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[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1346101272' post='1785373'] ... or indeed actually learn how to play it? [/quote] Now that would have been punk!

Obviously, the gap in the neck pocket by the Fender QC was cushioning the blow - a well-conceived compression joint, allowing the guitar to flex with each ill-informed and foolish swing But, nah, not my bat.

Given that GAS seems to churn my collection every six months or so, it's good to see an example of someone finding a bass they love and then sticking by it

Brilliant!

This is pretty much the equivalent of the BC national anthem. Long live the meme!

... Further to my comments in the black Sterling LE thread, please add this one to ths GAS list also

[quote name='warwickhunt' timestamp='1346079730' post='1784964'] Insurance is a funny thing because 'new for old' means that you'd need to look at the cost of one NOW which you patently can't get, so generally an insurance company would want a written quote (or two) from retailers as to the value. As to what would it cost you to buy a used one; I watched one sell on ebay for under £1000 and one sold on here for £1250 but you can guarantee if you desperately wanted to buy one, you'd not find one for love nor money... or approximately £1500! LOL Real life situation - I have a Ltd Ed Warwick of which 100 were made and it retailed in 1991 for £1800 yet to get an identical bass made from Warwick CS it'd cost me £6000. However, my insurance company will only insure it for £1800 +index linked inflation. [/quote] Good comment. I have a custom shop BC Rich Eagle, which would costs >$5000 to replace, if I needed to source a new one - but I've only been able to insure it for a lower amount (albeit not that low), with an agreement around index-linking. Sigh, it looks a stunning bass. Since discovering the Ernie Balls I've managed to aquire a few... and I still manage to come back and find more I would like! Best add this to the list, alongside the SLO and Reflex!

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' timestamp='1346074236' post='1784859'] I don't really run my business like a business, especially not via BC, anything not in the affiliates bit isn't business, its personal stuff, except maybe the wanted section. In fact, its more that I run my hobby like a business, since my actual business has nothing to do with BC or bass at all. My aim is to deal as exclusively as possible and pick and choose who I bother with, which isn't really business practice and entirely to do with my personal preference of who I want to bother with. I charge people extra because their band sucks, and talk people out of buying my things that won't suit what they want to do. In order to make such choices, I need the information, which is the value of the feedback thread, restricting information doesn't help me at all. And its definitely not the shop front that is at issue otherwise, that's back end stuff. If a transaction doesn't complete, because one party say, doesn't actually send the goods, that is something I'm going to want to know about. [/quote] The value of the feedback thread, as originally conceived, was in allowing users to comment on [i]completed[/i] transactions, for better or worse. As I alluded to above, you'd need something very different to make your model work - and, again, your model is very different from the average user. If we were in my office, suited and booted and having this as a business conversation, my initial challenge to the above would be: [i]well, are you asking me for a genuine improvement for all users, or are you asking me to enable your business model?[/i] Very tough challenge, that. But, assuming it could work and BC went with your suggestion - do you have any thoughts about how it might work? I talked about SLAs, as we'd need some objective standard; and the feedback would need to work two-ways, and in all instances. You're talking about being able to deal exclusively and charge more if peoples' bands suck - would you be prepared for a model where people could post their responses to that? Obviously, I'm not committing to anything, it's beyond my gift for the site - and the more senior mods have had their comment on the existing rules - but it would be good to know more of your ideas to ensure I'm getting the most of the feedback. Maybe drop me a note via PM.

Way back in the mists of time, the Feedback section was conceived of as a rather rough-and-ready solution to the desire of forum members to feedback on the transactions they had taken part in. Roughly, it was intended to offer an equivalency with the model we're all most familiar with - the Ebay mode. That, [i]where a transaction had occured[/i], you would be able to comment on the nature of that transaction. I said rough-and-ready, as some bits we're missing - we couldn't allow ratings, or produce MI, in trying to work the feedback system within forum software. It was all based on verbatim feedback. It did have one advantage, which may now be a source of complaint - in that it required a transaction to have taken place. That was the ultimate arbiter, as with Ebay, that the feedback was credibe, targeted, and based on a real transaction. In a world of subjective opinion, this did at least ground the feedback section in some form of reality. It gave it some [i]context[/i]. It helped avoid some of the more subjective measures - I mean, what is [i]timewasting[/i]? Is it the same for you, as it is for me? It avoided those subjective areas of discussion, by asking people to focus on an actual transaction. This model will does not work so well for the nuances. [i]For the people trying to run a business, like Mr Foxen, the forum software won't support everything they might want from their shop front.[/i] To get around it, we'd need to consider additional rules - on what topics might be covered by feedback outside of an actual completed transaction, and how to prevent such comments turning into a discussion; and [i]committing both forum members and affiliates to those rules[/i], perhaps in the form of things like SLAs. So we can have an objective measure of timewasting or uncompleted transactions, and other such complaints from sellers; but also objective standards around those users selling, including those looking to run business via the forum. That's a very expansive option, and I'm not sure how palatable that would be to all parties. But it might be the only solution, in the face of the limitations of using discussion forum software to operate shopfronts - and open up genuine two-way feedback. I think, in any case, that the feedback being left by members in this thread should be collated and borne in mind as the forum develops - so that the site owners can see what issues drive people and some of the outcomes members are hoping for, as they decide how to progress the site.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1346018550' post='1784263'] OK, I'm back. It was terrible. in the 'other' continuum Hitler had won WW2, David Icke was fighting alien lizards from a bunker in Llandudno and there was no internet. So no-one would have been selling basses on BC anyway. So, is Nick Clegg still Prime Minister? [/quote] I've got news for you...

[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1346018125' post='1784260'] It's whatever you want it to be. [/quote] You're not playing the game, Nige - where is the bark, growl or snarl?

Nice, chief. Very nice

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1345988713' post='1783813'] Just play. Enjoy yourself. Remember that any mistakes are gone in an instant so don't worry about them. [/quote] This. You barely notice the mistakes in others at gigs you watch, so don't waste your time imagining people are dwelling on yours

Skelf, that bass is mind-bending - but you can see the tought that went into each element. What did your man make of it?

[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1345848974' post='1782518'] I wanted that 'classic Jazz bass squeak' but mine had a Badass II on, so it sort of snarled. I hear the word 'bark' a lot too, but these things are made of trees so of course they do. [/quote] If you want to nail that growl, bark and snarl... I'd install one of these instead of your more conventional pick-ups.

Right this second... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNe8uYjZIHY

[quote name='lurksalot' timestamp='1345890855' post='1782772'] I guess thats a real bummer , but my advice would be to change your strings before they to 35 years old [/quote] Brilliant

Or 70 Bronze series BC Rich Warlocks? You could assemble them into a small art installation and probably double your money, if the Tate still has the floor space

Seven Stingrays, maybe? Or, one Cutlass, one Reflex - and then three Stingrays.

Nice

[quote name='charic' timestamp='1345797937' post='1781588'] You might get more gigs if you could read tab [/quote] Oooomph!