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I bought Paul's EBS Reidmar 752, and it arrived very well packed, in great shape. Great to deal with, deal with confidence. Thanks, Rob

The Three10 is a thing to behold, glad you're finally getting your hands on one. Out of interest, when did you order it? I spoke to our guitarist last night, and the cab he ordered on 30th September last year is finally in testing and will be delivered next week.

This ^ I get emails purporting to be from Reverb, and they are just scams. You should only communicate on Reverb using their own messaging system. I have used their chat system though, to talk to Reverb admins, and that's usually a real person. Try that and verify what you're being told is genuine.

The guitar player in my band ordered a 2x10 guitar cab at the end of September, and he still hasn’t got it. Wait times now appear to be quite long.

The description has been amended, and now begins with "**WITHDRAWN**", although it appears you can still bid on it?

The auction ends in 8 hours time, currently 25 bids, up to £310, 19 watchers. Someone needs to walk into this place and stop this! https://auctions.wellersauctions.com/catalogue/lot/f72e04251781ce1fd69a2f03361751e1/45205abdbb84d2df36d33a64cd5790b5/unclaimed-goods-from-a-major-uk-courier-network-lot-1412/

I'm having quite a difficult week. Started feeling a bit "off" on Monday, by rehearsal on Wednesday I was "taking it easy" on the vocals. Come Thursday I lost my voice entirely and had a very sore throat, a cough, and felt weary, but I was house bass player at Lancaster Funk Club in the evening, and got through it just about. Friday I had committed to a dep gig with another Blues band, thankfully an early shift 6pm-8pm, so was home and in bed by 9.30pm. Today my band are top spot at The January Blues Festival in Colne, and there's no way I can sing a note. Thankfully we share lead vocal duties, so we've hashed out a set where I don't sing at all, but it's still going to be hard as I feel like death. My wife has also come down with it. We think it's covid, but I have no choice but for the show to go on. Wish me luck! Rob

Well, 2 weeks to the day since I returned the One10, a replacement was delivered this morning, and all is well with the world once more. Alex promised to turn it around quickly and he has, just in time for me to use the pair on gigs tonight and tomorrow. The initial mix up was unfortunate, but it's all been sorted out at no cost to me. Rob

Pump It Up is a cracking bassline.

I gig with a Boss WL20, but I have to use a NUX C-5RC (5.8GHz) at home as my amp is so close to the wifi router. The Boss has only had issues in one venue with wifi interference, and I quickly swapped to a cable. The battery life is also very good, and it has never failed me, even on long "3 set evenings". I loaned the Nux system to a fellow basschatter recently as he was doing a musical before Christmas, but he couldn't get through two sets before it ran out of juice. It hadn't been an issue for me at home, but this week, I'm finding that it's dying after maybe 90 minutes or less of playing, which is not even getting me through evening practice. I think the internal rechargeable batteries have reached end of life. I bought it secondhand about 2 years ago, and I've used it a lot. So I reckon I'm also in the market for a cheap 5.8GHz system to use at home. Rob

Lots of people use Parcelforce. Bass Bros shipped a vintage '73 Jazz to me via Parcelforce.

Epic toanz, really clean.

Ok, I'm going to bring the current "vintage collection". Precisions - '70, '73, '73, Jazzes, '73 and '73. I'm not sure if I had the second '73 Jazz last year, it's custom colour black, and I definitely haven't brought latest '73 Precision before. They're not to everyone's taste as the are ALL strung with La Bella flats! Re vintage valve amps, I'll bring the vintage 70's Fender Bassman 50 with matching 1x15 JBL D140 cabinet. Rob

If @lee650 can wangle time off work, I think he might be coming with me from Morecambe. Rob

I briefly ran a Mark Bass 102P with a 151P, and I didn't like it. A pair of 102Ps was a lot better. I've always run matching cabs ever since.

and the Blue Moon guitar..

Here's the Strat version https://reverb.com/uk/item/7274703-very-rare-brian-eastwood-bender-distortocaster

I've known Brian for decades and remember seeing these in his workshop when he used to build them. A lot of thought went into the design and build of these in order from them to play well and actually intonate. He built other wacky designs too, including a Moon guitar/bass. Rob

Hi Shug, hope you're well. I had the older logo silver cloth cab already and just wanted another to match, which is a service they offer. The cab is back with them now and I'm waiting on the new one with the correct orientation (they will reuse the silver cloth front from the first cab). I know your 6x10 has the old logo. Is your 2x10 cloth grill? They could send you a new grill with an old logo on it I reckon, you just need to ask.

No serial on neck plate, so at least that part is later 1976 or beyond. Given the pots are from 11th week of 1977, then the bass is later than that. But all this assumes the parts are from the same bass, which is difficult to know. I would probably be pricing the bits individually for that reason.

When I saw the pic of the box in your hallway, it did cross my mind that it would be hard to return it if you needed to, and here we are. Thomann often just write things off, refund or account credit, and tell you to keep it as the return is just not economically viable. Bax won't be able to resell this bass, so they ought to just refund you and leave you to do what you want with it. Otherwise it's just going to cost them more!

Isaac at Barefaced sent me a courier returns label yesterday, and the cab has been collected today by DPD. I have my fingers crossed for a swift turnaround, but I'll keep you posted. Rob

So that's three of us with the same experience in this thread now, which is a bit annoying! But unlike you, I was not prepared to live with it, and they are making me another cab, and the website has been changed to allow people to order the right cab for their needs in the first instance, and prevent this happening again. I like Barefaced, and Alex, I like what they do, I really like their cabs, they sound just right for me, but I suppose they can't do everything right all the time, that's just what people are like.

I think they are dealing with it properly now. I'll keep you posted.

Ok, Alex is building me another "quickly" and they are collecting this one. Alex has amended the website today to prevent this from happening again. So now when ordering the "old style logo" to match your existing cabs, there is now an option for "Cab Mirroring" which has the following description - "If you want this for a One10 to match an old One10, where the handle and side feet are on opposite sides to the current One10, this requires a custom cab build - please select this customisation if you want us to build a reversed One10 to match your old one." https://barefacedaudio.com/products/old-badge-block-style-not-script-style If this had been an option when I ordered, all of this could have been avoided. Still, I think their response is the right one now, and I'm going to get the cab I thought I'd ordered. Rob