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Slowly and carefully is the main thing - take off too little and you can have another go, take off too much and you're stuffed. Sharp router bits are essential on at least the body surface to reduce the chances of lacquer cracking. The most important thing is as 3below says above - keep your fingers out of the way. I didn't and almost lost the tip off one of mine - I have a decorative scroll edged finger as a permanent reminder.

Blimey ! Be careful if you do any outdoor gigs in case a helicopter mistakes you as a landing pad.

[quote name='lefrash' timestamp='1416084801' post='2606798'] In my case though (and i suspect ALOT of cases) this is worthless. [/quote] Yours was a particularly impossible one to resolve - we did track down the miscreant... and so did the Police. He was charged with, and found guilty of, multiple fraud offences on Gumtree, along with various other sales sites, and skipping drug tests he was previously ordered to do from a previous sentence. Looking at what he'd been up to, the odds were always pretty much stacked against us from getting the result we wanted. I spoke with the Police force involved and gave you the number to call in order report the fraud. He got a lifetime ban from BassChat (and several other sites as well). I really can't see anything else we could have done to resolve this one.

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1416082322' post='2606771'] Your technique sounds like it is too hard hitting to cope with an low action... You'll have to adjust one or the other... A low action needs you to be cleaner.... and the pay-off may well be faster and more precision... but digging in HARD with a low action is not compatible, IMO. [/quote] This ^ You can have one or the other, but you'll have to compromise if you want both.

[quote name='merello' timestamp='1416079571' post='2606712'] And the one bass to rule them all is? [/quote] ...the one you haven't got yet.

It varies. In band 1 (Function Band) I'm the techie but don't really need to do much in the way of cat herding - we all muck in together and it gets done. In band 2 (Pub Rock Covers Band) I'm the techie and share cat herding duties with the singer. Those two bands are ticking over quite nicely with plenty of bookings, which is essential for me, but they're not stretching me. I have however been feeling an urge to go 'back to my roots' over the last few months, so band 3 is currently set to go into rehearsal. I've taken full control of that from day one to set expectations and musical direction, although I'll hand parts of it over once it's up to speed.

[quote name='MoJo' timestamp='1416004972' post='2606188'] We all plan to sell one or two things, then GAS strikes and the £20 option makes more sense [/quote] Bargain! I bet most of us have never seen a £20 GAS bill.

[quote name='Musky' timestamp='1415999153' post='2606113'] Perhaps a welcome email pointing out that the site is supported by paid adverts would help? [/quote] Already on my 'things to look at' list.

We don't do hidden, varying or complex fee structures - i's a flat fee, no insertion charges or percentage of final sale price. Like most things involving money, it pays to think ahead though. If you're planning on selling three or more pieces of kit in the next 12 months then the £20 option gives you all the ads you can post for a year. If it's just one or two things you're planning to sell then the £7 option makes more sense. Items below £50 can be advertised free of charge. If a sale falls through, we simply reopen the ad for you - no extra charges or insertion\relisting fees. Paying for the advert upfront is no different from the way that advertising was done prior to eBay and I can't recall ever ordering anything from a website and being offered 'COD' as a payment option. This is BassChat - we have a small number of volunteers who work behind the scenes to make this place work nicely. We're not eBay with 32,000 employees and datacentres dotted all over the world.

I've had that on a JB. I did the obvious thing first - checked that cabling was connected as per the instructions and then just painted a layer of clear nail varnish over the pole pieces.

I should probably point out here that Dood's bass hasn't actually got a tapered neck - it's actually 20' long.

Combined, you've added less than a turn so far. Any truss rod that fails with an adjustment that small is indicative of a duff instrument in the first place. Obviously, if you get to the point where you're using a lever to wrench the allen key you're pushing your luck, but if you can move it by hand comfortably you're doing just fine.

I don't like Les Pauls or teles... so you know probably know where I'm going with this. Purely a personal thing, but I think SC's always look like the luthier got bored and decided to leave a big lump of wood behind.

[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1415776699' post='2603563'] don't.... I might be utterly wrong here... but on some single cuts (the ones that were designed to answer a specific problem rather than designed for the single cut aesthetic) isn't the idea that if you join and support the neck to the top horn it means you can shape more wood out of the back of the neck at the dusty end improving hand access to that end. [/quote] I think that's something that I've seen mentioned, but if you use a run thru neck you can achieve the same thing.

Strings Direct perhaps?

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1415752714' post='2603524'] I think there's been some odd stuff happening in Chrome recently. A few sites, including our BassGear home page, haven't been working properly but it's all been quit random. Works one day and then nothing the next! [/quote] I've always been pretty much 'browser neutral' but I have noticed that Chrome seems to crop up in error reports far more often than other browsers of late.

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1415751457' post='2603520'] Yep. We're stuck with sounding like us, so we'd better start doing it better. [/quote] As far as sounding like me is concerned, I've got a bit of an unfair advantage.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1415753786' post='2603531'] AFAIK the accepted wisdom is that the neck is stronger and more stable due to the extended body contact [/quote] So they say, but I've yet to have the neck of any bass I've ever owned just fall off...

Nope. If a superstar and I swapped basses, they'd still sound like them and I'd still sound like me. The 'magic' isn't in the equipment, it's in the person.

[quote name='AndyTravis' timestamp='1415492857' post='2600968'] They're divided on it, but agreed on Shakin Stevens 😐 [/quote] Well I suppose it beats taking a vote...

I think Harley Benton owners are a right bunch of... ah, that's not what you meant is it? I've never tried one, and I'm pretty sure I've never even seen one in the flesh, but we all know that they're the 'own brand' for what is probably the largest internet musical retailer. The HB brand needs to be of a reasonable quality to ensure that they get repeat business from people as they progress.

Nothing has been updated here Danny. I've had a little dig around and if you go into Application Manager and select 'Chrome' you get an option to 'Force Stop'. Click that and try again. HTH

[quote name='lefrash' timestamp='1415655563' post='2602500'] This is a truely horrible story. I got stung by a guy on here. ALOT less (£180) but still a kick in the balls. [/quote] I remember that one well.

Paloma Faith has a sister called Tugonma Lipth.

[quote name='Thunderbird' timestamp='1415645295' post='2602360'] All sorted thanks chaps now here is the irony I don't like the pups so have ordered some dimarzios lol funny old game this bass lark in it lol [/quote]