Newfoundfreedom

Never listened St Anger then? Absolute dross, and I'm a massive Metallica fan. For me, Justice For All is their second best album. The best being the black album. Edit Actually, Master of Puppets and Ride the Lightening were great albums too, it's hard to choose between them. But I certainly wouldn't put Justice at the bottom of the pile considering the crap they put out after The Black Album.

Might be worth seeing if you can borrow a shorty or try one out in a music shop to get the feel for it first. I'm sure they're not for everyone but now I'd take a short scale over a full length any day.

For me it's also more a case of ergonomics than weight (though everyone is obviously different). I have 2 knackered disks which really play me up if I'm in a leaning off centre position for any length of time. No problem humping bags of shopping around, but I've actually put my back out reaching forward to pick up a cup of tea. For me short scale basses seem to do the trick. A lot less stretching and leaning means they're a lot more comfortable to play. My current Gretsch Junior Jet and short scale semi hollow are probably the most comfortable things I've ever played. My old Warwick used to give me chronic back ache.

Hmmm. Interesting. I tend to split my pedal output (line 6 M13) going with 2 banks in the front for distortion, volume based effects, and the second 2 banks in the effects loop for ambient effects (chorus, flanger, reverb, delay, etc etc.) No idea why, except that that's what the manual suggests and the way it's "supposed" to be done from what I've read on various forums and internet posts. To be honest it all sounds the same to me whether it's run through the effects loop or direct into the front.

I'm always late for rehersal, and it's at my house. 😂

I must admit I'm sorely tempted with a Squier Jaguar. P/J configuration. Looks cool as F, and can be found new under £200.

Ah.....as in "hum" buckers. Am I really so stupid that I never got that? 😂

I hate you people!!! I've never been interested in buying or playing a P bass in my life. Now even that pink one has started to look good. I'm even thinking I might kind of learn to love that headstock like an ugly wife.

I would just like to point out that it can be done well If the will is there to do so. Here in Bulgaria we have a courier company called Ekont with offices in pretty much every town. A seller sends the goods via their local office. The buyer then receives a text message telling them when their item has arrived. You (the buyer) go and pick up your goods from your local office (or delivered direct to your door for a small extra charge) where you are able to open, examine and fully assess the goods before paying the courier directly for them. The seller is then texted to say that you have paid for the goods and they go and pick up their cash from their local office. It works amazingly well, it's cheap, fast, and extremely reliable. UK couriers could learn a lot. Combined with another independent courier I use in the UK. I can get up to 5Kg of goods sent from the UK to Bulgaria for 15 leva. Which is about £6.50. I couldn't send goods down the road in the UK for that, and even if I did they probably wouldn't arrive. Never any problems with things getting "lost" or damaged. In fact I'm currently waiting for an AB-Y pedal which I bought from eBay and should be arriving in the next couple of days. 😁

They're all the same. I've had an absolute nightmare with Royal Morons on many occasions. Even to the point where I lost my rag so much I went to the local sorting office and threatened to disassemble the delivery drivers legs if he didn't do his job properly, after waiting in all day for a delivers several days in a row (waiting for various car parts for an old Beetle I was restoring). Only to find a card in the door on each occasion saying the delivery driver tried to deliver your parcel and no one was home. I was there and there were also two dogs in the house. I swear the bloke must have been a ninja to even get the card in the letterbox without the dogs knowing. He was obviously just posting them everywhere instead of actually doing the deliveries to get his round finished and knock off early. Funnily enough I always got my deliveries after that. Although I've also had several things go missing in transit despite paying extra for tracked delivery.

No but great for playing them. 😂

Great. Thanks for the comprehensive answer. I never thought of buying one from Thomann. That would be ideal.

Yeah, and you can always tell people you killed it yourself. 😂

Well the listing has ended so I'm guessing you're actually serious. 😂 It's actually so ugly it's kind of beautiful.

I'm sure you're right. But as any search on here inevitably brings up about sixty thirteen bubzillion hits then getting the info you want is not always easy. Anyhow, I'm sure pretty much every subject under the sun has been covered on here at one time or another. If people don't post just because a subject may have been covered before it wouldn't be much of an active forum now would it?

Great write up. Thanks. Love the single too.

Yeah that's a good point. I was looking at UK based ones but they're more expensive. Probably just the same Chinese ones imported with the middle man's cut tacked on. The one I posted the link to is in Germany and I'm based in Bulgaria so that's probably the best bet. Getting anything through customs here from China can be an absolute nightmare.

Yeah I'd love to see a picture of the finished article. Cheers.

I've been looking at some of the self build threads on here and the workmanship is absolutely superb. Unfortunately I'm not that talented (or at all talented ) when it comes to woodworking. So I've been looking at a couple of the self build kits on eBay and I was wondering if anyone had bought / built one. Now obviously I'm not expecting it to turn out like a top of the range custom. The hardware and pups are obviously going to leave a lot to be desired. But I figured it's a good way of learning how to put a bass together and how everything works without worrying about cocking it up because they're dirt cheap. Any thoughts? This is the kind of thing I'm looking at, but they do several different styles. https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.de%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F312030024212

Holy Hell! It's like someone built a bass especially for the elephant man.

I have to show my wife this thread. She's on one coz I want to buy my third. Nice work chaps. Keep going. 😉

They'll clear your estuaries. No....... Hang on......... That's not right.

I've been looking at, and quite tempted by the Revelation myself as I'm specifically looking for a E to E guitar tuned 6. What do you reckon to it?

Looks superb.

Now you just need a long black wig to bring back "the look". 😋