Woodinblack

It is. They finally got round to emailing me to say they are looking into it, and I am happy with that, or I would have been happy with that last week. I know hermes are having trouble, my wife is have problems with stuff she was sending to customers, but she carried on trying and kept in contact with her customers so they knew what was going on. If you can let your customers know they are important to you and you are putting an effort in, it makes a huge difference.

When I bought my squier CV P bass, from a not so long departed shop a few years ago, I tried a MIM and US bass at the same time. It was better than the MiM sound wise, it was similar to the US, the us had better machineheads, but was 4 times the price. I don't regret the choice on that. I am not a fender player, so It would be hard for me to justify the price of a US fender, as I never found one that was far away better than anything else and they all look the same to me, for that sort of money I could get something special.

To be fair, that looks like a group of guys discussing scratchplates

Well, now I have asked them again, and they have failed to call me back twice, so at the moment I couldn't recommend them to anyone.

Ah, I misread the original question. No, simple answer, it doesn't sound much like an octave pedal at all. The 8 string sounds rich, the 4 string with a shifter sounds like a 4 string with a synth harmonic. I believe there is a thread around here showing the differences.

describe? It would be like an 8 string with a lower copy I guess, I don't know, I never put my 8 string through one, but probably would sound good as an 8 string is harmonically richer

They are lighter, an octave up. so the smallest one is wire, the rest are still wound though. 8 string basses are a lot of fun. I found the ESPs a bit chunky but that is a good price for an 8 string.

Mine are all neatly bolted to the walls, in the hope if she doesn't trip over them, they don't annoy her!

In more serious quote, it looks really well done. Not my sort of thing but certainly looks good. What sort of price range does that go then? Thiking about it I have no basses with pickguards so probably doesn't help, but I have a few guitars.

Are you sure it is a pickguard not a scratchplate?

What is the difference between that and other ones? Looks like a generic fender fretless?

String art, that is exactly what I saw (well, it wasn't a ship, it was a butterfly, but the idea).

Your rats are more obliging then ours. Here is our rats travel bag... Oh I seem to have dropped a plectrum..

While I don't disagree with your point, I am not convinced by your analogy. You don't send lab rats out, they stay in labs and you experiment on them. Its canaries, you send them down mines (or in pubs) to see if they die of a lack of oxygen (or abundance of something else). But yes, as you were

Long term? Nothing like that here, if an instrument isn't going to be played it might as well be sold.

I have, many times

It makes absolutely no difference. Connect it to the place that is most convenient to you, and the first place you can. Generally you would put them to the same pot as then you know where the wires are if you want to move them but it certainly isn't worth the effort of moving them and makes no electrical or sound difference.

To continue the pedantic nature, my wife is also an American, but doesn't have that issue, because that is only a USAdian americanism, and my wife is one of the other North Americans

That is the worst list ever. Malted milk near the worst and jaffa cakes in the top ten? correction, jaffa cakes in the list at all???

It occurs to me, of the basses I have that aren't for sale, I don't possess anything with a scratchguard / pickplate.

Thats pretty bad. No, nothing that ends with a y, like chocky or biky or something like that. Unless you are 5, then it is ok. Still, nothing is as bad as people in the last 5 years using the term Glasto for glastonbury. That is punchable.

That would mean that you couldn't be a good songwriter for quite some time, even if you were writing fantastic songs, because there is no way of deciding if they dated. And what sort of timeline? Like 'Get knocked down' by chumbawumba? Or 'Boom boom boom' by the outhere brothers? So someone like kate bush would be a terrible songwriter as not many of her songs have been covered. Or Peter Gabriel / Phil Collins etc. OK, so Mustang sally would be good songwriting, but Sledgehammer would be bad? I don't know, it all seems subjective to me.