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  1. I have just bought a Rusty axe acoustic bass cheap. I have no idea about them and have bought blind on price alone to dabble with acoustic bass. Does anyone have any information on them as the searches I have done have brought nothing at all apart from a couple of links to electric guitars for sale. I am guessing they are a 'budget brand' but any info would be much appreciated.

  2. [quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1484256585' post='3214181']
    Then it's caveat emptor-'buyer beware'.
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    Not always on eBay, sadly they are now so biased towards the buyer that selling on there is a risk and I have stopped for that reason. Hopefully the OP will be ok in this as he is completely in the right.

  3. [quote name='thegummy' timestamp='1484172033' post='3213366']


    To be honest I don't fancy DIYing it.

    Any idea what kind of place I could go to for that service?
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    Do you have any handy friends? It really isn't a complex job and a router isn't uncommon in a toolkit of people who dabble in diy. As for getting someone to do it for you, I would guess that most luthiers would do it, probably in a bandsaw which would be a quicker way to do it. And I would guess that most woodworkers would be able to do it but no idea if they would be happy to take it on (and good old fashioned woodworking places are few and far between these days and tend to do high end stuff so may not be cheap).

  4. I have seen a few 'big' bands in London or parts thereof under assumed names. Usually a reference to one of their tracks or something about them. A mate was obsessed with discovering them and used to hunt through the gig pages in NME (remember them?) when even tiny venues used to list and look for obscure references on band names he didn't recognise. A lot of the time it was just small bands we had never heard of but we saw Paul Weller amongst other people in a tiny place and badly disguised, but obvious who it was as soon as he started singing and judging from the number of The Jam t shorts being worn it was obvious my mate wasn't the only one to suss it out.

    I am not sure if they did it to try something new or just because they wanted the feel of a small venue again, my guess is the latter.

  5. My daughter is 9 and can't get on with a full scale. As a short term thing she is playing four strings on a semi acoustic guitar I have. I am looking at short scales as I think they will be ok but the Tanglewood ones look even better.

  6. I have an EB3 (long scale) but epiphone version and the neck dive is horrendous. It's very tiring and frustrating over time, especially as you just can't let it go or it heads straight for the floor. I haven't tried the short scale EB but obviously assume it will be better, but no idea by how much. I have got a second EB3 as a project and I am making an attachment to shift the strap point further up in the hope of countering the dive. I have seen others have got on with different straps but nothing worked well enough for me.

  7. All painted and lacquer on, looking gorgeous now with only a couple of tiny imperfections. Will get some pics when it's dried enough to look nice. Lacquer always seems to go through a really patchy phase as it dries. I will give it another couple of coats over the next few days to get a real depth on there. Then the best thing to do would be to leave a couple of weeks then cut back and Polish to get a glass like finish but I may just start building it back up as the finish looks like it will be really nice anyway.

  8. As I found out last week (on a toy for my daughter, not bass strings) if they refund and cancel the purchase you can't leave feedback. So checking the feedback may on,y show the positives of people who did not realise there was an issue. In my case it was a toy called qixels which involves small plastic 'beads' preloaded with glue that can be made into various shapes with just a spray of water to stick different ones together. I don't want to go over the top, but it's not something you want being dodgy, I contacted eBay. I was refunded so they don't care. The guy has a few positive feedback but if you search you can find a few cancelled auctions. eBay really are useless in this sort of case and I would bet similar goes on with the link above, refund and prevent negative feedback so others buy and some won't notice. Big fat con achieved.

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