discreet

There you go, pipped at the post by only seven hours!

you're welcome.

wow thats probably good news as Loud really buggered the brand up! Yammy always make good gear

I look forward to not buying them!

..... well, until at least next week, Mr discreet!

https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/333471-nbd-squier-deluxe-active-jazz-iv-revisited/

Bass (collection) enlargement ads might be more appropriate?

@dodge_bass I dunno, if anything I'd like to see a reduction of bass collections...

I keep on getting ads for carpet slippers 🤫

If they want kids to get interested then the powers that be should stop selling the TV rights to SKY and BT and make them available to more accessible channels. I got into cricket by watching it with my Grandad when it was shown on the beeb.

Dinosaurs Vs Cricketers.. I think I might watch that! 

"You're out!!"

*MUNCH* "Nyarrghhhh!!!!!"

Cricket is coming back to terrestrial next year I believe. Ofc it's the audience vs money problem.

Brontosaurus as sweeper on the Cover boundary, Velociraptors at Short Leg. Just make sure if Stegosaurus is bowling they use their short run-up.

It's OK - now I'll be gigging again, I'll need more cables...

Awesome. Well done that man.

@Les Thank you, sir.

A nasty blaze then....

1986 called and wants its joke back.

@Burns-bass Sorry grandad, didn't mean to steal your joke. 

A day or two? We want it now!

Note to oneself - Read posts properly. I thought you wrote "superlaxative" service! 

It's what I've come to expect from them.

Bonkers.

And if you can remember the advert for a certain soft drink, you could Drive your Bongo combo, in your Mazda Bongo, whilst drinking Um-bongo...
which apparently, they drink in the Congo.....

Apparently someone went on an official fact finding mission to The Congo and at no point did he see anyone drinking Um Bongo.

Best we keep up the pretence. Wouldn't do if folks knew pickups were nothing but wire,metal pins and magnets :-)

Yes, and that basses were wood and wire... and amps just boxes full of, er... unicorn poo and magic beans.

Entwistle pickups really are amazing for the money. 

Nice rack!

You look round to me

I think that's just his tone 😎

I've never managed to stick with rounds for long in the last few years, but sometimes flats feel a bit too stiff and thumpy on the low strings.  Enjoying TI Jazz flats at the moment...

@yorks5stringer I did the same as a temporary measure, but of course when I came to change the bridge the screw head (or rather the superglue) wasn't up to the job of removing the rest of the screw and it broke off. Epoxy resin may have worked better, but there's always the risk of permanently attaching the screw head to the bridge...

Epoxy will cause more problems and it wont help in the slightest.

Cheap hardware is the bane of the amateur luthier-alike.

Have you considered getting a white poodle with a pink coat and bows ?

it should have much the same visual and audio effect !

I think I'd rather have the poodle than the Rick TBH.

You're welcome to both!

The Taliban, well yet another of the "my book is better than your book so for that you should die" brigade. Dump `em in with Hitler/Stalin etc, ethnic cleansing & genocide not my fave pastimes.

But I heard that one of them owns a kitten...

So he`s a Bond villain as well, that`s multi-tasking..................

Tell me about it... Last 4 months have been the same here...

If you have too many bills - then you should sell me your Jazz bass!
..... sigh, I've had nothing but bills since Xmas too

I've only got 105 Basschat Watts, and I just noticed you're on 726 Watts.....
There's your answer - turn down a bit! lol

@Marvin I've just got three payments to go, then it's mine!

I acquired some Greek coins which I'd hoped to use on the knobs of my Psilos bass. Unfortunately none are my YOB.

Now that would be a great plectrum for my '66 Slab Precision!  A bit of British history on both counts.

@Marc S

Sorry you missed that.

It was the one where Peter Purvis was stringing up the prototype uBass that he had just knocked up from washing up liquid bottles and crepe paper.  He was using Valerie's old 0.130" gauge knicker elastic.

As he was doing so John Noakes surprised a whole generation of impressionable youth by pulling off Shep on live telly!  'That dog was always humping on someone's leg or other if it wasn't getting enough airtime', Mr Noakes confided after the court case.  He's a good pup really.

@discreet I had the same on my '64 P:  E and A were directly over the middle of a pole piece, G and D between pole pieces. Seems to have been the done thing from what I can see...

@Kevsy71 I read here and elsewhere that it's just not an issue. This hasn't stopped hundreds of posts about it on TB, mainly OCD-related. Some people even resorted to fitting plain pickup covers because of it...

Dammit

Good lad for putting the matter to rights.  I've just had another new cable from Dave.  Following your fault finding mission with interest.

You should be on OBBM's payroll. Never bought a lead from him but now I will buy no other! I've been brainwashed. Are you a scientologist?

Are they still rough feeling and slightly clanky sounding for flats?  I had a couple of sets in the 90s when I was starting out, and that's my abiding memory of them. 

The silks are tatty (being used) but the strings are smooth. They are slightly more toppy than La Bellas but still round and warm. Good flats for a Jazz. 

Hmm, maybe the quality wobbled back when I had them.  Mine almost felt and looked like groundwounds.  

Jack broke his nut once and Jill fixed it with vinegar and brown paper.

If you read the second verse of the old nursery rhyme quoted here it seems there are other things that can benefit from that sort of therapy.

@SpondonBassed Seems about right. You may as well patch your nob with vinegar and brown paper as anything else. I often use a dab of honey and a wet wipe.

In the style of Valerie Singleton:

All you need to make your own scale model of the Kensington fatberg is a squeezy Fairy Liquid liquid bottle, some Hermès 24 Faubourg scented wet wipes, some of nanny's used syringes and some palm oil.  Make sure the palm oil comes from Harrods' food hall children.  We don't want any lower class blockages in our sewers now do we?

Here's one I made earlier...

I have one laying on the table - not due till the end of the month...I'm intrigued now..

I've gone from IG36 to IG19 and it's gone up £100 - time to shop around!

@JapanAxe Definitely. Looked around just out of interest and Direct Line were competitive. But they wouldn't do monthly payments and their excesses were, uh... excessive.

Indeed.  It's madness when Mr Sheen is the obvious choice!

"My fear is that I will die and mrs discreet will sell my basses for what I told her they cost. "

Kill the missus first. Job done. Throw pledge in the bin

And avoid flights of stairs for the rest of your life.

@Chownybass,  You were a bit slow.

Discreet might have been slightly more open to your suggestion had I not already tried to sell him one of my own creations.

This

@itsmedunc You've not met my wife then?

I used to work with a sound-guy who regularly tweeked the settings on my bass amp. I know for a fact he tried it with other bass colleagues......

...they still haven't found the body