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[quote name='Jonnyboy Rotten' timestamp='1438177567' post='2832299'] It is interesting that it is normally the same 4-5 instruments that come up as dekos. You would have thought that QC would identify occasional faults with all HB instruments at about the same frequency. Its not like the B30 or the shorty P are much different to the other HB models... The other option is that they only sell some of the deko models on there and other ones get recycled/rebuilt/scrapped or just disposed of some other way. [/quote] Possibly the most common dekos are rejects of the best selling instruments, if larger numbers of these instruments are being shifted it stands to reason that there will be more found with faults.

Genius idea but choose carefully, can't see many landlords giving you a gig when you tell them the band's called "Playing Dives".

I can't really think of the structure off hand now but Rat Trap by The Boomtown Rats always seems to have nice little sections.

A hard rock/punk band I used to be in did ABBAs Mama Mia and The Buggles' Video Killed The Radio Star, both worked really well.

Manufacturers of computer equipment should make an attachment where you could feed your twenty pounds note through, a bit like you do at the supermarket self service tills. I'd buy lots of stuff if I could do it this way

[quote name='LewisK1975' timestamp='1436793171' post='2820772'] Good to know it's not unusual though! [/quote] Tom Jones used to apply the headstock decals in the mid seventies, when Q.C. asked him if that's the position he normally fitted them Mr. Jones replied...... ..... "It's not unusual!" I didn't even take my coat off!

[quote name='Myke' timestamp='1436557087' post='2819216'] Has anyone ever seen a fretted natural finish acoustic bass as a Deko? I've only ever seen the black ones or once a fretless natural acoustic bass. [/quote] Yes, there's one in the corner of my living room Just to add to Annoying Twits comment about the unbranded pickup. I actually prefer the unbranded one to the Fishman one in more expensive model. I'd imagine that the Fishman electrics in the deko are worth more than the price of a deko.

Why do I keep checking every evening and morning for dekos? I don't need any more basses. It's now part of my routine, like brushing my teeth, last thing at night and first thing in the morning. I DON'T NEED ANY MORE BASSES!

I can thoroughly recommend the solder station in KiOgons post. I picked the same one up when maplins were doing them for thirty quid,very quick and efficient.

Does the Copperburst Danelectro Longhorn count as tan brown sparkle sunburst? If so then it's very very high on my gas list.

I use a PJB Suitcase, with the two independent channels it's perfect for two instruments. Although a bass amp, any acoustic instruments I've put through it sound absolutely gorgeous, guitar, bass, doublebass, mandolin, ukulele, 12 string....... Masses of bottom end but sparkly clean top end with the 12 string or mandolin. I absolutely love mine and am at serious risk of boring people rigid about it.

I don't think I'm qualified to comment on this thread.

"Why have they put the drummer behind all that glass?" Quite, it shouldn't be glass, rather something more solid so you can't see them gurning away and sweating all over the place. A nice solid wall with a picture of a chimp hanging on it would look nice.

Must resist. I bought a second hand SX precision two days ago for a project so really really don't need another P, but at that price....... hmm

[quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1435423508' post='2808679'] And...on sticks....Dave Grohl....! [/quote] Ba dum, tshhh!

[quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1435401933' post='2808418'] Wow, 20 replies and I still have no idea what song anyone is talking about. [/quote] You and everyone else, apparently no one knows

I used to play it on a standard four string with the e dropped to c. Got the tone absolutely nailed and didn't find a problem with the c string. At a large beer festival (1500 people or so) a chap comes up to me in the break saying he's never heard another band get the bass spot on so it must've sounded alright. Saying that, there were 270 different beers to choose from so what state his brain was in, no one knows.

I didn't get mine, booo.

I've just put an order in for a PJ four string, don't even know why I want it but it will become a project. I had some other small stuff in my basket and the PJ made it worth ordering. I'll see if the email comes

I think the loss leader thing does work online, as long as the seller is charging postage in the way that Thomann do. £30 for the strings, then add the flat rate postage, suddenly not massively cheaper than elsewhere, unless you pop a couple other things in your order to make it worthwhile, oh hang on I've just spent a load more than I planned to.

There's a Hofner Shorty on ebay at the mo, £90 buy it now, £9.50 postage.

Good old Basschat comes up trumps again. Less than twenty minutes and I'm sorted.

Morning folks. Does anyone know a good amp tech in the Plymouth/Saltash/Liskeard area? I have an Ashdown bass head that keeps popping the little glass fuse. Many thanks.

Great choice of colour. I am about to refinish a fretless P and had narrowed it down to that Fiat mint green or Mini Ice Blue (duck egg blue). It just so happens I have a Mini to paint in that blue next week so my choice was made for me, but now I'll see yours finished in the Fiat green and doubt myself.