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And speaking very slowly … and saying “no, you’re not too loud, honestly” when they get all cross

@ead I’m impressed you’ve managed to train a guitarist… I thought they were only capable of fetching sticks

I bought a lovely hartke amp off him.

There’s lots of US members on here, you’re not alone maybe they are talkbass-refugees?

Wow 14 years dead and you revived the thread … well done The late mr oldgit was a very nice man - he sold me a lovely jazz bass and was charming throughout

I have that also. Funky Nassau at the end is amazing. And it has BB king

I quite fancy one to use and as an investment. I’m leaving something of my old life behind; it was traumatic and some money will come of it. Maybe retail therapy will help as I’ll have got something (nice) out of it

Or you happen to be prone to it

I do wonder if keeping a thumb resting on the cover and not moving it might lead to problems longer term compared to keeping your thumb mobile along with all your fingers caveat : I’m not medical but I’ve had a lot of hand problems arise from immobility and lack of use however if the pup cover rest thing works for anyone reading and they have no reason not to use it, go right ahead

I’m sure artec make such a saddle piezo- I connected mine to a probably fake Fishman preamp (bass came with the saddle fitted, I swapped out the existing preamp)

Agree - that’s respectable

As I know to my cost. By the time they’d finished “carefully transporting” my prose bass it looked like it had been machine-gunned

I hope I’ve processed that wrong ..

This is called GAS - gear acquisition syndrome - rarely seen round these parts (said he, sarcastically).

Welcome - you night want to learn a bit of set-up as you can often get action much lower. I bought a jazz bass once that needed six turns before it became usable - a bus would have fitted under.

You’d let a guitarist touch anything of yours ? 🥺

But also less dead … which can only be a good thing

I fixed a ski ramp on the neck of my p bass with help from others here i also roll my own neck edges and do fret work

Just fitted the cheapo Olympia set 40-100. They seem quite high tension shocked at how the acoustic sound of the bass has changed. Not amplified it yet

Poor cat … hope it went to a good home

@nikon Fthere you go

He is a member on here - Alex claber?

The much revered bass gallery is the only place mentioned heretofore