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But nowhere near as good 😆 I do love me an Aria.

I can only echo what others have said. Been there, done it. I used to work for a piano specialist, moving and installing them. These older family models aren’t worth much unfortunately, unless they’re great condition and made by a top notch maker, which they usually aren’t. Its very sad… I virtually gave my mums old piano away for nothing, but apparently it went to a good home. It’s a shame that nobody wants them anymore.

So the herd continues to grow….. I picked this up for peanuts, honestly expecting it to be majorly goosed, but it really isn’t at all. Nice clean bass, needs fretboard conditioning and straightening, and probably flats or even tapes. The previous owner dug into it pretty hard, but I’m going to give it a much more gentle future, and maybe fit a ramp. Made in Korea at the Un Sung factory, Grover tuners…. decent little bass, never had a Dean before. Anyway, best start working on my intonation eh?

The principal of spraying is pretty straightforward with a bit of practice on some scrap material first. To get an even coat you need to do two things…. 1: maintain the same distance away from the wood while passing over it. 2: maintain the same speed while passing over it. This should give an even coat. If you get closer and slower while spraying, you are applying more material, which will get darker in value (and probably run). If you move further away and move quicker, you are putting less material on, making it lighter in value. The principle of a fade, is to have an even coat in the middle, while moving further away and more quickly to the outside. Remember, less is more. Go easy and light with the fade. You can always go back with another pass if you want it a bit darker, but if you hit it too hard in the first place and go too dark, you can’t make it lighter again without a lot of sanding. Hope that helps

This ^ In a consumer age that relies increasingly on an efficient and professional online presence, and where human interaction is (sadly) a thing of the past, it is absolutely vital , that businesses handle their online presence and sales quickly and efficiently. Because the next company are waiting to steal your sales. I’m afraid BD seem to be failing, at this point, to cope. I don’t doubt that they’re great people, knowledgeable and friendly, but it’s a cutthroat world in retail. I really hope they can get it all together, but my brief experiences with them have put me off personally. 32 pages into this thread, on a major bass players forum, and the issues keep coming.

Looks like a standard set list to me in terms of what punters want to hear. As long as you play the songs well, they should be well received. I certainly can’t see anything wrong with the list.

Nice collection there…. For me though, also 40yrs down the road, I have a constantly fluid and ever changing bass collection. I’ve tried so hard to settle on a few, but can’t. To me they’re tools, and to be honest I rarely get attached to them these days, they come, they go…. If I inserted the current list here, it’ll be different in 6 months.

Scott Devine is clearly a workaholic and has a very clear business model. He’s clearly very driven and runs a tight ship that is very successful…. best of luck to him. I….. just find the barrage of emails, videos, incentives and constant presence overbearing and irritating. But that’s more about me than SBL. He (as the shop front) seems to be a nice fella and a good bass player, as does his is husband Ian Allison. Best of luck to the growing empire, it’s just not for me.

Without pissing on the fun chips…. I’m sick to death of SBL, and the Scott and Ian bromance. How many times can you use the word “dude” in one conversation.

I think a complaint followed by an apology and a complimentary set of strings from the store would suffice. As long as the bass is now as the buyer wants it to be, I don’t think any further action was necessary.

*but it’s absolutely nothing like a jazz in any way

Blimey, that’s a broad comparison I played an Arctic white Korean TB for some years, in a UFO/Michael Schenker tribute band. It was fantastic, loved it, but I’m a finger player mostly. Currently I have a Tokai TB, which, admittedly I’ve done a lot of work in (the thread is in the build threads), and it’s absolutely fantastic. For everything. Epiphone Thunderbird with a pick? Absolutely yes. In my opinion.

After a long (drink fuelled) conversation about what my perfect bass could be…. I came to the conclusion that I couldn’t make one! I couldn’t come up with the definitive option…. Active/passive? 4/5 string? Long/Short scale? Rosewood/maple neck? …… and don’t start me on body shapes and colour options….. I just couldn’t settle on the final prototype at all. Can you??

After further investigation, that looks like one of these:

The body doesn’t look right for one of the 80s Made In India models, but it’s hard to tell. Encore and Sunn, made in the 80s in India are one and the same. Same factory same parts. I have 2 Sunns which I absolutely love to bits. My favourite one, was 50 quid, but I splashed out 100 on the second one. Good basses, if you don’t mind tidying up the sloppy fretwork and putting a decent EQ into it. But without more pics, it’s hard to know what that bass is. I’d be offering 75 for it, if it was in good Nick AND it was an Indian one.

Yeah, can’t really help with pictures of the headstock at least