Beedster

There’s an Items Wanted forum Franco, well come to basschat 👍

The answer is in identifying the problem, does the weight cause pain, or does it cause fatigue, does it impede your technique, or does it simply annoy you? And BTW you’d be amazed how little difference a massive route under the pickguard actually makes 👍

This is what I call a collection................. https://reverb.com/uk/shop/januszs-gear-depot-5

I was assuming it was a shop so please excuse that comment 🙂

That’s quite a nice way of doing things, he’d fit in well on Basschat 🙂

A largely boring collection of basses photographed poorly

He expected a used bass to be perfect, even new basses aren’t perfect….

There will always be unhappy customers. I try to be a good forum member when I deal with people, but I've had several negative responses following a sale, the best being the guy who bought a stunning Yamaha BB2024x a few years back. It was immaculate, but he kicked of a pretty massive fuss about it being in his words 'totally unplayable'. This was odd, as firstly it was a high-end Yamaha, so unplayable doesn't compute, and secondly I'd spent a lot of time setting it up; I play light and with rounds have very low action, something the beautifully engineered Yammie neck allowed me to do. But when his problem became clear - fret buzz due to the action being too low for his playing style - and I suggested that he simply raise the action, over and above calling me several names and accusing me of deception, he replied along the lines "When I buy a bass I don't expect to have to set it up, I'm returning it as faulty". I took it back, and reported him as 'difficult' to the mods 🤔 We all have different expectations, while there are always good days and bad days for businesses, I'm not sure that all the feedback in this thread relates to poor service and/or instruments on the part of the shop, or to the at times excessive expectations of used instruments on the part of the buyer 👍

Beautiful bass, I’m very sorry to hear about your reason for sale, I hope things improve for you all 🙏

Frankly you're in London, where there are a lot of bassists, plus it's an easy place to get to for most people (you could have been in Aberdeen), plus you're now talking to the largest online community of bassists in the UK. You've made a good start 👍 Might be an idea to take a few photos and post them here, I'm no expert but there are a lot of very helpful folks on this site who are and will offer good advice Good luck

The former has not decent science attached to it and largely comes down to experience/opinion/rhetoric, the other can be measured objectively and systematically using technology. Where's the fun in discussing the latter

Yes! Mine was the result of keeping amplification volume low to avoid feedback and therefore having to dig in with both hands - increasing muscle tension around the shoulders as I did - just to be heard. The fact that you're now in a band sounds awfully familiar. Advice, make sure you are able to hear yourself and to be heard without you having to do anything different from what you'd do practicing at home. Plenty of folks on here will advise re how that can be done 👍

Likewise although it being a Jazz it was never going to work really! I've just looked at the pics on my computer as opposed to my phone and you're right, it's in worse condition than I'd initially thought. might be wrong but the frets look to be either extremely dirty, tarnished or even rusty? Either was I'd be giving it a wide berth

Very nice, I really like P-Basses with a metal control plate aesthetically but also functionally as the circuit can be tweaked/fixed without removing the whole plate. Lovely work Peter @WabiSabi, I might be getting in contact soon 👍

There's no rules, many players use that configuration, you won't know if it works for and your instrument you until you try, but there's no substantial reason why it shouldn't 👍

Second hand DB strings, yep, I've bought used strings on here many times, there's a degree of risk involved - for example one was fine until I installed it and it started to unravel - but the seller couldn't have predicted that and none of the guys here are not going to sell you anything dodgy. You just have to be patient and keep your eyes open 👍

I've owned basses in worse condition, but those strings..... The Fender rosewood necks have had a mixed reception with much talk of movement/instability and sharp/protruding frets, which is a shame because they look bloody lovely

Well these used to be considered budget but are now £500..... https://www.thomann.co.uk/lenzner_supersolo_jazz_double_bass_3_4.htm?glp=1&gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIqtKP2KHmiwMVuZlQBh3MxgzTEAQYASABEgJcFPD_BwE In my view silver wrapped gut A and E strings are often and audible improvement on plain gut equivalents, and they tend to be lower gauge which can be helpful both in playing terms and bridge/nut modification terms but if plain gut isn't working at all I'd be thinking about a more traditional option e.g. guts on G and D with a sympathetic pair of steels or synthetics on A and E. Having said that I do have a new/unused Lenzner silver wound E string here somewhere.....

Two f***ing big ones, for that 🤣

I'm guessing if you have a broken piece of kit it's a good way of replacing if FOC.... Worst decision eBay ever made was not allowing sellers to leave negative feedback for buyers