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Yes they're usually just held on with a blob of hot glue.

@PaulFenderJazz You've just touched on another point I was going make as to what style ifmusic you want it for. The HB doesn't have a tremolo so wouldn't be ideal for surf/western. I don't have the tremolo arm fitted to my Squier and think it overcomplicates a already lacking bridge/tailpiece design. If the HB had been available when I bought my Squier I think I would have tried it first.

Also not exactly on a whim but definitely a quick decision was my Bex4. I'd sort of wanted a Bex4 in tabaccoburst for while since missing the end of an auction due to poor signal while away on holiday, usually they're the orange or the blue. There was a post on here linking to the sale of one as a recommendation to someone enquiring about hollow bodies. It was an old post but the Bex4 was still miraculously up for sale. I PM'd the chap and we did the deal, and I paid by PayPal. The email address linked to PayPal is the one Mrs. Maude now uses so I new she'd get the notification but wouldn't bother reading it as I'm always buying little bits and pieces, I thought the transaction amount didn't come up in the email heading so when she text me joking "what have you bought now?", I just told her it was some secondhand strings from someone on here. The next text read "What, for £280!?". So I just replied "Oh yeah, they might still be attached to a bass". 😂

Our guitarist is heavily into Rickenbackers and I'd always joked that the only Ric bass I'd own was a 4005, seeing as a decent one goes for between 7 and 9 grand I wasn't ever going to buy one. Then a custom built copy popped up on FB when I had a quick look before going into work, it looked lovely but it was 300 miles away and the best part of a grand, I'd never played one and I couldn't try this one. By lunchtime I'd agreed to buy it 😁

I got LaBella rounds, everyone goes for their flatwound set but I still wanted that brightness so went for rounds. I just made up a set from individual strings on their website, cheaper than buying a prebuilt set and you can obviously choose a beefier bottom end to counter the slack low E string.

I have a Squier and yes it need heftier strings. I've not had issues with the nut but I don't use it a lot and the bridge was fixed by putting a plastic sleeve over the fixing posts to stop it rocking. I shimmed the neck to increase the break angle. All but the strings is fixable for free. I'd wager from experience of their others products that the HB will be on par with the Squier, possibly need a little tinkering, possibly not. Given Thomanns return policy I'd just buy it and see what it's like, if by any chance it isn't up to the job you can send it back.

As far as I know if an item is faulty then you can return it to a shop for a refund, but if you've simply changed your mind then they don't have to refund you, most will for a credit note and some will for cash but I don't think they're obliged to. That's why you get the 14 days online or over the phone, because you can't physically see or touch the item like you can in a shop. But I'm not positive, that's just the way I've always understood it. Edit - just checked and nope, a shop does not have to give a refund on non faulty items.

Are the cobalts in sealed plastic packs or paper envelopes from new? If open to the environment is it more a stringsandthings storage problem?

The guitarist in our acoustic band did a gig in a metal WW2 ARP helmet and another gig in a proper army pith helmet. If you're gonna wear a hat do it properly. Oh yeah, I forgot about the Fez!

Asked to be paid via PayPal but gifted rather than paying for goods to avoid fees, insist on it even if the scammer offers to pay the fees plus more on top. He won't gift it to you but it'll annoy him while you keep insisting on payment as a gift. 👹

Ah this is more like it 👍 Constantine is great, always bang on and absolutely nobody can accuse him of showmanship or gimmicks 😉 The guy posted above with all the masks behind him is equally as good. I had to learn 'The Real Me' by The Who and he had done a normal speed and a slowed down version which really helped me. Also like Paul Wolf (how-to-play-bass.com) for simply learning fun bass lines that I might not necessarily ever have looked at. This one I can imagine for many should be in the other list and isn't bass, but he does do basslines so it sort of counts, but I find myself enjoying his videos and enthusiasm. It's Doctor Mix, an Italian guy who's massively into keyboards and electronic music.

Or a few four and fivers. You never know, you might love it 👍

My first 'proper' bass (after some terrible SG copy) was an Attitude Special in green. I then traded that in for a brand new BBG5s in black which I still have. Every time I pick up a Yamaha it's like coming home.

I was just thinking the same. The comment about people thinking YouTube is a career, if it pays well then why can't it be? I'm sure a generation or two ago had the same thoughts about I.T. Playing on computers isn't a career. As for annoying people on YouTube, I find not watching their videos does the trick. In general, not engaging with annoying people makes them far less annoying.

Still using one I liberated from a pub years ago, it says "Great stuff this BASS" on it. That'll teach me to post without reading to the end as @The Greek has posted my very towel.

I though it was usually brass instruments that were B♭'s.

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I use the big double. Only pickup I've tried and I'm happy enough with it. Plenty of volume, good tone and I don't get feedback problems. I go through an F-deck into a PJB Suitcase with 4b extension cab. I might try taking one side out and see what it does.

I can only link Facebook stuff, cos I is useless 😁 hopefully you can view it. We're an acoustic band (drummer uses a cajon for most but the drum pad for a couple) and do various covers which aren't necessarily acoustic type songs. Here's some 80s synth pop.

Are you allowed to advertise that on here?

Depends if 'upmarket' is another word for battered.

Whitsand Bay Marco Pierre White Steakhouse Bar & Grill. It's not very catchy is it. 😂

Is it pronounced "Mowg"? Tell me it is 'cos I annoy people correcting them and if I'm wrong I'll have to stop. Tell me it is, tell me it is. 😁

Tony Wilson brought them over to Manchester and Martin Hannet recorded their early songs so sounding New Order-esque is almost inevitable, his production style was pretty unique. 🙂