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Rich

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  1. @0175westwood29 When you sell an item, please add the word SOLD to the subject title.
  2. Wow. The only Wilkes bass I've ever laid hands on was a fretless with the big slap plates in the fingerboard, that was a proper monster. This looks gorgeous. What's the string spacing at the bridge? Looks like 17 or so in the pics?
  3. Oh thank god. You see so many of these lovely basses with the E and G strung all to cóck at the headstock (generally as per the red lines below), so you have restored my faith in human nature by doing it properly. Thank you thank you thank you. Will you be bringing this wee cutie to the SWBB?
  4. Wooden Tít Be Good - Nik Kershaw
  5. Rama Llama Ding Dong -- Sha Na Na
  6. In all honesty, I'd trawl through Farcebook marketplace and pick up something from there. 75 quid would get you an Encore / Vintage / Harley B or some such, that will be a much better bet and a safer punt than anything from DH Gate.
  7. Took a little trip to the seaside this weekend, down to Dorset. I was walking along the beach when I saw a bloke and a woman shouting, and then they started fighting. It got so bad that the police turned up, but instead of calming things down the copper started hitting the guy with his baton. Then the bloke got hold of the baton and started hitting his wife AND the copper.

    Then just when I couldn’t imagine things getting any worse, a crocodile turned up and stole all the sausages.

    1. prowla

      prowla

      That's the way to do it! 🙂

  8. You might want to consider including some photos, including one with your username and the date in it.
  9. Had one of those "Dad this is my new number" scam texts this morning. Rather than immediately delete it, I'm going to see how long I can keep them going. I asked "is that you Felicity?" and they said yes. Obvs I do not have a daughter named Felicity :D

     So now I've invented Felicity's no-good bum of a husband Hugo, who keeps selling her iPhones to fund his gambling habit. Let's see if they take that bait too. :lol:

     

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    2. Rich

      Rich

      Sadly, Hugo seems to have scared them off. :(

    3. mcnach

      mcnach

      I wish I had the time to play :D

      I recently got a message on my phone about something I'm selling on Gumtree. After a couple of messages, the not uncommon "I'll send a courier to pick it up at 11 tomorrow, is that ok?" surfaced. I just replied "no problem, but I'll be at work at that time, you can collect from there, it's a Police Station and it'll be open".

       

      Silence.

    4. Quatschmacher

      Quatschmacher

      Also, do forward the text message to the national phishing reporting number (7726).

  10. You were asked to 'play nice'. May I request that you do so? Thank you.
  11. Obvious troll is obvious.
  12. Me... ...and my Band Of Muppets
  13. 100% Recycled Materials Dan
  14. I've had a nesting box up in the garden for about ten years. This year, finally, at last, the great tits are in residence. 

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    2. BabyBlueSound

      BabyBlueSound

      My neighbour has a small hole on the side of his roof, where I constantly see tits enter. I have already let him know very early this year, so he can fill up the hole before nesting starts, but apparently he missed it, now he'll have a noisy loft I guess :D 

       

      I had a teeny tiny gap at the side of my PVC fascia board under the gutter, and amazingly these buggers could still enter there. Would not have believed it without actually witnessing it. We chased them out then had it filled in with silicone, as they were very loudly knocking in there every morning, like some tiny woodpeckers. Only from like 7:30 to 10am just to definitely wake me up on a weekend, then they stopped for the day 😁

    3. Jean-Luc Pickguard

      Jean-Luc Pickguard

      I'm a big fan of great tits.

    4. SpondonBassed

      SpondonBassed

      I'm a great fan of...

  15. @PhilLawton sorry no, I was just about to update the thread.
  16. I'm looking forward to seeing & hearing this. I'm really hoping I don't like it, if you see what I mean
  17. Back in January of last year, I scratched a big itch and bought this Status S4000... I didn't need it at all, but you know what GAS is like, especially when it's something you've always craved. Well, anyway... jobless since last December, and redundancy cash only goes so far, so it's got to go. I've given it a thorough service/set-up/clean/fret polish, the only thing I couldn't shift was the mysterious black spots on the tip of the lower horn (see pic). String-wise it's currently wearing my favourite part-worn Elixir nickels 45-105. From what I understand the black hardware is fairly unusual for this model. It had new batteries last Jan and I'll fit new ones again before I let it go. You don't need me to tell you how good it sounds. The case isn't brilliant, the foam is very roughly cut, but it does what it's supposed to do. I'm looking only for what I paid, which was £1300. Obviously I really really don't want to ship it, a meet up might be possible depending on your location.
  18. The Performer is one of my favourite Fender basses ever. The body shape is just gorgeous. If I'd known about it at the time, I'd have copied the shape for my Shuker build. I'm thinking I might bring my Tanglewood ABG along for the ride as my TBC.
  19. Many many years ago my band played support to A Famous Vocal Quartet Who Had A Big Hit In The 70s. There were only the four of them on stage, two were strumming guitars, and they sounded great... but I heard their soundcheck and absolutely everything was on the backing track except the one lead vocal. Not a note from those guitars, and although there were some live BVs the majority of those were on the tape too. It was karaoke writ large.
  20. Tree Is A Magic Number · Bob Dorough
  21. Any progress since this, Eddie?
  22. Good point, however it still has its rubber feet attached, which are standing on the bottom of the case. So contrary to how it looks, there's actually plenty of air underneath it.
  23. My poor addled brain read that as "picked up a used, Japanese, Sadowsky Metro Express for a fiver". Just for a second it was the deal of the century
  24. NWD (New Wireless Day) -- incoming Sennheiser G3. Ludicrous, ridiculous deal I couldn't walk away from.

    1. SpondonBassed

      SpondonBassed

      Did you receive the goods yet?  Is it everything you hoped for?

    2. Rich

      Rich

      Yes and yes :) photos when I get it installed in my rack case.

    3. SpondonBassed

      SpondonBassed

      Aw... we don't get to see it nude then?  Heeheehee.

       

      Ignore me.  I am widely known as a twit - at least I think that's what I overheard.  Looking forward to the press release photos.

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