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@Frank Blank As you know mate I have a thoroughly deserved reputation as a miserly cheapskate who owns basses which retailed in the four figures, and yet takes a perverse pleasure in using a 90 quid Harley instead. However, Sandberg is different gravy as far as I'm concerned. Proper decent basses, one of those special instruments I have no intention of ever selling but not so expensive I'm terrified to take it out of the house.

That's great thank you.

Lovely! At one time I could have matched that set but I sold the T-Bird. You could be H. B. Tbirdntalman, has a ring to it ☺

No no no, I'm a chunky neck guy. They sound absolutely perfect. You say you bought new scratchplates for them? Was it difficult finding them to fit?

Those look great @Maude Aria STB are on my radar, but you just bumped them up! Hang on 50 quid???

I'm going to make a pedal board. The thought came from nowhere, but I knew it was a good one right away. A fun project, inexpensive materials for when I inevitably screw it up, and so simple, eventual success is almost guaranteed. I work best by trial and error. Fix problems with tape, elastic bands, cable ties and glue, moving up one step at a time to an actual, workable solution. I struggle to imagine abstract ideas and make them real. So I decided, given my surprisingly impressive facility with Photoshop to change all that and make a plan. I've done the top down view, and the side view and I'm quite pleased with the result. Or at least I was until I dropped some scale pictures of pedals onto it. It's a two tier board, the top tier of which appears sufficiently capacious to cater for 40 Boss sized stomps. Back (as I believe someone once said) to the drawing board.

Now everyone thinks Mick is Mark from takingbass.

Hi, sorry I missed this first time around. That looks like an amazing deal, thank you

It's really lovely to play, instant favourite.

Thank you Frank. Postman brought it Tuesday!

The Wind Up Birds. I didn't know I loved the Leeds accent until I heard them. It adds so much to the music. Not just accent but dialect as well. If you take this couplet from There Won't Always Be An England the scene is all the more vivid for not being overdressed in pretentious language

you got it! easy tiger 🐯

A couple of months back I hit on a Facebook advert which ended up with me chatting to the man who runs Impure Guitars. I really liked the inventiveness and imagination evident in his work, and so a seed was planted. I sent him pictures of basses I liked the look of, just randomly culled from a Google image search without too much thought. He came back with a sketch of an idea for a body shape. The seed sprouted! After a bit of back and forth we realised my original idea of a lump of old charred reclaimed timber and some hillbilly, rustic stylings were not compatible with the shape and style we were developing. So the idea now is more late 50s Atomic Age. The project has begun.

I use the term pointy heads with great affection.

I shall await with interest for it to be released on normal phones.

You did, and I did, but it had to go along with a lot of other stuff when I got hit hard with some big bills. That was a great pedal.

Bought a great pedal from Andy, wonderful guy to deal with ,friendly, open, honest and quick to respond. Delighted to recommend him.

You know I'm already a massive HB fan... but (and this will make me sound silly) I want to pair a jazz with my Bass Centre P Bass, which is china white with tort pickguard.

Careful, I think we're in danger of straying slightly off topic.

I hate that too, my new bread machine bakes a perfect loaf but that damn paddle always leaves a hole in the bottom. I could use the dough setting and put it in the oven, but I think that defeats the object, don't you?

OK fellow cheapskates, your mission (should you choose to accept it) is to find me an affordable (cheap) white jazz with tort plate and dark wood board. This is merely an exercise I doubt I'll be buying any time soon. But you never know!

I know, but the Zoom is staying regardless. It just does way too much too well.

According to the blurb... "The functionality is excellently guaranteed" You can't argue with that.

I'm sure!

Hi folks, any of the pointy heads here know if this is Firefox being overly cautious or if it's actually something the BC should be made aware of?