CamdenRob

Much to the chagrin of various singers in my bands over the years I’ve never had the remotest interest in lyrics... maybe that’s why I’m a bass player 🤔 Even lyrics others consider good just seem really cheesy to me. Although I’ve always found poetry laughable as an art form and I suppose lyrics aren’t really all that different. Mrs C says its cause I’m incapable of emphasising with the emotions of others 😐

Yes if I’m honest I thought they were a bit less than that last time I looked. Someone locally may have one they don’t need 😊

I once received a curbow fretless 4 from a gumtree seller via Hermes packaged in two bin bags with a hair band in the middle of the neck to fasten them. Not a scratch... which in hindsight wasn’t that relevant as the bass was s**t 😐 I also once received a fender jazz (via DPD) in one of their new style hard shell cases which are great and very heavy duty. Arrived with one of the corners crushed and smashed up to such an extent that I had to open the case with a crowbar... Again the bass was OK though. For any bass worth more than a few quid, I really wouldn’t want to ship without a hard case. You can buy one from Thomann (and others) for a few quid. I’d do that and add it to the price. Would give you the cardboard outer sleeve too. That Eurosender link looks good. Next time I’ll use them 😊

It’s really difficult isn’t it... I really hate being that guy, but I try to stick to collection only. It’s such a lottery with couriers. I did send a bass to Europe once a few years back supposedly “Fully insured” via UPS but it cost an absolute fortune. Remember it being circa £300. 😕 I can’t think of another industry where you have to pay extra so they don’t smash up your stuff 🤔

That’s the one. What an instrument...

Get him to sign up here, that’ll put a stop to that nonsense 😐

I’m no expert but there is no way I’d be putting my bass in the hold in my M80. I got a dent in my Wal using it on the tube... Also regarding string tension. I’d leave it as it is. Reckon loosening them off would be worse for the neck as the truss rod would be straining against nothing... ... I’m sure someone who actually knows what they are talking about will be along in a minute though 😕

I keep doing this with P basses. Telling myself I must have one as it’s the classic bass 95% of people want to see / hear. I even had a Moollon built a couple of years back which was as fine an example of a P bass as you could ever hope to find. Still didn’t work for me... I never picked it up in preference to other basses I preferred the tone of. ... I also don’t currently have one and consequently find myself looking at each one that crops up in the classifieds 🤦‍♂️

I’ve never had a full custom. My Wal builds and incoming Fodera build are more basses built to order with a few aesthetic choices rather than full custom build jobs... Given an open choice I’m not sure I’d want anything different to what i can already get from various builders. Thinking about a Marleaux Contra six or possibly a Claas six as next years bass purchase and I’d never have specified those from scratch.

The Gallery had a redwood burl Nordstrand six a number of years back I very much regret not buying... Don’t see Nordstrand basses very often.

I’ve lost money on pretty much every bass I’ve bought and sold but I don’t regard any of them as a mistake. OK so I may have lost a bit of money, no one likes doing that, but I’d happily have paid what I’ve lost in total upfront, for the knowledge I now have as to what gear works for me and what doesn’t 😊 I just regard the money lost as the price of the journey.

Have to agree with the general consensus above... I gave up after not being able to find a picture of the bass on their website 😕 Also that pic of the fender thingy looks like it’s upside down to me 😕

I am indeed near Camden 😊 Not in it anymore as I was when I joined BC, but still not far. Regarding the name. I did once meet a girl at a party called Athena who’s opening gambit was to explain at length the history and meaning behind her name... I could only respond with “My name’s Rob... it means to steal stuff” 😐 Anyway... being at work all week and away for weddings for the next two weekends I’m not sure I can be of much help with the amp I’m afraid.

Probably just a duff string. I used to use TI rounds (for the price of which you could acquire a perfectly serviceable entire bass from Harley Benton et al) and one set I put fresh on had an E string that was almost silent... like a wet rubber band... straight out of the packet.

No a Fodera. Ended up ordering through Thomann in the end.

I suspect some “deleters” likely do so with a hint of embarrassment at the price having started at £4K and then after several months of increasingly desperate “price drop for this weekend only!” bumps the bass ends up selling for £90 😐

Much appreciated but I’ve got the same bass landing from elsewhere in a couple of weeks 😊 Ah maybe it’s something along these lines then. It was a flat out no from the outset.

I tried to buy a bass from sweetwater a couple of months ago and was told they wouldn’t ship to the UK 🤔

That’s awesome... sorry you feel you’ve fallen out of love with it. It’s always rough to feel you’ve lost something that’s a part of your identity. Who knows what’s round the corner though... you could be back here next week with a “I’m loving the bass again” thread 😊

I don’t think I’ve ever had a fire in the belly passion for it to be honest... Music is very much one of several hobbies for me 😊 I suspect that alongside a lack of the required talent, a possible blocker to my never having “made it” is that given a straight up choice between music and silence, I prefer silence 😐

Harsh but fair 😐

That’s likely cause I’m back... spreading joy wherever I go with my sunny disposition 😐