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  1. scrumpymike
    Yes please! We always do a list of who's bringing what so everyone has an idea of what's there to be seen, heard, played or - last but not least - bought. I'll start the ball rolling: Some or all of the following: my two Andy Rogers custom-builds; Vox Starstream A2S; FOR SALE!! Gillett Contour Standard 4; Mesa TT-800 head; FOR SALE!! Eden WT550 Traveler head; Hand-Box R-400 head; 2 x Barefaced SC3 cab's. We also start a list of raffle prizes: I'm putting in a nice Fusion semi-rigid case I got for a s-s headless ACG and a Hercules mic stand - both pretty much as new. Over to you!
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    Just a prototype. We'll be launching the product at next year's Bash. That's not just 1 x £13 by the way. I've won the wooden spoon so I'll stop digging now.
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    Reading it again, I don't either🤔 I was trying to say that we know we'll break even with £13 (plus a few T-shirt sales) so charging £15 would just be to give the person on the till an easier life handling £notes rather than scrap metal. I'll get me coat...
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    Extra help from Ms Chien will come in very handy. As it happens, 3 of the usual team can't make it so a couple more volunteers will be most welcome - shout-out to woodinblack's other half again?
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    OK, anyone averse to the number Xlll just pays £15 and gets two-quid's-worth of raffle tickets thrown in 👍 We did think about the practicalities of handling loads of coins but we are ADAMANT that we will NEVER knowingly overcharge our bass buddies.👼 Some T-shirt sales would help us lots 🙏
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    Maybe I've just missed it but I haven't seen much negative stuff, just lots of positives. The one I had was unbelievably good and punched way above its (then) £600 RRP.
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    It's less than 7 weeks to the Big Fat South-West Bash Day - that's Sunday October 9th in case you didn't know! The winning formula remains unchanged: You pay a BARGAIN PRICE to EAT, DRINK and BASH yourself silly amidst AMAZING KIT in nice surroundings with like-minded folks and NO NEIGHBOURS TO WORRY ABOUT! 🥳 We're having to increase the Bash price this year, and here's why. Last year for the first time, the Bash failed to break even. We knew our costs would be higher due to the pandemic but, in the hope of a higher than usual turnout thanks to 'pandemic bounce-back' effect, we decided to keep the all-in, attendance plus-food-price at £10 - and over-ordered on the T-shirts ☹️. In the event, what we got was the opposite, with a lower-than-normal attendance because many people were still cautious about socialising. Unfortunately, those food and drink prices have continued to rise, so this year's increase (the first and only one in 6 years) has to cover that too. So this year's new, all-in price for the same top-quality Bash we all know and love is £13*. As an extra guarantee that we'll break even, we also need advance payment from at least 25 of you. You can do this by pre-paying your £13 entrance or buying a Bash T-shirt in advance (£20 including p&p, £15 if collected at the Bash). As usual, just PM me and we'll sort it. We can't wait to see you guys! *And we can only do it at this price because, as a Trustee of the hall, I can hire it for the day at half price!
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    That's knot true.
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    That's knot true.
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    It's called delegation - anyway, I only missed breakfast 🙂
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    That's drop-dead gorgeous! GLWTS.
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    Ha, that's just what I did! You need a piece of thin-wall round tube (long enough to get to the bottom of the screw left in the wood plus enough for your drill chuck to grip securely) with inner diameter slightly bigger (pref +0.5mm) than the screw diameter. Notch some teeth into one end of the tube using a small file or junior hacksaw blade - and away you go!
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    Awkward? It was a b**ch! The screw had sheared off flush with the body and I had to make a special tool to do the job.
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    Ha-ha! That's kind of right. I'd say that I stopped buying because my defective £1500 custom Elwood raised doubts about Maruszczyc quality control - forgot to mention that the Luminlays I ordered and paid for hadn't been fitted. But, hey, don't forget I was just answering gazzatriumph's question.
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    Good question! The first thing to say is that a few years back I decided to limit myself to 3 basses - two for gigging in my classic rock covers band and one more that I'd keep changing just to scratch the GAS itch. My first '3rd bass' was a Mensinger Cazpar that I bought new from the Public Peace online shop for what now seems like a real bargain price of £890. I just wanted something compact and lightweight for home/practice use and ended up really loving it so I sold it to try other Cazpar variants including a fretless and a headless bought off this FS forum. I was so impressed with the quality and value for money that I bought a used s-s Elwood off here with a view to gigging it. That was a nice bass too but the quality wasn't as good as the Cazpars. Anyway, I decided to bite the bullet and get a custom Elwood L made and that was where it all went wrong. When it finally arrived, there were quality issues with bubbles in the paint finish, a chip on the neck near the headstock, and badly fitted screws. You could see from the screw heads in the scratch-plate that they hadn't gone in straight and when I tried to fit Schaller strap locks screw holding the original button sheared off. When I finally managed to extract it from the body you could see it had gone in at a stupid angle and bent straight when it was tightened down on the button. Adrian made me an offer that I was satisfied with but that was me done with Maruszczycs. The Sandy Llionel I bought off here was just perfect in every way and for me was a much better player than any of the Maru's.
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    I'd be tempted to stick with the Epiphone.
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    I bought a new SG re-issue, MY 2008 for just under a grand IIRC, that I absolutely loved - except for the slight neck-dive, which is just a personal thing with me. Also, while the pups and controls definitely lifted it well out of 'one trick pony' territory, I felt I needed something with a broader tonal range as I was doing all sorts of different stuff at the time. By then, I'd got at least 5 years of happy gigging from it though. Re bottom E, it was fine and I was using relatively low-tension rounds.
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    Just reminiscing - which I do a lot nowadays (can't say the same for remembering unfortunately!). When I bought my first bass in 1964, I knew nothing about scale lengths, string spacing or indeed anything else. As luck would have it, the only bass our local guitar shop had in my price range was a s-s Watkins Rapier. When I later understood that s-s was my thing, the WEM was followed by a series of Gibsons. My point is that, if I'd started on a standard scale, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have persevered with the bass to become the player I am today: vastly experienced but still mediocre 🙂
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    Having had a shed-load of Maru's and one Lionel (which I stupidly sold), I'd go for a Sandy every time.
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    That's what it does on my R-400. Very clever idea IMHO. Getting the mids right is what I spend most time doing on other amps but the Contour pot seems to get me where I want to be much quicker without needing to faff around. Of course, that may not be where YOU want to be 🙂
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    Let's hope I'm not faced with that difficult choice 😉
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    Re the comments about the Acinonyx pre-sets, I get arguably more versatility from my Andy Rogers custom-builds without the use of push-push buttons that are prone to mechanical failure in my experience. Mine have 3 pick-ups and 8-way switching that allows instant pick-up selection - singly or in any combination of two or all 3. Now I'm used to this, I wouldn't be without it and it beats me that the only adoption of this configuration I've come across from the usual suspects was Fender's limited-run s-s Rascal. Its quirky body shape and bridge position made it feel more like a standard-scale and IMHO stopped more players from buying this otherwise superb bass. It's got the best s-s neck I've ever played.
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