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[quote name='MoJoKe' post='65748' date='Sep 26 2007, 10:43 AM']Hi,

I posted this yesterday on the pinned luthiers list, but no-one has spotted it yet!

I need to find a luthier in Exeter/South Devon, anyone got any contacts or recommendations please?

Thanks![/quote]

Mansons ?

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[quote name='Paul_C' post='65756' date='Sep 26 2007, 10:57 AM']Mansons ?[/quote]

I don't know about anyone else (and apologies if anyone here works for them!!!), but I found the prices high and the attitude a bit superior when I went in there for the first and last time about a year ago. I'm 47, been playing bass for 32 years and don't look like a poor student or schoolkid (who probably actually have access to [b]more[/b] disposable income than me!!) and was researching the options for a new lightweight rig, which I HAVE now since bought (MB), but was treated a bit like a no hoper window shopper.

Funnily enough, on my first and last ever visit to the BassPlace in London, I was treated the same only more rudely. I was wearing a suit as I had been to a business meeting around the corner, so I suppose I should have changed before going in!!

I sell Business Phone Systems (anyone need one!?!?) in my day job, and the addage always has to be "never assume!". Strikes me this happened on both occasions.

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There's the guy that makes those [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/buglefish-bf4-manta-bass-guitar_W0QQitemZ170153198906"]Buglefish(?) basses[/url] in Somerset. I have no idea if he's a commercial luthier or not or whether it's realistically near to you (I don't drive).

I'd love to try that out. I love the ethics behind owning a locally made instrument.

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Thanks guys. The need is fairly simple...

I have a Dean Edge 5, which was a temporary addition to the collection in lieu of the possibility of a new, or finding a secondhand Wal 5ver as soon as I can afford. I have tried several times to set up better/lower myself, but not entirely happy with the neck, so need to see if someone else can do a better job of it, or whether I should trade up again futher towards my goal!

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