Woodinblack

The stiffening rods wouldn't have had much of an impact on the truss rod at all, but if they were stiffening the neck correctly, the chance of having to adjust the truss rod would have been reduced. After 18 months I would assume they would. It would not be reasonable for a truss rod to fail in that time. However, there is the issue that it is hard to prove user error, without looking at it. Certainly following the link that was supplied, that truss rod failed due to manufacturing defect, but hard to prove without having already taken it apart. Note that they also have titanitum truss rods as well, rather than what appears to be steel for the mzk ones.

Thing is, you shouldn't have to. You shouldn't have to specify you wanted something that would stop your truss rod from breaking. If it isn't good enough on its own it shouldn't be an option. My ibanezes have titanium rods and double action truss rod in them on all the premiums and prestige (which is all I have now). I didn't specify them, that is what ibanez decided was necessary. And they were cheaper.

At the moment you are restricting your market to your own town. Which when your own town has 45,000, of which there must be quite a small number of bass players, I think that isn't much of a market. I am happy with interparcel mostly, seeing as Eurosender are no more, but noted that their price to ship this bass was £20 higher than UPS on their own site.

Courteeners - Are You In Love With A Notion? For the lyrics - "You're going to quit Debenhams, Elope and get married in the sun". Don't really need to quit any more

I prefer blend knobs to volume / volume, but yes, you are right, they aren't as useful on passive basses, as at full blend your pickups have half the volume down anyway.

In a non lockdown scenario, that is probably a good idea if you have the time to do it.

Like buying an operating system that you have to buy antivirus software to make up for flaws in its architecture.

Oh having talked to a lot of van drivers the job is horrible and I have admiration for the fact that they do it. I have nothing against couriers. I do have something against courier companies though! On the plus side, my £28.50 UPS delivery insured for £900 got to where it was going a day early and the customer is happy. So yay for parts of UPS (except in this case the courier)!

Have you tried sending it a Midi CC of 128? Maybe that would work.

That is terrible!

Mine works fine. But obviously hasn't been getting much use this year. It powered everything except my helix.

I wouldn't have half the problems I have now if I didn't think of the food already too much!

I don't belong here, said old tessa out loud. Easy, love, there's the safe way home. Thankful for her fine fair discount, tess co-operates Still alone in o-hell-o See the deadly nightshade grow English ribs of beef cut down to 47p lb Peek Frean's family assorted from 17 1/2 to 12 Fairy liquid giant - slashed from 20p to 17 1/2 Table jelly's at 4p each Anchor butter down to 11p for a 1/2 Birds eye dairy cream sponge on offer this week. It's scrambled eggs.

It starts like that, it gets much easier after a while

No, a truss rod is not a consumable thing that is supposed to die. But I do know what it is like dealing with him. Don't stand for anything less than a replacement.

Oh I can become free - you don't get rid of me that easily.

All understandable. Harder for me on that date but probably easier for others. I was wondering about it being tight. Although everyone knows that all bass players are over 65

It is a shame. Hopefully if the world gets back to normal there will be less courier take up, and maybe the prices might go down again. At the moment for most things it isn't worth the effort. Not so bad if you are prepared to take the chance, but I wasn't on this. Maybe on a £100 bass it is ok as they cover to that, or hermes do to £300 (although you would need it with them), although not beyond a metre.

In the end I got a good price with UPS through their own site, it was much more expensive through interparcel when I added the insurance. The reason it was a deal breaker was because the advert was back from before brexit when it would cost £30 to ship, so that was what was in the advert and already paid for. Now most places cost double that (which seems a little odd as this is the same uk-uk requirement as before) and I had already gone down as much as I wanted to go. That used to be through eurosender who used DPD. DPD through any other means was £50. In future adverts I will just have to increase the shipping, which means less likely to sell.

Can't help feeling your volume is not going to be working well if you followed that circuit to the letter.

I think that would be self selecting wouldn't it. I mean, if you are one of the people who doesn't like Scott, you are not going to pay for membership are you?

Sorry, speaking as someone with the attention of a small goldfish, 12 weeks has always been an age! Its sort of similar to mine, with the grain, headstock, P/J, except I have no pickguard and a control plate! Think i will get a east retro for mine one day

I have only included ones I can do some level of tune on, although I can play others, so Guitar, Bass, Keyboard, Flute, Clarinet, trumpet. I can make some sort of noise on a violin and cello, but not something I would want to do in front of someone else, then there is the chapman stick, but that is just like a guitar.