GreeneKing

Hiya and welcome here. I'm not far away and I reckon its even wetter up here. Jetglow Ric, nice one

I was hoping for some sun this morning to take some decent photos but if there's sun out there it's wet! I've had the BB for a while and its not for sale. Mucho Mojo It's been fitted with a Fender 3 band EQ pre powered by 18v. It's string spacing is what you'd expect from a 4 string bass with an extra string squeezed in. This is the original 5 string Yamaha and is well over 20 years old. So there she is.

By far the lightest bass I've ever seen is my Bass collection 4 string. Seriously underrated basses. I did have a 5 string for a while and that too was very light.

I won't use roundwounds on a fretless solely due to the wear issue although they can sound really good. I've had good experience with both La Bella Deep Talkin' and TI Jazz flats. I find string height/setup is vital, especially with flats. Deep talkin are probably my faves Quite Low/Midsy, not zingy.

That's a brilliant review there daf. I'm pretty excited as my ACG isn't far away from being ready. Hmm... you've got me thinking, my Warwick fretless already has 4 holes in it

[quote]we played really well[/quote] That to me says it all Alan. You played well despite difficult conditions. What more can you do except be chuffed with that. A lot of people don't actually like ANY music. I can't imagine that myself. Peter

My Harlot's in the booth, no, no the spray booth. I really do believe that it's the most sumptious bass Alan has ever built. It's going to be everything I wanted and, ... well here it is:> Big Peter

As several have said, sometimes we have to accept that we've lost out and move on. If it were me I'd probably get a good quality repair done and keep the beast. You are obviously beyond reproach and that's a credit to you as so many aren't nowadays.

If you get a chance do Great man is Alan and Moffat's well worth a visit, even if you don't like shortbread, Pringle sweaters etc.

I'm sure it's going to be a great bass. Did you notice mine while you were there? Peter

In product reliability study there's a thing called a 'bath tub' curve, shaped a bit like, er, a bathtub It has probability of failure on the vertical axis and time on t'other. What this means, broadly speaking is that when something is new it's likelyhood of failure is relatively high. When it settles in it generally gets more reliable and when it reaches it's planned obsolescence it again becomes more and more unreliable as time progresses. Of course some gear is 'badly designed' and lasts forever, which is no good for the manufacturer if they run out of customers. My Little Mark II was an immediate failure as an example although I appreciate that Mark Bass failure is rare.

I've asked the seller whether it's BO or NT. You can see it's a BO and she confirmed this. I then politely pointed out that she was quoting prices for a NT, no reply

I sold my AGB200 recently but only because I had far too many basses and I'm moving to a flat. It's short scale whereas I believe the 140 is fullscale. A really nice bass.

Nice one Steve. Looking forward to seeing that finished and finding out how it sounds.

Hiya £9.50 an hour, thats very good. I'm an old guy albeit a graduate and working part time in school I earn less than £5 an hour! Everything is a positive here and we are all different. My advice would be to get the job and learn to fit the practice in when you can as that will be a valuable skill to develop later in life when theses things happen all the time. Work will be another valuable experience too. Working to enable yourself to buy gear, yet again, at the risk of sounding boring, a satisfying and valuable experience. Oh and sod the Fender, get a Lakland Skyline. All the best whatever way it goes Peter