LukeFRC

Is blue her favourite colour as well as yours? And was she actually after your bb1600?

Having just read the thread back again - respectfully, wtf are you on about? No one has mentioned country musicians, or even “all southerners” - the whole thread has been about the morality of putting the flag of a bunch secessionist states (that crucially liked keeping humans as property, that started a war over it) on a bass - especially when that flag in the U.K. and US has increasingly become a rallying point for a certain type of right wing racism … plus someone pointed out the stars were wonky.

It is a bit like a AA meeting where the guys who have fallen of the program still go to the meeting- and show off their bottles of whisky or something

See this is another reason your back benchers don’t like you - “you’re”

I wonder if Basschat erm... so I work for an American company, so apploagies for how I will l write this... but I wonder if Basschat reached out to Rickenbacker and tried to come to some understanding... if the answer was about speed of take down of fakers there presumably could be agreements RE how quickly things happened that would suit everyone ... or something. anyway, hope you're on the mend @Kiwi

In other words - Are you an addict if you’re on a methadone programme?

Rule of thumb - if you are debating the grey areas around an abstinence challenge you’re not really doing an abstinence challenge …

actually google found it for me! looks nice. One difference to mine... Sadowsky metro japan pickups with sharp edges apparently made by Dimarzio or Seymore duncan, the later ones with a slight radius to the edge were made by nordstrand (to the same reciepe I guess)

what colour is it?!

I have no idea. Used Japanese ones seem to have had a bit of a price rise since they stopped making them and secondhand is about the same as a new German one. The Will Lee MIJ retailed new at about £3k. Whether the weird pricing between the japanese and German ones is justified or not I don't know, I've not tried the German ones (and I'm biased anyway owning a japanese one).

IF that bass is as good as mine it's easily worth a 2.5 drive. I took it too a bass bash and had three people sidle up to me and ask if I wanted to sell it, I took it to @walshy's for him to try and he bought his own Sadowsky the very next day...

I’ve got one of them, @warwickhunt traded it for me. It redefined what I expect in a bass, sounds amazing and super fast neck. Mind is just amazing, I has a real middy tone and doesn’t sound quite like a trad jazz bass - but I think that could be a freak to my specific instrument rather than all of them. never played a Victor Bailey though - sorry. is playing them side by side a possibility?

Suggesting @Owen should keep the bass he has that speaks both fretless language and fretted dialect with a very quick turnaround?

See if you’ve got a “perfect” that’s not really an issue… if I ding it it’s just my bass with playwear… …. if I’m trying it and it’s not perfect there a bit in the back of my head thinking about all the extra damage to photograph when I come to sell