Downunderwonder

Ugh. If it was grounding then touching the strings would not have made a difference!

There's your 'missing' science! Clearly the bridge was NOT grounding!

Can you explain how the touching strings eliminated the buzz then?

I think hardware is pretty well correlated from the barely acceptable to pretty good stuff. Schallers breaking is a glaring departure from their historical price reliability correlation tradition. They will pay in the end.

You haven't made a point. You have only reiterated propositions of the OP without stating a position. Fancy basses appeal to some players who can afford them. So what?

Supply and demand allows the makers a little profit. Nobody is putting a gun to anyone's head to buy so I fail to see your concern.

Tell her your mates from BassChat request ''Smelly Cat''.

You got the last bit right. Certainly cheap basses have come a long way since 1969 but you're still looking at polishing something that came out the back end of a cow to get a gem like object.

Your complaint is with your govt's 23%, not with UK ending your '3%' discount scheme.

Free shipping on stuff, including Barefaced Retro10.

Cool. You will have incidentally grounded the bridge in the process since there was no buzz when you grounded it yourself. Next time you're playing under a dimmer or fluorescent lights you'll be golden too.

^this.

Angling for a spot on Team Rickenfakerbuster?

They don't go poof because they are also rated for a heap more voltage and the average bass signal is very much less than its peak voltage so the power is much lower than peak in practice.

You can. They have very good rates on their worldwide shipping. You won't pay a penny of VAT to the UK. Andertons in UK undercut BF in UK effectively by doing free shipping! I guess BF don't mind as it saves them shagging around shipping single cabs.

Better sort out the drum track levels before doing anything else.

That's two volunteers for the Faker ( Greatest) Hitsquad?

Of variable rates of VAT across the EU I know nought. It would surprise me if imports from EU to Ireland had a different rate to stuff from anywhere else by the time it has reached market. It's the retailer doing the collection at the local rate. You're saying they gave up on 3% on Brit imports pre Brexit?

There's a BF 110 in the classifieds that effectively comes with a free barely used Elf amp and few free scratches. Jump on that.

It all sounds to me like if he didn't have the gun tech working for him the whole operation would go tits up pretty quickly.

They're everywhere. Trouble is a lot of the vintage Fakers are pretty good facsimiles.

It's too much work for moderators and admin to run down every advert looking for clues that it's not a real one. The overriding factor is ''people are stupid'' so if you allow real ones it is inevitable 3/4 won't supply the necessary verification details upfront and 1/2 will be fakes anyway.

was in the OP. It surprises me how little love SfX receives on BC. They have some really neat stuff but the only time they get mentioned is the fixed very low HPF rumble filter.

The only way you would have paid VAT twice is if you bought from a UK shop too silly to export properly, or else they did export properly and ripped you off. Barefaced are well versed in exporting with no sales tax incurred until the destination country's customs clearance. Then that is between the importer and their govt. If it's anything like NZ and UK you would have been charged Eire VAT on the export price and cost of shipping. On top of that, whatever clearance fee applied with your shipper. Maybe VAT on that fee as well?

At what percentage Ni is a steel considered 100% pure 'nickle' steel?