the Rick but he recorded with a P. There was a time line where he started with the Rick but moving progressively towards a P more and more. I think nowadays in From The Jam he's exclusively a P man. I'm sure others will correct me on the exact details but that's the jist of it I think. 🙂

Should've offered her the £50, or whatever it was she wanted, but said that you don't trust any other means of getting it to her other than collection in person, look what happened to the sax after all. See if she comes to get it.

Bigger audience than usual then.

Fair enough, I was just going by a post in that linked thread where someone sent a bass in an oversized package to France for £52. It doesn't make sense, but not a lot does anymore.

If you use Eurosender (in the link I added earlier) then package size doesn't matter, it's properly insured and there's a Basschat discount. Seems like a no brainer to me.

"Have you bought any food onto the premises?" "Erm, no?"

Just do the weekly shop on the way to the gig.

Have a quick read through this thread. Courier and discount code gets a mention in the second or third post but there's also some good advice about packing and labelling.

There's a courier that gives a Basschat discount and properly insures instrument, rather than just taking your money but neglecting to tell you they don't insure instruments. I'll have a quick look and see if I can find them.

I've had a bit more of a think about this, yes I know it's not usually advisable but it happens sometimes when I'm not paying attention, anyway I've come to the conclusion that there's not any basses I find boring, it's the music I perceive someone will use it for boring. I know it's judgemental but hey, whadya gonna do? In real life as long as it sounds good I wouldn't care what bass someone uses but with the privilege of being able to sit here and just look at different basses with no context, I subconsciously link them to certain styles of music, which is wrong, but again, whadya gonna do? 🙂 For instance, being in a Mod band image is everything, and there are certain basses which suit the image. We organised a multi band charity jobby back in March and a ska band called Ratrace played, and rather excellent they were too, but the bass player was using a Steinberger or Hohner cricket bat type bass, which I wouldn't have visualised a ska band using, but it was one of the best sounding basses I've ever heard, it sat perfectly in what they were doing.

I like your style Mr. Biggs.

I do quite like the look, if it were better executed. To be fair he was trying to repair a problem rather just thinking this'll look cool, he just ran out of f**ks half way through.

@Ricky 4000 Not wishing to derail this thread but I had an Amazon when I was younger and that picture isn't far off what it looked like. I worked in a Volvo garage and wanted to annoy all the fuddy duddy owners so roof chopped it, de-chromed and dropped it on the deck. The only real difference was I had American spec towel rail bumpers, wheels the same as the A Team van and it was painted surf green. It was a two door 123s and I only found out years later that it was a very rare model with the same twin carb engine as the P1800s (The Saint car). It had well over 100bhp as standard which was prenty good for a standard 60s car. Sorry, back to boring basses.

Fashion! I can't believe women are showing their............. ........... oh, Volvos. Yeah carry on.

I found Scott Whitley's site has some interesting information on it, especially the page on string choice. https://www.shortscalebass.co.uk/ 😁

JJ Burnell and Bruce Foxton made quite an inspiring racket. 🙂

Fancy natural wood basses. I really love some of the woods involved and used for furniture I could really enjoy it. But I've yet to see a fancy natural wood bass and felt inspired to play it, I just see them and think meh. I think maybe they appear too polite to me when I like a bit of attitude. My first thought when I see one is that the owner's going to try and put me in a fusion coma with it.