Musicman666

Ooops ..quoted wrong post.

Yes I can see why you might think that …I’m really trying to figure out if anyone here has the knowledge.

I thought I was doing my diligence, I get many opinions on this but the one opinion I can’t get is from uk customs. If you are buying secondhand and bringing it in I can’t see any difference comparing that to my situation as far as the customs officer is concerned, all he sees is a less than new guitar being brought in as personal luggage. I thought there was an exception for personal household goods being exempt, ie they are not your professional tools. But I’m probably at some stage going to bring a few guitars over as necks, and the next time it will be the bodies just to be sure. It’s a pia but what else can I do, I don’t want to pay tax twice.

Are you saying you have to pay tax? What if it’s an old bass you had in your other international home …I have a stingray bought in the uk in the 90s, it’s been all over Asia, looks really battered and I’m thinking of bringing it back to the uk, would I have to pay tax again on it and how would they value it…this isn’t hypothetical.

and if you just get on a plane buy it and bring it back as personal luggage ..is it zero tax??

Any of Gabriel’s monologues when he was in old genesis.

for unusual i have a six string short scale musicman silhouette bass/baritone tuned e-e with bass vi strings and a chapman stick railboard dual bass reciprocal...

Some things cannot just be unseen….

The main offenders know who they are…

Anything that looks like it might have fallen off an antique Spanish galleon gets a no from me…it’s just wrong.

Ah …my bad, I misread the spec, yes it is both switching and tapping. I’m going to have to chat to status about this like you mentioned earlier and see what they say. Thanks.

Ok …I’m not getting that mod, I was getting coil tapping mixed up with coil splitting, I was after coil splitting which it isn’t.

this will be my second s2 status build so there wont be too many surprises hopefully, but yes literally its a yes or no type deal, anything custom that deviates from the norm is going to cost a lot with these guys. I'm sure they will think its a good mod but forums like this will hopefully give me the real down to earth no bs user point of view... I already think their prices are way too high so I don't want to add to it unnecessarily but on the other hand i don't want to be kicking myself for not getting something that later on I wish I had. I do appreciate the single coils on my jazz with that tight response... ps...this is a forum, we are here to hear your honest personal experiences!!!!!!!!!!!!..

This is a new build so it’s whatever status would normally do.

Ok …thanks for the feedback…appreciated. I suspect the s2 and slimline do share a lot of the same tech when it comes to the electronics. I think the upgrade you had is different since the coil tap as far as I understand just turns the humbuckers into single coils.

Is it a useful upgrade worth having?

love everything from these four guys in all their various formats. Having young's fragile voice weaving amongst the harmony is like taking the whole thing up a notch from a solid 10 to a sublime 11.

quite surprising that he would dump the shergold and eccleshall.... is this auction like a symbolic final separation from new order??

Yeah i remember the neck seemed really long in comparison to the body so you had a bit of neck dive on the thunder iii.

yeah i was at that same gig, did the quadrophenia thing and slept on the seafront, their best gig for me was Glastonbury about the same time when they played during a full on lightening storm which just took the whole experience up to a whole new level...robert himself remembered it as being one of the best as well.

glad you got a good one ... i recently bought a squire classic 60s vibe jazz literally as something just to noodle on in lockdown since all my gear was in storage abroad. I honestly didn't expect too much for 300 quid new but i am absolutely blown away by it, it sounds great, pretty light and plays like butter with low action. So now its a keeper, didn't see that one coming at all. Reminds me a lot of my old early 80s Japanese squire precision, should never have let that one go.

just check out this live concert track, definitely a peak, it is the cure with what i think was the best lineup including andy anderson ex hawkwind on drums. I love the use of the flanger here, they never seem to do it like this anymore. Funnily enough i saw thornally first so for me he was the definitive cure bassist.

they initially wanted to use two basses on primary but ended up using one four string and the bass vi for sonic reasons...and thornalley specifically was the producer of pornography and filled in on that tour.

generally with the cure the older the album the better but you cant go wrong with the trilogy ie pornorgaphy/disintegration /bloodflowers.