Beedster

Jeez, given the stuff in most threads being unthreadworthy is bad

A customer service agent at most courier companies could have your box right on front of them on their desk, actually able to see the consignment number, the sender's and recipient's addresses, and all bar codes etc, but if their computer said the box was in Tokyo, they would happily tell you your box is Tokyo. You can't blame the people at either company for this, day in day out the poor sods have to deal with the shite computer system that was probably developed by the same bunch that developed the UK Track & Trace system. I think the days of couriers taking any responsibility ate long gone and I'm now very reluctant to buy or sell anything that requires a courier unless I'm buying from a business who will accept responsibility of something goes wrong.

Hello mate, frankly, whilst it's not technically correct, I would always adjust the saddles first, simply because a) the action responds immediately (which isn't the case with the neck) and it's therefore easily put back and b) there's less chance of something going catastrophically wrong! There's also no such thing as the perfect relief/height combination, so whilst it might not work for others, you might find the combination that works best for you with relatively little experimentation. I like dead straight neck and quite high action, other people pick up my basses and say "how do you play it like this....?" Horses and courses Good luck

And yes, love the busker and the audience

Looks better than last time I saw him

I love the BC 'Why so many......?" threads, because they identify what is usually a completely random chain of events event and turn it into a accepted phenomenon

Hey mate, hope all's well, there was plenty of everything on tap, I'm not sure that graphite is any colder sounding than wood, just perhaps more able to zing at the top end a bit more.

This is without doubt one of the nicest necks I've ever played

So that’s the 50s and 70s boxes ticked, 60s, 80s and 90s anyone

Strange sense of deja vu

You’re gonna put a whole generation of statisticians out of business

Not the way either the journalists or the government are representing it! All fair points mate, especially in relation to cancelled treatments, but that's the Catch 22 isn't it, if we get back to normal, there's the risk that the cancellation rate will become more serious. I guess going back to the O/P, I still won't be either gigging or drinking in pubs for the foreseeable either way

Thanks for the reply mate. Re deaths, hope those figures are the way things stay. I think what’s confounding them however is that whilst deaths are lower than March, hospital admissions are higher, putting greater strain on the healthcare systems. The people being admitted are perhaps less vulnerable than in March and whilst NHS is apparently saving more of them from COVID, the knock-on effect on the treatment of other conditions is probably greater than March/April. This I think is why transmission has to be stamped on now. EDIT Just noticed the admissions line on the above appears to disagree with the data I saw earlier, which I guess says it all about the data that's out there at present. Not easy to know whose data to trust?

Looks like Terry Jones with a 'tache

That's the thing, I have (by the standards of other people, and I had one of your ex's for quite a while also), I guess that I don't get blown away the same way others do. Perhaps it's a case that for me the majority of them doing the job so well that there is limited headroom in which any greatness can operate?

Although......... I'm not sure how 'great' a Precision can ever truly be. I've owned about 30 I'd guess over the years, and played many more, and whilst a Precision will always be my number 1 bass, I don't get the idea tat they're ever 'great'. I see them as being a tool that is usually perfect for the job. Some perhaps make the job easier and others make it bloody hard, I just think they do what they do. I owned the Pino Precision for a while, folks kept saying "Wow, what a great bass", but to me it was just one of the instruments that made the job easier. The basses I've had that I'd say are great would be the Modulus Flea, Wal Mk1, Ric 4001 C64 and, possibly the Takamine B10. YMMV

Fair point

Nice one, you might have to do some jiggery pokery with the saddle as on a rightly the one you need will be treble side. I'll post pics once I've found them mate