What are your irrational prejudices? I have some bonkers ones...

[ghostwheel]

2 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

And yet... it does.

It's an irrational prejudice.

[SumOne]

Left handed Basses, especially Jazz basses. They are just the mirror image of the right handed ones but they look gross! 

[Stub Mandrel]

Just now, SumOne said:

Left handed Basses, especially Jazz basses. They are just the mirror image of the right handed ones but they look gross! 

 

No different from seeing yourself in a photo, rather than a mirror, all the asymmetries are exaggerated as you see them doubled.

[MichaelDean]

2 hours ago, iamtheelvy said:

Not sure that the fade is the main reason why this bass looks iffy…

I like the meteora shape, just wish they did a 5er. Other examples exist too. F Bass are a prime suspect. It clearly takes a certain amount of skill to blend them all together, but it just looks wrong in that direction to me. 

Edited Thursday at 21:31 by MichaelDean
Autocorrect nonsense!

[Stub Mandrel]

1 hour ago, MichaelDean said:

I like the meteora shape, just wish they did a 5er. Other examples exist too. F Bass are a prime suspect. It clearly takes a certain amount of skill to blend them all together, but it just looks wrong in that direction to me. 

Those look good.

[MichaelDean]

7 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Those look good.

You're a broken man 😂

[SimonK]

If we are talking about finishes, and maybe this is more of a guitar issue, but mismatched tops really get to me. While I understand it is difficult to predict how the stain will take surely it's possible to do better given the price of these things? PRS & Gibson seem to be the main transgressors:

 

 

Edited Friday at 08:53 by SimonK

[prowla]

1 minute ago, SimonK said:

If we are talking about finishes, and maybe this is more of a guitar issue, but really mismatched tops really get to me. While I understand it is difficult to predict how the stain will take surely it's possible to do better given the price of these things? PRS & Gibson seem to be the main transgressors:

 

 

It just shows they're using random pieces of wood rather than a bookmatched cut and don't really care.

Presumably they're on the cheaper models (or maybe you have to pay more for the carefully selected matching ones).

[SimonK]

48 minutes ago, prowla said:

It just shows they're using random pieces of wood rather than a bookmatched cut and don't really care.

Presumably they're on the cheaper models (or maybe you have to pay more for the carefully selected matching ones).

 

No - it's the expensive ones as well! Funnily enough I bought myself a milestone guitar a few years back (PRS CU24) without really thinking much about the top, but the longer I've had it, while it plays beautifully, I'm just getting more and more triggered by this issue. The question is do I care about this enough to move on something I saved a very long time for?

 

 

 

Edited Friday at 08:53 by SimonK

[Stub Mandrel]

21 minutes ago, SimonK said:

 

No - it's the expensive ones as well!

 

 

 

 

I'd say that one is bookmatched... it's just the peculiarities of how the wood has taken stain/reflects the light.

 

But I agree, if you can get a bookmatch on a Sire or even a sub-£200 Harley Benton, PRS should be able to manage it.

Edited Friday at 08:36 by Stub Mandrel

[Dad3353]

2 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

...if you can get a bookmatch on a Sire or even a sub-£200 Harley Benton ...

 

That's more likely to be a 'photoflame', which is a lot easier to predict. 

[Stub Mandrel]

44 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

 

That's more likely to be a 'photoflame', which is a lot easier to predict. 

 

Not at all... photoflame doesn't change when you move the bass in the light. It's not AAAAA on the Harley but definitely real flamed maple.

[SimonK]

16 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

Not at all... photoflame doesn't change when you move the bass in the light. It's not AAAAA on the Harley but definitely real flamed maple.

 

I'm guessing the cheaper ones are veneer caps?

 

[Stub Mandrel]

4 hours ago, SimonK said:

 

I'm guessing the cheaper ones are veneer caps?

 

 

Surely. 

[Jack]

Plenty of photoflames still about too, although I think it's pretty rare in new guitars. 

 

Edit : me and Dad on the same page again. 

Edited Friday at 21:17 by Jack

[Shaggy]

11 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

I'd say that one is bookmatched... it's just the peculiarities of how the wood has taken stain/reflects the light.

 

 

Agreed.  If you look at high end violins, on which the flamed maple arched backs are hand carved and (almost invariably) book-matched, you'll see exactly the same

[prowla]

People listing music as "Surname, Firstname" or "..., The".

eg. "Hendrix, Jimi" or "Who, The".

[LowB_FTW]

3 minutes ago, prowla said:

People listing music as "Surname, Firstname" or "..., The".

eg. "Hendrix, Jimi" or "Who, The".

Oohh, this is a good one.

I'll add, any alphabetical listing by last name first, first name last.

 

Mark

[Bagman]

surname first - it's how ewe proper use England 

[Stub Mandrel]

22 minutes ago, Bagman said:

surname first - it's how ewe proper use England 

 

American dates...

[prowla]

That stupid commentator who pronounces Jiménez “himmernezz”.

[Stub Mandrel]

31 minutes ago, prowla said:

That stupid commentator who pronounces Jiménez “himmernezz”.

 

Is it a Himmernezz? No it's a Yamaha.

[tauzero]

3 hours ago, LowB_FTW said:

Oohh, this is a good one.

I'll add, any alphabetical listing by last name first, first name last.

 

People who have two first names, eg Benjamin Sebastian. That gets really confusing when you read their names in a surname first list and then ring them up and call them by their surnames.

[Terry M.]

5 hours ago, prowla said:

That stupid commentator who pronounces Jiménez “himmernezz”.

 

[Cornwall Steve]

* Headstocks that don't match the body

* Headstocks the size of match boxes

* Amps the size of a paperback

* Amps the size of a suitcase

* Knobs and switches on basses pointless because they do nothing

* Knobs and switches on amps pointless because they do nothing

* Pick- Ups that are weak and ineffective

* White pick guards 

* Scratch plates referred to as Pickguards

* Refering to plectrums as picks

* Explaining to my grandsons what a plectrum is

* Bass players spending too much time fiddling with their pedals

* Bass players affected by GAS (I mean Gear Affected Syndrome - not the baked bean issue) - I think I have over 30 basses, I must do a role call sometime 🤔 

* Guitar Techs who think they're Luthiers

* Luthiers who consider themselves Gods

* Music stores/suppliers stocked floor to ceiling with budget basses with white scratch plates 

* Basschat members who reply to Posts using asterisk bullet points