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She's a nice player - I was impressed when I saw them on Part Time bands - would love to see them live.

Could we contact someone like Anderton's and negotiate a group buy?

I do like that schecter. A great balance between looking retro and purposeful.

This could be expensive. I started looking for a gig bag for my current epi thunderbird. whick gigbags fit the vintage pro then?

This. I already have a CTM-100 and Bassman 135...

No - the band were not my band - we just thought they were the best band for a wedding - a real rock n roll party band. I am not doing much these days - I am now a solo parent to two boys of school age so I can't justify many hours out rehearsing or gigging. I am trying to improve my slab playing to a level where it could be classed as "tolerable" and maybe do the odd jam/dep and look for something when the boys are old enough to be living their own lives. P.

As far as I know this is the only video of me on stage. This was 17th June 1995! It was my wedding and the band got me up for a song.

Looks the sort of bass a premiership footballer would buy...

Though it's not necessarily a big deal. Intonation adjusted for fretted. Fretless you can compensate if it's not perfect. Tuning - shouldn't be hugely out. As long as you are not changing mid song you have a minute to retune. It may be possible to drop, and reposition slightly. Hmm. Sounds like a job for Paul Bigsby...

Dropping nut or bridge would alter tuning/intonation.

This?

Could be interesting on pricing. The schaller site lists it as €108 - lnock off the discount and add postage and you are looking <>£100. Warmoth list it at $65, but their postage prices are geared around shipping bodies and necks, and are pricey even for that IMO. Cheapest puts it to <> $95 - £70, but you will be hit by the "handling charge" by importers, Duty & VAT so it's going to be close on price...

Schaller do direct mail order.

That's the problem - it may be perfectly functional, it's just ugly. Tune have been mentioned, it's just difficult to work out how viable it is to buy one. I do quite like http://usdweb.sakura.ne.jp/custom.order.gallery.top/framepage.tune.phoenix.custom.order.gallery.html page 16, No.TP-000467... P.

Thanks - that was the conclusion I was coming to :-( While the Hagstrom looks cool, I had pretty much discounted it as being a tad behind. P.

Talking bridges - I know the schaller is available as an aftermarket bridge, but what bases have a non-TOM bridge? The Hagstrom as a one piece, but if one wanted an 8-string bass with one piece bridge that allowed independent intonation adjustment, just how narrow would the choices be?

That B208 does look nice - nearer spector than schecter price as well.Pity it doesn't look available yet :-(

From Drew @ GBBL by any chance? I had me eye on that!