Beedster

[quote name='waynepunkdude' timestamp='1383122608' post='2260351'] You still cycling, Chris? [/quote] Yep, you'd love it where I live Wayne, 500m climb to to the top of the Cambrians quite literally out of my back door. I ride Machynlleth/Dylife/Llanidloes and back occasionally, 1800m of climbing total in 3 hours! Ride to work is 450 metres of climbing! I never realised how flat Kent was

VT pedal and SVP are Worlds apart. I'm guessing the folks who think the VT sounds like decent Ampeg haven't played through decent Ampeg. The SVP through SVT-300 was one of the most sublime bass sounds I've made

Two guys have PM'd me saying they'll collect this but neither have replied saying when (it's first come first served as far as I'm concerned). This might be in part because the PM system doesn't seem to be letting people know they've got a new message. I'll give them a couple of days to reply and if they don't come back to me by Friday we'll arrange something subrob. Cheers Chris

Nothing here either. I'm guessing the alerts aren't working due to the increased PM traffic resulting from the 'no replies to wanted ads' thing

Bought a Coda

Buy it, refin if you can't live with it.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' timestamp='1382963896' post='2258459'] Fantastic cab, I had one before, this has to go. [/quote] Ha ha, it's coming your way in two weeks mate

I think nearly all decisions by BC over the years have been very good, even many that didn't appear so at first sight. This however is possibly the exception that's going to prove the rule (or start a new trend towards poor decisions?). IMO the FS forums will never be a watertight revenue generator, certainly not with the current membership model and what I assume is a relatively low capital base. If we try to make it one, the baby could well go out with the bathwater. Hope none of the mods/owners take this personally as they all do a great job and it's not easy. The topic under discussion is a small issue but one that, if it's a sign that there might be similar decisions on the way, could put off a lot of members and send folks back to eBay for their buying and selling, despite the high levels of crapness there. Like it or not, the FS forums are the life blood of this place. Thinking out aloud, could the reply function in Items Wanted be restricted to folks who've paid the annual fee to advertise in FS already?

Thanks Geoff This is available FOC until 8th November when I'm driving back to Kent and when it will go to a mate down there. Chris

Welcome back mate, you've been missed round these parts. Chris

This is of course the alternative to insurance (although it doesn't stop them losing it I guess) [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/219821-how-to-send-a-bass-amp-by-courier/page__fromsearch__1"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/219821-how-to-send-a-bass-amp-by-courier/page__fromsearch__1[/url]

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1382426602' post='2251869'] .. and the information that you can't in any real sense insure a musical instrument with Parcelforce is easily available here at Basschat as we have had this same conversation several, possibly many, times. [/quote] Hallelujah to that

[quote name='Clarky' timestamp='1382359380' post='2251084'] Last month I sent an EUB to BC'er Beedster (London to Wales) via ParcelForce (the only company that offers a 'large box' service). I put very prominent stickers on both sides of the box saying "Fragile - musical instrument". So Mrs Beedster comes home and finds a shredded box in her garden, with a big hole in one side, packing material blowing everywhere, and sat in the pouring rain. A covered porch was 10 feet away. Furthermore they forged Beedster's signature to pretend he had accepted delivery. Utter disgrace. Fortunately the bass was so heavily packed and solid it was unharmed. Otherwise this would really have kicked off [/quote] The evidence. [attachment=146665:IMG_1402.jpg] You can't see it in the pic but the box was also soaked through having been left as Clarky says, in the rain 10 feet from a covered porch. And yes, the scumbag forged my signature. Luckily I was in a lecture in front of 250 students at the exact time the package was signed for, but as Clarky said, the bass is built like a 1950 Russian tank so, much as I would have like to, we didn't pursue it.

Link here: [url="http://assets.peavey.com/literature/manuals/80300395.pdf"]http://assets.peavey...ls/80300395.pdf[/url] Picked this up in a trade with Greg/Shaggy in April. However, I've got far too many cabs here and a new Ampeg 15" incoming means this needs to go in order to convince Mrs Beedster that nothing has actually changed (one large black box goes into the car in the morning, a similar back box arrives home that evening, you know the score) It's a nice, light and quite deep cab, I used it for a dub sound with 300w of Amoeg tubes a while back and it was really quite impressive. Upside is that it's free, downside is that you will need to collect from Aberystwyth Chris EDIT I am [u]not[/u] able to courier or meet half way with this. It's free because I have zero time to meet up and am not prepared to wait in all day for a courier, sorry. If I had the time to do either I'd be selling it, one went for £120 recently on eBay

[quote name='Clarky' timestamp='1382048397' post='2247407'] ..... just in case I break a string - which may happen on the twelfth of never [/quote] Dude, you are so going to break a string tonight!

Just occurred to me that given my gear trading habits as well as those of the folks I tend to trade gear with, there's a pretty good chance this box is going to visit quite a few BCers one way or another