Beedster

Couldn’t agree more Lawrie, feels more like I loaned each for a while. All beautiful instruments but just that, instruments, or means to an end. The end is the music. If I could have one back it would be the ‘65 which was special, but it went to a very good home. And the Wals probably set me back less than £3k the pair, and that was less than 10 years ago! Happy days 👍

Custom Shop and the real deal ‘57

Custom Shop..,,

‘65

Thanks, looking through old pics tonight, suspect there's a fair few more to come

'69...

And.......

And another..... An '81, a '64, and a '71

Going through some old pics.......

And then Parcel Monkey would have challenged Evri to a dance-off. And won 🕺

They don’t require many mods though, this one has the Retrovibe Stinger circuit which is a plus but the original was also good. Still want that mid sweep though……

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I bought an Ampeg V4B about 15 years ago, now in the hands of @silverfoxnik. When it arrived the courier had it on a trolley. I assumed it was a furniture delivery, because it was in a large wooden crate, screwed together and inside it was shockproof in bubble wrap. It took me about an hour to unpack. I messaged the seller who suggested that he thought it crazy that people send valuable music stuff in cardboard, which is ultimately shit. I think he has a point. I still have the wooden crate by the way

I've been aspiring to that look for years 👍

I think you have the proof.

It has that potential yes But...... Sometimes these things happen, and letting them become a 'cause' just costs you more time and money. Then there's the stress, which can make life miserable for a while. Your credit card company refused the payment, that's the first good thing, so to date I assume this has cost nothing and I imagine will continue to do so, you have the money, UPS don't, possession is 9/10s of the lax and all that. Of course, getting money back from UPS had your card company obliged would be a completely different scenario. So then there's the cab itself. I assume you have insurance that will cover this. If not perhaps it's worth looking into for next time; there are companies who insure good while in transit, they're generally cheaper than the insurance offered by the couriers and unlike those aren't poacher and gamekeeper at the same time. It's f***ING bad luck for a first delivery to the US, and it's appalling service by UPS. But they're a courier company not a Swiss watchmaker, they f*** up with a regularity that defies nearly all statistical models of human behaviour. I remember David Hockney doing the Grand Canyon photomontage thing, he spent thousands on films and days shooting it section by section, only for the lab to expose one of the films meaning there was a big hole in the artwork. He just shrugged, and IIRC, put the letter from the lab front and centre of said hole!

Likewise mate, I'm very please to have landed this one, while I prefer an oiled neck to the heavy varnish on the SUB, this one's quite nicely played in, while the body - by coincidence being finished in the same stuff the Socients used to paint their subs in - still looks like it rolled out of the factory yesterday. Thinking about an East preamp. The sweepable mids are a bassist's secret weapon for when the guitarist thinks they've won the cutting through the mix war

No such thing as bad advertising

Glad I could be of service 👍