Kev

Always feel I'm a bass geek by being obsessed with tonewoods and peculiars of different pickups and preamps etc. Always relieved I'm not as bad as I think when I follow convos like this.

I can't actually believe they have a 3 figure price tag on that, it will cost more to repair that than to buy! I mean it really puts into question the quality of the wood used, its split at every drill point!

I just used them for the first time and it was great! Eurosender’s dashboard is a bit useless (bass was delivered last week, still hasn’t updated) but not necessary as the courier send tracking details etc to you. Insurance is very competitive as well. Booked, collected next day, delivered day after, job done 🙂

Nice video man. Two models that perfectly demonstrate the tone differences between BO and NT Thumb models. BO with the brightness in the high mids and a “thinner” tone, NT with the deepness and more rounded highs, with growling mids. Wonderful stuff.

Don't confuse volumetric weight with the actual weight. Volumetric weight is based on the dimensions of the box. Given bass boxes are very long, it has a huge impact on the volumetric weight, which is how UPS charge. IE if you send a box of air weighing next to nothing, but the box is 130cm x 50cm x 20cm, you will be charged by its volumetric weight, which is 32.5kg.

So they lied? You gave them a slightly larger than needed length, width and girth, and they said it wasn’t big enough? Sometimes half the issue is people not knowing how the girth is calculated, and if the system is not automated they should really explain it if they don’t.

Did you use UPS direct or a courier reseller? I've noticed this when pricing up deliveries with UPS, their volumetric weight far, far exceeds the actual weight for bass parcels and the price jumps a lot if the wrong thing is entered. I recall one of the discount courier people always getting that wrong, can't remember if it was Interparcel or Parcel2go or another one like it. I haven't really noticed another courier work things out in quite the same way. But the UPS website is incredibly manual from what I remember as well, I don't think anything is automated and I think it expects people to read the restrictions. But if you didn't enter anything wrong or choose the wrong product, they have no right taking anything from you for a website error. Certainly not automatically! Complain to the bank/credit card company that you have been charged for something that you have not authorised and request a chargeback.

Just a nice piece of Bubinga Pomele 😊

If they're well applied just leave them on, they look cool. And, depending on how long they've been on and again their quality, they may be hiding sticker sized dark patches on the bass, which you wouldn't want to discover 😂

I went a whole 12 months without owning a Warwick. I’m back 😎

I swear he used the Wal MK2 on You Oughta Know, not the rosewood Stingray?