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Yes it was me I Dave, and thanks for sparing the time. My wife was sadly unable to come to the Blackburn gig, but we are both booked to see the band in Colne in a few months.

Just went to a Kate Bush tribute gig this evening in Blackburn. The band are called Cloudbusting and are well worth your time if that is your musical flavour. Great bass player too in Dave Roberts who played upright, fretless 5er and a 4-string fretted bass. Do check them out. https://katebushtribute.com/

Wow, my basses have them too. What are they there for?

Fair enough, but if after several months a very reasonably priced instrument doesn't see on here then the whole moral code argument somewhat dissembles itself. A seller might quite reasonably want to buy something on here with the cash he hopes to realise from a sale, and if selling a bass elsewhere allows that to happen then where's the problem?

Wasn't there a thread about this a while ago?

With one honourable exception I always put basses on here first at lower price. Equally most of them then sell elsewhere for a good chunk more. Whether that relates to reach or customer service / security I'm not sure, but that is certainly my experience.

Definitely worked for me as I had had a busy few weeks running up to it. To have the BB and then a day to chill was great.

Great day, and really good to see old friends and meet new ones. Thanks very much to Rob and family for organising, catering and generally being top bananas.

My preparedness thus far extends to having bought a large tin of choccy biscuits (for emergency use by the team).

@peterjam will you be suitably armed with the tin foil lined hat? Just in case....

Every few years Rich and I seem to meet in a railway station concourse with either or both of us having a bass in hand. This year was the year of both of us walking out with a different bass to the one we walked in with. Great to see you as ever Rich and thanks again.

Hi Rob I deal with additive manufacturing as part of my day job so definitely of interest for me. I keep thinking about the ZeroMods parts and how expensive they whether I should just buy a few and scan them....

I can bring my pedal board along too if folks want to try anything out. It has a Korg Pitch Black mini tuner; T-Rex Quint; Sansamp YYZ overdrive; TC Electronic Thunderstorm flanger; Keekey Bassist compressor; Digitec Drop pedal and a Micro Thumpinator.

I'll be aiming for around 10:00 as well.

It's just that headstock. It really doesn't float my boat. Apologies from a very shallow person.

From the Sandberg website for the TT bases (both VS and TT are the same neck it would seem): 4-STRING FINGERBOARD RADIUS - 14 inch WIDTH ZERO FRET - 37 mm THICKNESS 1ST FRET - 20 mm WIDTH 22TH FRET - 63 mm BRIDGE STRING SPACING - 18.5 to 20 mm SIZE FRETS - 2.5 mm NECK PROFILE - c-shape

Just acquired a lovely bass from Jamie. Brilliant to deal with as has been said often in this thread.

Yes indeed Ian, that's really why I suggested it since you know about how good these little gems are for not much money either. I believe that the neck was common to both the P and the J Silver Series basses as a good compromise between the two. I think all the Electra's are all active (not sure if they have the pull for passive vol. knob like the German Sandbergs). I've owned an Electra VS bass (P bass) and that sounded 'crisper' for want of a better word than the Fender/Squier offerings. There's a nice black TT f/s on here which I was eyeing up the other day, not too far away maybe to try out. I know the seller, lovely guy.

Sandberg Electra TTs are nice basses, great neck. Also, and if you can find one, the much underrated Squier Silver Series basses. Made in Japan and very decent instruments indeed.

I'm going to change the bass line up I'll be bringing as I have now sold the SBMM, Yamaha and Ibanez basses The line up will be: Limelight "Lee Sklar" bass; ACG P-Type (one of only 2 in the world); ACG Graft J Type and ACG SLG 32" scale + practice amp and headphones.