Beedster

So a long term swap for a bass you won't play....? Get rid of the bloody thing and move on, If not I worry that soon you'll be staying awake at night ruminating and checking this thread in case there's been a shift in public opinion 🤣

...that's me out then

Start a band and talk to people about it(people know people and some of those people play music). It's kinda what I did in my early 40's, and on a drunken night out in 2005 I found out that two of my then colleagues were actually very good musicians (and one a talented songwriter). We recruited a drummer and ended up in a band that lasted close to 10-years and which still occasionally gets together to play despite a couple of geographical challenges 👍

Nicely put, my problem - and to be honest it was a problem - was that as a kid I had zero money as was largely the case with my family. Even my early 80's Satellite Bass was a stretch for my family, so I 'd look through gear mags and daydream about owning one of two basses, a MM Stingray or a Hagstrom Swede (I SO wanted a Hagstrom Swede....._ ..and that 'life will be better if.....' thing takes hold in the same way as s many other habits of thought or action take hold. And then in my 40's when for the first time in my life my incomings exceeded my outgoings, that thing came back and tugged at my consciousness. Took me close to 15 years to get on top of it. A great if expensive journey, but one from which I'm glad to have got to my destination 👍

The BC Vetting Committee might want to take a look at your suitability for continued membership 🤔

I really f***ing wish someone had said it to me the day I joined BC 🤣

Bought a neck from Will, and a bloody lovely neck at that. Easy process made even better by super-quick delivery, extremely good packaging, and strong after-sales support. Highly recommended BCer 👍

It's a bass, sell it and move on, if only because you will feel better for doing so. That hope that our lives will somehow be better if only we had the bass/amp/pedal that's just been listed on BC, or that fear that our lives will be worse if we let go of bass/amp/pedal to which we have a sentimental attachment but never use, is best dealt with surgically and with as little deliberation as possible

Even if it were true a few million thrown by Rod at good causes ain’t anything like enough to compensate the world for his Glastonbury show 😆

Might be worth mentioning that I had a similar issue with a PJB Briefcase, sent it back, got a replacement, issue solved (and Phil himself was really helpful). Perhaps worth a try?

Spot on 👍

Exactly what the f*** was it posted for?

I think there’s a few AI tools will do that?

Mmm, that’s never stopped me 🙂

Lightweight would be a sellable USP across all models from lefties to custom shapes 👍

It's this year's black Dan 👍

…and low fan noise 😀 Edit, ignore that, wrong thread, sorry 🤔

Better yes 😁 In my defence Pete, OP did state transparent 👍

Just noticed you were asking for interest not opinion, apols for my opinions above, have now shown some interest 👍

If the paint shop can do a decent Sherwood Green I’m interested in a Precision 👍

If it's a hobby through which you can make a few gear tokens, go for it. A business, I think you'd struggle, it's not just the margins on parts versus sold instruments which would be low, but the time costs of all those discussion with interested buyers who eventually decide on a Sire. I've built some bitsas to order here and made a loss each time, and that loss doesn't include the time I spent. OK, I wasn't doing it to make money, but neither did I sell any of the instruments below its value as an instrument. iI guess I'm saying that as a bobby that might wash its face, fine, as a business, no way

PS sorry 🙂

The reason self-builds take so long is you have to wait from the right parts to come along and then be quick when they do! I only rarely buy new bodies or necks, they’re getting stupidly expensive, at least at the quality end, and I prefer played-in necks, and don’t ask me about my experience of buying new Allparts, it was not good….

EA yes, but Walkabout transparent?

I’d do the same albeit with Warmoth wood and Dimarzio PUPs, and have done a few times, but it usually takes several months so probably wouldn’t meet the 1-month criteria 👍