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Serial not found is a big red flag the blocks probably are stickers, but the ferrule and string retainers look a bit hooky to me, exactly as they did to @HeadlessBassist I’d say it was a bitsa

Drumroll… then cymbal

I used packaging from Next socks - doesn’t shrink or squash … unlike the socks …

Sire v7 would be my recommendation well done for helping him get away from The Dark Side

Yes but if they are made of tonewood … 🍿

Youre a martyr and a true inspiration to all who aspire to personal purity quite like the idea of the neep one and the les Paul (bass obviously, not the weedy kind) 🤮

We aren’t local … see league of gentlemen “Edward and tubs’ local shop”

2 out of 3 ain’t bad, as someone, probably Shakespeare himself wrote

Lead him away from The Dark Side

Perhaps I will see you in November @neepheid

I was told by a luthier and professional db player (who made his own cello, as you do) that on an acoustic db it’s not that important to be precise as the note takes longer to form as a sound by which time you’ve moved on to the next note. and breathe….

Hmm - needs tort. And a p bass

If I’ve learned one thing about 5, and it’s my third attempt it is to forget it’s there until you need to “play across” to avoid open strings - few songs use notes lower than E example you could play teenaged dirtbag by playing across from fret 5 rather than use E and A open strings, then youre free to shift up and down by a semitone if needed

What was this bass @Stub Mandrel ?

I assume both those portions were yours?

Gutted to miss this

Totally gutted to miss it, hoping for better in November

I think I may have to miss this one for economic reasons. Huge thanks to @Richard R and @Mottlefeeder for their kind offers of assistance. If, as I hope, my economic and employment ducks are more aligned, I will make it to the November meet in Crowthorne

I’d do it 24/7 if I could

Don’t know yet, sorry vaguely positive assurance from agent that he has no one else in the running and that ceo has tasked HR with finding a slot to meet him and “they always take ages” I cannot do this if I cannot justify it as affordable when I have no job partner away all day tomorrow

Thanks Perhaps I can make that

Wasn’t there another that @NancyJohnson was trying to organise ?

I had for some reason written this down as the 25th, I don’t know why.