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I’d lean towards accidental discovery. And say you have a wonderful wife.

Mostly an Aguilar TH350 these days.

Aguilar TH350 , One10 , NE-1 , big orange Gretsch

I like the little class D heads. I’ve picked up a bunch of ‘em in the 200-350 watt range.

You quickly learn leverage with a fridge. The tolex on mine was trashed from sliding it in and out of vans and dragging it up and down stairs. Today I appreciate modern lightweight cabs. And a little tube preamp.

An SVT with a fridge is an absolute misery to cart around.

Most of my 34 in basses have TI flats except for a Ray I keep fresh round Slinkies on , and an old Pbass with ancient rounds. Most short scales have LaBella flats , my Longhorn still has the factory rounds. It was also gigged a lot. They still intonate , and it thumps. I have some short scale Gibson rounds if I wish to change anything. They came on my DC LP Jr and I really liked them , bought several packs , the Jr has LaBellas at the moment , might return the rounds on that. I find I can leave flats on for years before I have any urge to change them. I’m mostly aiming for a classic old school thump. They deliver that.

Serious packing for a non standard shape.

Yes it does! Congratulations. I have a “Chan Armstrong” lucite bass and was pleasantly surprised by the build quality.

I’m visiting in Mexico at the moment , and my Facebook account has been locked up. I tried to log in using airport wifi and they are saying my account might have been hacked. I believe it’s just me trying to get into my account. Nothing has worked , this has been going on for four days now , the “help” bots have been useless. No way to actually talk to a human. Getting totally fed up.

That happens this time of year , but in the months leading into Christmas I’ve noticed that things that would have instantly sold , have been sitting. Especially in the US , but to a lesser degree our local market on kijiji as well. Things are unusually slow.

I’m in a house band that does a weekly jam , and let other players use my gear. Four different players , same bass , same amp , same settings will sound completely different.

I’ve managed to stop buying stuff simply because it was a great deal. Now I tend to msg a friend that might appreciate the deal. I’ve been called the expensive friend.

I’ve seen several 8 string Hagstroms go in our local market. I was kinda shocked to see several around from the old days. A girl in a local punk band is making them popular again. Good player. She drives the bus.

I’m in. And seriously hope to last the year. I hope to downsize a bit this year. I’m not going to stop scouring the local classifieds though. edit … I had to replace a broken Snark tuner , did it yesterday.