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1 hour ago, Monkey Steve said:

fretted 5 string mk 2 with birdseye maple facings and an ebony fretboard (and a reassurance about how slim the neck will be)

I have just signed off on the particular cut of birdseye maple to be used - deciding which of the three on offer I wanted was like picking your favourite child.  Except, you know, kids are annoying, so it's far more serious than that.  I attach my selection - warning, you may need a tissue

The wait was two years when I ordered, which would have been up in Jan or Feb next year, but when I suggested that my ideal timescale was to pay the balance when i get my bonus at the end of March, that fitted with the expected timescale, so it's slipped by a month or two.

Have to say, while the timescale is a little daunting, it's suited me to be able to pay it off over the waiting period, so I didn't need (in this case) £7k up front, I needed a couple of grand up front and have had a couple of years to find the balance

Look at that 😮 

I had a couple of recent builds (2015 and 2017) and the necks are very shallow profile... very comfortable

Choosing facings is really difficult... I kinda wish id just been told what it was going to be. Offering me a selection lead to weeks of agonising over slight differences in detail. I have a tiny bit of Birdseye on my Maple fretless but it’s mostly quilt... the one you’ve gone for is gorgeous 😍

Jesus... All ramps look awful but that’s particularly bad.

As above I’d get those monstrosities off and see what the damage was underneath before even considering how much the other modifications have reduced the value of this bass... 😕

On 20/11/2019 at 12:53, Monkey Steve said:

So my best actual bass purchase of the year, purely in terms of shelling out cash, is the latest instalment I paid towards my new Wal

The worst purchase - the same, given that I won't actually be getting the bass until 2020

What you going for with the new Wal?

Been toying with the idea of another build myself... 

Was a 30 month wait when I looked on the website last 😕

15 minutes ago, wateroftyne said:

WeTransfer will do it.

This...

I use WeTransfer almost every day at work. It’s not let me down yet. It’s also a good barometer of how “desperately important” something is, when the recipient then asks me to resend it a week later when the link has expired... 😐

Been looking at these today... again... If it genuinely is loud enough (and several posts seem to imply that it is) I can’t not use it really... My entire setup is portability focused given I travel to all gigs and rehearsals on public transport... One less thing to carry. Reckon i could ditch the trolly, bass on my back and a One10 in each hand 👍 

I’m a lost cause... I already have raging GAS for next year’s bass purchase... 😕

Currently can’t decide between a Ken Smith Black Tiger 6 or a Marleaux Contra 6 🤔

Young and up and coming bunch aren’t we... 😕

2 hours ago, Burns-bass said:

I’ve been in this position (and had to rescue my Musicman Stingray from an Australian band playing at the Borderline in London - thieving swine!).

While musicians often find they have to leave their gear in compromising positions it’s hardly fair to expect an insurance company to pay out in this instance.
 

The next time we played that venue our driver sat in the room with the gear for half an hour to ensure it was ok. 

Surely insurance is there to cover when your gear might get stolen? I don’t need cover for when it’s safely locked away 😕

Im not suggesting Insurance should cover me placing my Fodera outside the venue with a “please steal me” sign on it, but I will need it to be covered for situations that occur during the course of a normal gig  

1 hour ago, Insure4Music said:

Sorry for the confusion on this one! We just require the instrument to be in a locked room - it doesn't necessarily have to be in a locker.

I think the question is would a bass / amp etc be covered if it was left in an unlocked back stage room.

All multiband originals nights in London (and I imagine elsewhere) have an unsecured area (generally little more than a broom cupboard) in which bands have to leave gear whilst the other bands are on stage. Being unlocked and unmonitored this is by far the most likely place gear will be stolen from so cover for this situation is critical.

Will someone buy this so I don’t keep seeing it and reminding myself of the £1k I could have saved if I’d waited a fortnight... 😡 

58 minutes ago, Lozz196 said:

Back in my early 20s I had the energy, strength, anger and ability to do that sort of stuff (as in lift a bass guitar higher than waist height). Nowadays I’d probably criticise their curtains or something equally severe.

I originally read this as “Back in the early 20s”

We’ve met and you didn’t look like you’d already received a card from the queen... 🤔 

Thanks for getting back to me.

My comments echo MS above.

Essentially I need my instruments to be insured when they are vulnerable to theft / damage. Not when they are safely locked away.

Well this is promising... I guess the questions are pretty much what other insurers won’t cover a bass for.

Of course what’s ‘covered’ doesn’t really count for a lot so my questions would be have you ever paid out a claim for any of the following.

A bass stolen from a back stage room whilst the owner was elsewhere in the venue?

A bass stolen from an unattended vehicle?

A bass stolen from the venue when the owner was using it “for professional use” having received a few beer tokens for the gig?

A bass stolen or damaged on public transport?

I’ll probably think of a few more than that,  but it would be good to know if you’ve ever paid out a claim for any of the above 😊

Additionally I’m assuming basses in the home would be covered for theft and damage as per a usual contents insurance policy, along with full cover when outside the home?

49 minutes ago, 4000 said:

Ha! Not just me then!

Personally I much prefer Diane and Katya....😉

At the risk of turning this into a pervy old man thread I’m more of a Oti fan myself...

1 minute ago, AndyTravis said:

Yeah. I’m in that camp.

We should go out together and bond over it 😐

I don’t really like other people so try to avoid socialising wherever possible. 😐

1 minute ago, Lozz196 said:

I read all of this and thank my lucky stars I’m in an originals band. The only people we get on stage are the ones who’ve been thrown there by the rest of the audience.

I also play originals and we don’t get people on stage either, but to be honest that’s mostly because there are often more people in the band than the audience... 😐

There is zero chance of anyone having a go on my bass... They inevitably think it’s a guitar and will inevitably attempt to play wonderwall on it... 😐

He’s a great player... I like strictly anyway, but some funky bass always makes anything better 😊

... can’t agree with you on the hat being cool though 😕

32 minutes ago, walshy said:

But we all know about dreaded new year GAS! 

That’ll be the sprouts... 😐

In the interests of not derailing this one we should probably have a separate 2020 gear wish list thread 🤔 

I’m not even going to pretend I won’t buy anything... 😐

9 hours ago, chris_b said:

My last cover band's name was so crap that I spent 8 years referring to it as Steve's band.

And no, I'm not telling.

I’ve been there too... When going through the pre-meeting smalltalk ritual at work—in which we all pretend to be interested in each other’s lives—I’ve stopped telling people I play in bands. The follow up question is inevitably “So what are you called”... 😕

Every band I have been in over the years has had a rubbish name... In a way I’m thankful nothing ever came of them and I became know as a member of band with a really naff name...

I tend to join other people’s bands / projects these days (kinda works being a bass player), so I don’t have any involvement with band names. This is a good thing as when we were younger (and I did have a say), I was able to contribute to the discussion seriously for approximately 1 minute before suggesting things like “Woolly and the Mammoths” .... 😐

Mrs C is right handed but plays air bass left handed 😕