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Here's my entire collection Well, ish!

Well, if the Sanatogen gig has gone, I'll put all my hopes on nailing the Bic Biro endorsement. I'd quite happily been seen using a Bic in every meeting I do. My current pen has some real mojo...

I take two bottles to the shower... I have a spare even at rehearsals. Not because I'm worried about breaking the #1, but more because I want to play the second - I do swap quite a bit It's useful for emergencies and catering for bizarre tunings, to which my guitarist was only recent addicted.

Thanks Clarky. Wonky is one that I'm really luck to have, having lusted after it for a long-time - well, since joining the forum! I'm unsure where to go next with the collection. It has a balance between the higher-end, more expensive instruments, and those with a little more economy and simplicity. It seems like a lot of people scale there up as they get older/more established. Do you have less but better? Or just enjoy them for what they are? I'd still love more Eagles. Brilliant design

A sign of good taste, surely? I love the Ric.

... and the second, and we'll call it quits here for now. BC Rich Platinum ST. I'm sure Lorne could add some more colour to the description, but the Platinum series were a past cheep-and-cheerful effort from BC Rich, although a good deal better than some of the budget sh*te they turn out now. Think Squier to Fender and you get a sense of the difference: It takes forever to polish up the headstock after impaling careless guitarists This will shortly be in pieces once I'm done with 1987 NJ ST.

Now on to the super-strats... only two of three are put together (my 1987 NJ ST is undergoing some work in my shed). This is my 1988 Charvel 575. Sounds like a rhino clearing it's throat, very hot pick-ups and a super-slim neck - oh, and all-Jackson hardware too:

More the crowds bay, more! And they shall... well, this. Fender MIM Precision. I'm sure the bridge cover represents some faux vintage, but it's lost on me. However, it's light; is a Precision; and has strap locks, making it a regular friend in rehearsals:

Now for something complete different... 1984 BC Rich Nagoya Japan ('NJ') Eagle. Lightweight, with hot pick-ups, this has been a fond go-to bass for when you need to rock out. It's been nicely mojo'ed over the years, and joined me from Shockwave. It's quite a tasteful bass

This one is a good one. It's traditional to exchange presents, man-to-wife and back again, when getting married. The wife got the world's most expensive handbag, and I got this from BC'er Molan, my Lakland Darryl Jones 4. Through-body stringing, pick-ups to die for... ok, so a little heavier than a comparable Fender, but this is definitely the best Jazz I've played:

Next, a new acquisition - very new, in fact, since it only joined me last weekend - my 1976 ("00") Gibson Grabber G3. It has scrubbed up very nicely indeed, and is every inch the rock bass - there's an unbelievable sound from this bass, it just oozes rock:

I've been a member on here for a few years now, but have been a little remiss in not sharing the porn! This is my current collection, arrived at from a journey which began - aged 15 - with an awful Encore P-bass. I'm both my purchasing powers and the basses have improved since We'll start with the gem, then - this is my 2004 BC Rich Custom Shop Eagle. Nick-named 'Wonky' by Lorne when he first imported the bass (an ode to the odd placement of the 'R' logo), this bass was displayed at the 2004 Namm Show. It's got the mind-boggling array of electrics which was the hallmark of the vintage BC Richs, on which this is based - nicely rounded off with gold Grover tuners and BadAssII. The double-P active DiMarzios and neck-through build make it a bit of a monster:

[quote name='spinynorman' post='1173519' date='Mar 23 2011, 04:51 PM']Where do they go? I used to have dozens but last time I looked there were only 5 left.[/quote] A lot of mine go through the dog. Emphasis on [i]through[/i]. Not my preference, mind.

It's a member on here, I think someone said. From Yorkshire. How many of us can there be?

Amen to the above.

Even split. Unless you're working with Axel Rose.

[quote name='charic' post='1173204' date='Mar 23 2011, 12:50 PM']Just buy a Shuker/ACG instead that way you need the deposit then you have 9months+ (at a guess) to save for it!![/quote] ... and you could pay the deposit on your credit card and get cashback? Wahey! I feel like I can be flippant. Despite knowing, in some detail, how the whole system works I still had silly money on my cards. I'm happy to say it is now gone, and now that I'm not spending every sodding card provider has written to me to increase my credit limits

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='1170496' date='Mar 21 2011, 11:28 AM']WTF? This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen anyone post on Basschat. No-one around here can afford a flat cap. The last one I'm aware of was burned for fuel during the winter.[/quote] I can often be seen flouncing around York in my flatcap - but I suspect people think I'm either from the land-owning classes, or the local union leader I'll drop Keith a line and see if we can't get some clogging or whippet racing to the Yorkshire Bass Bash agenda

Just to note, but the credit card market is starting to look much more bouyant of a sudden. There are some great deals on transferred balances and deferred interest periods.

Jim Dunlop nylons, 0.73mm. The trick to anything with a pick is practice, practice and practice... I was toffee about 2 months ago, but forced myself to play, play and play. When I began the exercise even the 0.73mm picks were too much for me, but you do adapt and find a balance.

Picked up a nice little bass from Alun over the weekend. Got a cup of tea the moment I walked through the door, and had a play with his dogs into the bargain. I'd buy from him again

[quote name='ahpook' post='1157847' date='Mar 11 2011, 11:27 AM']buy my cowpoke !![/quote] +1 actually - nice little price, and would quite cheaply get you into the same space.

So... a couple of months back I managed to destroy a pot on my Hartke 3500 head. A quick disassemble convinced me I knew absolutely nothing about anything worthwhile, and would need some expert help in replacing the pot without tampering with the rest of the head's electronics. I posted on here, and explored some options with Korg, before iCastle very kindly offered to lend me a hand - if I got a spare pot, not only would he replace it for free, but he'd show me how to do it too! Ok, so my wife binned the first pot I ordered; then she re-ordered a 100k pot for a 10k job, but yesterday Ian kindly put my head back together - with an explanation of the do's don'ts of soldering circuit boards Brilliant! Oh, and I got a cuppa too and a look at all his cool gear. So, I wanted to say thanks to Ian - this is a great forum we have and it's full of great people, who will make time to answer silly questions or lend a hand. I hope it never changes, as I'm certainly grateful. Cheers Ian!

We record ourselves at every rehearsal - sure, it sounds great when you're in the midst of all that noise, and imaging you're some kind of rock god; very sobering to listen back later, and it reveals a lot about what you actually sound like. 51mOn has some great tips, which I think I'll be borrowing myself! Interesting on the use of the flat EQ for the set-up. I guess that's the best baseline (bass line, eh?) for bringing all the instruments together. I think I would, left to my own devices, have gone down the route of rolling the bass off the guitarists - that's what you're there for, after all, and it's the one thing they think they need in spades.