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I got my premade Bartolini harness from www.bestbassgear.com as they were the cheapest at the time. Not in the UK/EU but cheap and quick delivery

Steinberger headless stick thingy? I'm taking advantage of being young and still having heavy amps and basses but when I get older I fully intend to get myself the lightest combo available - we'll probably be onto the Genz Shuttle 96.0 by then which will weigh the same as a packet of cigarettes and put out 10 squillion watts. I will also get one of the aforementioned stick thingies

or make it yourself? That's what I'm planning to do - it is just wood, carpet or paint and velcro. That way you have one made exactly how you want it

These kind of rants rarely go anywhere as its down to personal preference. personally, I find Wooten , Marcus Miller etc boring. They may have the finest chops but I can't stand listening to any one of them for more than a couple of minutes without switching off. I enjoy listening to talented bass players but only if they are playing a decent tune. same reason i can't listen to Jaco or Manring - it doesn't mean anything to me - doesn't mean that someone else isn't going to get enjoyment from it but I just can;t relate to it. I like Silly Putty by Stanley Clarke cos its a good tune and hymn of the seventh galaxy by Return to Forever cos its a good tune. Personally, I am a fan of Flea and his playing but I like the chili's music as well. I could take offence at your post but it seems to me that I enjoy one thing that you don't and you enjoy something that I don't. I don;t see a problem with that but clearly you do. I could equally have started a thread about how I don;t get why so many people like Jaco, because personally I think he's $h!te but others get enjoyment from his music. When you say how people hold Flea in high regard against Wooten - its not a contest - there is no world's greatest bass player just like there is no world's greatest sandwich - its down to personal tastes. If you don;t like someone then avoid them and references to them instead of getting annoyed. We're all here to learn from one another and hopefully become better, more knowledgable players as well as have a laugh. One man's Pamela anderson is another man's Hattie Jaques etc

My MIJ Precision slaps very well - incidentally, Flea used a Precision in the early days of Tony Flow and the Miraculously Majestic Masters of Mayhem - better known as The Red Hot Chili peppers.

I hvve a Korg BT-10 which is really good unfortunately, most of the times with tuners when you pay peanuts you get monkeys

I'll find out in a couple of weeks when I play my first pub gig with the Trace V-Type 1x15" and 2103H cab The amp is 'only' 250w - my previous setup was a Genz Shuttle 6.0 (600w) & Schroeder 1212L (800w) I'm actually looking forward to this as my amps have been getting progressively lighter and more powerful over the years - It'll be good to go back to something heavy with less power and more grunt

I made a bolt-on rick copy into a 5ver by drilling an extra hole on the head, new nut, Kahler bridge & soapbar pickup. a bit like what Jeff Rath does over on rickresource with real ones. The string spacing was ace but not if you're into slapping

My 1212L never let me down regardless of the size of pub - all done wthout pa support and a guitarist with a 120w Peavey 5150. not once did it distort or even come close to being pushed in the 2 years I owned it.

[quote name='nash' post='606247' date='Sep 22 2009, 11:07 PM']I love those trace pre amps. i miss my combo.[/quote] I'm giving it its first gig in my uncapable hands this weekend. Its easy to slip out the combo if anyone wants pics, I did it when i bought it to see if it needed a a clean but was spotless inside.

Why do you think I refer to it as Talkbs? What, you think that's been a spelling mistake all these times?

[quote name='mrcrow' post='606850' date='Sep 23 2009, 05:19 PM'] would you take a trade on a shuker 51P...its no 1 signed by jon[/quote] ahhh, so it was you that bought it. I had been eyeing that up then suddenly it was gone. very nice bass that

I can't believe the price this is up to already.

[quote name='LukeFRC' post='603019' date='Sep 19 2009, 05:09 PM']And last of all my home built fretless. Vox standard bass body, weighs a flippin tonne, 'routed' for a pup with a hammer and chisel. no name neck I ripped the frets out of and coated with ronseal diamond hard varnish. MM style pup, 'screwjack' bridge... It plays, its not awful, its not great. [color="#FF0000"][b]Body is too heavy and will get replaced eventually, as will the neck.[/b][/color]...[/quote] You mean that you're going to get rid of it? It sounds like the old classic: "I've had the same broom for 20 years and in that time its only had 3 shafts and 4 heads"

Check out completed listings on ebay to see how much stuff is going for. I got a 1153H in a custom flight case for £100. Round about the same for the 1153. I would say roughly £400-450 for the whole rig.