2025 Gear Abstinence Thread

[Stub Mandrel]

😯

[Mrbigstuff]

7 hours ago, TeresaFR said:

Maybe, maybe. Surely I'm not the only one though - the one and only.

No im still here! GAS still persists but all the boring stuff is robbing me blind.

[jimmyb625]

I'm still in! I haven't been on here for a good while. I think the two may be linked...

[Richard R]

Almost on the home straight now.  

 

 

[ezbass]

46 minutes ago, Richard R said:

Almost on the home straight now.  

 

 

Black Friday is the final, big hurdle that might see a number of fallers. I’m wavering on a full, level 1 fail (‘Ray GAS for a change), but I may just avoid it by doing some bass surgery with parts I have in my bits and pieces case.

[Richard R]

Remember too Black Friday bargains are usually just stuff the retailers can't get rid of, or that they've discounted previously anyway. 

[Stub Mandrel]

7 minutes ago, Richard R said:

Remember too Black Friday bargains are usually just stuff the retailers can't get rid of, or that they've discounted previously anyway. 

 

I had a birthday present for my daughter in a 'basket'.

Today I got an email with a 15% discount instead of the 7.5% I'd already found.

[Richard R]

2 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

I had a birthday present for my daughter in a 'basket'.

 

You got your daughter a meal out from the 1970's?  🐔

[Geek99]

4 hours ago, Richard R said:

Remember too Black Friday bargains are usually just stuff the retailers can't get rid of, or that they've discounted previously anyway. 

Are you saying that it’s not done out of boundless generosity and a spirit of helping the great unwashed in difficult times? 🤷

[Cornwall Steve]

This isn't for me. I'm still attending my GAS therapy sessions. My Counsellor reports I'm a hopeless case !😂😂

[Richard R]

8 hours ago, Geek99 said:

Are you saying that it’s not done out of boundless generosity and a spirit of helping the great unwashed in difficult times? 🤷

Of course it is.

"And a very profitable Thanksgiving to one and all" said Tiny Tim

[TimR]

I am not tiny! 

 

I am still in. Truss rod adjusted last month - seems the saddles are at the lowest they'll go. Still plays well. 

[Geek99]

2 hours ago, Cornwall Steve said:

This isn't for me. I'm still attending my GAS therapy sessions. My Counsellor reports I'm a hopeless case !😂😂

I think you’ll find that “being a hopeless case” won’t mark you out of the crowd here

[bass_dinger]

When can I sign up for the 2026 Challenge?

[neepheid]

1 minute ago, bass_dinger said:

When can I sign up for the 2026 Challenge?

 

When someone gets around to staring a thread for it.  Usually doesn't start until tail end of December.

Edited 12 hours ago by neepheid

[Stub Mandrel]

2 hours ago, Geek99 said:

I think you’ll find that “being a hopeless case” won’t mark you out of the crowd here

 

"I nearlgy completed the GAS challenge but Thomann were selling a hopeless case for £40..."

[Stub Mandrel]

15 minutes ago, neepheid said:

 

When someone gets around to staring a thread for it.  Usually doesn't start until tail end of December.

 

2026, even.

 

Get your orders in quick...

[Mrbigstuff]

Still in and an unexpected redundancy has made my completion even easier!

[Richard R]

3 hours ago, bass_dinger said:

When can I sign up for the 2026 Challenge?

 

I'll kick it off after Christmas. 

 

[Geek99]

3 hours ago, Mrbigstuff said:

Still in and an unexpected redundancy has made my completion even easier!

Sad to hear that - been there myself and only just now got out of it. Why not start an off-topic thread with your skill set stated ? Maybe someone here knows something … maybe their employer is hiring, which did actually happen to me this time. 

Edited 8 hours ago by Geek99

[Cornwall Steve]

7 hours ago, Geek99 said:

I think you’ll find that “being a hopeless case” won’t mark you out of the crowd here

To be fair Counsellor reckons all bass players are hopeless cases.

No idea why she thinks that 

[bass_dinger]

5 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

2026, even.

 

Get your orders in quick...

2026 is my only hope....

 

For now, I am so far Out that I am coming back In the other way round....

 

 

 

[Geek99]

1 hour ago, Cornwall Steve said:

To be fair Counsellor reckons all bass players are hopeless cases.

No idea why she thinks that 

Is that perhaps what your wife does? Just wondering … 🤔 

[Chienmortbb]

Anyone that is still legitimally here, well done. If you get past Black Friday, you are on the home run.

[Cornwall Steve]

5 hours ago, Geek99 said:

Is that perhaps what your wife does? Just wondering … 🤔 

Strange question to ask. You're getting a bit personal now.