Beedster

Ashdown 👍

Nailless fingerstyle? Not sure why that makes DB out of the question? Get yourself a 4/4 and a bow, spend a few weeks enduring frustrating squeals, and then experience the sublime moment at which the bow finally speaks and the whole system - instrument, player, and room - resonates, and you won’t look back 👍

Great minds 👍

I read it as inferring that an important element of it’s DB-like tone is the high action, that if you lower the action it will sound increasingly like a fretless electric bass, albeit a very large and slightly unergonomic one. I had one for a year or so, yes it can do DB, but as is so often said, if you want a true DB sound, it’s so much easier to do it on a DB. The Takamine is beautifully designed and beautifully engineered but as an instrument it is neither one thing or the other. If I had the funds spare I still wouldn’t buy another

They’re not too concerned because it probably happens all the time to them 🤔

Couriers are way better at being inept than they are at being corrupt, it'll show up 👍

Keep it as is, with apologies to @agedhorse, they don't make 'em like that any more I used the two cab solution as my main (only) gigging rig, there is nothing I'd change

Exactly what I thought 👍

That's going into my vocab book

Landing the eBay contract is massive for a courier firm so I imagine eBay bring to bear equally massive contractual clout including ‘you lose it you pay for it quickly’ type conditions. Huge companies like eBay probably have more chance of sorting the courier industry than do governments 🤔

it's actually not an eBay tale of woe at all, they've done rather well, more like a DHL take of woe?