Beedster

Amazing how many great 70's bands are out there under the radar

There is, Shipley https://www.shiply.com/ who I have used a lot and with whom I've never had a problem. You have to be on your toes to get the best deal as drivers will bid en-masse, but I've found it a great way of moving things that I either wouldn't trust to Parcelforce, or Parcelforce wouldn't take anyway. A good example is a studio desk I bought from Hampshire, 3.5 x 2.0m, weighed a tonne also, cost around £80 to be delivered and the guys happily bought it through the house and into my garden studio.

Businesses do lose a lot, they just send in such high numbers that it represents a small loss and in many/most it's probably covered by wider business insurance anyway.

I can. No insurer, looking at the track record of couriers generally, would cover them

As with all insurers (and couriers), it's not about how cheap they are, it's about how they behave when you make a claim. Frankly I don't imagine an insurer forking out £250 for a £4 premium every time a courier damages/loses something. I hope I'm wrong

Rare

All the best for the move Nik, hope to catch up with you up there (you never know, if it takes you any longer to list 'The Thing' I might be able to justify a trip up......). Given your ability, your experience and your personality it won't take you very long to find a few bands and a network of like-minded people Of course, if you played DB it would take even less time 😁

I see your Gunnarsson and raise you a Danko

If the busker calls the 'bum' aggressive he needs to get a life frankly. That's just a guy down on his luck And frankly, I'd have paid the busker several bucks to stop playing

I think there's a very good reason that all decent quality graphite/carbon necked basses are expensive. If the part is made by a reputable builder, perhaps this is OK, but I doubt it is. If people's experience of buying 'replica' carbon framed 'Italian' bikes from China (aka Chinarello), whilst the manufacturers made/stole high precision moulds, the quality of the materials used left many people with broken bikes and in some cases quite serious injuries as the result. Graphite/carbon has the advantage of reducing the variation and unpredictability of materials such as wood and metal, but it requires high quality manufacturing and materials to do so. Take a good look at the weave on a Modulus neck or a Colnago or Pinarello bike, and then check out the weave on a cheap bass neck or Chinarello, perhaps equivalent to the difference between a newly cut off-cut and a selected, well-prepared and seasoned piece of quartersawn maple

Indeed, I hate lazy sellers

I liked it, and it gave me a new perspective on ITAT

LPM + mint = Lovely board as well

Noooooooooooooooooooooo.............. I thought the first post was a joke, but now I look I can see it. Wow, just wow

Still clueless?

I don't have a clue who that is.....

Great player, doesn’t take himself seriously, I’d aspire to being either

A Rickenbacker

You can wait, but Tom Waits for no man